Saint Augustine (Aurelius Augustinus, Episcopus Hipponiensis), A. D. 387-430
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Excerpt from Saint Augustine (Aurelius Augustinus, Episcopus Hipponiensis), A. D. 387-430: A Sketch of His Life and Writings as Affecting the Controversy With Rome "The main object in discussion should be not to refute error, but to establish truth." - Dr. J. H. Newman. Augustine shines among the early Christian writers as a star of the greatest magnitude; "not only," as Sir W. Hamilton has observed, "in the character of the most illustrious of the Christian Fathers, but as one of the profoundest thinkers of antiquity." And Alban Butler, in the "Lives of the Saints," says that "the name of the great Augustine raises in all minds the most exalted idea, and commands the most profound respect." Du Pin, the Roman Catholic historian, in his "History of Ecclesiastical Writers," adds to his biography: - "The name only of St. Augustine is the greatest commendation that can be given him; and whatever may be said after that can serve only to lessen the opinion men have conceived of his rare merit and his great piety." He has been proclaimed by the Roman Church as a Doctor and Teacher, and a Saint in heaven; and an annual festival is set apart for his commemoration, and Romanists struggle hard on every available occasion to induce us to believe that he was a member of the Roman branch of "the Catholic Church." It becomes, therefore, a matter of interesting inquiry, what were the opinions of Augustine on the various subjects in controversy between the Reformed and the Roman Church. I have endeavoured to work out this view of the question in a practical manner, not so much "to refute error, but to establish truth." Independent of that consideration, the extracts from the writings of Augustine, which I have transferred to the following pages, will, I trust, afford subjects for profitable meditation. To enter into a detailed criticism of the voluminous works of Augustine would be far beyond the scope and object of the present sketch, for who could improve on the elaborate and learned review so ably executed by Du Pin in the history above referred to? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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