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154 ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. a Christian 1 O, Urbicius, you do not judge what becomes our pious emperor, nor the philosophic son of Cesar, nor the sacred senate." But without any other reply, he said to Lucius, " Thou appearest also to be one such as these," and as Lucius answered " by all means," he in like manner commanded him to be led forth. But he, (Lucius,) said, he thanked him ; " for now," he added, " he was liberated from wicked masters, and was going to the good Father and king, even God. And a second and third coming up, were punished in the same way." To these Justin, next in order, adds the passages that we quoted above, where he says : " But I am now waiting to be waylaid by a certain one of those called philosophers," &c. CHAPTER XVIII. The books of Justin that have come down to us. THIS Justin has left us many monuments of a mind well stored with learning, and devoted to sacred things, replete with matter profitable in every respect. To these we shall refer our studi ous readers, only indicating as we proceed, those that have come to our knowledge. There is a discourse of his, addressed to Antonine, surnamed the Pious, and his sons and the Roman se nate, in defence of our doctrines. Another work, comprising a defence of our faith, which he addressed to the emperor of the same name, Antoninus Verus, the successor of the preceding, the circumstances of whose times we are now recording. Also, ano ther book, against the Greeks, in which, dilating upon most of the questions agitated between us and the Greek philosophers, he also discusses the nature of daemons ; of which it is not necessary to add anything here. There is also another work, that has reached us, also against the Gentiles, to which he gave the title, " Refutation." Besides these, also another, " On the Sovereignty of God" which he establishes not only by the holy Scriptures, but also by references to the works of the Greeks. Moreover