CONFESSIONS & Mugustine JOHN HENRY PARKER; ‘xp 377, Staan, Lonvon WI 2 B56.ADVERTISEMENT. Tr is to be borne in mind that the Author of these Confesions was, during the whole period to which they rofer, unbaptized—in other words, not a Christian, Hi ‘mother had boan given in marriage to one, who was alto- gether a heathen, until log after Augustine's birth, (fr im his sixteenth your his father was but recently a Cate chumen, b. il § 8) and, as heathen, lived in heathens and himself, although in infancy made Catechu- ‘men, had fallen into « vect, which could in no way be called Christ. Christianity, as now in India, was then every where turrounded by Heathonism, which it war gradually leavening ; and there was consequontly « mizod ‘oe, bora of intermarriages with the heathen, or of preats who had not made up their minds to become wholly Christians, (ike the “mixed multitude” which Trae) out of Egypt) and who wore in a tort of twilight state, seeing Christianity but very im- perfectly, although the grosmass of their own darkness ‘was much mitigated. This should be borne in mind, Jost any should think that 8. Auguitie’ descriptions ‘of himself and his commades furnish any representation ‘of the then stato of the Christian Church, and that con- sequently it even then partook of the stat of degrada- tion, in which it ia at this day. It also accounts for 8 Augustine's mode of speaking of his past sine in terma of strong condemnation, yet, personally, of uncon cum a shocking and loathsome in themeelves, but as‘hat he had no more to do with, in that he had con omned them, and they had boen washed away by Baptinn. ‘The object of tho Saint apparently was to ilusteate tho ‘goodness and forbearance of Almighty God in bringing Nim, in spite of manifold erors and inGrmities, to this Dleatod haven of ret; that oo otbers who were inthe same state in which be had been, might “not sleepin despair, sand my, ‘Teannot” Accordingly, his Confess would lose, acording to his own view, at the end of the ninth book ; the only events which he relates, subsequent. to his conversion and baptinm, being thove connected with his mother’s death, to whove prayers he had been given. Te is evidently not without reluctance, that ia the tenth ‘ook, in compliance with the importunty of some of the ‘brethren, he enters at all nto the subject “of what he then vat” at the interval often years nor does he enter upon it without much previous questioning, and at Inet touches ‘upon it only in the most cursory manner. Tn this respect the Confemious of S. Augustine will be found to difer ‘most materially from moder Autobiographies, in which individuals often dwell on their own feelings and ex- periences in a apvit quite inconsistent with Christian ‘modesty and humility. ‘The three ast books of the volume usually published ‘a 8. Augustine’ Confessions cousat entirely of « com. mentary on the fit chapter of the book of Genesis, and donot form any part of the Confessions, which are com pleto in the prosent volume,CONTENTS. ‘THE FIRST BOOK. Confessions ofthe gretses and unsarchableness of God, of Go's mercies ia infaney and boyhood, and human will ‘eat; thi own sas of denon, abuse of hie ates, and oF Gans git up tohiefteenth year. BD THE SECOND BOOK. ‘Object ofthese Confessions. Further ill of denen developed {hie sntenth year. vile of ill scity, which betrayed im fo the Se ‘THE THIRD BOOK. His residence at Carthage from his seventeenth to it ine= teenth year. Source of hir deren Love of shows, ‘Advance in stadia, and love of wim. Distate for Seripture. Led astray tothe Manicheane Refataon of tome of thee tenetn” Orie of his mother Mosnia at his Iberery, and prayers for hie conversion. ‘Her vision trom God, and anever through a Bibop 88‘THE FOURTH BOOK. ‘Acgslife from nineteen to eght and tweoty; hie « Mani chess, aod seducing other to the sme heey; partial obedience amidat vanity and sia; coming attrlogere, nly partly shaken herein; lone of an ealy fiend, wo Ss converted by being baptized when in «swoon; reflections fon gre on eal and unreal fendship, and love of fame writes onthe fir and fi" yet cannot righty, though God 2nd given him great alent vince he entered wrong 20- tions of God; and wo even his Knowledge he applied il 62 ‘THE FIFTH BOOK. y the ignorance ofthe Manichees on thous things, ‘wherein they profered to have divine knowledge. AG. cvs up ll thought of going ferther among the Manichees: |s guided to Rome and Milan, where he hears 8. Ambros eater the Manichees, and Becomes again « Caechumen i the Church Catholic aaa THE SIXTH BOOK. Arial of Monica at Milan; her obedience to 8. Ambrose, tod he vale for her; 8 Ambros’ habit Aug. gradeal ‘bandooment of rar; fads that be has Blamed the Church Catholic wronghys desire of absolute certainty, but struck ‘withthe contrary analogy of God's natural Prvidence; how Shaken inhi wrlly parm; God's guidance of his end ‘Alyy Avg. debates with Rie and hs tends aboat their mode of fe; hi iavetrate sas, and dread of judg 5conreers, “ ‘THE SEVENTH BOOK. ‘Avg’ thirty feat years gradually extveated from hie ror, ‘et tl with mateval conceptions of God; much sided by a argument of Nebidi; aes tht the ese of aa les in freely rejects the Masichean herny, but cannot al iether embrace the doctrine ofthe Churehy recovered from. ‘he Dele in Autrlogy, but miserably perpleaed about the fcigin of evils led to Sad inthe Patniats the seeds of the doctrine of the Divinity ofthe Won, but not of His Ibuiliaion; hence be obisny clearer notions of God’ majesty, bat ot knowing Chrit to be the Mediator, = ‘mains exrangd from Him; all bis doubte removed by the study of Holy Scripture expecially 8.Paal. 120 ‘THE EIGHTH BOOK. ‘Aug's thiety-scond year. He conslts Simpliinnas; fom i bay he Ray of th coven of Veit, nd gto devote himself ently to God, bat is mastered by ofa abe ie fare vuse by ery ot . Antony, and of the conversion of two courtiens: during severe aruggle, hears voioe from heaven, opens Seripe ture and Is converted with hs fiend Alypioa. His mothers Videos fled ye ME ‘THE NINTH BOOK. ‘Avg. determines to devote hs lf to God, and to abandon bie rofenion of Rhetarl, quietly however retires othe country to prepare himself receive the grace of Bupa, and ix ‘oaptned with Alyping and his won Adeodatun At Out, in hia way to Ac, his mother Monsen dey, in her ty sixth year, the thiny-third of Augutine, Her life and eure ee Evi com THE TENTH BOOK. Having in the former books spoken of hime before hi r= he grace of Bap, inthis Aug. cafes what Te then was. But Erte enqlrs by what fealty we ean now God at ally whence he enlarges on the mysterious character of the memory, wherein God, blag