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

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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

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Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo.

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Contents

• engraved title page
• title page
• TO THE NO∣ble and Religious Lady, the Lady Eliza∣beth Hare, Wife to the Honourable Sir Iohn Hare of Srow in Norff. and daughter to the Right Honourable Tho∣mas Lord Couentry, Lord Keeper of the great Seale, &c.
• To the deuout Reader,
• St. Augustines owne testimony of this Booke, taken out of his Retractations.
• SAINT AVGVSTINES Confessions. THE FIRST BOOKE.
  • CHAP. 1. admires Gods Majesty, and is inflamed with a deepe desire of praising him.
  • CHAP. 2. Man hath his being from God; and that God is in Man, and Man in God.
  • CHAP. 3. od is wholly every where, and is by parts contained by the Creature.
  • CHAP. 4. An admirable description of Gods Attributes.
  • CHAP. 5. He prayes for forgivenesse of sinnes, and the love of God.
  • CHAP. 6. That he hath received all bles∣sings from God: and how hee hath beene preserved by him.
  • CHAP. 7. That even his Infancy was sub∣ject to sinne.
  • CHAP. 8. A description of his Childhood.
  • CHAP. 9. The hatred that children beare to Learning, and their love to playing.
  • CHAP. 10. How for his play he neglected his parents commandements.
  • CHAP. 11. How he fell sicke, and how re∣covering, his Baptisme was deferred.
  • CHAP. 12. He is forced to his Booke: which God turned to good purpose.
  • CHAP. 13. With what studies he was chief∣ly delighted.
  • CHAP. 14. Of the Greeke and Latine tongues.
  • CHAP. 15. His Prayer to God.
  • CHAP. 16. Against lascivious fables.
  • CHAP. 17. The way of exercising youth in repeating and varying of ver∣ses.
  • CHAP. 18. That men care more to observe the Rules of Grammar, than the Lawes of God.
  • CHAP. 19. How he was more carefull to a∣void barbarisme of speech, than corruption of manners.
  • CHAP. 20. He thanketh God for his Bene∣fits.
• SAINT AVGVSTINES Confessions. THE SECOND BOOKE.
  • CHAP. 1. Hee enters upon the yeeres and sinnes of his Youth.
  • CHAP. 2. He accuseth his Youth spent in the heat of lustfulnesse.
  • CHAP. 3. Of his travayle for his studyes sake, and his Parents purpose in it.
  • CHAP. 4. How he robbed a Peare-tree.
  • CHAP. 5. No man sinneth, but provoked by some cause.
  • CHAP. 6. All those things which under the shew of good, invite us unto sin, are in God alone to bee found true and perfect.
  • CHAP. 7. He returnes thankes to God for remitting these sinnes, and for keeping him from many other.
  • CHAP. 8. What hee loved in that his theft.
  • CHAP. 9. Bad company is infectious.
  • CHAP. 10. Whatsoever is good, is in God.
• SAINT AVGVSTINES Confessions. THE THIRD BOOKE.
  • CHAP. 1. He is caught with love, which he hunted after.
  • CHAP. 2. Of Stage-playes.
  • CHAP. 3. His conversation with young Lawyers.
  • CHAP. 4. How Tullies Hortensuis provokt him to study Philosophie.
  • CHAP. 5. Hee sets lightly by the Holy Scriptures because of the sim∣plicity of the stile.
  • CHAP. 6. How hee was insnared by the Manichees.
  • CHAP. 7. The absurd doctrine of the Ma∣nichees.
  • CHAP. 8. Heynous offences what be, and how punished.
  • CHAP. 9. The difference that is betwixt sins, and betwixt the judge∣ment of God and men.
  • CHAP. 10. Hee speakes againe of the Fig∣tree: and derides the Mani∣chees foolish conceits about it.
  • CHAP. 11. His mothers Dreame.
  • CHAP. 12. The answer his mother received from a Bishop, concerning his conversion.
• SAINT AVGVSTINES Confessions. THE FOVRTH BOOKE.
  • CHAP. 1. How long, and what wayes hee seduced others.
  • CHAP. 2. Hee teaches Rhetoricke, and despiseth a wizard who pro∣mised him the victory.
  • CHAP. 3. Giving himselfe to Astrologie, he is reclaimed by an ancient Physician.
  • CHAP. 4. He relates the sicknesse and bap∣tisme of his Friend, whom himselfe had infected with heresie: he grievously laments his death.
