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ARGUMENT.
AUGUSTIN TRACES THE PARALLEL COURSES OF THE EARTHLY AND
HEAVENLY CITIES FROM THE TIME OF ABRAHAM TO
THE END OF THE WORLD; AND ALLUDES TO THE ORACLES REGARDING
CHRIST, BOTH THOSE UTTERED BY THE SIBYLS,
AND THOSE OF THE SACRED PROPHETS WHO WROTE AFTER THE
FOUNDATION OF ROME, HOSEA, AMOS, ISAIAH, MICAH,
AND THEIR SUCCESSORS.
CHAP. 1.--OF THOSE THINGS DOWN TO THE TIMES OF THE SAVIOUR
WHICH HAVE BEEN DISCUSSED IN THE SEVENTEEN
BOOKS.
I PROMISED to write of the rise, progress, an |
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