Saint Augustines confessions translated: and with some marginall notes illustrated. Wherein, diuers antiquities are explayned; and the marginall notes of a former Popish translation, answered. By William Watts, rector of St. Albanes, Woodstreete
About this Item
Title
Saint Augustines confessions translated: and with some marginall notes illustrated. Wherein, diuers antiquities are explayned; and the marginall notes of a former Popish translation, answered. By William Watts, rector of St. Albanes, Woodstreete
Author
Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo.
Publication
London :: Printed by Iohn Norton, for Iohn Partridge: and are to be sold at the signe of the Sunne in Pauls Church-yard,
1631.
Rights/Permissions
To the extent possible under law, the Text Creation Partnership has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above, according to the terms of the CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). This waiver does not extend to any page images or other supplementary files associated with this work, which may be protected by copyright or other license restrictions. Please go to http://www.textcreationpartnership.org/ for more information.
Subject terms
Augustine, -- Saint, Bishop of Hippo.
Link to this Item
http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A22627.0001.001
Cite this Item
"Saint Augustines confessions translated: and with some marginall notes illustrated. Wherein, diuers antiquities are explayned; and the marginall notes of a former Popish translation, answered. By William Watts, rector of St. Albanes, Woodstreete." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A22627.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 12, 2024.
Pages
descriptionPage 385
CHAP. 12. All that is, is good.
1. ANd manifested unto me it was, that even those things bee good, which yet are corruptible; which, were they soveraignely good, could never be corrupted: because if sove∣raignely good they were, they must needes bee incorruptible: and if they held no goodnesse in them at all, neither should they have any thing in them to bee corrupted. For corruption hurts every thing, but unlesse it could diminish their goodnes, it could not hurt. Either therefore cor∣ruption does at all no hurt (which cannot be;) or, which is most certaine, all which is cor∣rupted, is deptived of its good∣nesse. If things then shall bee deprived of all their goodnesse, they shall have at all no being.
descriptionPage 386
For if they shall still bee, and shall not bee at all corrupted, they shall thereby become bet∣ter, because they remaine ever incorruptibly.
2. What more absurd now, than to affirme those things that have lost all their goodnesse, to be made the better by it? Ther∣fore, whenever they shall be de∣prived of all their goodnesse, they shall also lose all their being. So long therefore as they are, they are good: therefore whatsoever are, are good. That Evill then which I sought, whence it should be, is not any substance: for were it a substance, it should be good. For either it should be an incorruptible substance, that is to say, of the chiefe sorts of good; or else should it bee some corruptible substance; which unlesse it were some way or o∣ther good, it could not be cor∣rupted. I perceived therefore, and it was made plaine unto me,
descriptionPage 387
that all things are good which thou hast made: nor is there a∣ny substance at all, which thou hast not made. And for that all which thou hast made are not equall, therefore are they all good in generall, because all good in particular, and all toge∣ther very good, because thou our God hast made all things very* 1.1good.