Plutarch, de his qui misero à Numine puniuntur.
627
Plin. Hist. Natur. lib. vii. c. 52.
628
This story is related before, and is here related on account of the bearing it has on the subject of this chapter.
629
Lib. i. de Miracul. Sancti Stephani, cap. 4. p. 28. Lib. vii. Oper. St. Aug. in Appendice.
630
Sulpit. Sever. in Vitâ S. Martini, cap. 3.
631
Gregor. Turon. lib. vii. c. 1.
632
Hincmar, lib. ii. p. 805.
633
Apparently Charles the Bald, who died in 875.
634
Vita Sti. Fursci, apud Bolland. 16 Januarii, pp. 37, 38. Item, pp. 47, 48. Sæcul. xi. Bened. p. 299.
635
Bede, lib. iii. Hist. c. 19.
636
Larrey, Hist. de Louis XIV. year 1698, p. 68.
637
Aug. lib. i. de Origine Animæ.
638
Ibid. p. 97.
639
Aug. lib. i. de Origine Animæ, p. 132.
640
Acta Martyr. Sincera, p. 212. Vita et Passio S. Cypriani, p. 268.
641
Acta Martyr. Sincera, pp. 219, 221.
642
Acta Martyr. Sincera, p. 226.
643
Ibid. pp. 231-233, 237.
644
M. le Baron Toussaint.
645
Letter of the Reverend Father Richard, a Dominican of Amiens, of the 29th of July, 1746.
646
See on this subject the letter of the Marquis Maffei, which follows.
647
St. Thomas, i. part 9, 89, art. 8, ad. 2.
648
The author had foreseen this objection from the beginning of his dissertation.
649
Aug. Serm. de Semp. 197.
650
John xvi. 11.
651