The Confessions of Saint Augustine by Saint Augustine

Author:Saint Augustine
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Religion, Christianity, Classic Literature, Catholic
ISBN: 9780989312035
Publisher: Christian Image Publications
Published: 2010-12-31T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter IV

Now was the day come wherein I was in deed to be freed of my Rhetoric Professorship, whereof in thought I was already freed. And it was done.

Thou didst rescue my tongue, whence Thou hadst before rescued my heart.

And I blessed Thee, rejoicing; retiring with all mine to the villa.

What I there did in writing, which was now enlisted in Thy service, though still, in this breathing-time as it were, panting from the school of pride, my books may witness, as well what I debated with others, as what with myself alone, before Thee: what with Nebridius, who was absent, my Epistles bear witness. And when shall I have time to rehearse all Thy great benefits towards us at that time, especially when hasting on to yet greater mercies? For my remembrance recalls me, and pleasant is it to me, O Lord, to confess to Thee, by what inward goads Thou tamedst me; and how Thou hast evened me, lowering the mountains and hills of my high imaginations, straightening my crookedness, and smoothing my rough ways; and how Thou also subduedst the brother of my heart, Alypius, unto the name of Thy Only Begotten, our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, which he would not at first vouchsafe to have inserted in our writings. For rather would he have them savour of the lofty cedars of the Schools, which the Lord hath now broken down, than of the wholesome herbs of the Church, the antidote against serpents.

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