43® Chain of Principles. Aph. G. Crede quod ali- guem errantam in populoDorni- n$ per no,gram oUivionerrm cu- rari voluir. Poßìdonius in >iea AugurfL luntary,or involuntary,gratious or fina ful.Aug gtus his taxing theRomanEm- pire, & requiringevery one to repair to his own city was a voluntaryad on his part to enrichhimfelf: but ordered byProvidence to further ends :for here- by the virgine Mary comes to 1r3ethleem,' and Chri.ff was there born in the place fo long before prophefied of. ,Auftin was once out in his Sermon much a- gainí1 his will; but providence difpo- fed it to the converfion of a foul. The lIorie is this. That holy man fell one day in the pulpit upon a large dif- courfe agai.nil the Manichees contrary to his purpofe and intentionwhen he came thither. At his return home fpake of it asked Poffidonius and o- thers whether they did not obferve it. `heir anfwer was they did and wondered. Whereupon he laid, "God " I.beiieve bathmade ufe ofmy oblivion and errour to cureferre one or other ofthe peo- `e pie. Some two days after one Firmus a merchant cornes to him, and falling down
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