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THE CONTENTS OF THE fourth booke of the City of God.
- 1. Of the contents of the first booke.
- 2. Of the contents of the second & third booke.
- 3. Whether happy and wise men should ac∣count it as part of their felicities, to possesse an Empire that is inlarged by noe meanes but war.
- 4. Kingdomes without iustice, how like they are vnto theeuish purchases.
- 5. Of those fugitiue sword-plaiers whose pow∣er grew paralel'd with a royall dignity.
- 6. Of the couetise of Ninus, who made the first war vpon his neighbours, through the greedy de∣sire he had to increase his kingdome.
- 7. Whether the Pagan gods haue any power either to further or hinder the progresse, increase or defects of earthly kingdomes.
- 8. What pretious gods those were by whose power the Romaines held their empire to bee in∣larged and preserued, seeing that they durst not trust them with the defence of meane and perti∣cular matters.
- 9. Whether it was Ioue, whome the Romaines held the chiefest GOD, that was their protector and enlarger of their empire.
- 10. What opinions they followed that set diuers gods to rule in diuerse parts of the world.
- 11. Of the multitude of gods which the Pa∣gan Doctors avouch to bee but one and the same Iupiter.
- 12. Of their opinion that held God to bee soule and the world the body.
- 13. Of such as hold that the resonable crea∣tures, onely are parts of the diuine.
- 14. That the augmentations of kingdomes are vnfitly ascribed to Ioue. victory (whome they call a goddesse) being sufficient of herselfe to giue a full dispatch to all such buisinesses.
- 15. Whether an honest man ought to enter∣taine any desire to enlarge his empire.
- 16. The reason why the Romaines in their appointments of seueral gods for euery thing, and euery action, would needs place the Temple of Rest or Quiet without the gates.
- 17. Whether if Ioue bee the chiefe God of all victory, & to be accounted as one of the number.
- 18. Why Fortune and Felicity were made Goddesses.
- 19. Of a Goddesse, called Fortuna muliebris.
- 20. Of the Deification of Vertue and Faith by the Pagans: and of their omission of the wor∣ship that was due to diuers other Gods, if it bee true that these were gods.
- 21. That such as knew not the true and onely God had better haue bin contented with Vertue and Felicity.
- 22. Of the knowledge of these Pagan Gods which Varro boasteth he taught the Romaines.
- 23. Of the absolute sufficiency of Felicity a∣lone, whome the Romaines (who worshipped so many Gods) did for a great while neglect, and gaue no diuine honors vnto.
- 24. What reason the Pagans bring for their worshipping of Gods guifts for Gods themselues.
- 25. Of the worship of one God onely, whose name although they knew not, yet the tooke him for the giuer of Felicity.
- 26. Of the stage playes which the gods exac∣ted of their seruants.
- 27. Of the three kinds of gods whereof Sca∣uola disputed.
- 28. Whether the Romaines dilligence in this worshippe of those gods did their empire any good at all.
- 29. Of the falsenesse of that augury that pre∣saged courage and stability to the state of Rome.
- 30. The confessions of such as doe worshippe those Pagan Gods, from their owne mouthes.
- 31. Of Varros reiecting the popular opinion, and of his beleefe of one God, though hee knew not the true God.
- 32. What reasons the kings of the world had for the permitting of those false religions in such places as they conquered.
- 33. That God hath appointed a time for the continuance of euery state on earth.
- 34. Of the Iewes Kingdome, which one god alone kept vnmooued as long as they kept the truth of religion.
FINIS.