Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430
(i) 1. _Great art Thou, O Lord, and greatly to be praised; great is Thy power, and Thy wisdom infinite._ Thee would man praise; man, but a particle of Thy creation; man, that bears about him his mortality, the witness of his sin, the witness that _Thou resistest the proud_: ye...
(i) 1. _Great art Thou, O Lord, and greatly to be praised; great is Thy power, and Thy wisdom infinite._ Thee would man praise; man, but a particle of Thy creation; man, that be...
2. BOOK II(i) 1. I will now call to mind my past foulness, and the carnal corruptions of my soul: not because I love them, but that I may love Thee, O my God. For love of Thy love I do it...
3. BOOK III(He resides at Carthage from his seventeenth to nineteenth year; he reads and is strongly influenced by Cicero’s _Hortensius_; he is attracted to the Manicheans. Confessing a lo...
4. BOOK IV(For nine years, from his nineteenth to his twenty-eighth year, Augustine continues in his erring ways; “himself a Manichean and seducing others to the same heresy; partial obed...
5. BOOK V(Augustine’s twenty-ninth year: due to his knowledge of scientific subjects, he has begun to question many Manichean doctrines, and he is told that one Faustus, an eloquent defe...
6. BOOK VI(Augustine’s mother, whom he had left at Carthage when he departed for Rome, arrives to join him at Milan. She is pleased by his start on the right road, and redoubles her praye...
7. BOOK VII(i) 1. Deceased was now that my evil and abominable youth, and I was passing into early manhood [his thirty-first year]; the more defiled by vain things as I grew in years, who...
8. BOOK VIII(i) 1. O my God, let me, with thanksgiving, remember, and confess unto Thee Thy mercies on me.... I had ceased to doubt that there was an incorruptible substance, whence was all...
9. BOOK IX(i) 1. _O Lord, I am Thy servant; I am Thy servant, and the son of Thy handmaid: Thou hast broken my bonds in sunder. I will offer to Thee the sacrifice of praise._...
10. BOOK X(“Having in the former books spoken of himself before his receiving the grace of Baptism, in this Augustine confesses what he then was. But first he inquires by what faculty we...
11. BOOK XI(“Augustine breaks off the history of the mode whereby God led him to holy Orders, in order to ‘confess’ God’s mercies in opening to him the Scripture. Moses is not to be unders...
12. BOOK XII(“Augustine proceeds to comment on Genesis i, 1, and explains the ‘heaven’ to mean that spiritual and incorporeal creation, which cleaves to God unintermittingly, always beholdi...
13. BOOK XIII(xxxii) 47. Thanks to Thee, O Lord. We behold _the heaven and earth_, whether the corporeal part, superior and inferior, or the spiritual and corporeal creature; and in the ador...