For it contains great praise of Thy grace, to be confessed
unto Thee, how that aged man, most learned and skilled in the
liberal sciences, and who had read, and weighed so many works of the
philosophers; the instructor of so many noble Senators, who also, as a
monument of his excellent discharge of his office, had (which men of
this world esteem a high honour) both deserved and obtained a statue
in the Roman Forum; he, to that age a worshipper of idols, and a
partaker of the sacrilegious rites, to which almost all the nobility
of Rome were given up, and had inspired the people with the love of
Anubis, barking Deity, and all
The monster Gods of every kind, who fought
'Gainst Neptune, Venus, and Minerva:
whom Rome once conquered, now adored, all which the aged Victorinus
had with thundering eloquence so many years defended; -he now
blushed not to be the child of Thy Christ, and the new-born babe of
Thy fountain; submitting his neck to the yoke of humility, and
subduing his forehead to the reproach of the Cross.
Pages:
211
212
213
214
215
216
217
218
219
220
221
222
223
224
225
226
227
228
229
230
231
232
233
234
235