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A22641	St. Augustine, Of the citie of God vvith the learned comments of Io. Lod. Viues. Englished by I.H.; De civitate Dei. English	Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo.; Healey, John, d. 1610.; Vives, Juan Luis, 1492-1540.	1610 (1610)	STC 916; ESTC S106897	1,266,989	952

LORD shall weaken his aduersaries and make them be conquered by those whom Hee the most Holy hath made holy also i and therefore let not the wise glory in his wisdome the mighty in his might nor the ritch in his ritches but let their glory be to know God and to execute his iudgements and iustice vpon earth Hee is a good proficient in the knowledge of God that knoweth that God must giue him the meanes to know God For what hast thou saith the Apostle which thou hast not receiued that is what hast thou of thine owne to boast of Now hee that doth right executeth iudgement and iustice and hee that liueth in Gods obedience and the end of the command namely in a pure loue a good conscience and an vnfained faith But this loue as the Apostle Iohn saith is of God Then to do iudgement and iustice is of God but what is on the earth might it not haue beene left out and it haue only bin said to do iudgement and iustice the precept would bee more common both to men of land and sea but least any should thinke that after this life there were a time elsewhere to doe iustice and iudgement in and so to auoide the great iudgement for not doing them in the flesh therefore in the earth is added to confine those acts within this life for each man beareth his earth about with him in this world and when hee dieth bequeaths it to the great earth that must returne him it at the resurrection In this earth therefore in this fleshly body must we doe iustice and iudgement to doe our selues good hereafter by when euery one shall receiue according to his works done in the body good or bad in the body that is in the time that the body liued for if a man blaspheme in heart though he do no ●…urt with any bodily mēber yet shal not he be vnguilty because though he did it not in his body yet hee did it in the time wherein hee was in the body And so many we vnderstand that of the Psalme The Lord our King hath wrought 〈◊〉 in the midest of the earth before the beginning of the world that is the Lord Iesus our God before the beginning for he made the beginning hath wrought saluation in the midst of the earth namely then when the word became flesh and 〈◊〉 corporally amongst vs. But on Annah hauing shewen how each man ought to glory viz. not in himselfe but in God for the reward that followeth the great iudgement proceedeth thus l The Lord went vp vnto heauen and hath thundred he shall iudge the ends of the worlds and shall giue the power vnto our Kings and exalt the horne of his annoynted This is the plaine faith of a Christian. Hee 〈◊〉 into heauen and thence hee shall come to iudge the quicke and dead for who is ●…ded saith the Apostle but he who first descended into the inferiour parts of the earth Hee thundred in the clouds which hee filled with his holy spirit in his ●…ntion from which clouds he threatned Hierusalem that vngratefull vine to 〈◊〉 no rayne vpon it Now it is said Hee shall iudge the ends of the world that is the ends of men for he shall iudge no reall part of earth but onely all the men thereof nor iudgeth hee them that are changed into good or bad in the meane 〈◊〉 but m as euery man endeth so shall he beiudged wherevpon the scripture 〈◊〉 He that commeth vnto the end shall be safe hee therefore that doth i●…ce in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the earth shall not be condemned when the ends of the earth are 〈◊〉 And shall giue power vnto our Kings that is in not condemning them by ●…gement hee giueth them power because they rule ouer the flesh like Kings 〈◊〉 ●…quer the world in him who shed his blood for them And shall exalt the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his anoynted How shall Christ the annoynted exalt the horne of his an●… It is of Christ that those sayings The Lord went vp to heauen c. are all 〈◊〉 so is this same last of exalting the horne of his annoynted Christ there●… exalt the horne of his annoynted that is of euery faithfull seruant of his as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 first my horne is exalted in the Lord for all that haue receiued the vnc●… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 grace may wel be called his annoynted al which with their head make 〈◊〉 annoynted This