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Book Five
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- Book Five
- Chapter I - That It Becomes The Soul To Praise God, And To Confess Unto Him.
- Chapter II - On The Vanity Of Those Who Wished To Escape The Omnipotent God.
- Chapter III - Heaving Heard Faustus, The Most Learned Bishop Of The Manichaeans, He Discerns That God, The Author Both Of Things Animate And Inanimate, Chiefly Has Care For The Humble.
- Chapter IV - That The Knowledge Of Terrestrial And Celestial Things Does Not Give Happiness, But The Knowledge Of God Only.
- Chapter IX - Being Attacked By Fever, He Is In Great Danger
- Chapter V - Of Manichaeus Pertinaciously Teaching False Doctrines, And Proudly Arrogating To Himself The Holy Spirit.
- Chapter VI - Faustus Was Indeed An Elegant Speaker, But Knew Nothing Of The Liberal Sciences.
- Chapter VII - Clearly Seeing The Fallacies Of The Manichaeans, He Retires From Them, Being Remarkably Aided By God.
- Chapter VIII - He Sets Out For Rome, His Mother In Vain Lamenting It.
- Chapter X - When He Had Left The Manichaeans, He Retained His Depraved Opinions Concerning Sin And The Origin Of The Saviour.
- Chapter XI - Helpidius Disputed Well Against The Manichaeans As To The Authenticity Of The New Testament.
- Chapter XII - Professing Rhetoric At Rome, He Discovers The Fraud Of His Scholars.
- Chapter XIII - He Is Sent To Milan, That He, About To Teach Rhetoric, May Be Known By Ambrose.
- Chapter XIV - Having Heard The bishop, He Percieves The Force Of The Catholic Faith, Yet Doubts, After The Manner Of The Modern Academics.
- Contents - Book V