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of tho LMd. What hath pride profited us, or What good
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of faith. Nor let any one be restrained either is his sins orby his years from coming to obtain salvation. To him .hostili remains in this World no repentance is too late. Thoapproach to God's mercy is open, and the access is easy tothoso Who Moh and apprehend the truth. Do Fou entreatior Four sins, although it be in tho very end os illa, and attho setting of the sun of time; and implore God, Who is thoons and truo God, in confession and faith of acknowlodgmentos Him, and pardon is granted to the man Who confesses, and saving mercy is given from the divine goodnoss to thobeliever, and a passage is opened to immortali even in doath
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thanks to God. For none can be other than alWays glad and gratesul, Who, haring been orice subject in death, has been made secure in the possession os immortali .
in whose honour temples Vere Dunded, atatues modelleririetima saeri eta, and festat Mys celebrateri .ere kingsand men and not gori; and themefore that their Uomahip eould be of no avail eithere to atrangema to Roman8, and that the power of the Roman empire was to be attria buted to fate mlher than to them, inasmueli as it hadarisen is a certain good fortune, and was hamad ofita own origin. M eomer, that it was manifest Domi theis deerit ut resulta, that nothing eouia be referred tociuFico or auguries; nu, even tho8e who aiamowle edboth one God and the demons, allowed that these illusi sisere the work of the demons, accordiu to the testimonyof the poeta themaeises, and Socrates, Plato, TriamegislM, and Hostanes. The seeond potat, that God is me, hematis evident in a fero Vorda, as weli stom the neuter
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account of their royal momory subsequently began to Madored by their peopte even in death. Thence temples merelaunded to them; thence images mere sculptured to retianthe countonances of the deceased by the likeness; and mensacrificed victims, and celebratia festat dus, is Way olgiving them honour. Thence to posterity those rites becamesaered whicli at first had been adopted as a consolation. And now let us seo whether this truth is confirmod in individual instances.
2. Melicertes and Leucothea are precipitated into the sea, and subsequently become se divinities. The Castorsy dio byturns, that they may live. Esculapius is strua by ligh, ning, that he may rise into a god. Hercules, that he mayput off the mala, is burni up in the fires of Oeta. Apollo sed the flocks of Admetus; Neptuno founded malis for Laomedon, and received-unfortunate bullder no wages fortiis Work. The cavo of Jupiter is to M seen in Crete, and his sepulchro is stlown; and it is manifest that Saturn wasdriven away by him, and that from him Latium received itaname, as being his lurhinyplaco latebra). Ηe was the firatthat taught to print letters; ho mas the fidit that taught tostamp money in Italy, and thenco the treasury is called thotreasury of Saturn. And he also Was the cultivator of thorustio life, Whenes ho is palnted as an old man ' car ing asichis. Janus had received him in hospitality when he Wasdriven aWay, from Whose name the Janiculum is so called,
o n ancestors is hept peculiar. Proving that this is so, Nexander tho Great writes in the rem habie volume addressed
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their own morshippers in opposition to the Roman arma For we know that the gods of the Romans are indigenous.
neverihelem, in that he is excluded, is raster condemned by tho Roman religion than morshipped. There is also Scansus,so called hom ascendi, and Forculus hom Mors, and Limen tinus from thresholds, and Cardea hom hinges, and Orbonafrom beremement.J' These are the Roman gods. But Marsis a Thracian, and Jupiter a Cretan, and Juno eister Argiveor Samian or Carthaginian, and Diana os Taurus, and themother of the goci os Ida; and there are Egyptian monstera,
have preserved their own and their people's kingdonas. Ce ininly there Me also among the Romans the conquered
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Penates Whom the fugitive Eneas introduced inister. Thersis also Venus the bald,-sar more dishonoured by the faet of
5. Κingdoms do not riso to supremacy throuo merit, butare Varied by chance. Empire mas formerly held by both Assyrians and Medes and Perstans; and we know, too, that both Greehs and Egyptians havo had dominion. Thus, in tho Varying vicissitudes of po er, the period os empire has also
come to tho Romans as to the others. But is you recur to ita origin, you must needs bl h. A peopte is collected together hom profligates and criminals, and by founding an asylum, impunity for crimes mahes the number great; and that theirhing himseli may havo a superiority in crime, Romulus b comes a fratricide; and in order to promoto marriage, he mahes a beginning of that affair os concord by discords. Theysteat, they do violence, they deceive in order to increaso the population of the state; their maresage consista of the brohencovenants of hospitali and cruei Wars missi thoir fallier in-laW. The consulfhip, moreover, is the highest degris in Roman honours, yet me see that the consulfhip began evenas did the Lingdom. Brutus puis his sons to death, that thecommendation of his dignity may increaso by the approvalos his Wichodness. The Roman Lingdom, thereiore, did notgro from tho sanctities of religion, nor from auspices and auguries, but it hceps iis appotnted timo Within a definito limit. Moreover, Regulus observed the auspices, Fet Wastaen prisoner; and Mancinus observed their religious obiugation, yet Was sent under the yohe. Paulus had chichens that sed, and yet he was flain at Cannae. Caius Caesar despised the auguries and auspices that Were opposed to his
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the contagion of earlli, and do not cerae, When ruined them-selves, is seeh the ruin os othera; and when degradod stom-selves, to infuso into othera the error of their own degradation. Theso domons the poets also achnowledge, and Socrates d
that tho form of the true God cannot be seen, and declares that truo angeis stand round about His throno. Wheroin Plato also on the fame principie concurs, and maintaining one God, calis the rest angels or demons. Μοmover, Hermes Trismegistus speas of one God, and consesses that He is i comprehensibie, and beyond our estimation. 7. Theso spiriis, thereiore, are turhing under the statues and consecrated images: these inspire the breasts of their propheis With their amatus, animato the fibres os tho On-
traiis, direct tho fligitis os birds, ruto the lora, inve emciencyto oracles, are alWays mixing up falsehood with truth, forthey are both deceived and they deceive; they disturb theirlite, they disquiet their flumbers; their spirita creeping also into their bodies, secretly terrisy their minds, distori thoir
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herein ali nature consenti. The bees have one hing, and intho flocks thoro is one leader, and in the herda one ruler. Mueli rather is the Ruler of the worid ono ; Who commmds
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Whom you cannot but iso . 10. But that Christ is, and in What way salvation camo tous throuo Him, after this manner is the plan, after inis manner is the means. Fidit os ali, famur missi God mas ven to tho Jews. Thus they of old were righteous; thus stela incestore more obedient to their religious engagemendi. enco with thom both tho tostin s of thoir rula Bourished, and the greatness of thela race advinced. But subsequentlybecoming neglectivi os discipline, proud, and pulled up with confidenco in their falliere, they de lain tho divino
precepta, and lost the famur conferred upon inom. Buthow profane became their isse, What offenco to their violatod religion Was contracted, even ther themselves bear Witness,
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had been previousty foretoid by the propheis, drove out fremmon the demons by His Word, and by the command of His
both by learning and wisdom inflamed with ivrath and stimulatod with indignation,' finalty seigod Him and doliverodHim to Pontius Pilate, who was then the procurator of Syria on bellati of tho Romans, demanding with violent and obstinate urgen Ηis crucifixion and death.