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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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See his: Confef, 1.7. c. 10. Where entrivg (as he
faith) into the innermoft receffes of his foul, he there
_ fay with the eye of bis foul, fuch asthen it was, far a-
‘bove the fame eye, and above his foul, the immutable
light of the Lerd. And that herein God [poke to hint,
as (fuith he) men hear in the beart, “After which |
interiour fpeech to him, Che faith) bis former. doube-
ing [concerning the exiftence of a fpiritual & incor-
poreal prime Verity] was removed andit canfed to
ceafe tnhim all further doubt, “And fee that devout
Conference with his dying Mother, Confe/. 1. 9,
10. And, whilf we thus talk.and yeara after it,
“we got fome touch of it, in a little meafure, with one .
‘whole {pring and beat of the heart, And we fighed, and
“Left there the'firft-fruits of the Spirit -ffill fixed unto it,
“wand fo (faith he) ‘this fudden tranfport of mind being
‘paffed over, our fecblenefs relapfed again to our former
‘difcourfe, and tothe exteriour noife of our mouth, And —
- “afterwards he defcants upon the fame Rapture, or.
“tranfport thus; ———~ And we faid thus one to another ;
Tf any foul could be ftript and exempt from the impreff-
/ ous, and enjoy a perfect filence of the tumults, of the
—— flefh 5 could enjoy the filence of the images, and appea-
‘races of all things of the earth, &c , and the filence o
the foul itfelf tortfelf, fo that it could. pafs by it felf
_ without any thought of itfelf,&c 3 If God himfelf oily
“fhould [peck,to us, not by them, but by himfelf 5 that fo,
we fhould hear his word, not by a tongue of flefh, &c;
fhould hear himfelf without. thefe (as but now for a
aa feart we enlarzed our felves, and with afwift thought
_ (Speak. touched || that Eternal Wifdou, above all, permanent
ing ot § forever); if fuch athing, I fay, were continued unto
the for. 725, and all other fiches,fo far wnltke and inferiour to it,
{pring, o Were gine removed 5 and this one fhould totally ravifh,
‘bear of aad ingl,", and over-whelme the beholder with thofe
the _ ‘snterioitr joyes, that fo our life for ever fhould be [uch
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