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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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St: AUGUSTINE. — Corf.l.z.c.6.. 39
-tothefe) asthe Stars are glorious and orderly in -
their Orbs; or, as the Earth and Sea are beautiful
in their kind; being always laden with breed ; ‘a
new growth of which in their unexhaufted womb
ftill fucceeds: a former: departed.» But’ I mean
fuch a glofs at leaft, as there is (a faint and pain-
ted on¢} in many a deluding Vice, For, both * the
fin of Pride (to be fome way like unto thee) emu- —
_. lates highnefs, when-as indeed thou art only, above
~ all, the moft high God: And * Ambition aims at
glory and honour; whenas thou alone art honour-
able fupremely, and eternally glorious: And* the
Cruclty of the great ones defires fo to become re- .
‘verenced and feared ; and, who ixdced is to be fear-
ed, but God alone? from. whofe power what, or
when, or where, or how, or by whom, can ever
any thing by force-or fraud be fubdudted? And *
the carefles of the lafcivious feck to be loved’:
when-as neither.is any thing fo dearly fweet as thy
Love;-nor fo favingly enamouring, as thy above-
~.all-beautiful and enlightning Truth: And * Curi-
ofity makes femblance of a defire of knowledge,
whenas it is Thou, that perfely underitandeft all
things. . Alfo; even * Ignorance and folly clothes
To
itfelf with the name of fimplicity and innocency ; |
becaufe not.any thing is found like fimple as thy
felf: and, what is there innocent like thee, whofe
works are harmlefs only to the finner.. And *
Sloth affects, as it were, quiet; but what repofe
certain, befides the Lord? * Luxury defires to be
called fatiety and plenty, yet thouart the only ful-
nefs, and never- failing abundance of uncorrupting
dainties. * Lavifhing hides it felf under the fha-
dow of liberality; but the moft royally overflow-
ing doncr of all good things is thy felf. Avarice
would have much to be inits fruition; and it is
Thou that poffeffeft all things. * Envy contends for
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