St. Augustine, Of the citie of God vvith the learned comments of Io. Lod. Viues. Englished by I.H.
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TO THE HONORABLEST PATRON OF MVSES AND GOOD MINDES, LORD WILLIAM Earle of Penbroke,
Knight of the Honourable Order, &c. - HENRY King of England, to IOANNES LODOVICVS VIVES greeting.
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IOANNES LODOVICVS VIVES to the renowned
Prince HENRYthe Eight, King of England, Lord of Ireland, &c. Salutations. -
AN ADVERTISMENT OF IOANNES LODOVICVS VIVES Of
Ualentia. DECLARING VVHAT Manner of people theGothes were, and how they toooke Rome. -
The argument out of the second booke of
the Retractations of Saint Augustine. -
book - 1
- THE CONTENTS OF THE first booke of the City of God.
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THE FIRST BOOKE OF SAINT
AVGVSTINE Bishop ofHippo, his Cittie of God, vnto MARCELLINVS. -
There neuer was warre wherein the conquerors would spare them whom they conquered, for the Gods they worshipped.
CHAP. 2. -
Of the Romanes fondnesse in thinking that those Gods could helpe them which could not helpe
Troy, in her distresse.CHAP. 3. -
Of the sanctuary of
Iuno inTroy which freed not any (that fled into it) from theGreekes at the Citties sack, where as the Churches of the Apostles saued all commers from the Barbarians, at the sacke of Rome.Caesars opinion touching the enemies custome in the sacke of Citties.CHAP. 4. -
That the
Romanes themselues neuer spared the Temples of those Cities which they conquered.CHAP. 5. -
That the cruell effects following the losses of warre, did but follow the custome of warre: and wherein they were moderated, it was through the power of the name of
Iesus Christ. CHAP. 6. -
Of the commodities, and discomodities commonly communicated both to good and ill.
CHAP. 7. -
Of the causes of such corrections as fall both vpon the good and bad together.
CHAP. 8. -
That the Saints in their losse of things temporall loose not any thing at all.
CHAP. 9. -
Of the end of this transitory life whether it be long or short.
CHAP. 10. -
Of buryall of the dead: that it is not preiudiciall to the state of a Christian soule to be forbidden it.
CHAP 11. -
The reasons why wee should bury the bodies of the Saints.
CHAP. 12. -
Of the captiuitie of the Saints, and that there∣in they neuer wanted spiri∣tuall comfort.
CHAP. 13. -
Of
Marcus Regulus, who was a famous example to animate all men to the en∣during of volntary captiuity for their religion: which notwith∣standing, was vnprofitable vnto him by rea∣son of his Paganisme. CHAP. 14. -
Whether the Taxes that the holy Virgins suffered against their wills in their captiuities, could pollute the vertues of their minde.
CHAP. 15. -
Of such as chose a voluntary death, to auoyde the feare of paine and dishonour.
CHAP. 16. -
Of the violent lust of the Souldiers, executed vpon the bodies of the captiues; against their consents.
CHAP. 17. -
Of
Lucretia, that stabb'd her selfe becauseTarquins sonne had rauished her.CHAP. 18. -
That there is no authority which allowes Christians to be their owne deaths in what cause soeuer
CHAP. 19. -
Of some sort of killing men, which notwith∣standing are no murthers.
CHAP. 20. -
That voluntary death can neuer be any signe of magnanimity, or greatnes of spirit.
CHAP 21. -
Of
Cato, who killed himselfe, being not able to endureCaesars victory.CHAP. 22. -
That the Christians excell
Regulus in that vertue, wherein he excelled most.CHAP. 23. -
That sinne is not to be auoided by sinne.
CHAP. 24. -
Of some vnlawfull acts, done by the Saints, and by what occasion they were done.
CHAP. 25. - Whether we ought to flie sinne with volun∣tary death. CHAP. 26.
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How it was a iudgement of God that the enemie was permitted to excercise his lust vpon the Christian bodies.
CHAP. 27. -
What the seruants of Christ may answer the In
dels, when they vpbrayde them with Christs not deliuering them (in their afflictions) from the furie of their enemies furie. CHAP. 28. -
That such as complaine of the Christian times desire nothing but to liue in filthy pleasures.
CHAP. 29. -
By what degrees of corruption the
Romaines ambition grew to such a height.CHAP 30. -
Of the first inducing of Stage-playes.
CHAP. 31. -
Of some vices in the
Romaines, which their Citties ruine did neuer reforme.CHAP. 32. -
Of the clemencie of God in moderating this calamitie of
Rome. CHAP. 33. -
Of such of Gods elest as liue secretly as yet amongst the Infidels, and of such as are false Christians.
CHAP. 34. -
What subiects are to be handled in the following discourse.
CHAP. 35.
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- THE CONTENTS OF THE SECND BOOKE OF THE Citie of God.
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THE SECOND BOOKE OF THE CITTY OF GOD: Written by
Saint Augustine Bishop ofHippo, vntoMarcellinus. -
Arepetition of the Contentes of the first booke.
CHAP. 2. -
Of the choise of an history which wil shew the miseries that the Rom∣ains indured, when they worshipped their Idols, before the increase of Christian Religion
CHAP. 3 -
That the worshippers of
Pagan gods neuer receiued honest instructi∣on from them; but vsed all filt hinesse in their sacrifices:CHAP. 4. -
Of the obscaenities vsed in these sacrifices offered vn∣to the mother of the goddes.
CHAP. 5. -
That the
Pagans gods did neuer establish the doctrine of liuing well.CHAP. 6. -
That the Philosophers instructions are weake and bootlesse, in that they beare no diuine authority: because that the examples of the gods are greater confirmations of vices in men, then the wise-mens disputations are on the contrary part.
CHAP. 7. -
Of the
Roma wherein the publishing of their gods foulest imparities, did not any way offend, but rather delight them.s Stage plaies, CHAP. 8. -
What the
Komaines opinion was touching the restraint of the liberty ofPoesie, which theGreekes, by the counsaile of their Goades, would not haue restrained at all. CHAP. 9. -
That the diuills through their settled desire to doe men mischiefe were wil∣ling to haue any villanies reported of them, whither true or false.
CHAP. 10. -
That the
Grecians admitted their Plaiers to beare office in their Commonwealths, least they should seeme vniust in despising such men as were the pacifiers of their Gods.CHAP. 11. -
That the
Romaines in abridging that liberty (with the Poets would haue vsed vpon men,) and in allowing them to vse it vpon their gods, did herein shew, that they prized themselues aboue their gods.CHAP. 12. -
That the
Romaines might haue obserued their gods vnworthynesse, by their desires of such obscaene solemnities.CHAP. 13. -
That
Plato, who would not allow Poets to dwell in a well gouerned City, shewed that his sole worth was better then those gods, that desire to be honoured with stage∣plaies.CHAP. 14. -
That flattery and not reason created some of the
Romaine Gods.CHAP. 15. -
That if the
Romaine gods had had any care of Iustice, the Citie should haue had their formes of good gouernment from them, rather then to goe and bor∣row it of other nations.CHAP. 16. -
Of the rape of the
Sabine women, and diuers other wicked facts, done inRomes most ancient and honorable times.CHAP. 17. -
What the history of
Saluste reports of theRomains conditions, both in their times of daunger and those of security.CHAP. 18. -
Of the corruptions ruling in the
Romaine state, before that Christ abolished the worship of their Idols.CHAP. 19. -
Of what kinde of happinesse, and of what conditions the accusers of Christianity de∣sire to pertake.
CHAP. 20. -
Tully his opinion of the Romaine Common-wealth. CHAP. 21. -
That the
Romaine Gods neuer respected whether the Citie were corrupted, and so brought to destruction, or no.CHAP. 22. -
That the varietie of temporall estates dependeth not vpon the pleasure or displeasure of these deuills, but vpon the iudgements of God almighty.
CHAP. 23. -
Of the Actes of
Sylla, wherein the Deuils shewed them-selues his maine helpers and furtherers.CHAP. 24. -
How powerfully the Deuills incite men to villanies, by laying before them examples of diuine authoritie (as it were) for them to follow in their villanous acts.
CHAP. 25. -
Of certaine obscure instructions concerning good manners which the Deuills are sayd to haue giuen in secret, whereas all wicked∣nesse was taught in their publike solemnities.
CHAP. 26. -
What a great meanes of the subuersion of the Romaine estate, the induction of those scurrilous plaies, was, which the surmized to be propitiatory vnto their gods.
CHAP. 27. -
Of the saluation attained by the Christian religion.
CHAP. 28. -
An exhortation to the
Romaines to renounce their Paganisme.CHAP. 29.
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- THE CONTENTS OF THE third booke of the City of God.
