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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AVthority (a) of Gods command] As the Iewes did: they waged warres, but it was by Gods expresse command. [But if they were counted godly y^t to please God (though * 1.1 against natural humanitie afflicted) his enemies with war and slaughter: truly then cannot we butbe held the most vngodly of y^e world that butcher vp so many thousand Christians against the expresse will of God] (b) Iepthe] Iudges the 11. Chapt. Verse 31. Whose fact was like that, which the Tragedians write of Agamemnon, who sacrificed his daughter Iphigenia vnto Diana at Aulis. Many reproue this sacrifice of Iephte: for his vowe was to bee interpreted, as ment of those things, which were accustomed to be offred with Gods * 1.2 good pleasure: and so was that of Agamemnons to haue bene construed also. (c) Nor could Sampson] Iudges the 16. chapter and the 30. verse.

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* 1.1

[] This is lefte out in the edition of Paris.

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* 1.2

Agamem∣non.

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