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Contents.
| CHAP. | PAGE |
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| X. That all things begin to hasten to their end; and that we are not saved unless God have us in His keeping. | 58 |
| XI. That parts of the universe are not to be loved; but the changeless God that fashioneth them, and his Eternal Word | 59 |
| XII. Love is not condemned; but love in God excelleth: in which is rest, through Jesus Christ | 60 |
| XIII. Love hath its origin in the attraction exercised by grace and beauty | 62 |
| XIV. Of the books he wrote upon “The Fair and Fit,” which were dedicated to Hierius, the Roman | 62 |
| XV. In this treatise, being blinded by corporeal images, he failed to discern the spiritual nature of God | 64 |
| XVI. He understood with ease the liberal arts and Aristotle’s “Categories,” but did not truly profit by them | 66 |
## Book V.
HE DESCRIBES HIS TWENTY-NINTH YEAR. HOW HE DISCOVERED THE FALLACIES OF THE MANICHÆANS, BECAME A PROFESSOR OF RHETORIC IN ROME AND MILAN. HOW HE HEARD S. AMBROSE, AND BEGAN TO RETURN TO HIS RIGHT MIND.
| I. That it becomes the soul to praise God and to confess to Him | 69 |
| --- | --- |
| II. Of the vanity of them that would escape from God, seeing He is everywhere present | 69 |
| III. Having heard Faustus, the most learned bishop amongst the Manichæans, he understandeth that God the Creator of things animate and inanimate, hath especial care for the lowly | 70 |
| IV. That no scientific acquaintance with things terrestrial or celestial can give happiness, but only the knowledge of God | 73 |
| V. Concerning Manichæus; his pertinacity in teaching falsehood, and his pride in claiming to be the Holy Spirit | 73 |
| VI. Faustus was an eloquent disputant, but ignorant of the liberal sciences | 75 |
| VII. By God’s grace he departs from the falsehoods of the Manichæans, now clearly perceived | 76 |
| VIII. He sets out for Rome, though his mother in vain dissuades him | 78 |
| IX. He lies dangerously ill of a fever | 80 |
| X. After leaving the Manichæans he retained low opinions concerning God, and sin, and the Incarnation | 81 |
| XI. Helpidius well argued with the Manichæans, concerning the authenticity of the New Testament | 84 |
| XII. He practises as a rhetorician at Rome, and experiences the fraudulence of the students | 84 |
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