A U G U S T I N. 405 replied, " Our Saviour fays, ' Take my yoke upon you, for
- I am meek and lowly in hcarf.' It Auguftin be affable
'* and humble, he has probably taken Chrift's yoke upon
- ' him, and offers you the Tame privilege : but if he be
- ' haughty and infolcnt, it is plain he is not commiflioned
< e from heaven, nor are his woids to be regarded." They farther afkcd by what marks they were to difcover his tem- per. The hermit defired them to manage it fo, that Au- guftin and his company fhould be fir it at the place, and if he rofe to falute them at their coming in, they mi^ht con- clude he was lent from God ; but if he neglected this civility, Bede, lib. 51, they might return his contempt, and have nothing to do cap ' a ' vvith him. When the Britons came into the fynod, Auguflin received them fitting ; in refentment of which -affront, they warm'y oppofed every thing he offered. The articles in- fifVzd on by Auguftin were, that they (hould celebrate Eafter, and adminiOer baptifm, according to the practice of the Ro- mifh church ; and that they fhould acknowledge the pope's authority : if they would comply in thefe refpe&s, and aflift in the converfion of the Saxons, he would bear with the disagreement of their cuftoms in other cafes. But the Bcde, ubi Biitons replied, they could yield none of the points con- fu P ra tefted [A]. This apoftle of the Englifli died at Canterbury in the year 604. The popifh writers afcribe feveral miracles to him. The obfervation of the feftival of St. Auguftin was firft en- Gervaf.Afl. joined in a fynod held under Cuthbert archbifhop of Canter- Pont - Can *r , , ,. . r . - , . apud Twyl- buty, and afterwards by the pope s bull in the reign or Kingden, Edward III. col. 164?. Biogf. Britf A] If it be a/ked why the Bntifli may be replied, that thefe terms were clergy were fo tenacious of their old not required of them as conditions of cuftoms, as to break with Auguftin brotherly communion, but ai markt rather than alter their way of keeping of labmiflion and inferiority. Biogr. luftcr, and adaiinifttring baptifm j it Brit. AUGUSTINE (St.), an illuftrious father of the church, Was born at Tagafte in Africa, the I3th of November, 354. He was the fon of Patricius a mean citizen of Tagatte, and Monica a woman of exemplary virtue. His father intended that he (hould raiie himfelf by his learning, and therefore fenthim to Madaura to be inftru&ed in the dailies; but he difcovered a great diflike toftudy, loving nothing but gaming and public (hews, and invented a thoufand lies to efcape the rod, with which he was however often feverely chaftifed. He was taken from Madaura in order to be lent to Carthage D d 19
