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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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384 Part.Ef. The Life of .
¢fticall Difcipline be fevered from the Sacrament of . -
¢ the Heavenly Bread.. Let the Image of the future
© Fudginent be prefented before his view; that,
_ swhereas. others now approach the Altar of God;
‘whereto he hath no acceis, he may confider, how
‘dreadful the punifhment is, whereby, fome re-
‘ceiving eternal life, others are precipitated into
‘eternal death.__—How then fhall he dare or: be
¢able toenter into the zzer part of the Vaile, and
‘into that invifible Holy of -Holies, who, contemn-
‘ing the medicine of Difcipline, would not: for a
‘ while be parted from things vifible ? __
‘Being therefore fetter’d with fuch mortal
S38 bonds of fins, doth any one-refufe or delay, or
‘doubt to fly to the Keyes of the Church, by which
_ he may be loofed onearth, that he may be loofed
*in Heaven? and dares he to promife himfelf fome
* falvation-after chis life, only becaufe heis termed .
© a Chriftian ?——~Therefore. let a man voluntarily.
‘judge himfelfin thefe, whil& he may, and reform
his former manners, left, when he can no more do
Sthis, he be then againft his will judged of the
‘Lord: And, when he hath paffed the fentence of
| ‘a molt fevere remedy, yet.a remedy, againft him-
tad An. ‘felf.then let him come to the{| Church-Governors,
tiftitess ‘by whomthe Keys are in the Church adminiftred ,
. ‘forhim, and, as one now beginning to be a good
© Son, keeping the order of the Members of his Mo-
—djaPee. ‘ther Eviz. the Church] let him receive from. the
pofitis = § Prefetts of the Sacraments || the meafure of his -
ear Satisfaction; that ia offering up the Sacrifice of a
sum, - contrite heart with Devotion and Supplication,.he
«may do not only that which may availhim, for
¢ the obtaining falvation; but which may avail o-
‘€thersalfo, for anexample: -That, ifhisfinbe not «
¢ only to his own great hurt, but alfoto the fcandal
’ ‘efothers, and fo it feem expedient to the Priel
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