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THE THIRD BOOKE OF THE CITTY OF GOD Written by
Saint Augustine Bishop ofHippo, vntoMarcellinus. -
Whether the gods, to whome the
Romaines and theGreekes exhibited like worship, had sufficient cause giuen them to letTroy be destroyed.CHAP. 2. -
That the gods could not iustly be offended at the adultry of
Paris, vsing it so freely and frequently themselues.CHAP. 3. -
Of
Varro's opinion, that it is meete in policy that some men should faigne them∣selues to be begotten of the gods.CHAP. 4. -
That it is altogether vnlikely that the gods reuenged
Paris his fornication, since they permittedRhea's to passe vnpunished.CHAP. 5. -
Of
Romulus his murther of his brother, which the gods neuer reuenged.CHAP. 6. -
Of the subuersion of
Ilium byFimbria, a Captaine ofMarius his faction.CHAP. 7. -
Whether it was conuenient to commit
Rome to the custody of theTroyan gods.CHAP. 8. -
Whether it be credible, that the gods procured the peace that lasted all
Numa's raigne.CHAP. 9. -
Whether the
Romaines might iustly desire that their Citties estate should arise to pre∣heminence by such furious warres, when it might haue rested firme, and quiet, in such a peace asNuma procured.CHAP. 10. -
Of the statue of
Apollo atCumae, that shed teares (as men thought) for theGrecians miseries though he could not helpe them.CHAP. 11. -
How fruitlesse their multitude of gods was vnto the
Romaines, who induced them, be∣yond the institution ofNuma. CHAP. 12. -
By what right the
Romaines attained their first wiues.CHAP. 13. -
How impious that warre was, which the
Romaines began with theAlbans, and of the nature of those victories which ambition seekes to obtaine.CHAP. 14. -
Of the liues and deaths of the
Romaine Kings.CHAP. 15. -
Of the first Romaine Consulls; how the one expelled the other out of his country, and hee himselfe, after many bloudy murders, fell by a wound, giuen him by his wounded foe.
CHAP. 16. -
Of the Vexations of the
Romaine estate, after the first beginning of the the Con∣sulls rule: And of the little good that their gods all this while did themCHAP. 17. -
The miseries of the
Romaines in theAffrican warres and the small stead their gods stood them therein.CHAP. 18. -
Of the sad accidents that befell in the second African warre, wherein the powers on both sides were wholy consumed.
CHAP. 19. -
Of the ruine of the
Saguntines, who perished for their confederacy withRome; theRomaine gods neuer helping them.CHAP. 20. -
Of
Romes ingratitude toScipio, that freed it from imminent danger, and of the conditions of the Cittizens in those times thatSaluste commendeth to haue beene so vertuous.CHAP. 21. -
Of the Edict of
Mithridates, commanding eueryRomaine that was to be found inAsia, to be put to death.CHAP. 22. -
Of the more priuat and interior mischieues, that
Rome endured, which were presaged by that prodigious madnesse of all the creatures that serued the vse of man.CHAP. 23. -
Of the ciuill discord that arose from the seditions of the
Gracchi. CHAP. 24. -
Of the temple of
Concord, built by the Senate in the place where these seditions and slaughters were effected.CHAP. 25. -
Of the diuerse warres that followed after the building of
Concords temple.CHAP. 26. -
Of the ciuill warres betweene
Sylla andMarius CHAP. 27. -
How
Sylla reuengedMarius his murthers.CHAP. 28. -
A comparison of the Gothes coruptions, with the calamities that the Romaines en∣dured either by the Galles, or by the authors of their ciuill warres.
CHAP. 29. -
Of the great and pernicious multitude of the
Romaines warres a little before the comming ofChrist, CHAP. 30. -
That those men that are not suffered as now to worship Idols, do shew them-selues fooles, in imputing their present miseries vnto Christ, seeing that they indured the like when they didde wor∣shippe the Diuels.
CHAP. 31.
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- THE CONTENTS OF THE fourth booke of the City of God.
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THE FOVRTH BOOKE OF THE CITTIE OF GOD: Written by
Saint Augustine Bishop ofHippo, vntoMarcellinus. -
The contents of the second and third booke.
CHAP. 2. -
Whether happy and wise men should accoumpt it as part of their felicitie, to possesse an Empire that is enlarged by no meanes but warre.
CHAP. 3. -
Kingdomes with-out iustice, how like they are vnto theeuish purchases.
CHAP. 4. -
Of those fugitiue Sword-players, whose power grew paralell with a regall dignitie.
CHAP. 5. -
Of the couetousnesse of
Ninus, who made the first warred vpon his neighbors, through the greedy desire he had to increase his kingdome.CHAP. 6. -
Whether the
Pagan Gods haue any power either to further or hinder the progresse, increase, or defects of earthly kingdomes.CHAP. 7. -
What precious gods those were by whose power the Romaines hela their Empire to bee enlarged and preserued, seeing that they durst not trust them with the defence of meane and perticular matters.
CHAP. 8. -
Whether it was Ioue, whom the Romaines held the chiefest god, that was this protector and enlarger of their Empire.
CHAR. 9. -
What opinion they followed, that set diuers gods to rule in di
ers parts of the world. CHAP. 10. -
Of the multitude of Goddes which the
Pagan Doctors auouch to bee but one and the sameIupiter CHAP. 11. -
Of their opinion that held God to bee the soule. and the world to bee the bodie.
CHAP. 12. -
Of such as hold that the reasonable creatures onely are parts of the diuine essence.
CHAP. 13. -
That the augmentations of Kingdomes are vnfitly ascribed to
Ioue. Victory (whome they call a goddesse) being suf∣ficient of her selfe to giue a full dispatch to all such businesses.CHAP. 14. -
Whether an honest man ought to intertaine any desire to inlarge his Empire.
CHAP. 15. -
The reason why the
Romaines, in their appointments of seuerall Goddes for euery thing and euery action, would needes place the Temple ofRest orQuiet with-out the Gates.CHAP. 16. -
Whether if
Ioue being the chiefe godde of all,Victory be to be accounted as one of the number.CHAP. 17. -
Why
Fortune andFaelicity were made Goddesses.CHAP. 18. -
Of a Goddesse called
Fortuna Muliebris CHAP. 19 -
Of the Deifiaction of
Vertue andFaith by thePagans, and of their omission of the worship that was due to diuers other gods, if it bee true that these were goddes.CHAP. 20. -
That such as knew not the true and onely God had better haue beene contented with
Vertue andFaelicity. CHAP. 21. -
Of the knowledge of these Pagan gods, which
Varro boasteth hee taught the Romaines.CHAP. 22. -
Of the absolute sufficiency of Felicity alone, whome the Romaines (who worshipped so many gods) did for a great while neglect, and gaue no diuine honours vnto.
CHAP. 23. -
What reasons the Pagans bring, for their worshipping of gods gifts for gods themselues.
CHAP. 24. -
Of the worshippe of one God onely, whose name although they knew not, yet they tooke him for the giuer of felicity.
CHAP. 25. -
Of the stage-plaies which the gods exacted of their seruants.
CHAP. 26. -
Of the three Kinds of Gods whereof
Scaeuola disputed.CHAP. 27. -
Whether the
Romaines diligence in this worship of those gods, did their Empire any good at all.CHAP. 28. -
Of the falsenesse of that Augury that presaged courage and stabilitie to the state of
Rome. CHAP. 29. -
The confessions of such as doe worship those Pagan gods, from their owne mouthes.
CHAP. 30. -
Of
Varros reiecting the popular opinion, and of his beleefe of one God, though he knew not the true God.CHAP. 31. -
What reason the Kings of the world had, for the permitting of those false religions in such places as they conquered.
CHAP. 32. -
That God hath appointed a time for the continu∣ance of euery state on earth.
CHAP. 33. -
Of the Iewes kingdome, which one God alone kept vnmoued as long as they kept the truth of religion.
CHAP. 34.
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- THE CONTENTS OF THE fifth booke of the City of God.
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THE FIFTH BOOKE OF THE CITTIE OF GOD: Written by
Saint Augustine Bishop ofHippo, vntoMarcellinus. -
Of the mutuall simpathie and dissimilitude of health of body, and many other accidents in twins of one birth.
CHAP. 2. -
Of
Nigidius the Astrologians argument, in this question of the twinnes, drawne from the potters wheele.CHAP. 3. -
Of
Esau andIacob two twinnes, and of the diuersity of their conditions and qualities.CHAP. 4. -
How the Mathematicians may be conuicted of professing vanity.
CHAP. 5. -
Of twinnes of different sexes.
CHAP. 6. -
Of the election of daies of maryage of planting and of sowing.
CHAP. 7. -
Of their opinion that giue not the name of
Fate the position of the starres, but vn∣to the dependance of causes vpon the will of God.CHAP. 8. -
Of Gods fore-knowledge and mans freedome of election; again
t the opinion of Cicero. CHAP. 9. -
Whether necessity haue any dominion ouer the will of man.
CHAP. X. -
Of Gods vniuersall prouidence, ruling all, and comprising all.
CHAP. 11. -
How the ancient
Romaines obtained this increase of their Kingdome, at the true Gods hand, being that they ne∣uer worshipped him.CHAP. 12. -
O
bition, which beeing a vice, is notwithstanding heerein held a ver∣tue that it doth restraine vices of worse natures. CHAP. 13. -
That wee are to auoide this desire of humaine honour: the glory of the righteous being wholy in GOD.