made haows, ‘ould ot discover Hien. Then he ex: son tal ander the tiple dvaion of trmptation, laa ofthe eb, lst of he eyes and pride;” what Chris tian contiency presries ax teach, On Chiat the Oaly ‘Metiatr, who Deals ad wil hel all nfrmiee 190TE CONFESSIONS OF S, AUGUSTINE, BISHOP OF HIPPO. ‘BOOK I. nena of the pratt snd errant of Ga, f G's “att aay na tyson Same tne er ioc lanes wad, cad al eo Great art Thow,) wvakestusto delight in Thy 0 Lord, and greatly tobe | praise ; for Thou madest us praised; greatis Thy power, | for Thywif, and our heart (and Thy vwiadomn ingiite| in retlu, until it repose in ‘AndThoowouldmanpraiso; | Thee. Grant me, Lord, to ‘an, but particle of Thy | know and understand which creation; man, that beary | in St to cal on Thos or to ‘bout him his mortality | praise Thee? and, again, to the wituem of his ain, the | know Theo or to call’on vitness, that Thow reitat | Theo for who can call on ‘he proud: yot would man | Thee, not knowing Thee 1 pralso Thee; he, but a pr-| for he that knoweth Theo Aisle of Thy creation. Thou | not, may call on Theo as Puen Be 8 Biueteas Urena ‘The gresinen of Code fee ‘other than Thou art. Or, | heaven and earth i there, 4 it rther, that wo call on | indeed, O Lord my God, ‘Theo that we may know | aught in me that can con: ‘Thea 1 but how ahall thy | tin Thee? do then hea call on Him in whom they | ven and cart, which Thou ‘have not Blicved # or how | hast sande, and wherein, i ‘Thou hast ‘made me, con- tain Thee 1 or, Because no- ‘thing which ‘exists could ‘ext without hes, doth Cherefore whatever” exists ‘contain Thee? Sine, then, too exist, why do T seak that hou shouldest enter uu te by hi EE ff LEPLPEnTenDE : ie ee PaPRriSP AELEPEGPE rete eehgd SEE His 2 b { i é Te HHT Es F F 5 t i th Fes g. fi i t hither my God can coms Into me P whither eam God ‘orme into me, God who mado em Pea 2 Lut teil “ehe1] Difietie in coneiving of God. a ‘thence my God should come into me, who bath mid, Z| _fillthe heaven andthe earth [IIL] 2. Do the heaven ‘and earth then contain Thee, ‘ince Thou Sllest them To ost Thow fll them and yet oreriow, since they do not contain ‘Thee? And whi- ‘ther, when the heaven and tho earth are fled, pouret ‘Thou forth the remainder of Thyself? or hast Thou no need that aught cootain ‘Thee, who coatainest all things, since what Thou fillet ‘Thou fllest by con taining it 1 for the veaele ‘which Thou let uphold ‘Thee not since, though they ‘were broken, Thou wert not ‘poured out, And when Tho st poured out' on us, Thou srt not cast down, but Thou. uplitest ws; Thow art not ted, but Tha gee theres un, But Thou who fleet al thing, lest Thou them with Thy whole self or, sace all things cannot ‘contain Thee wholly, do ‘they contain part of Thee ? ‘and all at oboe the same art 1 or each its own part, ‘he greater mere the muller least And iy then, c06 part of Theo greater, a ther le of art ‘Thou holy every wherein ‘Bing oontaae The whlly? [IV] 4 What ar Thou (hen, my God T what, but the Lard God Fer eho te Lord. bit the Tard} or to i Gad save or God? Mow ‘highost moet god, ‘owt potent most ome: teat; moat mersifl, Jet Bet jut; tot hidden, ot Tot pret owt best fulyyotmor srvog; sable et ncomprebonabe ; un: changeable, yet all-chang- Ing never now, never od alzeoewing, and Bringing ‘age upon the proud, and {ey bri nt eer work- Ing, ever at ret ell ge AMarng, yet noting lack ing sporting, ling, and covermpreadig; craig, ouraing abd maturing | fooking, yet having all Binge Thou ovat ith- cut ‘panion; art Selous, withat anssty; repent, {eb grievest not; art angry, Jet serene; chaogest Thy Siem Fn Pah ae4 Goats atiributen to men contradictory, (te works, Thy purpose un-y grievous woes 1 Is it thon a hanged ; receivest_agun | alight woe to love Thee aot ‘what Thou findest, yet dist | Ob! for Thy mercies’ sake, never lose} never in need, | tell me, O Tord my God, yetrejcicing inguin; never | what Thou art unto me, fovetous, yet exacting usu-| Say undo my soul, Tam thy zy. Thou recelvest over | salvation". So speak, that fod above that Thou may-| Tay hear. Bebo Lord, fst owe; and who hath | my heart is before ‘Thee; ‘sught that is not ‘Thine | open Thou the ears thereat, ‘Thou payest debts, owing | and azy unto my sou, Tam nothing; remittet debts, | thy salvation, After this Tsing nothing. And what | voice let me haste, and take have T now ssid, my God, | hold on Thee. “Hide not amy life, my holy joy or | Thy fue from me. Let mo wat saith any man when | diolest I die—only let mo be apeaks of ‘Thee? Yet | wee Thy face. vroe to him tbat speaketh | 6, Narrow ithe mansion ‘ot since mute areeven the | of my soul; enlarge Thou. most eloquent. that Thou mayest enter (VJ 8. Oh! that Tight nous; repair repose on Thee! Oh that | Thou it, Tehas that within ‘Thou wouldest enter into | which must efeed ‘Thine ray heart and inebrate it, | eyes; T confess and know that T may forget amy ills, | it, But who shall cleanse snd embrace Thos, my sola | it or to whom should T good! What art Thou to ery, sare Theet Lord, met In Thy pity, teach | cleanse me from my weret sme to ter it. Or what am | faults, and'epare Thy wer- T to Theo that Thou de-|vant from the power of the rmandest my love, and, if | enemy®. I belies, and sive it mot art wroth ith 1 ato 2s = Pears a Pomel Tateaa) God's merieain Infancy. o confened againt myoelf my | parents of my flesh, out of ‘rangresions unto Thee, | and Thow, my God, hast for. given the inigity of my Nearer Z ented ot tn judgment seth Thats, who ft the truth ; I fer to dee ive myo ed mine i uty iw lf Door fore I contend not in judg- sent with Theo} for 1 how, Lord ould mark nig 0 Lord, who ahd ide ie [VEL] 7. Yet mufor mato speak unto Thy merey, me, et and aah’. Yet tae fe to pea, snce T speak to Thy mercy, and not to ‘eomfil man Thou to, Perhaps despisert me, yet ‘rile Tho return and have ‘ompauion” upon ma, For ‘what would T'my, O Lord ZBy Ged, but that T know ‘ot whence I cam nto this ying life (ball Teal 51) living death. Then ime ‘diately did tho comfota hove eubtance Thou dist sometime fashion me- Thus ‘here received me the com- forts of woman's milk. For neither my mother nor my ones stored their own Treats for me ; but Thou pret; and to my nunet ‘willingly to give me what ‘Thou gevest them. "For of Thy compassion take me| my typ, a4 T beard (fr T re- rember it not) from the 2F f6 Watfatnss of Infancy. bee ‘Thus, little by litle, Tbe came conssiour whore T ran; and to havo a wish to fexprese my wishes to thowe limbs and voice, making the few signs I could, and such ‘ar T cou, like, though in truth very little Tike, what Tvished. And when Tas not preeetly obayed, (my ‘wishes