To Subscribers

MESSRS. CLARK have much pleasure in publishing the first issue
of Translations of the Writings of St. Augustine:

THE ‘CITY OF GOD,’

In Two Volumes.

They believe this will prove not the least valuable of their various
Series, and no pains will be spared to make it so. The Editor has secured
a most competent staff of Translators, and every care is being taken to
secure not only accuracy but elegance.

The Works of St. Augustine to be included in the Series are (in addition
to the ‘City of God‘):—

All the Treatises in the Pelagian, and the four leading Treatises
in the Donatist Controversy.

The Treatises against Faustus the Manichæan; on Christian
Doctrine; the Trinity; the Harmony of the Evangelists; the
Sermon on the Mount.

Also, the Lectures on the Gospel of St. John, the Confessions, a
Selection from the Letters, the Retractations, the Soliloquies,
and Selections from the Practical Treatises.

All these works are of first-rate importance, and only a small proportion
of them have yet appeared in an English dress. The Sermons and the
Commentaries on the Psalms having been already given by the Oxford
Translators, it is not intended, at least in the first instance, to publish
them.

The Series will include a Life of St. Augustine, by Robert Rainy,
D.D., Professor of Church History, New College, Edinburgh.

The Series will probably extend to Sixteen or Eighteen Volumes. The
Publishers will be glad to receive the Names of Subscribers as early as
possible.

Subscription: Four Volumes for a Guinea, payable in advance, as in the
case of the Ante-Nicene Series (24s. when not paid in advance).

It is understood that Subscribers are bound to take at least the books of
the first two years. Each Volume will be sold separately at (on an
average) 10s. 6d. each volume.

The second issue will be ready in a few months, and will probably comprise:—The
Volume on the Donatist Controversy, translated by the Rev.
J. R. King, Vicar of St. Peter’s in the East, Oxford; and the First
Volume of the Treatises in the Pelagian Controversy, translated by
Rev. Peter Holmes, D.D., Rural Dean, etc., Plymouth.

They trust the Subscribers to the Ante-Nicene Library will continue
their Subscription to this Series, and they hope to be favoured with an
early remittance of the Subscription.

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THE WORKS

OF

AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,

BISHOP OF HIPPO.

A NEW TRANSLATION.

Edited by the

REV. MARCUS DODS, M.A.

VOL. II.
THE CITY OF GOD,

VOLUME II.

EDINBURGH:
T. & T. CLARK, 38, GEORGE STREET.

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PRINTED BY MURRAY AND GIBB,
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T. & T. CLARK, EDINBURGH

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