CHAP. 14. -
Of the temporall rewards that God bestowed vpon the
Romaines vertues and good conditions.CHAP. 15. -
Of the reward of the eternall cittizens of heauen, to whom the examples of the
Romaines vertues were of good vse.CHAP. 16. -
The fruites of the Romaines warres, both to themselues and to those with whom they warred.
CHAP. 17. -
How farre the Christians should bee from boasting of their deedes for their eter∣nall country, the Romaines hauing done so much for their temporall Cit∣ty, and for humaine glory.
CHAP. 18. -
The difference betweene the desire of glory, and the desire of rule.
CHAP. 19. -
That vertue is as much disgraced in seruing humaine glory as in obeying the pleasures of the body.
CHAP. 20. -
That the true God in whose hand and prouidence all the state of the world consisteth, did order and dispose of the Monarchie of the
Romaines. CHAP. 21. -
That the originalls and conclusions of warres are all at Gods dispose.
CHAP. 22. -
Of the battell wherein
Rhadagaisus, an idolatrous King of theGothes was slaine, with all his armie.CHAP. 23. -
The state and truth of a Christian Emperors felicitie.
CHAP. 24. -
Of the prosperous estate that God bestowed vpon
Constantine a Christian Emperor.CHAP. 25. -
Of the faith and deuotion of
Theodosius Emperor.CHAP. 26. -
Augustines inuectiue against such as wrote against the Bookes already published.CHAP. 27.
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- THE CONTENTS OF THE sixt booke of the City of God.
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THE SIXTH BOOKE OF THE CITTIE OF GOD: Written by
Saint Augustine Bishop ofHippo, vntoMarcellinus. -
What may bee thought of
Varro's opinion of the gods, who dealeth so with them in his discouery of them and their ceremonies, that with more reuerence vnto them he might haue held his peace.CHAP▪ 2. -
The diuision of Varro'sbookes which he stileth, The antiquity of diuine and humaine affaires. CHAP. 3. -
That by
Varro 's disputations, the affaires of those men that worshipped the goddes, are of farre more Antiquitity then those of the goddes them-selues.CHAP. 4. -
Of
Varro his three kindes of diuinity, fabulous, naturall, and politique.CHAP. 5. -
Of the fabulous and pollitike diuinity against
Varro. CHAP. 6. -
The Cohaerence and similitude between the fabulous diuinity and the ciuil.
CHAP. 7. -
Of the naturall interpretations which the
Paynim Doctors pre∣tend for their goddes.CHAP. 8. -
Of the offices of each peculiar God.
CHAP. 9. -
Of
Seneca's freer reprehension of the ciuill Theologie thenVarro's was of the fabulous.CHAP. 10. -
Seneca his opinion of the Iewes.CHAP. 11. -
That it is plaine by this discouery of the Pagan gods vanity, that they cannot giue eternall life, hauing not power to helpe in the temporall.
CHAP. 12.
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- THE CONTENTS OF THE seauenth booke of the City of God.
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THE SEVENTH BOOKE OF THE CITTIE OF GOD: Written by
Saint Augustine Bishop ofHippo, vntoMarcellinus. -
The selected gods, and whether they be exempted from the baser gods functions.
CHAP. 2. -
That these gods elections are without all reason since that baser gods haue nobler charges.
CHAP. 3. -
That the meaner gods being buried in silence were better vsed then the select, whose falts were so shamefully traduced.
CHAP. 4. -
Of the Pagans more abstruse
Physiologicall doctrine.CHAP. 5. -
Of
Varro his opinion that God was the soule of the world, and yet had many soules vnder him in his parts, all which were of the diuine nature.CHAP. 6. -
Whether it stand with reason that
Ianus andTerminus should bee two godees.CHAP. 7. -
Why the worshippers of
Ianus made him two faces, and yet would haue him set forth-with foure also.CHAP. 8. -
Of
Ioues power, andIanus his compared together.CHAP. 9. -
Whether
Ianus andIoue be rightly distinguished or no.CHAP. 10. -
Of
Ioues surnames, referred all vnto him, as one god, not as to many.CHAP. 11. -
That
Iupiter is calledPecunia also.CHAP. 12. -
That the interpretations of
Saturne andGenius, prooue them both to beeIupiter. CHAP. 13. -
Of the functions of
Mars andMercury. CHAP. 14. -
Of certaine starres that the Pagans call their gods.
CHAP. 15. -
Of
Apollo, Diana, and other select gods, called parts of the world.CHAP. 16. -
That Varro him-selfe held his opinions of the Gods to be ambiguous.
CHAP. 17. -
The likeliest cause of the propagation of paganisme.
CHAP. 18. -
The interpretations of the worship of
Saturne. CHAP. 19. -
Of the sacrifices of
Ceres Eleusina. CHAP. 20. -
Of the obscaenity of
Bacchus sacrifices.CHAP. 21. -
Of Neptune, Salacia,and Venilia. CHAP. 22. -
Of the earth, held by
Varro to be a goddesse, because the worlds soule (his god) doth penetrate his lowest part, and communicateth his essence there-with.CHAP. 23. -
Of earths surnames and significations, which though they arose of diuerse originals, yet should they not be accompted diuerse Gods.
CHAP. 24. -
What exposition the Greeke wise men giue of the gelding of
Atys. CHAP. 25. -
Of the filthinesse of this
Great Mothers sacrifices.CHAP. 26. -
Of the Naturalists figments that neither adore the true deity, nor vse the adoration thereto belonging.
CHAP. 27. -
That
Varro his doctrine of Theologie hangeth no way together.CHAP. 28. -
That all that the Naturalists referre to the worlds parts, should be referred to God.
CHAP. 29. -
The meanes to discerne the Creator from the creatures, and to auoyde the worshipping of so many gods for one, because there are so many powers in one.
CHAP. 30. -
The Pee
r benefits (besides his co on bounty) that God bestoweth vpon his seruants. CHAP. 26. -
That the Mistery of our redemption by Christ was not obscure in the precedent times, but continually intimated in diuers significations. CHAP. 32. -
That Christianity onely is of power to lay open the Deuills subtilty and delight, in illuding of ignorant men.
CHAP. 33. -
Of
Numa his bookes, which the Senate for keeping their mysteries in secret, did command should be burned.CHAP. 34. -
Of
Hydromancie, wherebyNuma was mocked with apparitions.CHAP. 35.
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- THE CONTENTS OF THE eight booke of the City of God.
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THE EIGHTH BOOKE OF THE CITTIE OF GOD. Written by
Saint Augustine Bishop ofHippo, vntoMarcellinus. -
Of the two kinds of Philosophers
Italian, andIonian, and of their authors.CHAP. 2. -
Of the
Socratical discipline.CHAP. 3. -
Of
Plato the cheefe ofSocrates his schollers, who diuided. Phylosophy into three kindes.CHAP. 4. -
That the cheefe Controuersie with the Platonists is about Theology, and that all the Philosophers opinions hereof are inferior vnto theirs.
CHAP. 5. -
How the
platonists conceiued of the naturall part of PhylosophyCHAP. 6. -
The excellency of the
Platonists aboue the rest, in logicke.CHAP. 7. -
That the
Platonists are to be preferred in Morality also.CHAP. 8 -
Of that Phylosophy that commeth nearest to Christianity.
CHAP. 9. -
What the excellence of a religious Christian is in these Philosophicall artes.
CHAP. 10. -
Whence
Plato might haue that knowledge that brought him so neare the Christian doctrine.CHAP. 11. -
That the
Platonists for all their good opinion of the true GOD, yet neuerthe∣thelesse held that worship was to bee giuen to many.CHAP. 12. -
Of
Plato's affirmation, that the gods were all good, and louers of vertue.CHAP. 13. -
Of such as held. 3. Kinds of reasonable soules: in the gods, in airy spirits, and in men
CHAP. 14. -
That neither the ayry spirits bodies, nor height of place, make them excell men.
CHAP. 15. -
What
Apuleius thePlatonist held concerning the qualities of those ayrie spirits.CHAP. 16. -
Whether it becomes a man to worship those spirits from whose guilt he should be pure.
CHAP. 17. -
Of that religion that teacheth, that those spirits must bee mens aduocates to the good gods.
CHAP. 18. -
Of the wickednesse of arte Magicke, depending on these wicked Spirits ministery.
CHAP. 19. -
Whether it be credible that good Gods had rather conuerse with those spirits then with men.
CHAP. 20. -
Whether the gods vse the Deuills as their Messengers, and be willing that they should deceiue them, or ignorant that they do it.
CHAP. 21. -
The renouncing of the worship of those spirits against
Apuleius. CHAP. 22. -
Hermes Trismegistus his opinion ofIdolatrie, and how he might come to know that the Egiptian superstitions were to be abrogated.CHAP. 23. -
How
Hermes openly confessed his progenitors error, and yet bewayled the destruction of it.CHAP. 24. -
Of such things as may be common to Angells and Men.
CHAP. 25. -
That all Paganisme was fully contained in dead men.
CHAP. 26. -
Of the Honor that Christians giue to the Martires.
