The Confessions

OF

S. AUGUSTINE

In Small 8vo, 5s.

AN EDITION WITH RED RULES

Forming a Volume of the 'Library of Spiritual Works for English Catholics.'

The Confessions

OF

S. AUGUSTINE

TEN BOOKS

Translated and Edited

BY THE

REV. W. H. HUTCHINGS, M.A.
Sub-Warden of the House of Mercy, Clewer

RIVINGTONS
WATERLOO PLACE, london

MDCCCLXXXIII

141. 2. 353.

CONTENTS.

BOOK I.

Beginning with the praises of God, he traces his life from its earliest

stages up to the age of fifteen years. He acknowledges the sins

of infancy and childhood; and confesses how he was then more fond

of play and boyish amusements than of study.

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I. He desires to praise God, being awakened by Him

II. That the God Whom he invokes is in him, and that he is

III. God is so wholly everywhere, that nothing contains Him

wholly

IV. The Majesty of God and His Perfections, are beyond

description.

V. He seeks the Love of God, and Pardon for his Offences

VI. He describes his Infancy; he praises the Providence of

God and His Eternity

VII. Infancy also is prone to sin

VIII. Whence when a Boy he learned to speak

IX. The hatred of Lessons, love of Play, and the fear of being

whipped, which is in Boys

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X. Through love of Play and of Performances, he is drawn

away from Study.

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XI. Seized with Illness, he earnestly asked for Baptism,

which his Mother, after careful deliberation, deferred.

XII. He was forced to go on with his Studies, which, however,

God turned to his Profit

XIII. In what Studies he chiefly delighted

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