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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. I. | The Life of a
Wo isme; and dare I yet fay, that thou heldeft
‘thy peace, the while I wandred thus ftill farcher from
thee ?’ And whofe then, but thine, was that fweet
counfel by my Mother, thy Difciple, which. thou
fungeft in mine ears, but nothing whereof defcendcd .
into my heart to performit? For She requefted,
and in fecret (I remember) with great folicitude ad«
monifhed me, to keep my felf pure from Women,
efpecially from defiling any one’s Wife. Which fee-
med to me but womanifh advice, and which men
fhould be afhamed to obcy: andit was thine; and
I knew it not; fuppofing thee to be filent, and her
to fpeak it; who, byher, waft not filent unto me ;
and, in her, watt alfo defpifed by me; by me, her
fon, the fon of thine handmaid, and thy Subject.
But I knewit not, andsufhed ftil] headlong with fo
much precipitancy and blindnefs, that amongft my -
equalls, I was afhamed of any lefs filthinefs in me,.
than-what I heard them boaft of ; and they boafted
every one fo much more, by how much more beaft-
ly they were 5 and I rejoyced to do the like as they’
did, not only for the pleafure, but praife, of the
Fact.
What is there reproachful, but only vice ?
And I, to avoid reproach, {till became more vi-
cious: and, when there. hapned nothing, by —
acting whereof I might equal other’s guilt, I
feigned, I did what I did not, left 1 fhould feem
more contemptible, by how much I was more
innocent: and left I fhould feem more vile, by how
much I was more chaft. Behold, with what com-
panions {travelled in thofe ftreets of . Babylon:
and wallowed in the mire thereof, as’in- a bed of
fpices and precious odours; while the invifible
Enemy trampled upon me, and feduced me, be-
- caufe Imy felf was prone alfo to be fo feduced.
Neither