CHAP. 27.
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Whether amongst the spirits of the ayre that are vnder the gods, there be any good ones, that can further a man in the attainement of true blessednesse.
CHAP. 2. -
What qualities
Apuleius ascribeth to the deuills, to whom he giueth reason but no vertue.CHAP. 3. -
The opinions of the
Stoikes andPeripatetiques concerning pertur∣bations of the minde.CHAP. 4. -
at the Christians passions are causes of the the practise of vertue, not inducers vnto vice. CHAP. 5. -
What passion the spirits that
Apuleius maketh mediators betweene the gods and men are subiect vnto, by his owne confession.CHAP 6. -
th Platonists doe but seeke contentions in saying the Poets de fame the gos, whereas their imputations pertaine to the deuills, and not to the gods. CHAP. 7. -
Apuleius his definition of the gods of heauen, spirits of ayre, and men of earth.CHAP. 8. -
Whether the ayry spirits can procure a man the gods friendships.
CHAP. 9. -
Plo opinion that men are lesse wretched in their mortality then the diines lls are in their eternity. CHAP. 10. -
the Platonists that held mens soules to becomeDaemones after death.CHAP. 11. -
Of the three contraries whereby the
Platonists distinguish the diuells natures from the mens.CHAP. 12. -
How the diuells if they be neyther blessed with the gods nor wret∣ched with men, may be in the meane betwixt both without participation of eyther.
CHAP. 13. -
Whether mortall men may attaine true happpnesse.
CHAP. 14. -
Of the Mediator of god and man, the man
Christ Iesus. CHAP. 15. -
Whether it be probable that the Platonistssay, That the gods auoyding earthly contagion, haue no commerce with men, but by the meanes of the ayry spirits. CHAP. 16. -
That vnto that beatitude that consisteth in participation of the greatest good, wee must haue onely such a mediator as
Christ, no such as the diuell.CHAP. 17. -
That the diuels vnder coullor of their intercession, seeke but to draw vs from
God. CHAP. 18. -
That the word
Daemon is not vsed as now of any Idolater in a good senceCHAP. 19. -
Of the quality of the diuels knowledge, whereof they are so proud.
CHAP. 20. -
In what manner the Lord would make him-selfe knowne to the Diuells.
CHAP. 21. -
The difference of the holy Angels know∣ledge and the Diuels.
CHAP. 22. -
That the Pagan Idols are falsely called goddes, yet the scrip∣ture allowes it to Saints and Angels.
CHAP. 23.
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The opinion of
Plotine thePlatonist, concerning the supernall. illumination.CHAP. 2. -
worship of God, wherein the Platonists failed in worshipping good or euill angels, though they knew the worlds creator.CHAP. 3. -
That sacrifice is due onely to the true God.
CHAP. 4. -
Of the sacrifices which God requireth not, and what he requireth in their signification.
CHAP. 5. -
Of the true, and perfect sacrifice.
CHAP. 6. -
That the good Angells doe so loue vs, that they desire we should worship God onely, and not them.
CHAP. 7. -
Of the Miracles whereby God hath confirmed his promises in the mindes of the faithfull by the ministery of his holy Angells.
CHAP. 8. -
Of vnlawfull artes concerning the deuils worship, whereof
Porphyry approo∣ueth some, and disalloweth others.CHAP. 9. -
Of
Theurgy that falsy promiseth to mundifie the minde by the inuo∣cation of deuills.CHAP. 10. -
Of
Porphyryes Epistle toAnebuns of Egipt, and desyring him of instruction in the seuerall kindes ofDaemones. CHAP. 11. -
Of the miracles that God worketh by his Angels ministery.
CHAP. 12. -
How the inuisible God hath often made himselfe visible, not, as he is really but as we could be able to comprehend his sight.
CHAP. 13. -
but one God is to be worshipped for all things, temporall and eternall: all being in the power of his prouidence. CHAP. 14. -
Of the holy Angels that minister to Gods prouidence.
CHAP. 15. -
Whether in this question of beatitude we must trust those Angels that refuse the diuine worship, and ascribe it all to one God, or those that require it to them-selues.
CHAP. 16. -
Of the
Arke of the testament and the miracles wrought to confirme this law and promise.CHAP. 17. -
Against such as deny to beleeue the scriptures, concerning those miracles shewne to Gods people.
CHAP. 18. -
The reason of that visible sacrifice that the true religion commands vs to offer vnto one God.
CHAP. 19. -
Of the onely and true sacrifice, which the Mediator be tweene God and man became.
CHAP. 20. -
Of the power giuen to the diuels, to the greater gloryfying of the Saints that haue suffered martyrdome, and conquered the ayry spirits, not by appeasing them, but adhering to God.
CHAP. 21. -
From whence the Saints haue their power against the diuels and their pure purgation of heart.
CHAP. 22. -
Of the
Platonists principle in their purgation of the soule.CHAP. 23. -
Of the true onely beginning that purgeth and renueth mans whole nature.
CHAP. 24. -
That all the saints in the old law, and other ages before it, were iustified only by the mistery, and faith of Christ.
CHAP. 25. -
Of
Porphyry his wauering betweene confessing of the true God, and adoration of the diuels,CHAP. 26. -
Of
Porphyry his exeedingApuleius in impiety.CHAP. 27. -
What perswasions blinded
Porphiry from knowing Christ the true wisdome.CHAP. 28. -
Of the Incarnation of our
Lord Iesus Christ, which the impiousPlatonists shame to acknowledge.CHAP. 29. -
What opinions of
Plato, Prophiry confuted, and corrected.CHAP. 30. -
Against the
Platonists holding the soule coeternall with God.CHAP. 31. -
Of the vniuersall way of the soules freedome, which
Porphyry sought amisse, and therefore found not: that onelyChrist hath de∣clared it.CHAP. 32.
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Of the
ledge of God, which none can attaine but through the mediator be∣tweene God and man, the Man Christ Iesus. CHAP. 2. -
Of the authority of the canonicall Scriptures, made by the spirit of God.
CHAP. 3. -
Th
state of the world is neither eternall, nor ordained by any new thought of gods, as if he meant that after, which he meant not before. CHAP. 4. -
we ought not to seeke to comprehend the infinite spaces of time or place, ere the world was made. CHAP. 5. -
That the world and time had both one beginning, nor was the one before the other.
CHAP. 6. -
Of the first sixe daies that had morning, and euening,
re the Sunne was made. CHAP. 7. -
What wee must thinke of Gods resting the seauenth day after his sixe daies worke.
CHAP. 8. -
What is to be thought of the qualities of Angels, according to scripture.
CHAP. 9. -
Of the vncompounded, vnchangeable
Trinity, theFather, theSonne, and theHoly spirit, oneGod in substance and quality, euer one and the same.CHAP. 10. -
Whether the
spirits that fell did euer pertake with theAngells, in their blisse at their beginning.CHAP. 11. -
The happinesse of the i
st that as yet haue not the reward of the diuine promise, com∣pared with the first man of paradise, before sinnes originall. CHAP. 12. -
er the Angels were created in such a state of happinesse, that neitherthose that fell, knew they should fall, nor those that perseuered, fore-knew they should perseuer. CHAP. 13. -
How this is meant of the Deuill, He abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. CHAP. 14. -
The meaning of this place, The Deuill sinneth from the beginning. CHA. 15. -
Of the different degrees of creatures, wherein profitable vse and reasons order doe differ.
CHAP. 16. -
the vice of malice is not naturall, but against nature, following the will, not the creation in sinne. CHAP. 17. -
Of the beauty of this vniuerse, augmented, by Gods ordinance, out of contraries.
CHAP. 18. -
The meaning of that place,
God seperated the light from darkenesse.CHAP. 19. -
Of that place of scripture spoken after the seperation of the light and darke∣nes,
And God saw the light that it was good. CHAP. 20. -
Of
Gods eternal vnchanging will and knowledge wherein he pleased to cre∣ate al things in forme as they were created.CHAP. 21. -
Concerning those that disliked some of the good Creators creatures, and thought some things naturaly euil.
CHAP. 22. -
Of the error that
Origen incurreth.CHAP. 23. -
Of the diuine
Trinity, notifying it selfe (in some part) in all the workes thereofCHAP. 24. -
Of the tripartite diuision of All Phylosophicall discipline.
CHAP. 25. -
Of the Image of the
Trinity which is in some sort in euery mans nature, euen before his glorification.CHAP. 26. -
Of essence, knowledge of essence, and loue of both.
CHAP. 27. -
ther we draw nearer to the image of the holy trinity, in louing of thatloue by which weloue to be, and to know our being.CHAP. 28. -
Of the
Angels knowledge of theTrinity in theDeity, and consequently, of the causes of things in theArchetype, ere they come to be effected in workes.CHAP. 29. -
perfection of the number of sixe, the first is complete in all the parts. CHAP. 30. -
Of the seauenth day, the day of rest and complete perfection.
