ABSTRACT
1, 2. Of teaching, persuading, controversy, consent. 3. Difference between teaching and persuading. 4. Controversies proceed from dogmatics. 5. Counselling. 6. Promise, threatening, commanding, law. 7. Raising and allaying of the passions. 8. Words only are not sufficient signs of the mind. 9. In contradictories the part directly signified is preferred before the part drawn from it by consequence. 10. The hearer is interpreter of the language of him that speaketh to him. 11. Silence sometimes a sign of consent.
