L. VIVES.
THe (a) bodies peace] Saint Augustine in this chapter prooueth althings to consist by peace •…•…nd concord: so that consequently, discord must needes bee the fuell to all ruine and con∣fusion. Wherefore I wonder at the peruerse nature of men that loue dissentions and quar∣rells, as their owne very soules, hating peace, as it were a most pernitious euill; Surely they had but there due, if their bosomes within, and their states without, were wholy fraught with this their so deerely affected darling, warre. (b) Humane peace] But men doe turne all these goods now a daies into contentious vses, as if they were ordeined for no other end; ne∣uer thinking that there is a place of eternall discord prepared for them to dwell in hereafter, where they may enioy their damned desires for euer. The whole goodnesse of peace, and of that especially which CHRIST left vs as his full inheritance, is gone, all but for the name and an imaginary shade thereof, all the rest wee haue lost: nay wee haue made a willing ex∣trusion of it, and expelled it wittingly, and of set purpose, imagining our whole felicity to con∣sist in the tumults of warres and slaughters. And oh so wee braue it, that wee haue slaine thus many men, burnt thus many townes, sacked thus many citties! Founding our principall glories vpon the destruction of our fellowes. But I may beginne a plaint of this heere, but I shall neuer end it. (c) But hee] A diuersity of reading in the copies, rather worth no∣thing then noting.