CHAP. 31. -
Of their opinion that held
Angels to be created before the worldCHAP. 32. -
Of the two different societies of
Angels, not vnfitly tearmedlight anddarkenesse. CHAP. 33. -
Of the opinion that some held, that the
Angels weee meant by the se∣ueralwaters, and of others that held thewaters vncreated.CHAP. 34.
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That no essence is contrary to
GOD, though all the worlds frailty seeme to be opposite to his immutable eternity.CHAP. 2. -
Of Gods enemies, not by nature, but will, which hurting them, hurteth their good nature: because their is no vice but hurteth nature.
CHAP. 3. -
Of liuelesse, and reasonlesse natures, whose order differeth not from the decorum held in the whole Vniuerse.
CHAP. 4. -
That the Creator hath deserued praise in euery forme and kinde of nature.
CHAP. 5. -
The cause of the good Angells blisse, and the euills misery.
CHAP. 6. -
That we ought not to seeke out the cause of the
vicious will. CHAP. 7. -
Of the peruerse
loue, whereby the soule goeth from the vnchangeable to the changeable good.CHAP. 8. -
Whether he that made the Angels natures, made their wills good also, by the infusion of his loue into them through his holy spirit.
CHAP. 9. -
Of the falsenesse of that History that saith the world hath continu∣ed many thousand yeares.
CHAP. 10. -
Of those that hold not the eternity of the World, but either a dissolution and generation of inumera
le Worlds, or of this one at the e piration of certaine yeares. CHAP. 11. -
Of such as held Mans Creation too lately effected.
CHAP. 12. -
Of
of Times at whose expiration some Philosophers held that the V∣ should to the state it was in at first. CHAP. 13. -
Of Mans temporall estate, made by God, out of no newnesse or change of will.
CHAP. 14. -
Whether (to preserue Gods eternall domination) wee must suppose that he hath al∣waies had creatures to rule ouer, and how that may be held alwaies created, which is not coeternall with God.
CHAP. 15. -
How wee must vnderstand that God promised Man life eternall, before all eternity.
CHAP. 16. -
The defence of Gods vnchanging will against those that fetch Gods workes about from eternity, in circles, from state to state.
CHAP. 17. -
Against such as say that things infinite are aboue Gods knowledge.
CHAP. 18. -
Of the worlds without end, or ages of ages.
CHAP. 19. -
Of that impious assertion that soules truely blessed, shall haue diuers reuolutions into misery againe.
CHAP. 20. -
Of the state of the first
man, andman-kinde in him.CHAP. 21. -
God fore-knew that the firstMan should sinne, and how many people hee was to translate, out of his kinde into the Angels society.CHAP. 22. -
Of the nature of mans soule, being created according to the image of God.
CHAP. 23. -
Whether the Angels may be called creators, of any, the least creature.
CHAP. 24. -
That no nature or forme of any thing liuing hath any other Creator but God.
CHAP. 25. -
The
Platonists opinion that held the Angells Gods creatures, and man the Angells.CHAP. 26. -
That the fulnesse of
man-kinde was created in the firstman, in whomGod fore-saw both who should be saued, and who should be damned.CHAP. 27.
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Of the death that may befall the immortall soule, and of the bodyes death.
CHAP. 2. -
Whether death propagated vnto all men from the first, be punishment of sinne to the Saints.
CHAP. 3. -
Why the first death is not withheld from the regenerat from sinne by grace.
CHAP. 4. -
As the wicked vse the good law, euill, so the good vse death, which is euill, well.
CHAP. 5. -
The generall euill of that death that seuereth soule and body.
CHAP. 6. -
Of the death of such as are not regenerate do suffer for
Christ. CHAP. 7. -
That the
Saints in suffering the first death for the truth are quit from the second.CHAP. 8. -
Whether a man at the houre of his death may be said to be amongst the dead or the dying.
CHAP. 9. -
Whether this mortall life be rather to be called death then life.
CHAP. 10. -
Whether one may be liuing and dead, both together.
CHAP. 11. -
Of the death that God threatned to promise the first man withall if he transgressed.
CHAP. 12. -
What punishment was first layd on mans preuarication.
CHAP. 13. -
In what state GOD made Man, and into what state hee feil by his volun∣tary choice.
CHAP. 14. -
That
Adam forsooke GOD ere GOD for sooke him, and that the soules first death was the departure from GOD.CHAP. 15. -
Of the Philosophers that held corporall death not to be penall, whereas
Plato brings in the Creator promising the lesser gods that they should ne∣uer leaue their bodies.CHAP. 16. -
Against the opinion, that earthly bodies cannot be corruptible, nor eternall.
CHAP 17. -
Of the terrene bodies which the Philosophers hold, cannot be in heauen, but must fall to earth by their naturall weight.
CHAP. 18. -
Against those that hold that man should not haue beene immortall if he had not sinned.
CHAP. 19. -
That the bodies of the Saints now resting in hope, shal become better then our first Fathers was.
CHAP. 20. -
Of the Paridise wherein our first parents were placed, and that it may be taken spiritually also without any wrong to the truth of the history as touching the reall place.
CHAP. 21. -
That the Saints bodies after resurrection shalbe spirituall, and yet not changed into spirits.
CHAP. 22. -
Of bodies animate and spirituall, these dying in
Adam, and those beeing quickned in Christ.CHAP. 23. -
How Gods breathing life into
Adam, and Christs breathing vpon his Apostles when be said,receiue the holy spirit, are to be vnderstood.CHAP. 24.
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Of the carnall life, apparant in the soules viciousnesse as well as the bodies.
CHAP. 2. -
That sinne came from the soule, and not the flesh: and that the corruption which sinne hath procured, is not sin, but the punishment of sinne.
CHAP. 3. -
What it is to liue according to Man, and to liue according to God.
CHAP. 4. -
That the
Platonists teach the natures of soule and body better then theManichees, yet they erre in ascribing sinne vnto the nature of the flesh.CHAP. 5. -
Of the quality of mans will, vnto with all affections, good, and bad, are subiect.
CHAP. 6. -
That
amor, anddilectio, are of indifferent vse in the scriptures, both forgood andeuill. CHAP. 7. -
Of the three passions that the
Stoickes alow a wiseman, excluding sadnesse, as foe to a vertuous minde.CHAP. 8. -
Of the perturbations of minde which the iust doe mode∣rate, and rule aright.
CHAP. 9. -
Whether man had those perturbations in Paradise, before his fall.
CHAP. 10. -
The fall of the first man, wherein nature was made good, and cannot be repaired but by the maker.
CHAP. 11. -
Of the quality of mans first offence.
CHAP. 12. -
That in
Adams offence hiseuill will was before hiseuill worke. CHAP. 13. -
Of the pride of the transgression, which was worse then the transgression it selfe.
CHAP. 14. -
Of the iust reward that our first parents receiued for their sinne.
CHAP. 15. -
euill of lust: how the name is generall to many vices, but proper vnto venereall concupiscence. CHAP. 16. -
Of the nakednesse that our first parents discouered in them-selues after their sinne.
CHAP. 17. -
Of the shame that accompanyeth copulation, as well in common as in marryage.
CHAP. 18. -
That the motions of wrath and lust are so violent that they do necessarily require to be suppressed by wisedome: and that they were not in our nature, before our fall depraued it.
CHAP. 19. -
Of the vaine obscaenity of the
Cynikes. CHAP. 20. -
Of the blessing of multiplication before sinne, which the transgression did not abolish but onely lincked to lust.
CHAP. 21. -
That God first instituted, and blessed the band of Mariage.
CHAP. 22. -
Whether if man had not sinned, he should haue begotten children in Paradice, and vvhether there should there haue beene any contention be∣tvveene chastity and lust.
CHAP. 23. -
That our first Parents, had they liued without sinne, should haue had their members of generation as subiect vnto their wills, as any of the rest.
CHAP. 24 -
Of the true beatitude: vnattainable in this life.
CHAP. 25. -
That our first parents in Paradise might haue produced man-kinde, without any shamefull appetite.
CHAP. 26. -
That the Sinners, Angells and Men, cannot vvith their perues∣nesse disturbe Gods prouidence.
CHAP. 27. -
The state of the Two Citties, the Heauenly and the Earthly.
CHAP. 28.
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Of the Sonnes of the flesh, and the Sonnes of promise.
CHAP. 2. -
Of
Saraes barrennesse, whichGod turned into fruitfulnesse.CHAP. 3. -
Of the conflicts, and peace of the earthly Citty.
CHAP. 4. -
Of that murderer of his brother, that was the first founder of the earthly citie, whose act the builder of
Rome paralleld, in murdering his brother also.CHAP. 5. -
Of the langours of Gods Cittizens endure in earth as the punishments of sinne, during their pilgrimage, and of the grace of God curing them.
CHAP. 6. -
Of the cause and obstinacie of
Cains wickednesse, which was not repressed byGods owne words.CHAP. 7. -
The reason why
Caine was the first of mankind that euer built a city.CHAP. 8. -
Of the length of life, and bignesse of body that men had before the deluge.
CHAP. 9. -
Of the difference that seemes to bee betweene the Hebrewes computation and ours.
