augustian

Alternative form of Augustan.

LU’THERANISM, the Opinions and Doctrines of Martin Luther, vvho being an Auguſtian Friar, ſeparated from the Church of Rome about A.C. 1115. vvrote againſt its Errors, and began the Reformation.

If I did not know him (continued Mr. Grattan), to be a Christian clergyman, by his works, I should suppose him to be a Philosopher of the Augustian age.

Alternative form of Augustan.

Semblably rode he into ANTIVM, and from thence into ALBANVM and ſo forward into ROME. But he entred ROME in the very ſame Chariot, wherein ſometime Augustus had rode in triumph, clad in a purple cloke, and the ſame garniſhed with ſtarres embrodered in golde: wearing upon his head the Olympicke Coronet, and bearing in his right hand the Pythisk: with a pompe and gallant ſhewe of the reſt before him, together with their titles and inſcriptions teſtifying, where? and whom? in what kinde of ſonge or fabulous argment, hee had wonne: not without a traine alſo of (a) Applauders following his Chariot, after the manner of thoſe that ride ovant in petie Triumph ſetting up a note, and crying with a lowde voice, That they were Augustians, and the ſouldiers of his triumph.

For when Edilfred, King of the Northumbrians, and Executioner of Auguſtine’s wrath, had committed ſo great a ſlaughter upon the innocent Monks of Bangor at Leiceſter, and was triumphally making haſte to deſtroy their remains with their famous Monaſtery, there met him three Britiſh Princes, the revengers of God’s anger, who confounded the Northumbrian King with his whole Army, reeking in the blood of thoſe poor Innocents, they killed ten thouſand and threeſcore, and put the wounded King with ſome others to fright, as God ſeemed to come down into the Army againſt thoſe Auguſtians in behalf of thoſe innocent Monks of Bangor, and to have taken vengeance for their blood.

A surname.