Saint Augustine his enchiridion to Laurence, or, The chiefe and principall heads of all Christian religion a most profitable booke to all those which desire to haue a most compendious briefe of Augustines doctrine, out of Augustine himselfe, when he was old, being repurged, by the old manuscript, of many faults and vnusuall wordes, wherewith it formerly flowed.

TOVCHING THE last day of Iudgement.

CHAP. 54.

That article touching the second comming of Christ, and the day of iudgement, concerneth euer∣lasting life and saluation.

NOw, as touching that part of our Creede, which con∣cerneth Christ, inasmuch as hee is to come downe from heauen, to iudge both the quicke & the dead, that matter is not perti∣nent to our life in this world, be∣cause it was no part of his acti∣ons formerly done, but of things to be performed in the ende of the world. For, it doth concerne vs so ••arre, as it agreeth with that saying vsed by the Apostle afterwards, When Christ your life shall appeare, then shall ye al∣so appeare with him in glory.

CHAP. 55.

The signification of these wordes, Liuing, and Dead.

CHrists Comming, to iudge the quicke and dead, may be taken two waies; as namely, whether we will vnderstand the liuing to be those, whom his se∣cond comming shall find in this world, not then dead, but still li∣uing in the flesh: As also, that the dead signifie those which ei∣ther are dead, or shall die before his comming▪ or els, that the righteous are those liuing, and the vnrighteous those dead; be∣cause the vnrighteous shall also be iudged. For, sometimes Gods iudgements are taken in y^• worst sense. Whereupon it is said, Be∣cause they haue liued wickedly, they shall rise to their condemna∣tion. And sometimes againe, it is taken in good part, according to that saying, Saue me, O God,

for thy names sake, and iudge me in thy strength. For, through that iudgement of God, there is a separation of the good from the euill; that the good, being to be diuided from the euil and the destruction incident to thē, may bee selected to sit at the right hand of God. For which cause Dauid cryed out, Giue sentence with me O God: and in the same vers. to expound himself he saith, and defend my cause against the vngodly people.