CHAP. 10. -
Of
Mathusalems yeares, who seemeth to haue liued foureteene yeeres after the deluge.CHAP. 11. -
Of such as beleeue not that men of old time liued so long as is recorded.
CHAP. 12. -
Whether we ought to follow the Hebrew computation, or the Septuagints.
CHAP. 13. -
Of the parity of yeares, measured by the same spaces, of old, and of late.
CHAP. 14. -
Whether the men of old abstained from women vntill that the scriptures say they
egot children. CHAP. 15. -
Of the lawes of marriage, which the first women might haue different from the succeeding.
CHAP. 16. -
Of the two heads and Princes of the
Two citties, borne both of one father.CHAP. 17. -
That the signification of
Abel, Seth andEnos, are all pertinent vntoChrist and his body, theChurch. CHAP. 18. -
What the translation of
Enoch signified.CHAP. 19. -
Concerning
Caines succession, being but eight fromAdam, whereasNoah is the tenth.CHAP. 20. -
Why the generation of
Caine is continued downe along from the naming of his sonneEnoch, whereas the Scripture hauing namedEnos, Seths sonne, goeth back againe to beginSeths generation atAdam. CHAP. 21. -
Of the fall of the sonnes of God by louing strange women, whereby all (but eight) perished.
CHAP 22. -
Whether it be credible that the
Angels being of an incorpore all nature, should lust after the women of earth, and marrying them, beget Gyants of them.CHAP. 23. -
How the words that God spake of those that were to perish in the deluge:
and their dayes shall be an hundred and twenty yeares, are to bee vnderstood.CHAP. 24. -
Of Gods vnpassionate and vnaltering anger.
CHAP. 25. -
That
Noah his Arke signifieth Christ and his Church in all things.CHAP. 26. -
Of the Arke, and the deluge, that the meaning thereof is neither meerely Historicall, nor meerely allegoricall.
CHAP. 27.
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What prophetique misteries were in the sonnes of
Noah. CHAP. 2. -
Of the generations of the three sonnes of
Noah. CHAP. 3. -
Of the confusion of tongues and the building of Babilon.
CHAP. 8. -
Of Gods comming downe to confound the language of those towre-builders.
CHAP. 5. -
The manner how GOD speaketh to his Angells.
CHAP. 6. -
Whether the remote Iles were supplied with the beasts of all sorts that were saued in the Arke.
CHAP. 7. -
Whether
Adams, orNoahs sonnes begot any monstrous kinds of men.CHAP. 8. -
Whether there bee any inhabitants of the earth, called the
Antipodes. CHAP. 9. -
Of the generation of Sem, in which the
Citty of God lyeth downe vntoAbraham. CHAP. 10. -
Tha the Hebrew tongue (so called afterward of
Heber) was the first language vpon the earth, and remained in his family when that great confusion was.CHAP. 11. -
Of that point of time wherein the
citty of God began a new order of succession inAbraham. CHAP. 12. -
hy there is no mention of Nachor, Tharas sonne, in his departure from Chaldaea to Mesopotamia.CHAP. 13. -
Of the age of
Thara, who liued in Charra vntill his dying day.CHAP. 14. -
Of the time vvherein
Abraham receiued the promise fromGod, and departed from Charra.CHAP. 15. -
The order and quality of
Gods promises made vntoAbraham. CHAP. 16. -
Of the three most eminent kingdomes of the world, the chiefe of which in
Abrahams time was most excellent of all.CHAP. 17. -
Of
Gods second promise toAbraham, that hee and his seede should possesse the land of Canaan.CHAP. 18. -
How
God preseruedSaras chastity in Egipt, vvhenAbraham vvould not be knowne that she vvas his vvife but his sister.CHAP. 19. -
Of the seperation of
Lot andAbraham without breach of charity or loue betweene them.CHAP. 20. -
Of Gods third promise, of the land of Canaan to
Abraham and his seed for euerCHAP. 21. -
How
Abraham ouerthrew the enemies of the Sodomites, freedLot from captiuity, and was blessed byMelchisedech the Priest.CHAP. 22. -
Of
Gods promise toAbraham that heeould make his seede as the starres of heauen, and that he was iustified by faith, before his circumcision. CHAP. 23. -
Of the signification of the sacrifice which
Abraham vvas commanded to offer vvhen he desired to be confirmed in the things he beleeued.CHAP. 24. -
Of
Agar, Sara her bond-vvoman, vvhom she gaue as concubine vntoAbraham. CHAP. 25. -
Of Gods promise vnto
Abraham, thatSara (though she were old) should haue a sonne that should be the father of the nation, and how this promise was sealed in the mistery of circumcision.CHAP. 26. -
Of the man-child, that if it were not circumcised the eight day, i
perished for breaking of Gods couenant. CHAP. 27. -
Of the changing of
Abram andSara's names, who being the one too bar∣ren, and both to old to haue children, yet by Gods bounty were both made fruitfull.CHAP. 28. -
Of the three men, or angells wherein GOD appeared to
Abraham in the plaine of Mambra.CHAP. 29. -
Lots deliuerance: Sodomes destruction:Abimelechs lust,Sarahs chastity.CHAP. 30. -
Of
Isaac, borne at the time prefixed, and namedso, because of his parents laughter.CHAP. 31. -
Abrahams faith and obedience prooin his intent to offer his sonne: Sarahs death.CHAP. 32. -
Of
Rebecca Nachors neece whomeIsaac maried.CHAP 33. -
Of
Abraham marryingKethurah afterSarahs death, and the meaning therefore.CHAP. 34. -
The appointment of God concerning the two twins in
Rebeccas womb.CHAP. 33. -
Of a promise and blessing receiued by
Isaac, in the manner thatAbraham had receiued his.CHAP. 36. -
Of
Esau andIacob, and the misteries included in them both.CHAP. 27. -
Of
Iacobs iourney into Mesopotamia for a wife, his vision in the night, as hee went: his returne with foure women, whereas he went but for one.CHAP. 38. -
Iacob enstiledIsraell. The reason of this change.CHAP. 39. -
Iacobs departure into Egipt with seauentie fiue soules, how to be taken, seeing some of them were borne afterwards.CHAP. 40. -
Iacobs blessing vnto his sonneIudah. CHAP. 41. -
Of
Iacobs changing of his hands from the heads ofIosephs sonnes, when he blessed them.CHAP. 42. -
Of
Moyses his times,Iosuah, theIudges, theKings, Saul the first,Dauid the chiefe, both in merite and in mysticall reference.CHAP. 43.
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At what time Gods promise concerning the Land of Canaan was ful∣filled, and Israell receiued it to dwell in and possesse.
CHAP. 2. -
The Prophets three meanings: of earthly Ierusalem, of heauenly Ierusalem, and of both.
CHAP. 3. -
ange of the Kingdome and priest-hood of Israell. Anna, Samuels mother a prophetesse: and a type of the Church: what she prophecied.CHAP. 4. -
The Prophets words vnto
Heli the priest, signifying the taking away ofAarons priest-hood,CHAP. 5. -
The promise of the Priest-hood of the Iewes, and their kingdome, to stand eternally not fulfilled in that sort that other promises of that vnbounded nature, are.
CHAP. 6. -
The Kingdome of Israell, rent: prefiguring the perpetuall diui∣sion betweene the spirituall and carnall Israell.
CHAP. 7. -
Promises made vnto
Dauid, concerning his sonne: not fulfilled inSalomon: but inChrist. CHAP. 8. -
A Prophecie of
Christ in the eighty eight Psalme, like vnto this ofNathan in the Booke ofKings. CHAP. 9. -
Of diuerse actions done in the earthly Hierusalem, and the kingdome, differing from
Gods promises, to shew that the truth of his words concerned the glory of another kingdome, and another King.CHAP. 10. -
The substance of the people of
God who were inChrist in the flesh: who onely had power to redeeme the soule of man from hell.CHAP. 11. -
Another verse of the former
Psalme, and the persons to whome it belongeth.CHAP. 12. -
Whether the truth of the promised peace may be as∣cribed vnto
Salomons time.CHAP. 13. -
Of
Dauids endeuours in composing of the Psalmes.CHAP. 14. -
Whether all things concerning Christ and his Church in the Psalmes; be to be rehearsed in this worke.
CHAP. 15. -
Of the fortie fiue Psalme▪: the tropes, and truths therein, concerning
Christ and theChurch. CHAP. 16. -
Of the references of the 110. Psalme vnto
Christs Priest-hood: and the 22. vnto his passion.CHAP. 17. -
Christs death and resurrection prophecied in psalme. 3.
& 40.& 15.& 67.CHAP. 18. -
The obstinate infidelitie of the Iewes, declared in the sixtie nine Psalme.
CHAP. 19. -
Dauids Kingdome: his merit, his sonneSalomon. Prophecies of Christ inSalomons bookes: and in bookes that are annexed vnto them.CHAP. 20. -
Of the Kings of Israel and Iudah, after
Salomon. CHAP. 21. -
How
Hieroboam infected his subiects with Idolatry: yet did God neuer faile them in Prophets, nor in keeping many from that infection.CHAP. 22. -
The state of Israel and Iudah vnto both their Captiuities, (which befell at different times) diuersly altered. Iudah vnited to Israel: and lasty, both vnto Rome.
