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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Of Neptune, Salacia, and Venilia. CHAP. 22.

NOw Neptune had one Salacia to wife, gouernesse (they say) of the lowest parts of the sea, why is Venilia ioyned with her, but to keep the poore soule prosti∣tute to a multitude of deuills? But what saith this rare Theology to stoppe our * 1.1 mouthes with reason? Venilia is the flowing tide. Salacia the ebbing: What? two goddesses, when the watter ebbing, and the water flowing is al one? See how the soules lust (a) flowes to damnation! Though this water going bee the same re∣turning, yet by this vanity are two more deuills inuited, to whom the soule (b) goeth, and neuer returneth. I pray the Varro, or you that haue read so much, and boast what you haue learned, explayne mee this, not by the eternall vnchanging nature which is onely god, but by the worlds soule, and the parts, which you hold true gods. The error wherein you make Neptune to bee that part of the worlds

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soule that is in the sea, that is some-what tolerable: but is the water ebbing and the water flowing two parts of the world, or of the worlds soule? which of all your wits conteineth this vnwise credence? But why did your ancestors ordaine yee those two goddesses, but that they would prouide that you should not bee ruled by any more gods, but by many more deuills, that delighted in such vani∣ties: But why hath Salacia, that you call the inmost sea, being there vnder her hus∣band, lost her place? for you bring her vp aboue when shee is the ebbing tide: Hath shee thrust her husband downe into the bottome for entertaining Venilia to his harlot.

L. VIVES.

LUst (a) flowes] Alluding to the sea. (b) Goeth and neuer returneth] Spoken of the dam∣ned, that neither haue ease nor hope at all. He alludeth to Iob. 10. vers. 21. Before I goe and * 1.2 shall not returne to the land of darkenesse and shadow of death, euen the land of misery and darknesse, which both the words them-selues shew, and the learned comments affirme is meant of hell.

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* 1.1

Venilia. Salacia.

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* 1.2

Hel.

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