being burtfl or ume intlligibla) then Twas ine dignant with my elders for | of not submitting to ma, with | ‘those owing me no servos, for not serving mo; and avenged myself on them by tears Such have T learat Infante tobe from observing them ; and, that I was my self such, they, all uncon scious, have shewn me bet- ter than my ures who Ano it. 8, And, lol my infancy died long since, and 1 live. ‘But Thow, Lord, who for and art God all which Thou. ed: in Thee fever the fist ‘things oabiday oat of Dany ? for of that T have heard somewhat, and have myself teen "women with child 1 fed what before that life ‘gain, 0 God my joy, was T any where or aay body 1 For this have T-none to tell sme, neither father nor mo- | and ther, mor experience of others, nor mine own me- sory.” Dost Thou mock me for asking this, and bid me praise Thoe tnd acknow- Tedge Thee, for that I do now 1 10, T acknowledge Theo, ‘Lord of heaven and earth, sand praise Theo for my frst rudiments of being, and my infancy, whereof I remem- bor nothing; for Thou hast sppented that man should from others guess much as to himelf; and believe ‘much on the strength of vweak fomales, yen then T had being and life, and (Got my infaney’s clow) T ould ook for signs, where- ‘by to make known to others ‘my sensations. Whence ‘otld such a being be, eave from Thee, Lord? ‘Shall any be his own artifcer 1 ‘or can there euewbero be derived any ein, which may stream ewence and life Jato uy save from Thee, 0 Tord, in whom emence and Iifeare ono for Thou Thy- self art supremely Banca ife. For Thow ert moa ‘igh, and art not changed*, neidher in Theo dth tray ome tow cote; yet in Theo oth it come tox clove bor ‘ure all ch thingy alo sein Thos, Bortbeyhad 0 vray to puss amay, unless sma Mee. et,8 Sinfueu in inftawidhow etal sin [1 this Let him also rejoice when grows, wo root out sod my, What ching is and cast aay. Now 20 ‘thine Tat hon rejoice even {hur and be eontet rather ty not dicorering to die cover Thes, than by ds tovering not to dicover Thee Evin 1, Hw, 0 Get ‘Alas fr maa wen and Tae pe hin {or hou madeat him, bot sin in him Thou made not ‘Who remindeth mo of the sion of my infancy I for in ‘hy wight noneis pure from tiny ot. even the. infant thaw life ata day upon ‘he earth®. Who remindeth | ts hurt 1 The ‘weakness 7 doth not each lite | then of fant Kiba, not ite {nfs in whom Tce what | wil is its faooence. My- of myst Tremeber not | self have seen and known What thea was my sia | even a baby cavious; it vas it that T bung upon | could sot pak, ye tara {he breast and cried 1 for | od pelo and looked bitterly $hould T now odo for fod | ont foxtertrohae. Who sullable 1 my age, jy | knows not this? Mothers Should Tbe noghed at aod | and” nurses tell you, that reproved. What I then did | they allay the hinge by vrorhy but | Tow not what remedin face T couldnt. under. | I that to ionoenoy when Stand reproof, custom and | the fountain of milk is fow- {eutn forbade me to be re | ig in rich abundance, not proved. For thowe hits | to endure ove to share itBt] Infant malice and Goat though in extremest need, ‘and whowe ‘ery life aa yet depends thereon 1 We bear geotly with all this, not su boing no or alight eil, Dut because they wil disap pear as years increne; fr, ‘hough tolerated now, the very sume tempers are ute {erly intolerable when found {in viper yours. 1 Thou, thes, O Lord ‘ny God, who gavest lif to this my infaney, furnishing | new. But if Twas shapen est mo to praise ‘Theo in| to do with that, of which T ‘hase things, fo confea unto | can recal no vestige ‘hes, and sing unto Thy |” [VITL] 13. Passing honco ‘name, Thou mot Highets. | frm infancy, Teameto boy- For how arsGod, Almighty | ood, or rather it came to ‘and Good, even hadst Thou | mo, displacing infancy. Nor Aono nought but only tis, | did that depart,—(Cor whi ‘ene ‘ot | thar went Je and yet it swhowe Unity is the | was no more. or Iwas 20 mould of all things; who | longer « speechless infant, ‘out of Thy own fairem | but a speaking boy. This ‘makes all things far; and | Tremember and have since orderet all things by Thy | observed how I learned to Pea aoe10 Learning to opeak. Boysh prayer. [mt peak. Tb was not that my | they cccured in ‘rsius ‘lies aught me word (a |semtenes, T ellacted gra toon after ther Teasing | dually fr what they sed | fn any oot method; but | and having broken in my Tonging by vies and rch | mouth to these sign T scoents and various motion | thereby gave utterance to of ty libs to expr my | my wil. Thus I exchanged ‘thoughts, that #0 I might | with those about me these have my will and yet un-| caret niga of our ll, able to exprem all Zwiled | and uo launched deeper ita or to whom I wild, did | the stormy intervure of ‘ayel by the understand | human li ye depending ing which Thou, my God, | om parental authority and pave me, race the | the beck of elder. founds in” my” momory.| [1K] 14: 0 God my God, ‘When’ they “named. any | what iver andmeckeree ‘thing, and as they spoke | did I now experience, when turned ‘orards iy T aww | obedience to my teachers fd remeabered that they | was proposed tomo pro- call what they would | per fa boy, in order that ink at by he ame the | fo this world T might. pros ered,” Aad at. they meant this thing and 9 ‘ther, wae plain from the totem of their body, the ‘aturallanguageanit nee | T'was put to scool to get ‘all ations expend y | learning, i which I (por the countnanen glances | wretch) know a6 what uso the eye, gestures of the | thre was; abd Jo if ilo limb and toner of the | in Tearaing, T was Date, ‘oem indicating the ase | For this was jolged ight ow ofthe mind ant por| by our” forefather; and acs, poses, rejects, or | many, pasing the’ me ‘hun And. thus by coo: | core befor us framed for staotly bearing word, ar us weary paths, throughBt) Cldiah griafa great to children. n hich we were fin to puss; | great s epi, that he can ‘multiplying toil and grit | think “an lightly of ‘the ‘upon the sons of Adam. | racks and books and other But, Lard, we found that | torments, (against hich, ‘men called upon Thee, and | throughout all lands, mea ‘wo learnt from them to | call on ‘Theo with extreme think of The (according to | dread) mocking at those by our powers) as ofsme grent | whom they are fenred most One, who, though hidden | bitterly, as our parents ‘fromoursenses,coldst hear | mockod the tarments which ‘and help us. For so [begaa, | wesufered in boyhood from ‘6 boy, to pray to Tho, | our masters For wo feared iy aid and refage ; and | not our torments less; nor broke the fetter» of my | prayed we les to Thee to tongue to call on Thee, | excape them. And yet we sinned, in writing