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. 25.

That the damnation, both of an∣gels and men, because they sin∣ned, was iust; howbeit their pu∣nishment not alike, or the selfe same. Also, what was the con∣dition or state of man before he fell into sinne.

WHich nature notwithstan∣ding, amidst his miseries, could not leese his desire to ob∣taine eternal life: Howbeit, these euils were generall, both to mē and angels, who were damned in respect of their malice, by the iustice of God. But man hath his peculiar punishment in the death of his body. For the Lord did threaten death vnto him, in case hee sinned. And God so induing him with free-will, as that yet hee would haue him subiect to his will, and

kept in awe to fall for feare of destruction, did also place him in the blisse of Paradise, as it were in the shadow of life; from which he should haue beene ad∣uanced to greater felicities, if hee had kept himselfe righteous.