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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.'
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.
СНАР.
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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