The Confessions of S. Augustine: Revised from a Former TranslationJohn Henry Parker, 1840 - 363 pages |
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Alypius Arians Augustine Baptism behold believe Bishop body called Carthage Catechumen Catholic Christ Christian Church concupiscence CONF confess unto Thee corporeal corrupted created creature dæmons darkness delighted desire Divine doctrine Donatists dost doth E. B. PUSEY eternal evil Exeter Coll eyes faith Father Faust fear flesh formless hadst hath hear heart heaven and earth heresy J. H. NEWMAN John knew knoweth lest light live Lord Manes Manichæan Manichees matter memory mind nature Oriel pass Pelagians pleasure praise present received saith seek sense shew Simplicianus sins sorrow soul sound spake speak Spirit substance Thine things Thou art Thou hast Thou madest thought Thy mercy Thy Word Thyself tism Trinity true truth Victorinus voice Vulg wert whence whereby wherein whereof whither whole wisdom Zoroaster
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Page 129 - This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them; and their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
Page 91 - He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much. If, therefore, ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches ? And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man's, who shall give you that which is your own?
Page 297 - Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
Page 112 - Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
Page 154 - But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believed on him were to receive : for the Spirit was not yet given ; because Jesus was not yet glorified.
Page 115 - Praise the Lord from the earth, ye dragons and all deeps. Fire and hail, snow and vapour, stormy wind fulfilling his word. Mountains and all hills, fruitful trees and all cedars. Beasts and all cattle, creeping things, and flying fowls. Kings of the earth, and all people ; princes, and all judges of the earth. Both young men and maidens, old men and children. Let them praise the name of the Lord : for his name alone is excellent, his glory is above the earth and heaven.
Page vi - Then the LORD opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand: and he bowed down his head, and fell flat on his face.
Page 178 - I am not He;" and whatsoever are in it, confessed the same. I asked the sea and the deeps, and the living creeping things, and they answered, "We are not thy God, seek above us." I asked the moving air; and the whole air with its inhabitants answered, "Anaximenes was deceived, I am not God.
Page 123 - He hath made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him
Page 297 - Now, ye Philippians, know also that in the beginning of the Gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church communicated with me as concerning giving and receiving, but ye only. For even in Thessalonica ye sent once and again unto my necessity.