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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L. VIVES.

•…•…ally. (a) Say.] Figuratiuely. A trope (saith Quintilian, is the translation of one word 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the fit signification of another, from the owne: that God repented, is a Metaphor, * 1.1 〈◊〉〈◊〉 〈◊〉〈◊〉 figure that who so knowes not and yet would learne, for the vnderstanding of scrip∣•…•… not go vnto Tully, or Quintilian, but vnto our great declamers, who knowing not y 〈◊〉〈◊〉 betweene Gramar and Rhetorike, call it all by the name of grammer. (b) Then there∣•…•… 〈◊〉〈◊〉 that it is otherwise not free: for suppose it had not sinned: but because then it is •…•…m the burden of all crimes, from all euill customes, and is no more molested by the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 invasions of vice. (c) He is the.] They are both onely from God. (d) In Paradise,] Par∣•…•… * 1.2 •…•…asure and delight. Man being placed in earthly Paradise had great ioy corporally, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 greater spiritually: for without this, the bodies were painefull rather then pleasing: 〈◊〉〈◊〉 is the fountaine of delight, which being sad, what ioy hath man in any thing. (e) 〈◊〉〈◊〉.] Enuy immediately succedeth pride by nature, for a proud man so loueth himselfe •…•…eues that any one should excell him, nay equalize him, which when he cannot auoid •…•…es them: whence it comes that enuy •…•…itts chiefely amongst the highest honors, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the peoples fauor doth not alwaies grace the Prince alone. Swetonius saith that Cali∣•…•… 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the meanest, some for that the people fauored them, others for their forme or 〈◊〉〈◊〉 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the diuell enuy mans holding of so high a place, and this enuy brought death 〈◊〉〈◊〉 •…•…d, (f) Fit for.] Hee saith super genes. ad. lit. that the deuill was not permitted to 〈◊〉〈◊〉 other creature but this: that the woman might learne that from a poisonous crea∣•…•… 〈◊〉〈◊〉 nothing but poyson, Pherecides the Syrian saith the diuells were cast from hea∣•…•… 〈◊〉〈◊〉, and that their chiefe was Ophioneus, that is, Serpentine.

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(g) Subiect] The diuell tooke the serpents body, and therfore was the serpent held the most suttle creature of all, as Augustine saith vpon Genesis. (h) Sociall loue] Necessitudo, is oftne•…•… taken for loue and kinred then for need or necessity. (i) Deceiued him] Adam was deceiued in 〈◊〉〈◊〉, that he thought hee had a good excuse to appease Gods wrath withal, in saying that he did it to gratifie his fellow, and such an one as God God had ordayned to dwell with him.

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