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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"St. Augustine, Of the citie of God vvith the learned comments of Io. Lod. Viues. Englished by I.H." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A22641.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2024.
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L. VIVES.
PLacing (a) of some Asbest] Or of a kinde of flaxe that will neuer bee consumed, for such there is. Plin. lib. 19. Piedro Garsia and I saw many lampes of it at Paris, where wee saw also a napkin of it throwne into the middest of a fire, and taken out againe after a while more white and cleane then all the sope in Europe would haue made it. Such did Pliny see also, as hee saith himselfe. (b) By art magique] In my fathers time there was a tombe •…•…ound, wherein there burned a lampe which by the inscription of the tombe, had beene
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lighted therein, the space of one thousand fiue hundered yeares and more. Beeing touched, it fell all to dust. (c) Deuills are allured] Of this reade more in the eight and tenth bookes of this present worke, and in Psell. de Daem. (d) And not theirs] The Manichees held the deuills to bee the creators of many things, which this denieth. (e) In a certaine temple] In the tem∣ple of Serapis of Alexandria. Ruf•…•…n. Hist. Eccl. lib. 21. (f) Haee se] Aeneid. 4.
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