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XIV. He hated Greek

XV. His Prayer to God

XVI. He inveighs against the Mode of educating the Young

XVII. He continues his Attack upon the Mode of Training the

Young in Literature

XVIII. That Men are more concerned in observing the Rules of

Grammar than the Law of God

XIX. Of childish Faults which pass on to mature Years

XX. For the Blessings conferred upon him in Childhood, he

gives Thanks to God

BOOK II.

He passes to another age, that which commenced at sixteen, when

having given up study in his father's house, he indulged his own

will and desires; he remembers this time with deep remorse, and

marvels at the way he was betrayed into committing a theft, and

yet the human heart is not led into evil, unless in some way evil

presents itself under the form of good.

I. He reflects upon his Condition and the Vices of his Youth

II. In his Sixteenth Year, he was consumed with sensual

Passions

III. Concerning his Journey, taken for the sake of his Educa-

tion, and the purpose of his Parents

IV. He commits a Theft in company with his Companions

V. That no one sins without a Motive

VI. All Things, which under the semblance of good invite

to Vices, in God alone are to be found true and perfect

VII. He gives Thanks to God for the Forgiveness of his Sins,

and because he had been kept from many

VIII. He loved in his Theft the Companionship of Fellow-

sinners

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IX. A Contagious Thing is Bad Company

X. In God is all Good

Of the time he resided at Carthage, that is, from his seventeenth to his

nineteenth year, where, though he stayed for the sake of study, he

freely gave himself up to plays and infamous practices. Through

Cicero's "Hortensius" he is inflamed with the love of wisdom; which

he sought proudly, and so fell into the heresy of the Manichæans.

Their errors and follies he in passing attacks, and clearly discusses

questions concerning vicious excesses and true justice. Monica,

weeping profusely and continually for her son, is assured of his

future repentance by a dream which God sent her, and by the

answer of a holy bishop.

CHAP.

I. By the Love which he hunted after, he is taken

II. He loved to see Tragedies

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III. In the School of Rhetoric, he abhors the Deeds of the

"Subverters "

IV. The "Hortensius" of Cicero stimulated him with a Love

for Philosophy

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V. He turns against the Holy Scriptures, on account of their

Simplicity of Style

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VI. By the Manichæans, how he was ensnared

VII. The Doctrine of the Manichæans, to which he had given

his Adhesion, absurd

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58

VIII. He argues against the Manichæans, as to what Offences

are always detestable, and what are Crimes

IX. The Difference between Sins, and between the Judgment

of God and of Man respecting them

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X. The Follies of the Manichæans concerning the Fruits of

the Earth

XI. His Mother's Tears, and her Dream about her Son

XII. What Answer the Mother of Augustine received from a

certain Bishop concerning his Conversion

His shame at having been a Manichæan from nineteen to eight-and-

twenty, and because he had drawn others into the same error; also

that he had consulted astrologers: meanwhile his friend was

snatched away by death, whereupon he gave way to inordinate

grief; he relates his remarkable conversion and death; of vain and

solid friendship, and of the shortness and changeableness of all

earthly things, he treats at some length; he makes mention of his

books on "the Beautiful and Fitting" written by him in his twenty

sixth or seventh year; also how easily he by himself gained a know-

ledge of the liberal sciences, and of the "Categories" of Aristotle.

CHAP.

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I. How long a Time, and in what Manner, he deceived

others

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II. He teaches Rhetoric; lives in Concubinage; and scorns

a Wizard who promised him Success

71

III. From Astrology, to which he was devoted, by an old and

learned Physician he was dissuaded

IV. The Illness and Baptism of a Friend is related, one

involved in the same Errors as himself; he grieves

most bitterly over his Death. The wonderful Efficacy

of the Sacrament of Baptism

V. Why Weeping is sweet to the Miserable

VI. How great his Sorrow from the Death of his Friend

VII. Through Impatience of Sorrow he leaves his Place

VIII. Time and Companionship allayed his Sorrow

IX. Concerning human Friendship. Blessed is he who loves

in God

in them

X. Creatures are perishable, and the Soul cannot find rest

XI. All created Things are unstable, God alone abiding

XII. Love is not condemned; only in the Things which please

us, let God be loved

XIII. Whence Love originates

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CHAP.

XIV. The Books concerning the "Fair and the Fit" are dedi-

cated to Hierius. What led to his loving him .

XV. Being blinded by Corporeal Images, he was incapable of

grasping Spiritual Things

XVI. He could without Assistance understand the Categories

of Aristotle, and the Liberal Arts

BOOK V.

He describes his twenty-ninth year, in which, having discerned the

ignorance of Faustus, a Manichæan, in those things in which

they boasted that they possessed divine knowledge, he was led to

entertain the idea of going no further in that sect. He is guided by

the Providence of God to Rome, where he taught rhetoric, and

thence to Milan, where he was occupied in the same way. There

he heard S. Ambrose, and began to repent, and having abjured

Manichæism, he determined again to become a Catechumen in the

Catholic Church.

II. That the Wicked, as they cannot escape the Presence of

God, ought to be converted to Him

III. Concerning Faustus, the Manichæan, and the Blindness

of Philosophers, who through Creatures discerned not

the Creator

IV. The Knowledge of God alone gives Happiness

V. The Ignorance of Manichæus concerning the Stars,

showed him to be untrustworthy in other Things

105

VI. Faustus was eloquent, but ignorant of the Liberal

Sciences

107

VII. He abjures the Manichæan Sect

109

VIII. He sets out for Rome, against his Mother's wish

III

IX. Taken with a Fever, he became dangerously ill

114

X. His erroneous Opinions before the Time that he accepted

the Doctrine of the Gospel

XI. How Augustine conferred with the Catholics

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XII. The Fraud of Students at Rome against their Tutors

XIII. Intending to teach Rhetoric, he is sent to Milan; he is

kindly received by Ambrose

XIV. Through hearing Ambrose, he is gradually recovered

from his Errors

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BOOK VI.

The arrival of his mother Monica ; her pious obedience to S.

Ambrose; Ambrose's habits and manner of life; Augustine's

thirtieth year, he attends the sermons of Ambrose, and understands

more clearly that Catholic doctrine had been falsely blamed by the

Manichæans; yet he does not arrive at the nature and advantages

of faith. The character of his friend Alypius. Augustine is

drawn in different directions, whilst he deliberates on amending

his life; he is struck with the fear of death and judgment, and is

daily inflamed with the desire for conversion of life.

I. Augustine neither a Manichæan nor a Catholic

II. Feasts and Communion at the Tombs of the Martyrs

III. Employments and Studies of Ambrose

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130

IV. He understands the Doctrine of the Church through the

Preaching of Ambrose

132

V. Of the Authority of the Holy Scriptures, and their neces-

sary use

134

VI. Of the Misery of the Ambitious, brought to his Mind by

the sight of a poor blithesome Beggar

136

VII. He reclaims Alypius from his Passion for the Circensian

Games

VIII. Alypius is caught with a Passion for the Gladiatorial

Games, which before he abhorred

IX. Alypius is apprehended as a Thief

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X. Concerning the Integrity of Alypius, and the Arrival of

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XI. Augustine, in an anxious State of Mind, deliberates as to

his future Course of Life