Preface

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Saint Augustine
~THE CONFESSIONS OF SAINT AUGUSTINE
_ TRANSLATED BY EDWARD B. PUSEY, D.D.
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’s mercies in infancy and boyhood, and human wilfulness; of his own sins of idleness, abuse of his studies, and of God’s gifts up to his fifteenth year.
Nes tn Ryley pede nang ih ape saat 27 ct of these Confessions. Further ills of idleness developed in his sixteenth year. Evils of ill society, which betrayed him into theft.
s residence at Carthage from his seventeenth to his nine- th year. Source of his disorders. Love of shows. Advance tudies, and love of wisdom. Distaste for Scripture. Led y to the Manichzans. Refutation of some of their tenets. ef of his mother Monnica at his heresy, and prayers for his conversion. Her vision from God, and answer through a Bishop.
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hee lhe Pe ope Meanie 49 ustine’s life from nineteen to eight and twenty; bn a
dience amidst vanity and sin; consulting Lagan only ally shaken herein: loss of an early friend, who is con-
al and unreal friendship, and love of fame; writes on “the fair and fit,” yet cannot rightly, since he entertained wrong no- 4 tions of God; and so even his knowledge he applied ill.
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wi ing the ignorance of the Manichees on those ce where- y professed to have divine knowledge. Augustine gives up ought of going further among the Manichees: is guided to
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Arrival of Monnica at Milan; her obedience to St. Ambrose, —
and his value for her; St. Ambrose’s habits; Augustine’s gradual
abandonment of error; finds that he has blamed the Church © Catholic wrongly; desire of absolute certainty, but struck with —
the contrary analogy of God’s natural providence; how shaken in his worldly pursuits; God’s guidance of his friend Alypius;
Augustine debates with himself and his friends about their mode _~
of life; his inveterate sins, and dread of judgment.