CHAP. 23. -
Of the last Prophets of the Iewes, about the time that Christ was borne.
CHAP. 24.
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Of the Kings, and times of the Earthly Citty, correspon∣dent vnto those of
Abraham. CHAP. 2. -
What Kings reigned in Assyria, and Sicyonia, in the hundreth yeare of
Abrahams age, whenIsaac was borne according to the promise: or at the birth ofIacob andEsau. CHAP. 3. -
Of the times of
Iacob and his sonneIoseph. CHAP. 4. -
Of
Apis the Argiue King, calledSerapis in Egipt, and there adored as a deity.CHAP. 5. -
The Kings of Argos and Assyria, at the time of
Iacobs death.CHAP. 6. -
In what Kings time
Ioseph dyed in Egypt.CHAP. 7. -
What Kings liued when
Moyses was borne: and what Goddes the Pagans had as then.CHAP. 8. -
The time when Athens was built, and the reason that
Varro giueth for the name.CHAP. 9. -
Varros relation of the originall of the wordAreopage: and ofDeucalions deluge.CHAP. 10. -
About whose times
Moyses brought Israel out of Egipt. OfIosuah: in whose times he died.CHAP. 11. -
The false gods, adored by those Greeke Princes, which liued be∣tweene Israells freedome, and
Iosuahs death.CHAP. 12. -
What fictions got footing in the nations, when the Iudges beganne first to rule Israel.
CHAP. 13. -
Of the Theologicall Poets.
CHAP. 14. -
The ruine of the Argiue kingdome:
Picus Saturnes sonne succeeding him in Laurentum.CHAP. 15. -
How
Diomedes was deified after the destruction of Troy: and his fellowes said to bee turned into birdes.CHAP. 16. -
Of the incredible changes of men that
Varro beleeued.CHAP. 17. -
Of the deuills power in transforming mans shape: what a Christian may beleeue herein.
CHAP. 18. -
That
Aeneas came into Italy whenLabdon was Iudge of Israell.CHAP. 19. -
Of the succession of the Kingdome in Israell after the Iudges.
CHAP. 20. -
Of the latian Kings:
Aeneas (the first) andAuen∣tinus (the twelfth) are made gods.CHAP. 21. -
Rome, founded at the time of the Assyrian Monarchies fall,
Ezechias being King of Iuda.CHAP. 22. -
Of the euident prophecy of
Sybilla Erithraea con∣cerning Christ.CHAP. 23. -
The seauen Sages in
Romulus his time: Israel lead into captiuity:Romulus dyeth and is deified.CHAP. 24. -
Phylosophers liuing in
Tarquinius Priscus his time, andSedechias, when Hierusalem was taken, and the Temple destroyed.CHAP. 25. -
The Romaines were freed from their Kings, and Israel from captiuity both at one time.
CHAP. 26. -
Of the times of the Prophets whose bookes wee haue: How they prophecyed (some of them) of the calling of the nation, in the declyning of the Assyrian Monarchy, and the Romaines erecting.
CHAP. 27. -
Prophecies concerning the Ghospell, in
Osee andAmos. CHAP. 28. -
Esay his prophecies concerning Christ.CHAP. 29. -
Prophecies of
Michaeas, Ionas, andIoell, correspondent vnto the New-Testament.CHAP. 30. -
Prophecies of
Abdi, Naum andAbacuc, concerning the worlds saluation in Christ.CHAP. 31. -
The prophecy conteined in the song, and praier of
Abacuc. CHAP. 32. -
Prophecies of
Hieromie, andZephany, concerning the former themes.CHAP. 33. -
Daniels, andEzechiels prophecies, concerning Christ, and his Church.CHAP. 34. -
Of the three prophecies of
Aggee, Zachary andMalachy. CHAP. 35. -
Of the bookes of
Esdras, and theMachabees. CHAP. 36. -
The Prophets more ancient then any of the Gentile Philosophers.
CHAP. 37. -
Of some scriptures too ancient for the Church to allow, because that might procure suspect that they are rather counterfeit then true.
CHAP. 38. -
That the Hebrew letters haue beene euer continued in that language.
CHAP. 39. -
The Aegyptians abhominable lyings, to claime their wisdome the age of 100000. yeares.
CHAP. 40. -
The dissension of Philosophers, and the concord of the Canonicall Scriptures.
CHAP. 41. -
Of the translations of the Old-Testament out of Hebrew into Greeke, by the ordinance of God for the benefit of the nations
CHAP. 42. -
That the translation of the Seuenty is most authenticall, next vnto the Hebrew.
CHAP. 43. -
Of the destruction of Niniuy▪ which the Hebrew perfixeth fourty daies vnto, and the Septuagints but three.
CHAP. 44. -
The Iewes wanted Prophets euer after the repayring of the Temple, and were afflicted euen from thence vntill
Christ came: to shew the Prophets spake of the building of the other Temple.CHAP. 45. -
Of the words
becomming flesh, ourSauiours birth▪ and the dispersion of Iewes.CHAP. 46. -
Whether any but Israelites, before
Christs time, belonged to theCitty of God. CHAP. 47. -
Aggees prophecy of the glory of Gods house, fulfilled in the Church, not in the Temple.CHAP. 48. -
The Churches increase vncertaine, because of the commixtion of elect and re∣probate in this world.
CHAP. 49. -
Gospell preached, and gloriously confirmed by the bloud of the preachers. CHAP. 50. -
That the Church is confirmed euen by the schismes of Heresies.
CHAP. 51. -
Whether the opinion of some, be credible, that there shalbe no more persecutions after the ten, past, but the eleauenth, which is that of Antichrists.
CHAP. 52. -
Of the vnknowne time of the last persecution.
CHAP. 53. -
The Pagans foolishnesse in affirming that Christianity should last but 365. yeares.
CHAP. 54.
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Varro his reduction of the finall good out of all these differences vnto three heads and three definitions, one onely of which is the true one.CHAP. 2. -
Varro his choise amongst the three fore-named sects, following therein the opinion ofAntiochus, author of the old Academicall sect.CHAP. 3. -
The Christians opinion of the chiefest good, and euill, which the Philosophers held to be within them-selues.
CHAP. 4. -
Of liuing sociably with our neighbour: how fitt it is, and yet how subiect to crosses.
CHAP. 5. -
The errour of humaine iudgments, in cases where truth is not knowne.
CHAP. 6. -
Difference of language, an impediment to humane soci∣ety. The miseries of the iustest warres.
CHAP. 7. -
That true friendship cannot bee secure, amongst the incessant perills of this present life.
CHAP. 8. -
The friendship of holy Angells with men: vndiscernable in this life, by reason of the deuills, whom all the Infidells tooke to be good powers, and gaue them diuine honours.
CHAP. 9. -
Thereward that the Saints are to receiue after the passing of this worlds afflictions.
CHAP. 10. -
The beatitude of eternall peace, and that true perfection wherein the Saints are installed.
CHAP. 11. -
That the bloudiest warres chiefe ayme is peaces they desire which is naturall in man.
CHAP. 12. -
Of that vniuersall peace which no perturbances can seclude from the law of nature, Gods iust iudgements disposing of euery one ac∣cording to his proper desert.
CHAP. 13. -
Of the law of Heauen and Earth, which swaieth humane society by counsell, and vnto which counsell hu∣mane society obeyeth.
CHAP. 14. -
Natures freedome, and bondage, caused by sinne: in which man is a slaue to his owne affects, though he be not bondman to any one besides.
CHAP. 15. -
Of the iust law of soueraignty.
CHAP. 16. -
The grounds of the concord, and discord betweenethe Citties of Heauen and Earth.
CHAP. 17. -
That the suspended doctrine of the new Academy opposeth the constancie of Christianity.
CHAP. 18. -
Of the habite, and manners belonging to a Christian.
CHAP. 19. -
Hope, the blisse of the heauenly Cittizens, during this life.CHAP. 20. -
Whether the Cit
y of Rome had euer a true common-wealth, according to Scipio's definition of a common-wealth, inTully. CHAP. 21. -
Whether Christ, the Christians God be he vnto whome onely sacrifice is to be offered.
CHAP. 22. -
Porphiry his relation of the Oracles touching Christ.CHAP. 23. -
A definition of a people, by which, both the Romaines and other kingdomes may challenge themselues common-weales.
CHAP. 24. -
That there can be no true vertue, where true religion wanteth.
CHAP. 25. -
The peace of
Gods enemies, vse-full to the piety of his friends as long as theirearthly pilgrimage lasteth.CHAP. 26. -
The peace of
Gods seruants, the fulnesse whereof, it is impossible in this life, to comprehend.CHAP. 27. -
The end of the wicked.
CHAP. 28.
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The change of humane estates, ordered by
Gods vn∣searcheable iudgements.CHAP. 2. -
Salomons disputation inEcclesiastes, concerning those goods which both the iust and the vniust doe share in.CHAP. 3. -
The authors resolution in this discourse of the iudgement, to produce the testimonies of the New-Testament first, and then of the old.
