St. Augustine, Of the citie of God vvith the learned comments of Io. Lod. Viues. Englished by I.H.
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St. Augustine, Of the citie of God vvith the learned comments of Io. Lod. Viues. Englished by I.H.
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Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo.
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London :: Printed by George Eld,
1610.
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Christianity and other religions -- Early works to 1800.
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L. VIVES.
THE (a) Teletae] A sacrifice most secret and most sumptuous: so called, because it consu∣med so much, of 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, to end, or to consume, that some thinke they had their name from the•…•… perfection. They belonged to the Sunne and Moone, as Porphyry writeth: and were besides, expiations to Bacchus, recorded in Orpheus and Mus•…•…us (Plat. de Rep. lib. 2.) that t•…•…ght how to purge the sinnes of the Citties, the liuing, the dead, and euery priuate man by sacrifices, playes, and all delights, and the whole forme of it all was called •…•…eletae. Though Pla•…•… saith the Teletae belonged onely to the dead, and freed men from all the euills in hell. (b) S•…•…cret] Of Ceres and others. (c) The old] Numa forbad the Romaines to thinke that God had 〈◊〉〈◊〉 shape of man or woman (Plut. in vit. Num.) Nor had they any picture at all o•…•… any God for the first hundred three score and te•…•…e yeares: they built onely temples and
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little Oratories, but neuer an Image in them, for they held it a sinne to liken the better to the worse, or to conceiue GOD in any forme but their intelligence: Euseb, Dyonys. also saith, that Numa built the gods temples but no Images came in them, because hee beleeued that God had no shape. Tarquinius Priscus following the Greekes foolery and the Tuscans, first taught the erection of statues, which Tertullian intimateth, saying; Goe to, now religion hath profited. For though Numa inuented a great deale of curious superstition, yet neither was there temples nor statues as yet entred into the Romaines religion, but a few poore thrifty cere∣monies: no skie-towring Capitols, but a sort of little altars made of Soddes, earthen dishes, the per∣fumes out of them, and the God in no place. For the Greeke and Tuscane artes in Sculpture were not yet entred the Cittie.