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HISTORY. ANDBIOGRAPHY
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A SKETCH OF THE STATE OF CHRISTIANITY IN...
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History. Andbiography
HISTORY . ANDBIOGRAPHY
A Sketch Of The State Of Christianity In...
A SKETCH OF THE STATE OF _CHRISTIANITY IN _1 VALES _, FROM THE TIME OF _PJELAX _^ IUS AND AUSTIN OF HIPPO /* TO THAT OF AUSTIN OF ROME , COMMONLY CAJLLEp AUSTIN THE MONK ; WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF THM
LATTER / AS ALSO OF ST . GERMAIN , ST . _DAVlDj AND OTHERS . ( Concluded from p . 516 . J IT has been already observed that after the enemies of thf Pelagians had prevailed on the higher powers to proscribe and suppress their opponents , they turned their attention to
Britain , which they _sniped to consider as the nursery or fountain-head of the reputekl heresy which they were opposing . This seems the real truth of the _matter ; though some historian _^ hav e represented the attention then pai d by the continental Christians to Britain , knd the mission they set on , foot
* The following character of St . _Austin , by our Correspondent , was _intended to be subjoined to the article of "which _this is the conclusion , but reached _«? too late . We are therefore obliged to throw it into a note in this place , Editor .
Aft the name of St . Austin makes ceding account of Pelagius , being the _ers , as well * t § the chief cause of their improper or _ungratifying to . the reader , so conspicuous an appearance iiv the pi * e _* principal opponent of him and his followpersecution and suppression , it may not ht before we proceed to resume the thread of
thh history , to subjoin herca brief sketch of his life and character , taken chiefly © ut of a late learned and respectable publication f . He was born in the year 354 , at Tagaste , in Africa , of poor but Christian pa- _« rent _# _* His father was a soldier named PatrichiR , his mother was called Monica * celebrated for her eminent superstition , which her party called piety . His parent * forced him to go to school , but he discovered no inclination for learning . He bad a fit of _sickness in his youth , in which he was very near being baptized , being
in fe _& _rof death ; but his mother , _asjiegot better , persuaded him to defer it , for she knew him and the world better than he knew either . He rec < yverc : « i , and justified her fears , for he became a debauched , unsettled , profligate youn _<; ttxan , to the excessive grief of his mother- In the sixteenth year of his age he began t _« fc piunge into vice ? and though he was very poor , and partly supported by the charity of one Rominian _, yet he kept a mistress . He picked up a few _scraps of learning at Carthage , and after that lived a rambling life , teaching what little he k _^ icw of _f Robinton ' s HistB _» _£ t . chap . _Xixhi
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1807, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_02121807/page/1/
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