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him bebea5. ^ he])uj}h gory had ordered him^ and
]>2epa pealhfto5a mu'S he by the Mouths of the In-
J?am cyninje ^ hij* leo6e terpreters , preached God's
Dobej- pop6 bo&o&e. hu Word to the Kmg and his
jre mibheopra h^len5 People, x;/;2S. "* How our mer-
mi& hif a^enpe }>po- ciful Saviour by his own
agnofcerCy iy voluntates admonitme fua^ quantum Dens dohavertty ad*
JHvare. Whom we enjoin to take vvuh them from the Neighbour-
hood feme Presbyters, that they may know the Minds of the P'^ople^
and to forward their Intentions by their Advice, as God fhall give
them Abilifv.
Auguf'me% firft coming over was in the ilixth Year of C/r^^r/s Pon-
tificate the fourteenth of the Reign of Maurkius the Emperor, and
the Year of Chrid $$6. as may be feen in Bedels EccU Htfi. I'lb.u
cap, 23.
- " This firft Sermon of Sc. Auguftine^ Gofceline gives us more at large
to this efFeft. " He preaches co him, God the Creator of all things ;
- ^ and that the Almighty Son of God did fo hve Mankind that was
'* made by Him, that preferving his Deity uninjur'd, he vouchfafed
- to be made Man, and the Son of Man, that being redeemed by
^^ his Blocd, he might make Men become the Sons of God : At whofe
" Nativity a new Star appeared : To whofe Feet the Sea being ren»
" der'd pafTable, was fubfervient: Ac the Indignity of whofe Paf-
'* fion the Sun hid his Rays : Ac whofe Burial and Refurrcftiott, the
^* whole Earth trembled and was amaxed. The fame, fays he, is
" the Lord Je/w, declared to be the Son of God, from the begin-
- ' ing of the World, by all the Patriarchs and Prophets j conceived
- by the Holy Ghoft, born of a Virgin, and declared every Where by
^* innumerable Miracles to be both God and Man ^ and now believed
- in, and known and received as the Saviour of all Men by all Na-
'^tions. Him therefore, his Love exciting us, by which he laid
- down his Life for us, and by which we defire with our moft
- ' earned AfFeftions, co have you Partners with us in his Everlafl-
- ' ing Kingdom, as we are all the Offspring of one Man ; Him, I fay^
- ^ the Maker and Saviour of all Mankind, in whom if ye believe ye
- (hall be faved^ we preach toyoti; becaufe without doubt the pro-
^^ mifed Rewards (hall truly be received by all that believe, and infi-
- « nice Puni(hments be infli<^led upon all that (hall (hew their Cq»-
^^ tempt, Hijf* Min, cbaf. lo. AngL Sacr. Part IL p. 5p>
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