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S. Augustine's Confessions : with the continuation of his life to the end thereof, extracted out of Possidius, and the father's own unquestioned works / Translated into English [by Abraham Woodhead].
Author
Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo. R. H., 1609-1678, tr. Possidius, Saint, Bp. of Calama, fl. 370-437.
Date Added
10 January 2014
Language
English
Publish Date
1679
Publisher
[London : s.n.]
Source
Contributions from Augustinian Theologians and Scholars
Topic
Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo. Catholic Church > Algeria > Hippo (Extinct city) > Bishops > Biography. Christian saints > Algeria > Hippo (Extinct city)-- Biography. Hippo (Extinct city) > Biography.
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Part. ° - The Life of |
heretofore purfued ; and that 1 might love thee cn-
tirely, and kifs thy delivering hand vvith all the
bowels of my affection, that thou maift yet refcue
me out of all temptation even to the end. J
‘ ‘For behold ( O Lord my King ) may it now be
for thy Service, whatever ufeful thing ‘my Child-
hood hath learnt. May it be for thy. Service, that I
fpeak---write---read---account, Becaufe, in my
learning vain things, thou didft not ceafe to difci-
pline me; and, after my delighting in thofe vani-
tics, rhou halt forgiven me my fin. -For, [learnt in
them many ufeful words, but thefe alfo may be as
well Iearnt, in things not vain, and that a far fafer
way, wherein to guide the unwary fteps of yet-un-
feafon’d Youth.
CHAP. XVI.
Inveighing again. * lafcivious Fables,
Ut wo unto thee,, precipitous torrent of hu-_
~mane*cuftome! Who fhall ftop thy heady
courfe ? How long ere thy pernicious ftreams be
dried up? How long fhall thefe carry down the
Sons of Eveinto that huge, and dreadful Ocean, o-
ver which, thofe that are beft embarked, are with
hazard tranfported ? Have Inot readin thee both’
ofa thundering, and of an adulterating, Fove? ©
Not, that thefe two were ever really-coincident.to
‘the fame God; but thus feigned, thar Man might:
have fome Authority, to imitate the true Adultery,
being countenanced by that fabulous thunder...
Thefe. poetical fictions, transferring humane Paffi-
sons to the Gods, ‘or, (to fay more truly). making |
Gods of moft flagitious men, that fuch crimes might
‘no.more beefteemed crimes; -and men.committing
them, might be faid to imitate, not the moft det
bauched of Men, but the moft Supreme of Deities. |
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