18. 1 Pet. ii. 13, 14.
316 ST. AUGUSTINE whence, What things they do, do not ye, except because they too are to hear, Depart from Me, all ye that work iniquity?^^ It is therefore a thing known to you, that the citizens of the ev3 city do order certain doings of the good City. Let us see if now also citizens of the good City do order certain doings of the evil city. Every earthly commonwealth, sometime assuredly to perish, whereof the kingdom is to pass away, when there shall come that kingdom, whereof we pray. Thy kingdom come;^^ and whereof hath been foretold, Arid of His kingdom shall be no end:^'^ an earthly commonwealth, I say, hath our citizens conducting the affairs of it. For how many faithful, how many good men, are both magistrates in their cities, and are judges, and are generals, and are counts, and are kings? All that are just and good men, having not any thing in heart but the most glorious things, which of Thee have been said.
City of God. And as if they are doing bond-service in the city which is to pass away, even there by the doctors of the Holy City they are bidden to keep faith with those set over them, whether with the king as supreme, or with governors as though sent by God for the punishment of evil men, but for the praise of good men:^^ or as servants, that to their masters they should be subject, even
Christians to Heathens, and the better should keep faith with the worse, for a time to serve, for everlasting to have dominion. For these things do happen until iniquity do pass away. Servants are commanded to bear wiA masters unjust and capri-
15. Luke xiii. 27. 16. Matt. vi. 10. 17. Luke i. 33.
18. 1 Pet. ii. 13, 14.