oF read- ing oF studying lets than ‘hes that T might not be | was exacted of ux, For we eaten atschool. And when | wanted not, O Lord, me- ‘Thou heardest me ot (not | mory or capacity, whereof thereby giving me over to| Thy will gave enough for folly) ray elders, yeu, my | our ago; but our sole de- very parent who yet wish-| light was play; and for this fe me no ill, mocked” my | we wero punished by those tripe, my then great and who yot themselves were serous il doing the like. But elder 1B. Tether, Lord, any of| folks’ idleness it called soul 0 great, and cleaving to Theo with so intense af- fection (for a sort of sti pidity wil in a way do it); but io there any one, wh from cleaving devoutly to | any of sound discretion =p- ‘Thee, is endued with w| prove of my being beaten Pera Tag‘se did he, who boat met ‘who, if worsted in. some | if trifling diseusion with his fellow-tutor, was more em Dittared and jealous than T, when beaten at ball by 8 play fellow (XC) 16, And yet, Tain- ned herein, 0 Lord God, the Creator and Disporer of all ‘things in nature of sin the Disposert only, 0 Lard my (ed Tinned in tranagress- ing the commands of my | [XL] 17, Asa boy, then, areal and tho my ma) Dad ly bard of an See ag oe ome ed ‘whaterermotivg, would have es ‘humility of the Tela Tight terran | Yara Gel sotpog fo fave pot to good un For fe peat ee fo Tdladaged, ot fom a tt | the womb of my. moter, pci nt mete ray pl They hy, loving the pre of | Tua vael with ee mark login my comet and | of Miscou and aed with ohare myeatstickled with | Hin sat Thou west, tying fable that they might | Lor, hw while gots oy, ‘tah tho more; tho sme | Bing azo ona tie wih curio facing from my | radden opprnion a the tye moe and mor, orth | stomach, tad like eae to Onion,Dring greater nd mors po lous guilt. T then already believed: and my mother, tnd the whole housshold, cxcopt my father yet did fot he prevail over the Alone, let him do ashe wil, {for he in not yet baptized T° Dats to bodily health, no ‘oe mys, Let him be worse ‘wounded, for he is not yet Dealed.”” How much beiter renner“ Augustine compile learn, (te in Thy Keeping who gnvet | our head are numbered, it Better truly. Bat how | didst use for my good the ‘many and great waves of | eror of all who urged me emptation seemed to hang | to learn; and my own, who ‘over me after my boyhood ! | would not lara, Thou dit ‘Thewo my mother foresaw ; | two for my punisbment—a and preferred to expowe ta | ft penalty for one, so small ‘them tho clay whence Ta boy and so great « sinner. sight afterwards be mould-| So by thove who did. not ced than the very cst, when | well, Thou didst well for made, me; and by my own sia [XIE] 19. Tn boyhood | Thou didet justly” nish itself, however, (00 much | me. For Thow hast com- Jess dreaded for me than | manded, and oo it ia, that youth) T loved not study, | every inordinate fection ind hated to boforced to it | should be its own punish- Yet E was forced; and this | ment, vas well done towards me, | [XIIL.] 20. But why aid ‘but I didnot well; for,un-| T xo much bate the Greek, less forced, had not learnt. | which T studied as a boy 1 ‘But no one doth well a-|T do not yet fully know. ‘gunst hia will even though | For the Latin I loved; not svat he doth, be wll. Yet | what my Srat marters, but ‘either did they well who | what the so-called gramm- foroed me, but what was | mariane taught me.” For ‘wall came to me from Thee, | thove first lesions, reading, sy God. For they wero | writing, and arithmetic, 1 regardless how Ishouldem-| thought as great a burden play what they foroel mo | and penalty as any Greek. to learn, excopt to mtits | And yet whence was this ‘the insatiate desires of a too, But from the sin and ‘wealthy. boggury, and a vanity of thie life, because shameful glory. But Thou, | 7 was jesh, and a breath by whom the very hate of | that paints away and com-ax] Pocry a anity o he wnregenerate. 18 th not again For thowo ‘ed Wolldone! well done!” frst lessons were better cor-| for the friendahip of thie tainly, because more cer- tain; by them T obtained, sod still retain, the power ‘of reading what I find wait- ao, and myself writing what Twill; whereas in the others, Twas forced to learn the wanderings of ene Einoas, forgetful of my ows, and to weep for dead Dido, Doestse abe killed herself for love; the while, with ay eyes T endured my riterable lf dying among ‘hove things far fom hoo, 0 God may lite. 1, Forwhat more mise self; weeping the death of Dido for loveto Aneas, bat sweeping not his own death for want of love to Thee, 0 God, Thou light of my heart, Thou bred of my i= most soul, Thou Power who sivest vigour to my mind, ‘whoquickonestmythoughts, T loved Thee not, T com rittod fornication agaist ‘Theo, and all around me thus foricating there echo- 1 tn 38, ‘world is fornization againat ‘Thee; and “Well done! swell done echoes on tll fone is ashamed not to be hus « man, And all thie T wept not, T who wept for Dido slain, and “ seeking by the sword a stroke and round extreme,” myslf seeking the while a worse xtreme, the extremest and lowest ‘of Thy creatures, Ihaving former Thee earth passing into the earth, And if forbid to read all this, T vas grieved that I might fot read what grieved me. ‘Manes like tin i thought ‘higher and a richer learn- fing, than that by which T learned to read and write, ‘22. But now, my God, ery Thou sloud fa my sol and let Thy truth tall me, “ot so, not an. Par bettor ‘was that first study.” "For, To, I would readily forget the wanderings of Enea fd all th rest, rather than how to read and waite, Bat over the entrance of the ‘Grammar School is a vail6 Trbsomenaas of learning. [a drawn! true; yet is this) have not wholly forgotten ‘not 40 much an emblem of | themselves? T sinned, then, tught recondite, as cloke | when as» boy I prefered of error. Tet not thot, | thowe empty to thove more ‘whom nolongerfea.ry out | profitable stodies, or rather ‘agunst mo, while Tconfes | loved the coe und hated the to Theo, my God, whatever | other. “ One and on, two;” say soal will, and aoquiace | “two and two, four;” this fn the condemnation of my | war to me a hateful sing- cov ways that I may love | song: “the wooden. horse ‘Day good way, Let not | lined with armed men," and “the buraing of Toys," ‘and “Croum's shade and sad similitud,” wer the choice spectacle of my vanity. (CXIV.] 28. Why then aia T hate the Greok clanics, ‘which have the like tales} right be forgotien with leat detriment tothe con- cerns of life, reading and ‘writing or those pootic Se-| it Alona who does not frase, what all must answer who aa ‘urged rebementlywitheruelss) Bit in asic wud, "7 