This page needs to be proofread.
CONTENTS.
BOOK I. PAGE - Augustine censures the pagans, who attributed the calamities of the world, and especially the sack of Rome by the Goths, to the Christian religion and its prohibition of the worship of the gods.
1 BOOK II. - A review of the calamities suffered by the Romans before the time of Christ, showing that their gods had plunged them into corruption and vice,
48 BOOK III. - The external calamities of Rome,
91 BOOK IV. - That empire was given to Rome not by the gods, but by the One True God
135 BOOK V. - Of fate, freewill, and God's prescience, and of the source of the virtues of the ancient Romans,
177 BOOK VI. - Of Varro's threefold division of theology, and of the inability of the gods to contribute anything to the happiness of the future life,
228 BOOK VII. - Of the "select gods" of the civil theology, and that eternal life is not obtained by worshipping them,
258
