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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London :: Printed by Iohn Norton, for Iohn Partridge: and are to be sold at the signe of the Sunne in Pauls Church-yard,
1631.
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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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A22627.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 13, 2024.

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CHAP. 39. Of Selfe loue.

1. THere is yet another pi∣uie disease in the same kinde of temptation, where with such people puffe them¦selues vp, as take pleasure in themselues, howeuer other be pleased or displeased; 〈◊〉〈◊〉 in the regarding to please 〈◊〉〈◊〉 okes. These may please them∣selues; but thee doe they dis|

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please highly: not onely for pleasing themselues in things not good, as if they were good; but also for so doing in thy gifts as if they were their owne: or if as thine, yet as giuen them for their owne merits: or, if also as proceeding from thy meere grace, and not their de∣seruings; yet not as neyghbor∣ly reioycing, but as enuying others for it. In all these perils and trauels, and others of the like kind, thou seest, O Lord, a trembling of my heart: yea and I well feele my wounds to be by thy selfe rather cured in mee, then not inflicted vpon me.

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