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Title: The Confessions of St. Augustine
Author: Saint of Hippo Augustine
Translator: E. B. Pusey
Release date: June 1, 2002 [eBook #3296]
Most recently updated: May 5, 2023
Language: English
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THE CONFESSIONS OF SAINT AUGUSTINE
By Saint Augustine
Bishop of Hippo
Translated by E. B. Pusey (Edward Bouverie)
AD 401
BOOK I
Great art Thou, O Lord, and greatly to be praised; great is Thy power, and Thy wisdom infinite. And Thee would man praise; man, but a particle of Thy creation; man, that bears about him his mortality, the witness of his sin, the witness that Thou resistest the proud: yet would man praise
Thee; he, but a particle of Thy creation. Thou awakest us to delight in
Thy praise; for Thou madest us for Thyself, and our heart is restless, until it repose in Thee. Grant me, Lord,…