threats and punishments, ‘Time was also, (as an in- fant) Tknew no Latin but this I learned without fear cr wring, by mere ob- ‘ervaton, amid the eareses fof my nurery and eats of fends, wmiling and spor- tively encouraging me, This learned without any pres- ‘sare of punishment to urge me on, for my heart urged Dirt to its eon- ceptions, which Icould only {do by learning words not of those who taught, but of fn whoro oars also T gav birth tothe thoughts, what- ever I conceived. No doubt then, that a fee curiosity ‘has more fores in our leara- ing these things, than a frightfalenforeement. Only this enforcement restraint the rovings ofthat freedom, through ‘Thy laws, 0 my God, Thy laws, from the master's cane to the mare tyr trials, being able to tenper for'ut » wholesome ‘ites recalling urtoThynl? ‘rom that deadly pleasure which Tures ws fom Thos. [XV] 24. Hou, Lord, aay prayer; let not my woul faint under Thy diaipline, nor let me fuint in confor ing unto Thee all Thy mer- cies, whereby Thou bast drawn me out of all my ‘most evil ways, that Thou rmightest become a delight tome abore all the allure- ments which I once pur- sed ; that I may meet en- tirely love Thee, and clasp ‘Thy hand with all my afso- tions, and Thou mayest yet rescue me from every tempt> ‘ation, even unto the end. For, 1, 0 Lord, my King ‘and my God, for Thy ser ice be whaterer useful thing my childhood learo- ea for Thy service, that T rpeale— write —read — reckon, For Thou didit ‘rant me Thy discipline, ‘hilo Twas Tearaing vani- ties; and my sin of dlight- ing in thoso vanities Thon hast forgiven, To them, indeed, T learat many a ‘useful word, but these may ‘an wel bo learned in things ‘ot rain; and that ithe safe path for the stops of youth. [XV] 25. But woo is thes, thou torrent of humanty Brils in classical study, tea toom|_ Whe cll ud Jerr rcompningech ‘against thee 1 how long | learning ; and a grest 10- Perera air pee ees Pepercrepsa poems 2 Tae Tha age ed | sightor apo tbe aoa whl re | ngs mle bate ep early onepantie [ite pcos no te ae ea ha | aad rotund ce Sat So Jom | nn Tots aa ‘etary aot thse | unr goes mo Ser aaah he | onary tps jor ey Su shine de | Seam Sigedtendetghte |i oe dl hve nee Sosa wn | acre nck ete pe Sane Tor nh | hore Sage Ea ‘of our gowned masters, lends | guile,” “temples of the SRE eee tw | Notes tery at {i we ce rs | ge er er fa ‘dace Huet 22 Eek lord yon ee ti acre hints eagesng op Sept Whe pls ne tr ar Scctaplt tadueentions og tae Bie te Tare | tg ty te te tray bad be id, “These | raed ‘are indeed his fictions ; but | “tower snoginn Manelags dis want | 2S, w ve ne ‘to wicked men, that crimes fe oe be Sto a agri Jor heer See rc” oie te | cites hoa to ln ws by ‘might seem to imitate not | celestial authority ; ei cate Soest ates Ao ye thu talish terra te an stax degrading God and man. » Not one whit more ely fre the words learnt forall, this vilenen ; but by their ‘means the vileness is com- ‘mitted with las shame. Not ‘hat T blame the words, be- {oun them by intonieatod teacher; aad if we, tn, rink act, we ar eaten tnd have no ober judge 12 ‘hoa re may appa. Tet, 0 any God, (in whos pre- sence T now without bart remember this) all {hit unbapily Heart wil- ingly with reat delight, a fr this was pronounced hope boy (XVI 27. Bowe with rms, my God, while Tay somewhat of my wit, Thy ff, and on what dotagea{ ‘raed Por 8 taal was ‘et me trouble enoegh to my sul, upon terms of ‘re or shame and fea of Sipe to pak the words ‘of Jomo, as abe raged tnd ‘mourned hat she eould not ‘isl pe om tao that Juno never uttered; Dut wo were foroed to go astray inthe footsteps of these poet fictions, ad to prose much what he cexpremed in vor, And is speaking wan most ap- lauded, in whom the pas- sions of rage and grief wore ‘moat pre-eminent andcloth- ff in the most fitting lax- ‘goage, maintaining the dig- nity ofthe character. What in it co me, O my true life, ‘my God, that my declama- tion was applauded above to many of my own age and class? is not all this moke fand wind 1 and was there nothing else whereoa to ex- cercse my wit and tongue 1 ‘Thy prises, Tord, Thy praises might have stayed the yet tender shoot of my Ibeart by the prop of Thy Scriptures; v0 had it not trailed away mid these empty trifle defiled prey forthe fowls of tho ai. For in moro ways than one do men ecrisen tothe robell- foun angels CXVITL) 28. But what smarvel tht Iwas thus ear~ vied away to vantie, and20 Haman knowledge preferred to Divine, (a. ‘went out from Thy pre- fence, 0 my God, when men ‘were set before me as mo- dels, who, if in relating tome action of theirs ia i self not il, chey committed tome barlarim oF slecsm, being censured, were abash- cet but when in rich and ‘Momed ‘and. wellodered ‘These things ‘Thott, Lord, sod oldest Thy peace; long-ufering, and Plena in merey’ and frie. Wilt Thou hold Thy peace for ever and even ow Thou dames out ‘ofthis horible gulf the soul hat ecketh They that ‘Birteth for Thy pleasures, teow heart vith unto The T have sought Thy face; Thy face, Lard will Fc, For darkened? actions is removal from Thee. Fort in not by or fet or change of place that ten leave Thee or return uote Thos. Or did) that Thy” younger ton Took oat for bores or Sarit, or ships, dy with sible wings ot journey by the motion of his limbs, that he might in a far country waste in riotous living all Thou gavest at bis departure? loving Fa- ther, when Thou gave, and'mere loving unto him, ‘when he returned empty. So then in Tustful, that is, in darkened affection, is the tre distance from Thy face. 19, Behold, O Lord God, yea, behold” patiently as ‘Thou art wont, how care- fally the sons of men ob- serve the covenanted rules of lettre and spllaben re- ‘xiv from those who spake Defore them, neglecting the ‘ternal covenant of everlast- Ing salvation recived from ‘Thee, Tasomuch, chat 8 teacher or learser of the ‘hereditary laws of proounc!- ‘tion will more offend men, ‘by speaking without the aipirat, of a “uman bee ing” in despite ofthe law of grammar, than if be, “aman being,” ate’ ‘human being” in despite ‘of Thine, As if any enemy ePeteei Ike Peas PML21] Inconsistent wayrwardnen of his childhood. — 91 ‘ould be moro hurtfl than the hatred with which be it incensed against him; or could wound more deeply hhim whom be persocutes, than he wounds his own foul by bis enmity. As aredly no lence of lettars ‘can be #0 innate as tho re- cord of conscience, “that he fn doing to another what from another he would be loth to ruler” How deep are Thy ways, 0 God, Thou only great, hat ete silent fon highe and by an un- sreared law dispensing pe- ‘al Blindness to lawles de- tires, Tn quest of the fame ‘of eloquence, a man stand- ing befor» human judge, surrounded by » human throng, declining against ‘his enemy with fiercest ha- fred, will take heed most vratchally, lst, by an error oF the tongue, he murder the word “human being ;* Dut takes no. hood, lett ‘through the fary of his spi sit, he murder the ral hu- saa being. 