The argument out of the ſecond booke of
the Retractations of Saint Auguſtine.
TRiumphant
Rome, ruinated and deiected from her throne of Maie
ſty, into a gulphe of calamity, by the violent irruption of the barbarous
Gothes, managing their bloudy wars vnder the
ſtandard of
Alarcvs: the wor
ſhippers of fal
ſe, and many gods, (whom wee brand in the fore-head with the common name of the heatheni
ſh Pagans) began to breath out more damnable and vitulent bla
ſphemies again
ſt the true
GOD, then their be
ſtiall mouthes had euer breathed out before: labouring with might and maine to lay a heape of
ſlanders vpon the neck of
Chriſtian religion, as the wicked
Mother of all this mi
ſchiefe, and murderer of their worldly happine
ſſe. Wherefore, the fire and the zeale of
Gods Houſe, burning within my bowells, I re
ſolued to compile the
ſe bookes of the
Citty of God, to batter down the
ſtronge
ſt hold of their bitter bla
ſphemies, and di
ſpel the thick clowds of their gro
ſſe
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