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.

CHAP. 87.

Touching men which be monsters, how they shall rise in the later day.

FOr neither may it be denied that monsters which are so borne and do liue afterwards (al∣though they dye presently after they are borne) shall rise againe; Nor yet are we to beleeue, that they shall rise againe in that de∣formity they dyed, but rather re∣formed and amended in that na∣turall defect. For, farre be it from vs to beleeue, that the Centaure lately borne in the East parts (of whom both our faithful brethren which sawe him made report,

and Ierome the Priest, memora∣ble for piety, left a record in wri∣ting) God forbid I say we should thinke, that one man; being in shape two, and not rather two (which should haue been, if they had beene twinnes) shall rise a∣gaine in those seuerall deformi∣ties. In like man her, all other humane things (which be called monsters; by reason euerie crea∣ture so borne, haue more or lesse, or bee more deformed in their creation then they should haue beene) shall in the day of their refurrection, bee reduced to the shape of humane nature in per∣fection: in so much as all soules, particularly, shall inioy their proper bodies, no such thinges cleauing vnto them as were co∣herent and borne with them in their natiuitie; but contrariwise euery one particularly being fur∣nished with his proper parts and members, whereby the bodie of man may be complete in all per∣fection.