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ARGUMENT.
HAVING IN THE PRECEDING BOOK SHOWN THAT THE WORSHIP OF
DEMONS MUST BE ABJURED, SINCE THEY IN A
THOUSAND WAYS PROCLAIM THEMSELVES TO BE WICKED SPIRITS,
AUGUSTIN IN THIS BOOK MEETS THOSE WHO ALLEGE
A DISTINCTION AMONG DEMONS, SOME BEING EVIL, WHILE OTHERS
ARE GOOD; AND, HAVING EXPLODED THIS
DISTINCTION, HE PROVES THAT TO NO DEMON, BUT TO CHRIST
ALONE, BELONGS THE OFFICE OF PROVIDING MEN WITH
ETERNAL BLESSEDNESS.
CHAP. 1.--THE POINT AT WHICH THE DISCUSSION HAS ARRIVED, AND
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