Anna prophisied holy Samuels mother in whome the 〈◊〉 of ancient priesthood was prefigured and now fulfilled when as the wo●… 〈◊〉 many sonnes was enfeebled that the barren which brougt forth seuen 〈◊〉 ●…eceiue the new priesthood in Christ. L. VIVES SH●… that a had Multa in filiis b Nor had she The first booke of Samuel agreeth with 〈◊〉 but Iosephus vnlesse the booke be falty saith she had sixe three sons and three 〈◊〉 after Samuel but the Hebrewes recken Samuels two sonnes for Annahs also being 〈◊〉 ●…dchildren and Phamuahs seauen children died seuerally as Annahs and her sonne 〈◊〉 ●…ere borne c And my horne Some read mine heart but falsely the greeke is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 preachers there are Or nor in such as are bound by calling to bee his preachers the 〈◊〉 ●…py readeth but in his called prechers e No man knoweth Both in his foreknowledge 〈◊〉 ●…owlege of the secrets of mans heart f Are hired out The seauenty read it are 〈◊〉 g For the begger It seemes to be a word of more indigence then poore the latine 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●…ops or helpelesse hauing no reference in many places to want of mony but of 〈◊〉 G●…rg 1. Terent. Adelpe Act. 2. scena 1. Pauper saith Uarro is quasi paulus lar c. 〈◊〉 ●…gens h The Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is both his and his owne the Greekes do not distin●… two as we doe i Let not the. This is not the vulgar translation of the Kings but 〈◊〉 cha 9. the 70. put it in them both but with some alteration It is an vtter subuersion 〈◊〉 God respects not wit power or wealth those are the fuell of mans vaine glory but let 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●…th as Paule saith glory in the Lord and by a modest and equall thought of himselfe continually For so shall he neuer be pride-swollen for the knowledge of God that charity seasoneth neuer puffeth vp if we consider his mercies and his iudgements his loue and his wrath togither with his maiesty k And to doe iudgement The seauenty read this one way in the booke of Samuel and another way in Hieremy attributing in the first vnto the man that glorieth and in the later vnto God l The Lord went vp This is not in the vulgar vntill you come vnto this and he shall iudge Augustine followed the LXX and so did all that age almost in all the churches m As euery man As I finde thee so will I iudge thee The Prophets words vnto Heli the priest signifying the taking

this 〈◊〉 was found to be true and m not counterfeite in him in that he lay still without any breathing yet hee sa●…d afterward that if one spake aloude hee thought he heard him as if hee were a sarre off Seeing therefore that in this 〈◊〉 of ours the body serueth the will in such extraordinary affects why should we not beleeue that before his disobedience the first man might haue had his meanes and members of generation without lust But hee taking delight in himselfe was left by God vnto himselfe and therefore could not obey himselfe because hee would not obey GOD. And this prooues his misery the plainer in that he cannot liue as he would for if he would doe so he might thinke himselfe ●…ppy n yet liuing in obscenity he should not be so indeed L. VIVES TH●… a lungs The marrowe is not vsually taken for any part of the intrailes It is obserued that Tully and the most learned Latinists vse Pulmo continually in the plurall number I 〈◊〉 it is because it is parted into two fillets or lappets but Celsus Persius and Lactantius 〈◊〉 it in the singular b To take in For there goeth a pipe from the lungs into the mouth cal●… As●…ra arteria by Celsus and Gurgulio by Lactantius the weasand-pipe and through this 〈◊〉 breath goeth in and out for that is the proper function thereof Arist. Histor. animall lib. 〈◊〉 c There are Aristotle saith that man only of all creatures cannot moue his eares that is he 〈◊〉 moue thē voluntarily as horses c. do d There are that Plutarch talks of one Parme●…●…t ●…t could imitate the voices of all creatures rarely whēce the prouerb Nihil ad Parmenonis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 e There are that can break There was such an one a Germane about Maximilians 〈◊〉 ●…d his son Phillips that would haue rehearsed any verse whatsoeuer with his taile f 〈◊〉 And when I was sicke of a Tertian at Bruges as often as the Phisitian told me that it was goo●… to sweate I would but hold my breath a little and couer my selfe ouer head in the 〈◊〉 and I sweat presently They that saw it wondred at my strange constitution but they would ha●…e