St. Augustine, Of the citie of God vvith the learned comments of Io. Lod. Viues. Englished by I.H.

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Title: St. Augustine, Of the citie of God vvith the learned comments of Io. Lod. Viues. Englished by I.H.
Author: Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo.
Publication: London :: Printed by George Eld,; 1610.
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L. VIVES.

GOd that (a) giueth] Here is a diuersity of reading in the text: but all comes to one sence. (b) Who as their] The Persian Magi (whose chiefe Zoroafter was) held two beginnings * 1.1 a good and a bad: that the God of heauen•…•…, this the god of hell. This they called Pluto and A∣ri•…•…anius, the euill Daemon: that Ioue and Horosmades, the good Daemon, Hermipp. Eudox. Theo∣•…•…p. apud * 1.2 Laert. Those Plato seemes to follow (de leg. l. 10.) putting two sorts of soules in the world, originalls of good and originall of bad: vnlesse he do rather Pythagorize: who held, that the vnity was God, the minde, the nature, and the good of euery thing: the number of two, infinite, materiall, multiplicable, the Genius and euill. The Manichees also (Aug. de heres.) held two beginnings, contrary, and coeternall: and two natures and substances of good and of euil: wherein they followed the old heretikes. (c) Marius] He coupleth a good and a bad together. Marius most cruell, Caesar most courteous, Augustus the best Emperor, Nero y^e worst that could be. (d) Both sweetly] T. Vespatian had two sonnes, Titus & Domitian. Their father was conceited and full of delicate mirth: and Titus the sonne so gentle, and indeed so full a man, that hee was * 1.3

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called Man-kindes Delicacy: Sueton. I haue resolued (saith Pliny the second in his prefa•…•… of his naturall Historie to Titus the sonne) to declare vnto you (most mirthfull Emper•…•…, for that stile is the fittest, as being your olde inheritance from your Father. &c.

Domitian was neither like father nor brother, but bloody and hated of all men. (e) The Apo∣stata] a fugitiue, or turne-coate: for being first a Christian, Libanius the Sophister peruerted * 1.4 him, and from that time hee was all for oracles, lottes, with crafts and promises of Magitians, where-by he came to destruction, being otherwise a man of a great spirit, and one as fitte for * 1.5 Empire as the world afforded.

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Zoroafter.

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Two kinds of soules in Plato's world. Pythagoras his num∣bers. The Mani∣chees.

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Vespasian.

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Domitian.

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Iulian.

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