  • CHAP. 5. Of teares in our prayers for, and bewailing of, the thing belo∣ved.
  • CHAP. 6. He tels with what great affecti∣on he loved his friend.
  • CHAP. 7. The impatientnesse of griefe con∣straines us to shift our dwel∣lings.
  • CHAP. 8. Time cures Sorrow,
  • CHAP. 9. The comparing of humane friend∣ship with divine.
  • CHAP. 10. All beauty is from God, who is to be praysed for all.
  • CHAP. 11. All things are created muta∣ble in themselves, and immu∣table in God.
  • CHAP. 12. Love of the creatures is not for∣bidden, provided that in those which please us, God bee lo∣ved.
  • CHAP. 13. Love whence it comes.
  • CHAP. 14. Of his booke of Faire and Fit.
  • CHAP. 15. How his understanding being overshadowed with corpore∣all Images, hee could not dis∣cerne the spirituall.
  • CHAP. 16. The admirable aptnesse to Lear∣ning, and the great under∣standing S. Augustine had.
• SAINT AVGVSTINES Confessions. THE FIFTH BOOKE.
  • CHAP. 1. Hee stirres up his owne soule to praise God.
  • CHAP. 2. Gods presence can no man a∣void, seeing he is every where.
  • CHAP. 3. Of Faustus the Manichee: and of Astrologie.
  • CHAP. 4. Onely the knowledge of GOD makes happy.
  • CHAP. 5. The rashnesse of Faustus, in tea∣ching what he know not.
  • CHAP. 6. Faustus was eloquent by nature, rather than by Art.
  • CHAP. 7. He fals off from the Manichees.
  • CHAP. 8. He takes a voyage to Rome, a∣gainst the will of his Mother.
  • CHAP. 9. Of a shrewd fever that hee fell into.
  • CHAP. 10. His errours before his receiving of the Doctrine of the Gos∣pell.
  • CHAP. 11. How bee compared the Mani∣chees Tenents with the Ca∣tholikes.
  • CHAP. 12. The cunning tricks put at Rome by Schollers upon their Ma∣sters.
  • CHAP. 13. He goes to Millan to teach Rhe∣toricke, and how S. Ambrose there entertaines him.
  • CHAP. 14. Ʋpon his hearing of Saint Am∣brose, he by little and little fals off from his errours.
• SAINT AVGVSTINES Confessions. THE SIXTH BOOKE.
  • CHAP. 1. How S. Augustine was neither Manichee, nor good Catho∣like.
  • CHAP. 2. His Mother is turned from her Countrey Superstition.
  • CHAP. 3. The employments and studies of S. Ambrose.
  • CHAP. 4. Of the Letter and the Spirit.
  • CHAP. 5. Of the Authority and necessary vse of the holy Bible.
  • CHAP. 6. The misery of the Ambitious: shewne by the example of a Beggar.
  • CHAP. 7. He disswades Alipius from his excessive delight in the Cir∣censian games.
  • CHAP. 8. Alipius is taken with a delight of the Sword-plaies, which before he hated.
  • CHAP. 9. Alipius was apprehended for suspicion of thee very.
  • CHAP. 10. Of the great integrity of Alipi∣us, and of Nebridius com∣ming.
  • CHAP. 11. Hee deliberates what course of life he were best to take.
  • CHAP. 12. A Contention betwixt Alipius and Augustine, about Mar∣riage and single life.
  • CHAP. 13. Augustine layes out for a Wife.
  • CHAP. 14. A new Plot laid and broken.
  • CHAP. 15. His old Concubine goes away from him, and he gets another.
  • CHAP. 16. Of the immortality of the soule.
• SAINT AVGVSTINES Confessions. THE SEVENTH BOOKT.
  • CHAP. 1. How rejecting corporeall Ima∣ges, he began to know God to be incorporeall.
  • CHAP. 2. Nebridius confutes the Mani∣chees.
  • CHAP. 3. Free will is the cause of Sinne.
  • CHAP. 4. God cannot be compelled.
  • CHAP. 5. Hee pursues his enquirie after the root of sinne.
  • CHAP. 6. Divinations made by the Ma∣thematicians, are vaine.
  • CHAP. 7. He is miserably tortured in his enquirie after the Root of E∣vill.
  • CHAP. 8. How the mercy of God at length relieved him.
  • CHAP. 9. What he found in some Bookes of the Platonists, agreeable to the Christian Doctrine.
  • CHAP. 10. Divine things are more cleere∣ly discovered unto him.