90, This was the at whote gate unhappy T Ce eea & Jay in my boyhood this ‘the stage, where Tad fear- ‘ed more 0 commit « bar Yariem, than avingcom- ‘mitted one, to envy. those ‘who had not, These things T speak and confess to Thee, my God ; for which T had praise from them, whom I ‘then thought it all virtue ta pleats, For T saw not the abya of vilenes, where- in T was cust away from Thine eyes", Before ther ‘what more foul than I was trey, displeasing even such as myself? with inno- tmorable lies deceiving my tutor, my masters, my pe- rents, ffom love of play, eagerness to ce vain show fd restesmess to imitate them! Thefts also T com- mitted, from my parents calar ‘and table, enslaved by greodiness, or that I might have to give to boys ‘who wold mo. their play, Which all the while they Uked v0 lows than I. Inoo AU admirable in him, but hia vin, [at hat could T so ill endarg, | folt; and had an implanted ar, when I detected it, wp-| providence over my well Traded Tn ferely, at that | being —e tne of that my Tras doing to others and | terious Unity, whence Iwas for which if detctd, Iwas | derived j—1 guarded by the upbraided, T chovo rather | inward sense the cntirenss to quarrel, than to yield. | of my senses, and in these ‘And is this the innocence | minute pumas, and in my ‘of hoybood 1 Noto, Lord, | thoughts on things minute, ‘ot so 1 ery Thy mere, © | I lara to delight in trth, ry God, For these very |T hated to be deceived, bad sing aa riper year wuceed, 8 vigorous memory, was hese very sins are rane | gifted with speech, was together commend as an entlem of | then, is Ho i and He is 31. Yet, Lord, to Theo, | ‘the Creator and Governor | that ot in Him, but i ‘ures, sublimitis, truths, ‘were due to Thee our God, ‘and 0 fll headlong ints evenhedst Thou detined for te boyhood enly. For even | sorrows, confusions, erort ‘then Twas, T lived, and | Thanks be to Thee, my joyan) Object of thee Confeaions, 2 snd my glory and my com j shall be enlarged and per- fidence, my Ged, thanks be | fected, which Thou hast ta Theo for Thy gifs; but | given’ me, and I myself do Thou proserve them to | shall bo with Thee, since sma, For so wilt Thou pre-| even to be Thou hast given ferve me, aod those things | ma, . ‘THE SECOND BOOK. * (Object tae Coneios, Fete lean derapd a hie ‘tse yr. io ce, whch bagel nt (L].1. 1 wren now call) in my youth heretofore, to to mind my past foulnes, | be aninted in things below ‘and tho carnal corruptions | and T dared to grow wild (of my soul; not because I| again, with these various love them, but that T may |and shadowy loves: my love Thee, Ory God. Far | beauty conrumed aay, and Jove of Thy love T do it; |T stank in Thine ayer; reviewing my most wicked | pleasing myself, and deir- ‘ways in tho Very bitteroa | ous to paso in’ the eyes of of my remembrance, that | men. ‘Thou mayest grow sweet | [II] 2 And what was it ‘unto mo; (Thou swoutnas | that I delighted ia, but to never failing, Thou blimful | lore, and be beloved ? but sod assed sweetneat}) and | I kapt not the measure of ‘gathering me again out of | love, of mind to mind, that my disipation, where- | friendship’ bight bounda- in Twas tom plecemea, | ry: but out of the mudiy vile turned from Thes ths | concupiscence of the foah, One Good, I lost myself | and the bubblings of youth, ‘among a multiplicity of | mise fumed up which be- ‘things. or I even burt | clouded and overcast my4 Man's neglect of youth, and Go's care of i. (0.18. eat, that T could not dis of Thy eration | had put a ‘em the clear brightness of | bound to their plensureable~ lore, from the fog of lust-|neas, that 10 the tides of fulness. Both did confus- | my youth might have cast ‘edly boil in mo, and hurried | themselves upon the mar- ‘my unstayed youth over the | rage shore, if they could precipice of unholy desires, | not be calimed, and kept fd funk me in a gulf of| within the object of w fami fagtiourneses. Thy wrath | ly, us Thy law prescribes, Ind gathered over me, and | Lord: who this way formest knew it not. Iwas grown | the offpring of this our deaf by the clanking ofthe | death, being able with a chain of my mortality, the | geotls hand to Blunt the ‘Punishment of the pride of | thorn, which were exclud- ‘my soul, and T strayed fur | ed from Thy paradise 1 For ‘ther from Thee, and Thou | Thy omnipotancy isnot far Iettet me alone, and T'was from us, even when we bo tomed about, and wasted, far from Thee. Else ought and dissipated, and I boiled T more watchfully to have cover in my fornication, and heeded the voico from th ‘Thou heldest Thy peace, O | clouds; Neverthlen such ‘Thou my tardy joy! Thou | shall have trouble in. the ‘then heldest Thy peace, and | flak, but T pare you'. And Trrandered further and far |W ie goad for a mam nat (0 ‘ther from Thee, ito more | fouek a woman". And, he ‘and more frites eed-plte | that ir unmarried thinketh of sorrows, with a proud | of the chings of che Lord, Aejctenes and a eaten | how he may please the Lord; wentines. tu he that ie married ‘3. Oh! that some one | eareth for the things of this hand then attempered my | world, how he may please Aisorder, and turned to ac. | Ais wifes. count the fleeting beauties | 4. To these words T ofthese, the extreme points | should have listened more3.1] Man's neglect of youth, and God's care of i. 98 \ {fiends meannhile took no care by martiage to mare ray fall; their only eave ras that T should learn to [HH] 8. Bor that year ‘werery studiesintermitted: ‘while after my retur from Madaurs, («neighbour ity, whither i had journeyed to earn grammar and rhe torie) the expenses for 8 further journey to Carthage ‘ware being provided forme; sod that, rather by the resolution than the means of my father, who was but ‘poor freeman of| ‘To whom tell I this not to Thee, my God; bat be- fore The to mine own Kind, crea to that small portion of mankind ax may light ‘upon theee writings of mine. ‘And to what purpose 1 that ‘whowever reada this, ray Ahink ou of what depths we cae 10 ery unto Thee For ‘what in nearer to fxtol my father, for that sayel whally to Ty | beyond the ably of Mafess of iene —hia ath fer for Bi (10 be would furih ofthe sae whan the sot, with ll neomnit| world forget ‘Theo he for a fr journey for his | Great, und bce eo stadt sake Hor many | ound of Thy ematu {ar aber tne id 00 | ona of Thy, rough fuck