• FIRST VISION

  -- AGAINST FILTHY AND PROUD THOUGHTS, AND THE CARELESSNESS OF HERMAS IN CHASTISING HIS SONS.

• SECOND VISION

  -- AGAIN, OF HIS NEGLECT IN CHASTISING HIS TALKATIVE WIFE AND HIS LUSTFUL SONS, AND OF HIS CHARACTER.

• THIRD VISION

  -- CONCERNING THE BUILDING OF THE TRIUMPHANT CHURCH, AND THE VARIOUS CLASSES OF REPROBATE MEN.

• FOURTH VISION

  -- CONCERNING THE TRIAL AND TRIBULATION THAT ARE TO COME UPON MEN.

• FIFTH VISION

  -- CONCERNING THE COMMANDMENTS.

SECOND BOOK: COMMANDMENTS

• FIRST COMMANDMENT

  -- ON FAITH IN GOD.

• SECOND COMMANDMENT

  -- ON AVOIDING EVIL-SPEAKING, AND ON GIVING ALMS IN SIMPLICITY.

• THIRD COMMANDMENT

  -- ON AVOIDING FALSEHOOD, AND ON THE REPENTANCE OF HERMAS FOR HIS DISSIMULATION.

• FOURTH COMMANDMENT

  -- ON PUTTING ONE'S WIFE AWAY FOR ADULTERY.

• FIFTH COMMANDMENT

  -- OF SADNESS OF HEART, AND OF PATIENCE.

• SIXTH COMMANDMENT

  -- HOW TO RECOGNISE THE TWO SPIRITS ATTENDANT ON EACH MAN, AND HOW TO DISTINGUISH THE SUGGESTIONS OF THE ONE FROM THOSE OF THE OTHER.

• SEVENTH COMMANDMENT

  -- ON FEARING GOD, AND NOT FEARING THE DEVIL.

• EIGHTH COMMANDMENT

  -- WE OUGHT TO SHUN THAT WHICH IS EVIL, AND DO THAT WHICH IS GOOD.

• NINTH COMMANDMENT

  -- PRAYER MUST BE MADE TO GOD WITHOUT CEASING AND WITH UNWAVERING CONFIDENCE.

• TENTH COMMANDMENT

  -- OF GRIEF, AND NOT GRIEVING THE SPIRIT OF GOD WHICH IS IN US.

• ELEVENTH COMMANDMENT

  -- THE SPIRIT AND PROPHETS TO BE TRIED BY THEIR WORKS; ALSO OF THE TWO KINDS OF SPIRIT.

• TWELFTH COMMANDMENT

  -- ON THE TWOFOLD DESIRE. THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD CAN BE KEPT, AND BELIEVERS OUGHT NOT TO FEAR THE DEVIL.

THIRD BOOK: SIMILITUDES

• FIRST SIMILITUDE

  -- AS IN THIS WORLD WE HAVE NO ABIDING CITY, WE OUGHT TO SEEK ONE TO COME.

• SECOND SIMILITUDE

  -- AS THE VINE IS SUPPORTED BY THE ELM, SO IS THE RICH MAN HELPER BY THE PRAYER OF THE POOR.

• THIRD SIMILITUDE

  -- AS IN WINTER GREEN TREES CANNOT BE DISTINGUISHED FROM WITHERED, SO IN THIS WORLD NEITHER CAN THE JUST FROM THE UNJUST.

• FOURTH SIMILITUDE

  -- AS IN SUMMER LIVING TREES ARE DISTINGUISHED FROM WITHERED BY FRUIT AND LIVING LEAVES, SO IN THE WORLD TO COME THE JUST DIFFER FROM THE UNJUST IN HAPPINESS.

• FIFTH SIMILITUDE

  -- OF TRUE FASTING AND ITS REWARD: ALSO OF PURITY OF BODY.

• SIXTH SIMILITUDE

  -- OF THE TWO CLASSES OF VOLUPTUOUS MEN, AND OF THEIR DEATH, FALLING AWAY, AND THE DURATION OF THEIR PUNISHMENT.

• SEVENTH SIMILITUDE

  -- THEY WHO REPENT MUST BRING FORTH FRUITS WORTHY OF REPENTANCE.

• EIGHTH SIMILITUDE

  -- THE SINS OF THE ELECT AND OF THE PENITENT ARE OF MANY KINDS, BUT ALL WILL BE REWARDED ACCORDING TO THE MEASURE OF THEIR REPENTANCE AND GOOD WORKS.

• NINTH SIMILITUDE

  -- THE GREAT MYSTERIES IN THE BUILDING OF THE MILITANT AND TRIUMPHANT CHURCH.

• TENTH SIMILITUDE

  -- CONCERNING REPENTANCE AND ALMS-GIVING.