  • CHAP. 11. How the Creatures are, and yet are not.
  • CHAP. 12. All that is, is good.
  • CHAP. 13. All created things praise God.
  • CHAP. 14. To a sober minde, none of Gods Creatures are displeasing.
  • CHAP. 15. How there is truth and falshood in the Creatures.
  • CHAP. 16. All things are good, though to some things not fit.
  • CHAP. 17. What things hinder us of Gods knowledge.
  • CHAP. 18. Onely Christ is the way to Sal∣vation.
  • CHAP. 19. What he thought of Christs in∣carnation.
  • CHAP. 20. Of divers Bookes of the Plato∣nists.
  • CHAP. 21. What he found in the holy Scri∣ptures, which was not in the Platonists.
• SAINT AVGVSTINES Confessions. THE EIGHTH BOOKE.
  • CHAP. 1. How being inflamed with the love of heavenly things, hee goeth to Simplicianus.
  • CHAP. 2. How Victorinus, the famous Orator, was converted.
  • CHAP. 3. That God and his Angels doe rejoyce the more, at the con∣version of a greater sinner.
  • CHAP. 4. Why wee are more to rejoyce in the conversion of a great sin∣ner.
  • CHAP. 5. What hindered his conversion.
  • CHAP. 6. Pontitianus relates the life of St. Anthony.
  • CHAP. 7. He was out of love with him∣selfe upon this story.
  • CHAP. 8. What he did in the Garden.
  • CHAP. 9. Why the soule is so slow to good∣nesse.
  • CHAP. 10. The will of man is various.
  • CHAP. 11. The combat in him betwixt the Spirit and the flesh.
  • CHAP. 12. How hee was converted by a Voyce.
• SAINT AVGVSTINES Confessions. THE NINTH BOOKE.
  • CHAP. 1. Hee praiseth Gods goodnesse; and acknowledgeth his owne wretchednesse.
  • CHAP. 2. Hee gives over his teaching of Rhetoricke.
  • CHAP. 3. Verecundus lends them his Countrey-house.
  • CHAP. 4. What things he wrote with Ne∣bridius.
  • CHAP. 5. Ambrose directs him what bookes to read.
  • CHAP. 6. He is baptized at Millane.
  • CHAP. 7. A persecution in the Church miraculously diuerted.
  • CHAP. 8. The Conuersion of Euodius. A discourse of his Mother.
  • CHAP. 9. His mother Monica'es carri∣age towards her husband. A description of a rare wife.
  • CHAP. 10. Of a confernce had with his mother, about the Kingdome of Heauen.
  • CHAP. 11. Of the extasie and death of his Mother.
  • CHAP. 12. He laments his mothers death.
  • CHAP. 13. Hee prayeth for his dead mo∣ther.
• Saint Agustines Confessions. The tenth Booke.
  • CHAP. 1. The Confessions of the heart.
  • CHAP. 2. Secret things are knowne to God.
  • CHAP. 3. The Confession of our ill deeds, what it helpes vs.
  • CHAP. 4. Of the great fruite of Con∣fession.
  • CHAP. 5. That man knoweth not him∣selfe throughly: and knowes not God but in a glasse darkely.
  • CHAP. 6. What God is, and how knowne.
  • CHAP. 7. God is not to bee found by any ability in our bodies.
  • CHAP. 8. The force of the Memory.
  • CHAP. 9. The memory of diuers Sci∣ences.
  • CHAP. 10. Our Sences conueigh things vnto our memory.
  • CHAP. 11. The Species of things are in the soule.
  • CHAP. 12. The Memory of Mathema∣ticians.
  • CHAP. 13. The Memory of Affections.
  • CHAP. 14. How, when we are not glad, wee call to mind things that haue made vs glad.
  • CHAP. 15. Wee remember absent things also.
  • CHAP. 16. There is a memory of forget∣fulnesse also.
  • CHAP. 17. A threefold power of me∣mory.
  • CHAP. 18. Of the Remembrance.
  • CHAP. 19. What Remembrance is.
  • CHAP. 20. All men desire blessednesse.
  • CHAP. 21. We also remember, what we ne∣uer had.
  • CHAP. 22. True ioy, is this blessed life.
  • CHAP. 23. Ablessed life what, and where it is.
  • CHAP. 24. That the memory containeth God too.
  • CHAP. 25. In what degree of the memory God is found.
  • CHAP. 26. Whereabouts God is to bee found.