thing for thi chi | the fame of fat avi rn. But yet ths sme | wie oft ltl uring weedy ence ante | meT And whowe bat sing hitlecendantaglad:| wore thes words which by pith ito my moter; | my mother Thy thao jing’ fn that tule | Thou mage in my or Sena.m] God spake to him trough hi mather, 37 Nothing whereof unk into | wag, that T might not be amy heat 00 a2 10 doit | Sopris ; and. when ia For she wished, and T rw | any thing {bad not sinned summer in pita with |ar the alandooed oney gest suxiety warned me, | would may that Thad dove ‘Foot tocommit fornication | what T ad not don, that ‘but especially never to do |T might not ecm’ cone ‘le another's wife” Thos | tompible in proportion ae tcemed tooo womanish | Iman insceet jor of let count, the more caste ‘8. Bebold with what com- anions Talked the sets Bot: and of Babylon, and walloned ‘ert leat and that it waa | in tho mize Uhrof a iia Ie who sake; Uy whom |e bed of spices and. pre- ‘hou wert not silent unto | coun ointmenta” And that sao; ond in her wast de-| Tight eloao the faster to thie by me ber so, the | ts vry centre, the avible ton of Thy handmaid, Thy | enemy trod me down, x04 fants "Dt T Koo i | ec of ht headlong | say to bo bout. Not that | ther did the mother of my ‘wat | feb, (who had now lad out fsharsed of a less shamo-| of the centre of Babylon’, Townes, when Theard them | yet went more slowly in the boast oftheir agitiousnons, | akrta thereof) a4 the ad- yee, and the more boasting, | vised me to. chastity, 10 ‘the’ more they were de-| heed what she had heard of iwrded: and I took ples-| me from ber husband, ato fire, not only in the plen-| retrain within the bounds sure of the deed, but in th | of eonjogal action, if it praise, What is worthy of | could not bo pared’ amay Aispraise but Vice But I | tothe quick) what she flt rade myself worse than I| to be pestilent at present there arty o241g’ theft forth mere plaarure of thieving. (3. tt fatare dan- | mine iniguty Borat out at from very fanaa. [IV] 8. Theft is punishes ‘by Thy law, O Lord, and thelaw written in the hearts ‘of men, which iniquity itaalfefcesnot. For what ‘thief wil abides thio not foven a rich thief, one seal- ing through want. Yet I Tasted to thiov, and did it,an] All in propos wre end 2 Ihering only tasted them. whence springs alo the ‘And thin, but to do, what | thir of revenge. But yet, ‘ro liked’ only, bosnan it | to obtain all tha, we may tris milked.” Bald my| not dopart trom Thos, O Thar, O God, behold my | Lard, nor decline from Thy ear, which Thou hadst | law. ‘The hfe also which Pity upon inthe bottom of | here we live hath ite wa the Bottomlea pit. Now,| enchantment, through 8 Thold lot my heart tell| tain proportion of ita Thee, what it sought ther, | own, ands correspondence ‘hae T shouldbe. gratu| with all thingy teaatifl itouly ‘er, having no here Blow. Hinaa fl temptation toil but the ship abo is endeared with {Mele "Te was ful, and a rweet te, by reaon of Toved it Tovedo perish | the unity formed of many {loved mine own fault ot | sola” Upon occasion ofall ‘ha for which Twa uly, | thes, andthe like i sin ‘ut my fault elt. Foul oommited, who through soul, filing from Thy Sr- an immoderte Taclinton ‘amet to utter destric towards the goods ofthe tion ; Bot soaking aught lowest der, the better and hroagh thebam, but the higher are foraken,—Thoo, ‘shame feel! | out Lord God, Thy truth, (VJ 10. For thor isan! and Thy law For these stizactienaa in Boutful lower thingy’ have. their diy, in gold and slvr, | delights, but not like my sod ll things; and’ in | God, who ede all hing ‘oily touch, pepathy bath | for im Zim dit the ight rach infunoy, and each | cous daligh, and He i he ‘ther ens aa hs proper | jy of he upright im Bae ‘bjctanswernbly tempered. |”. When, then wo ak Worldly honour hath alo | why a crime was dona, we its gmc and tho power af|baleve it neh, unless it fovercomingjandofmastery;| spear that there might ‘heaye i i 3 i i i in TEHiEE: fi ga I il i fi ‘were the pears we stole, Decaus they were Thy ere- ation, Thou fairest of all, ‘Creator of all, Thou good God; God, the sovereign good and my true good. Fair were those peary, but il not them did my wretched foul desire; for Yad store of better, and those Ta ‘hered, only that T might steal. "For, when guthered, Tang them away, my only feast therein being my own sin, which T was pleased to cajoy. For if tught of ‘hove pears came within my | mouth, what sweetened it laws, and. is embarrass | was tho sin. “And now, 0 ‘ments from domestic needs, | Lord my God, I enquire11) imitate perveredly some excllonceof God. 31 what in that thft delighted ) Thy charity; nor is aught te ; and bebold it hath no | loved more healthful than. Jopelineas;T mean not such | chat ‘Thy truth, bright and loveliness ut in justin wad | beautiful above all. Cu wisdom j nor auch at isin | rioaity makes semblance of the mind and memory, and |e dete of “knowledge ; teases, and animal life of| whereas ‘Thou supremely rman ; nor yet as the star | Knowestall Yes, ignorance fare glorious and. benutifl | and” folishneu Hult it in their orbs; or the earth, | cloked under the name of or som full of embryo | simplicity and uniajurious replacing by its birth that | nest; Because nothing is which decayeth; nay, nor | found more single than ren that falieand shadowy | Theo: and what less inju- ‘eauty, which belongeth to | rious, since they aro bis eceiving views. ‘own works, which injure the 18. Foro doth pride imi-| sinner? Yea, sloth would tate exalteiness; whereas | fin be at rest; but what ‘Thou alone art God exalted | wableret besides the Lord 1 cover all Ambition, what | Luxury acta to be called seeks it, but honours end | plenty and abundance; but flory 1 whereas Thou alone | Thou art the fulness and Art to be honoured abore | never-failing plentoousneat All, snd glorious for ever-| ef incorruptible pleasures tore. The crusty of the | Prodigality prowaate a sha- (great would fain be foured;| dow of liberality: but Thow ‘bat who is tobe feared but | art the moet overlowing God "alone, out of whose | Giver of all good. Govel- ower what can be wrstod | curness would powsas many or withdrawn when, or| things: and Thou pomost- ‘where, or whither, by | oa all things. avy dis- ‘whom The tenderneses of | putes for excellency : what ‘he wanton would fain be | more exellent than Thou ? no- | Anger seks revenge : who ‘than | revenges more justly than32 Aen sak the creature intend of the Creator. (3.1. ‘Thou! Fear startles wt tate my Lond 1 Did T wish ‘things unwooted and sad | even by stalth to do eon- den, which endanger things | trary to Thy law, becnuse Yelored, and takes fore-| by thought for their aafety ;| that being prisoner, Dut to Thee what unwonted | might mimic » maimed for sudden, or who vepar-| liberty by doing with im- ‘eth from Thee what Thou | punity things unpermitied Tovet#1 Or where bat with | ms ‘Thee ia wnahaken saicty || Thy Omnipotency ! Bebo, (Gree pines away for shings | Thy owt, the delight of ite de-| his Lord, and obtaining « tis; Because it would | shadow. "0 rottenneay, 0 Ihave nothing taken from i | monstroumea of life, and 8 nothing eun from Thoe.'