CHAP. 4. -
Places of Scripture prouing that there shalbe a daie of Iudgement at the worlds end.
CHAP. 5. -
What the first resurrection is, and what the second.
CHAP. 6. -
Of the two resurrections: what may bee thought of the thousand years mentioned in
Saint Iohns Reuelation. CHAP. 7. -
Of the binding and loosing of the Diuell.
CHAP. 8. -
What is meant by
Christs reigning a thousand yeares with the Saints, and the difference betweene that and his eternall reigne.CHAP. 9. -
An answer to the obiection of some, affirming that resurrection is proper to the body onely, and not to the soule.
CHAP. 10. -
Of
Gog andMagog, whom the Deuill (at the worlds end) shall stirre vp against the Church ofGod. CHAP. 11. -
Whether the fire falling from heauen, and deuouring them, imply the last torments of the wicked.
CHAP. 12. -
Whether it be a thousand yeares vntill the persecution vnder Antichrist.
CHAP. 13. -
Satan and his followers condemned: A recapitulation of theresurrection, and thelast iudgment. CHAP. 14. -
Of the dead, whom the
Sea, anddeath, and hell shall giue vp toIudgement. CHAP. 15. -
Of the new Heauen, and the new Earth
CHAP. 16. -
Of the glorification of the Church, after death, for euer.
CHAP. 17. -
Saint
Peters doctrine of the resurrection of the dead.CHAP. 18. -
Saint
Pauls words to the Thessalonians: Of the manifestations of An∣tichrist whose times shall immediately fore-runne the day of the Lord.CHAP. 19. -
Saint
Pauls doctrine of the resurrection of the dead.CHAP. 20. -
Esaias his doctrine concerning the iudge∣ment and the resurrection.CHAP. 21. -
How the Saints shall goe forth to see the paines of the wicked.
CHAP. 22. -
Daniels prophecy of Antichrist; of the iudgement, and of the Kingdome of the Saints.CHAP. 23. -
Dauids Prophecies of the worlds end, and the last iudgment.CHAP. 24. -
Malachies Prophecy of the iudgement, and of such as are to be purged by fire.CHAP. 25. -
Of the Saints offerings, which God shall accept of, as in the old time, and the yeares afore.
CHAP. 26. -
Of the seperation of the good from the bad in the end of the last iudgement.
CHAP. 27. -
Moyses Law, to be spiritually vnderstood, for feare of dangerous errour.CHAP. 28. -
Helias his comming to conuert the Iewes, before the iudgment.CHAP. 29. -
That it is not euident in the Old-Testament in such places as say, God shall iudge, that it shalbe in the person of Christ, but onely by some of the testimonies where the Lord God speakes.
CHAP. 30.
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Whether an earthly bodie may possibly be incorruptible by fire.
CHAP. 2. -
Whether a fleshly body may possibly endure eternall paine.
CHAP. 3. -
Natures testimonies that bodies may remaine vndiminished in the fire.
CHAP. 4. -
Of such things as cannot bee assuredly knowne to bee such, and yet are not to be doubted of.
CHAP. 5. -
All strange effects are not natures: some are mans deuises: some the deuills.
CHAP. 6. -
Gods omnipotency the ground of all beleefe in things admired
CHAP. 7. -
That the alteration of the knowne nature of any creature, vnto a nature vnknowne, is not opposite vnto the lawes of nature.
CHAP. 8. -
Of Hell and the qualities of the eternall paines therein.
CHAP. 9. -
Whether the fyre of hell if it be corporall, can take effect vpon the incorporeall deuills.
CHAP. 10. -
Whether it bee not iustice that the time of the paines should be proportioned to the time of the sinnes and crimes.
CHAP. 11. -
The greatnesse of
Adams sinne, inflicting eternall damnation vpon all that are out of the state of Grace.CHAP. 12. -
Against such as hold, that the torments after the iudgement shall bee but the meanes whereby the soules shall bee purified.
CHAP. 13. -
The
all paines of this life afflicting all man-kinde. CHAP. 14. -
That the scope of Gods redeeming vs is wholly pertinent to the world to come.
CHAP. 15. -
The lawes of grace, that all the regenerate are blessed in.
CHAP. 16. -
Of some Christians that held that Hells paines should not be eternall.
CHAP. 17. -
Of those that hold that the intercession of the Saints shallsaue all men from damnation.
CHAP. 18. -
Of such as hold that heretiques shalbe saued, in that they haue pertaken of the body of CHRIST.
CHAP. 19. -
Of such as allow this deliuerance onely to wicked and reuolted Catholikes.
CHAP. 20. -
Of such as affirme that all that abide in the Catholique faith, shall be saued for that faith
ly, be their liues neuer so worthy of damnation. CHAP. 21. -
Of such
affirme that the sinnes committed amongst the workes of mercy, shall not bee called into iudgement. CHAP. 22. -
Against those that exclude both men and deuills from paines eternall.
CHAP. 23. -
Against those that would prooue all damnation frustrate by the praters of the Saints.
CHAP. 24. -
Whether that such as beeing baptized by heretiques, become wicked in life, or amongst Catholiques, and then fall away into heresies and schismes, or continuing amongst Catholiques, be of vicious conuersation, can haue any hope of escaping damnation, by the priuiledge of the Sacraments.
CHAP. 12. -
What it is to haue CHRIST for the foundation: who they are, that shalbe saued (as it were) by fire.
CHAP. 26. -
th se that thinke those sinnes shall not be laid to their , where-with they mixed some workes of mercy. CHAP. 27.
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The promise of the Saints eternall blisse, and the wickeds per∣petuall torment.
CHAP. 2. -
The promise of the Saints eternall blisse, and the wickeds perpetual torment.
CHAP. 3. -
Against the wise men of the world that hold it impossible for mans bodie to be transported vp to the dwellings of ioy i
heauen. CHAP. 4. -
Of the resurrection of the body, beleeued by the whole world excepting some few.
CHAP. 5. -
That
Loue made the Romanes deify their founderRomulus, andFaith made the Church to loue hirLord and maister Christ Iesus. CHAP. 6. -
That the beleefe of
Christes Deity was wrought byGods power, not mans perswasion.CHAP. 7. -
Of the miracles which hath beene and are as yet wrought to procure and confirme the worlds beleefe in
Christ-CHAP. 8. -
That all the myracles done by the Martyrs in the name of CHRIST, were onely confirmations of that faith, whereby the Martyrs beleeued in CHRIST.
CHAP. 9. -
How much honor the Martyrs deserue in obtayning miracles for the worship of the true
God; in respect of the Deuills, whose workes tend all to make men thinke that they areGods. CHAP. 10. -
Against the
Platonists that oppose the eleuation of the body vp to heauen, by arguments of elementary ponderosity.CHAP. 11. -
Against the Infidels calumnies, cast out in scorne of the Christians beleefe of the resurrection.
CHAP. 12. -
Whether
Ab-ortiues, belong not to the resurrection, if they belong to the dead.CHAP. 13. -
Whether Infants shall rise againe in the stature that they died in.
CHAP. 14. -
Whether all of the resurrection shalbe of the stature of Christ.
CHAP. 15. -
[What is meant by the conformation of the Saints vnto the Image of the Sonne of GOD.
CHAP. 16. -
Whether that women shall retaine their proper sexe in the resurrection
CHAP. 17. -
Of CHRIST, the perfect man, and the Church, his body, and fulnesse.
CHAP. 18. -
That our bodies in the resurrection shall haue no imperfection at all, whatsoeuer they haue had during this life, but shall be perfect both in quantity and quality.
CHAP. 19. -
That euery mans body, how euer dispersed here, shall bee restored him, perfect, at the Resurrection.
CHAP. 20. -
What new and spirituall bodies shalbe giuen vnto the Saints.
CHAP. 21. -
Of mans miseries, drawne vpon him by his first parents, and taken away from him onely by CHRISTS merites, and gratious goodnesse.
CHAP. 22. -
Of accidents, seuered from the common estate of man, and peculiar onely to the iust and righteous.
CHAP. 23. -
Of the goods that GOD hath bestowed vpon this miserable life of ours.
CHAP. 24. -
Of the obstinacie of some few in denying the resurrection, which the whole world beleeueth, as it was fore-told.
CHAP. 25. -
That
Porphyryes opinion that the blessed soules should haue no bodiss, is con∣futed byPlato himselfe, who saith that theCreator promised the infe∣riour deities, that they should neuer loose ther bodyes.CHAP. 26. -
Contrarieties betweene
Plato andPorphyry, wherein if eyther should yeeld vnto other, both should find out the truth.CHAP. 27. -
What either
Plato, Labeo, orVarro might haue auailed to the true faith of the resurrection, if there had beene an Harmonie in their opinions.CHAP. 28. -
Of the quality of the vision, with which the Saintes shall see
GOD in the world to come.CHAP. 29. -
Of the eternall felicity of the
Citty of God, and the perpetuall Sabbath.CHAP. 30.
- An alphabeticall Index pointing out memorable matters contained in these bookes of the Citty of God.
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