  • CHAP. 27. How God drawes vs to him∣selfe.
  • CHAP. 28. The misery of this life.
  • CHAP. 29. Cur hope is all in God.
  • CHAP. 30. The deceitfulnesse of dreames.
  • CHAP. 31. The temptation of eating and drinking.
  • CHAP. 32. Of our delight in smelling.
  • CHAP. 33. The pleasures taken in hea∣ring.
  • CHAP. 34. The euticements comming in by the eyes.
  • CHAP. 35. Of our Curiosity in know∣ing.
  • CHAP. 36. The sinne of Pride.
  • CHAP. 37. Prayse and dispraise, how they moue vs.
  • CHAP. 38. Vertue is endangered by Vaine glory.
  • CHAP. 39. Of Selfe loue.
  • CHAP. 40. His striuing against sinne.
  • CHAP. 41. God and a lye cannot stand to¦gether.
  • CHAP. 42. Angels cannot bee our Me∣diators.
  • CHAP. 43. Christ onely in the all-sufficient Intercessor.
• Saint Augustines Confessions. The eleuenth Booke.
  • CHAP. 1. Why we confesse vnto God who knowes all.
  • CHAP. 2. He sueth to be deliuered from his sinnes and errors, and to bee guided vnto the true knowledge.
  • CHAP. 3. Hee desires to vnderstand the holy Scriptures.
  • CHAP. 4. The Creatures proclayme God to bee their Creator.
  • CHAP. 5. How the world was made of nothing.
  • CHAP. 6. He disputes curiously, what manner of Word, the World was created by.
  • CHAP. 7. The Sonne of God is the Word coeternall with the Father.
  • CHAP. 8. The Word of God is our tea∣cher in all.
  • CHAP. 9. How the Word of God speaketh vnto the heart.
  • CHAP. 10. Gods Will knows no beginning.
  • CHAP. 11. Gods eternity not to be measu∣red by the parts of time.
  • CHAP. 12. What God did before the Crea∣tion of the world.
  • CHAP. 13. That before those times which God created, there was no time.
  • CHAP. 14. Of the nature and three diffe∣rences of time.
  • CHAP. 15. No time can bee sayd to bee long.
  • CHAP. 16. Of our measuring of times.
  • CHAP. 17. Where time past, and to come now are.
  • CHAP. 18. How times passed, & to come, be now present.
  • CHAP. 19. Hee demands of God, how Future things bee fore∣knowne.
  • CHAP. 20. These three differences of times how they are to bee called.
  • CHAP. 21. How time may bee measu∣red.
  • CHAP. 22. He begs of God the resulution of a difficulty.
  • CHAP. 23. Hee cleares this question, what Time is.
  • CHAP. 24. Time is it, by which wee measure the motion of bodies.
  • CHAP. 25. He prayeth againe.
  • CHAP. 26. The measuring of the feete, and syllables of a verse.
  • CHAP. 27. Hee beginnes to resolue the former question, How wee measure time.
  • CHAP. 28. Wee measure times in our mind.
  • CHAP. 29. How the mind lengthens out it selfe.
  • CHAP. 30. Hee goes on in the same dis∣course.
  • CHAP. 31. How God is knowne, and how the creature.
• Saint Augustines Confessions. The twelfth Booke.
  • CHAP. 1. Tis very difficult to finde out the truth.
  • CHAP. 2. That the heauen we see is but earth, in respect of the hea∣uen of heauens, which wee see not.
  • CHAP. 3. Of the darknesse vpon the face of the Deepe.
  • CHAP. 4. Of the Chaos, and what Mo∣ses called it.
  • CHAP. 5. That this Chaos is hard to conceiue.
  • CHAP. 6. What himselfe sometimes thought of it.
  • CHAP. 7. Heauen is greater then Earth.
  • CHAP. 8. The Chaos was created out of nothing, and out of that, all things.
  • CHAP. 9. What that Heauen of heauens is.
  • CHAP. 10. His desire to vnderstand the Scriptures.
  • CHAP. 11. What he learnt of God.
  • CHAP. 12. Of two creatures not within compasso of time.
  • CHAP. 13. The nature of the Heauen of heauens described.
  • CHAP. 14. The depth of holy Scripture.
  • CHAP. 15. The difference betwixt - the Creator and the creatures. Some discourses about the Heauen of Heauens.
  • CHAP. 16. Against such as contradict diuine truth: and of his owne delight in it.
