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Emblemes (1635) and Hieroglyphikes (1638)

[in the critical edition by John Horden]

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S. AUGUST. lib. 1 de lib. arbit.

It is a most just punishment, that man should lose that Freedome which man would not use, yet had power to keep if he would: And that he who had knowledge to do what was right, and did not, should be deprived of the knowledge of what was right; And that he who would not doe righteously when he had the power, should lose the power to do it, when he had the will.