| depth of death ! oul 14. Thus doth the soul | like what T might not, only commit fornication, when | because I might not the turns from Theo, wek-| [VIL] 16. What shall ng without Thoo, what she | render undo the Lord, Dethe Creator ofall mature ;| deeds of mine. To. Thy hence there is no place| grace T aserbe it, and to hither altogether to rere Thy mercy, that Thoa bast EomThoo. “What then did | melted ava i love in that theft? and | were ie. ‘uptly and pervertedly imi-| have not dane of ell; for ete MeeakigiePkerm TLRE GUNS tit ind lpihadttenetin lg f Height ate iMate ull, Pe ett iss #4a03 5 us al agayatgal” eta Fae a ais hi 43 ai qbist Fee eA aaet might havo done it alone, ‘had the bare commission of ‘the theft wuficed to attain ‘my plearure; nor needed T ‘have inflamed the itching of my desires, by the excite tment of accomplices. But tice my plearuze was not fn thove pears, it was in ‘the offence itaelf, which the ‘company of fellow-sinners ‘ocasoned. [EK] 17. What thon was this feeling 1 For of «trath St was too foul: and woe vwarine, who had it. But et what was itt Who ean Andertand his erora'? Th tras the sport, which as it rere, tickled our hears, hat” wo Deguiled, thove tho little thought what we srero doing, end much mise Tiked it. Why then was my delight of uch sort, that Ididit not alone 1 Bo- fenuse none doth ordinarily Taugh alone! ordinarily 20 fone} yet laughter some ties ‘Tmusters men alone tnd singly when n0 one ‘whatever ie with them, if fay thing very Tudicrour ‘prevents ital to ei enter Man not rong enough to bear i sciety. (8.1. or mind. Yet T had not tangle that twisted and in tricate nctineas | Foul is its T hate to think oa it, to look on it. But Thee T loog for, 0 Righteousness snd Innoceney, beautiful sod comely to all pure ‘eyes, and of & stitution ‘unatting, With hoo is reat entire, and life immper- forbable,”-Whoso entersae] The biternen of une love 2 into Tho entet sno the | T wandered, O my God, too Jeyef his Zord™: and shall | much astray from Thee my ‘ot four, and shall do excel | stay, in thowe days of my Jently in the All-Excalent. | youth, and Tbocame tom Tak away fom Thos, and | selfa barren land. ‘THE THIRD BOOK. i len aragy fo Me wrth to Ma nin, ‘i ft erie ove o ove Adrace ted tlre Suite men tro Ottis tte oi oe ‘wrt pape herein rn es Odd te Shea ban (1) 1. To Carthage T therewith, but the more came, where there sang all | empty, the more T loathed round mo in my ears aie, For this eause my soul ‘auldron of unholy ovr. | was sickly and ful of sore, Toved not yet, yet Clove | it miserably cas itelf forth, to Tove, and out of a deep | desing. to bo scraped. by ‘cated rant, T hated my. | th tach of object of wense self for wanting not. | Yetif these bad not sou, sought what I might love | they would not be objets fn love with loving, and | of ove. ‘To love then, and safety T hated, and a way | to be beloved, was sweet ‘withoutmoares” For within | to me; but more, when T ie was a famino of that | obtained to enjoy tho per- fnward food, Thyself, my | son Tloved. defile, there- God; yet, ‘through that {famine T wes not ungerd | but was without all ong | eupiacenesand I beclouded ing for incorruptible unte- | ia brightoes with the bell ‘mance, aot because filed | offustfulnen; and thus foul a aeDiference boom foe fm from rach afoctions. How rretnem 1 For T'was both loved, and merely ar Fired a the bood of enjoy. ings and wan with joy t- ‘tered with sorrow-bringing, Dendy” that Tight” be scoured with “the ion Trraing rods of jaw, snd suspicions, aad fears, od angers and quarrel (HL) 2 Biageplags alo ariel me amy, fill of images of my mii a0d ffl to my fir Why is 4g, shaman Stes to be rade sad, baboldig lef nd tingle things, which et anal would by m0 Toeans raderT got ho do fire asa apctator 0 fol ferrow at them, and this ery sro is is plas ‘What ists Duta mises madsen? for a an isthe Tore afeced with thee Actions, the Tea ive be Is ‘compasionsies itis morey. Bat what sort ‘of compassion is this for feigned and wcenial. pas sont) for the auditor is fot called on to relive, ‘bat only to grieve: and he applauds the actor ofthese Sctions the more, the more he grieves. And ifthe cala- iti of those persone (Grhetber of old times, or ‘mare fiction) be so acted, that the spectator is not moved to tears, be goes sway disgusted and erit- lag; Dut if he be moved to pasion, ho stays intent, ad weepe for Joy. ‘3. Are greta then too loved 1 Verily all desiro joy. Or whereas no man Likes to be miserable ia he yet pleased to bo merefal 1 ‘hich because it cannot be vrithout passion, for this reawon alone are passions loved 1 “This alio peng from that vein of ‘tiand- ‘hip, But whither goes ‘hat voint whither ows it?amt} and real sympathy. a wherefore rune it into that Korent of pitch bubbling forth thow monstrous tides of foul lunfaess, into ‘hich tin wilflly changed tod traeformed, being’ of its own will procpitated sod corraptd frm is bear Yenly elearnou 1 Shall oom- pasion thea be put away 7 By mo, means. Be grits thea sometines loved. But Doware of uncleansen, 0 sy soul, uader the guat- iauahip of my God, the God of nr fathers, whe is be praised and eolted ‘love al for vers beware ‘of uncleanness For have ot now ceased to pity ‘oat then in tho theatres rejoiced with lovers when they wickedly enjoyed one nother, although this was fmaginary only in the play. ‘And. when they los one Another, aif very compas: fonate) 1 sorrowed with then, yet had my delight in bo But now I much sor pity him tha rojo fn his wskadno, than hin ‘who in thought to sufer pernicious pleasure, and the Tow of sme miserable feli- city. This certainly isthe truer mercy, but init grief elights not, For though Ihe that groves forthe ‘miserable, bo commended for hie fico of charity ; yet had he, who is geau- Inely oompuasonata, rather there were nothing for him to grove for. For if good vil be il willed, (whieh ‘an never bo} then may he, who truly and sincerely hing “4 Bot I, miserable, then loved to grieve, and sought ‘out what to grove ab, when Inanothervand that feigned sd personated misery, that hardship, by missing some | acting best pleased me, and Saget Peete, web HH