wondred more had they seene Augustines sweater that sweat as easily as I can spit g Some The hired mourners in Italy and almost all women-kinde h Tried of late Such like hath Pliny of one Hermotimus of Clazomene whose soule would leaue his bodie and goe into same countries and then come backe and tell what hee had seene i Uillage 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is a neighbor-hood a dwelling togither They that dwell in diuers hemispheres vnder one paralell are called Paraeci But Parochia is an other matter and vsed now for a parish Augustine meant of the other l Calaman Calamisus was a towne in Italy Calamo was in Phaenicia and that I thinke Augustine meant of vnlesse there were some village in Africa called so as being bu●… by the Phenicians who once possessed almost al Africa l At the feigned Some feigned mourning wherevpon his phantasie tooke the conceite and produced the rapture or he fained such a sound himselfe and so put of his externall sences thereby m Not counterfeite Hee did not oppose himselfe wittingly to those punishings and burnings but was senselesse of them indeed n Yet liuing Felicity is not in opinion but really solid not in shade or imagination but in esse and truth Nor was that noble Argiue happy who as Horace saith thought he had seene fiue tragedies acted In vacuo solus sessor plausorque Theatro Aplauding loud when none were on the stage Of the true beatitude vnattainable in this life CHAP. 25. BVt if wee obserue aright none liues as hee list but hee is happy and none is happy but he is iust yet the iust liueth not as he list vntil he attaine that sure eternall hurtlesse vndeceiuing state That he naturally desireth nor can hee b●…e perfect vntill he haue his desire But what man herevpon earth can say hee liues as he list when his life is not in his owne hand he would liue faine and hee must die How then liueth he as he list that liueth not as long as he list But if he list to die how can he liue as he list that will not liue at all and if he desire to die not forgoe all life but to change it for a better then liueth hee not yet as he list but attaineth that by dying But admit this he liueth as he list because hee hath forced himselfe and brought himselfe to this to desire nothing but what is in his power as Terence saith a Since you cannot haue what you would haue desire th●… which you may haue Yet is he not blessed because hee is a patient wretch For beatitude is not attained vnlesse it be affected And if it be both attained and affected then must this affect needes surmount all other because all other things are affected for this And if this be loued as it ought to be for he that loues not beatitude as it ought to bee loued cannot bee happy then cannot it choose but bee desired to be eternall So that the blessed life must needs be ioyned with ete●… L. VIVES SI●…ce a you This was an old saying Plato de rep That our first parents in Paradise might haue produced man-kinde without any shamefull appetite CHAP. 26. THerefore man liued in Paradise as hee desired whilest he desired but 〈◊〉 God commanded hee inioyed God from whence was his good hee liued without need and had life eternall in his power hee had meat for hunger drinke for thirst the tree of life to keepe off age hee was free of all bodily corruption and sensible molestation hee feared neither disease within nor violence without Hight of health was in his flesh and fulnesse of peace in his soule and as Paradise was neither firy nor frosty no more was the inhabitants good will offended either with desire or feare there was no true sorrow nor vaine ioye their ioy continued by Gods mercy whom they loued with a pure good conscience and an vnfained faith their wedlock loue was holy and honest their vigilance and custody of the precept without all toile or trouble They were neither weary of leasure nor vnwillingly sleepy And can wee not in all this happinesse suppose that they might beget their children without lust and mooue those members without concupiscentiall affect the man a beeing laid in his wiues lap b without corruption of integrity God forbid Want of experience need not driue vs from beleeuing that their generatiue parts might be mooued by will onely without exorbitance of hotter affect that the sperme of the man might be conueid into the place of conception without corruption of the instrument receiuing as well as a virgine now doth giue forth her c menstruous fluxe without breach of virginity That might be cast in as this is cast forth For as their child birth should