  • CHAP. 17. What the names of Heauen and Earth signifie.
  • CHAP. 18. Diuers Expositors may vn∣derstand one Text, seuerall wayes.
  • CHAP. 19. Of some particular apparent truthes.
  • CHAP. 20. He interprets Gen. 1. 1. other∣wise.
  • CHAP. 21. These words, The Earth was voyd, &c. diuersly vnder∣stood.
  • CHAP. 22. That the waters are also con∣tayned vnder the names of Heauen and Earth.
  • CHAP. 23. In interpreting of holy Scrip∣ture, truth is to be sought with a charitable construction.
  • CHAP. 24. The Scripture is true, though we vnderstand not the vt∣termost scope or depth of it.
  • CHAP. 25. We are not to breake charity a∣bout a different Exposition of Scripture.
  • CHAP. 26. was fit to write the Scriptures in.
  • CHAP. 27. Tis best drawing at the Foun∣taine.
  • CHAP. 28. How diuersly this Scripture is vnderstood by others.
  • CHAP. 29. How many wayes a thing may be sayd to be first.
  • CHAP. 30. The Scriptures are to be sear∣ched, with honourable re∣spect vnto the Penman.
  • CHAP. 31. Truth is to be receiued, who∣euer speakes it.
  • CHAP. 32. He prayes to obtaine the right meaning.
• Saint Augustines Con∣fessions. The Thirteenth Booke.
  • CHAP. 1: He calleth vpon God.
  • CHAP. 2. Of the creatures dependancy vpon their Creator.
  • CHAP. 3. All is of the grace of Gods.
  • CHAP. 4. God needs not the Creatures, but they him.
  • CHAP. 5. His Confession of the blessed Trinity.
  • CHAP. 6. Of the Spirits mouing vpon the waters.
  • CHAP. 7. Of the effect or working of the Holy Ghost.
  • CHAP. 8. How Gods Spirit cherisheth feeble soules.
  • CHAP. 9. Why the Spirit onely moued vpon the waters.
  • CHAP. 10. All is of Gods gift.
  • CHAP. 11. Of some Impressions or resem∣blances of the blessed Trini∣ty, that be in man.
  • CHAP. 12. The water in Baptisme is ef∣fectuall by the Holy Spi∣rit.
  • CHAP. 13. His deuout longing after God.
  • CHAP. 14. Our misery is comforted by faith and Hope.
  • CHAP. 15. By the word Firmament, is the Scripture meant.
  • CHAP. 16. God is vnchangeable.
  • CHAP. 17. What is meant by dry land, and by the Sea.
  • CHAP. 18. He continues his Allegory, in alluding to the workes of the Creation.
  • CHAP. 19. Our hearts are to be purged from vice, that they may be capable of vertue. He still con∣tinues his Allegory of the creation.
  • CHAP. 20. He allegorizes vpon the crea∣tion of spirituall things.
  • CHAP. 21. He allegorizes vpon the Crea∣tion of Birds and fishes; al∣luding by them vnto such as haue receiued the Lords sup∣per, are better taught and mortified, which are perfecter Christians then the meerly baptized.
  • CHAP. 22. Of Regeneration by the Spirit He allegorizes vpon the Creation of man.
  • CHAP. 23 Of what things a Christian may iudge. He allegorizes vpon mans dominion ouer the creatures.
  • CHAP. 24. He allegorizes vpon Increase and multiply.
  • CHAP. 25. He allegorically compareth the Fruites of the Earth, vnto the duties of piety.
  • CHAP. 26. The pleasure and the profit redounding to vs, out of a turne done vnto our neyghbour.
  • CHAP. 27. He allegorizes vpon the Fishes and the Whales.
  • CHAP. 28. Very good, why added last of al?
  • CHAP. 29. Gods works are good for e∣uer.
  • CHAP. 30. Against those who dislike Gods workes.
  • CHAP. 31. The Godly allow that, which is pleasing to God.
  • CHAP. 32. He briefely summes vp the works of God.
  • CHAP. 33. How euery creature ought to prayse the Creator.
  • CHAP. 34. Of the order and various fruit of a Christian life.
  • CHAP. 35. He prayes for peace.
  • CHAP. 36. Why the seuenth day hath no euening.
  • CHAP. 37. When God shall rest in vs.
  • CHAP. 38. God be holds created things one way, and man another way.
• The order of the chiefe passages in these Confessions: Which may serue for a Table.
• Some of the more materiall faults escaped in the Printing.