EDITOR'S PREFACE.

This fourth volume of St. Augustin's Works contains his polemical writings in vindica-
tion of the Catholic Church against the heresy of the Manichæans, and the schism of the
Donatists. The former are contained in Tom. II. and VIII., the latter in Tom. IX., of the
Benedictine edition.

Like the preceding volumes, this also is more than a reprint of older translations, and
contains important additions not previously published.

I.

SEVEN WRITINGS AGAINST THE MANICHEAN HERESY. Four of these were trans-
lated by the Rev. RICHARD STOTHERT, of Bombay, for Dr. Dods' edition, published by
T. & T. Clark, Edinburgh, 1872, and revised by Dr. ALBERT H. NEWMAN, of Toronto, for
the American edition. The other three treatises are translated, I believe for the first time,
by Dr. Newman for this edition. (See Contents.)

The Edinburgh translation, especially of the first two treatises, is sufficiently faithful and
idiomatic, and needed very little alteration by the American editor, who compared it sentence
by sentence with the Latin original, and made changes only where they seemed necessary.

This part of the volume is also enriched by an introductory essay of Dr. NEWMAN, which
embodies the literature and the results of the most recent as well as the earlier researches
concerning that anti-Christian heresy.

II. THE WRITINGS AGAINST THE DONATISTS. These were well translated by the Rev.
J. R. King, of Oxford, and are slightly revised by Dr. HARTRANFT, of Hartford, after a
careful comparison with the Latin.

The literary introduction of Dr. Hartranft, in connection with the translator's historical
preface, will place the reader in the situation of the controversy between the Catholic Church
and the Donatists at the time of St. Augustin.

In both sections the treatises are arranged in chronological order.

The fifth volume will contain the writings of St. Augustin against the Pelagians and
Semi-Pelagians. It is in the hands of the printer and will be published in October.

NEW YORK, June, 1887.

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PHILIP SCHAFF.

PREFACE.

CONTENTS.

I. THE ANTI-MANICHÆAN WRITINGS.

Translated by the REV. RICHARD STOTHERT, M.A., Bombay, and PROF. ALBERT

PAGE

iii

3-29

41-63

69-89

95-107

113-124

129-150

REPLY TO FAUSTUS THE MANICHEAN

(Contra Faustum Manichæum, Libri XXXIII.),

A.D. 400.

Translated by the REV. R. STOTHERT.

CONCERNING THE NATURE OF GOOD, AGAINST THE MANICHEANS

(De Natura Boni contra Manichæos),

A.D. 404.

Translated by DR. NEWMAN.

II. THE ANTI-DONATIST WRITINGS.

Translated by the REV. J. R. KING, M.A., Vicar of St. Peter's in the East,

Oxford, and late Fellow and Tutor of Merton College, Oxford.

The Translation revised, with additional annotations, by the REV. CHESTER D.

HARTKANFT, D.D., Professor of Biblical and Ecclesiastical History in the

Theological Seminary it Hartford, Connecticut.

INTRODUCTION TO THE ANTI-DONATIST Writings.

By DR. HARTranft.

ON BAPTISM, AGAINST THE DONATISTS

(De Baptismo, contra Donatistas, Libri VII.),

Circa, A.D. 400.

ANSWER TO LETTERS OF PETILIAN, BISHOP OF CIRTA

PAGE

155-345

351-365

369-404

411-514

(Contra Litteras Petiliani Donatista Cirtensis Episcopi, Libri III.),

A.D. 400

519-628

THE CORRECTION OF THE DONATISTS.

(De Correctione Donatistarum Liber seu Epistola CLXXXV.),