{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/105/1050437.htm","path":"chr/ecf/105/1050437.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/105/1050437.htm","text":"Chapter 52 [XXVII. And XXVIII.]\u2014The Text of the Letter.\n\u201cTo my most beloved lord, and most longed-for brother Pelagius, Augustin sends greeting in the Lord. I thank you very much for the pleasure you have kindly afforded me by your letter, and for informing me of your good health. May the Lord requite you with blessings, and may you ever enjoy them, and live with Him for evermore in all eternity, my most beloved lord, and most longed-for brother. For my own part, indeed, although I do not admit your high encomiums of me, which the letter of your Benignity 1752 conveys, I yet cannot be insensible of the benevolent view you entertain towards my poor deserts; at the same time requesting you to pray for me, that the Lord would make me such a man as you suppose me to be already.\u201d Then, in another hand, it follows: \u201cBe mindful of us; may you be safe, and find favour with the Lord, my most beloved lord, and most longed-for brother.\u201d\nTu\u00e6 Benignitatis Epistola is more than \u201cyour kind letter.\u201d \u201cBenignitas\u201d is a complimentary abstract title addressed to the correspondent.","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Vol. V: A Work on the Pro...","type":"page"}