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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CHAP. 31. How God is knowne, and how the creature.
1. O Lord my God, what bosome of thy deepe secretes is that, and how farre from it haue the a 1.1 con∣sequences of my transgres∣sions cast mee? O cure mine eyes, that I may take ioy in thy light. Certaynly if there be any mind excelling with such eminent vnder∣standing and foreknowledge, as to knowe all things past and to come, so well as I knew that one Song; true∣ly that is a most admirable minde, able with horror to amaze a man. For where is that Hee, from whom nothing done eyther in the former, or to bee done in
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the after-ages of the world, is no more concealed, then that song was to mee when∣as I sang it; namely, what and how much of it I had sung from the beginning, what, and how much there was yet vnto the ending? But farre bee it from vs to thinke, that thou the Creator of this Vniuerse, the Creator of both soules and bodies; farre bee i•• from vs to thinke, that thou shouldest no better know what were passed, and what were to come. Farre, yea farre more won∣derfully, and farre more se∣cretly, doest thou know them. For tis not, as when at the note of the singer, or the well-knowne song of the hearer, through expectation of the words to come, and the remem∣bring of those that are
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passed, the affection of the parties bee diuersely stirred, and their Sences strayned vp to it; that there can in like manner any thing chance vn∣to thee that art vnchangea∣bly Eternall; that is, the Eternall Creator of Soules. Like as therefore thou in the beginning knewest the hea∣uen and the earth, without any variety of thy know∣ledge; euen so didst thou in the beginning create hea∣uen and earth, without any distinction of thy acti∣on. Let him that vnder∣standeth it, confesse vnto thee: and let him that vnder∣standeth it not, confesse vnto thee also. Oh how high art thou? and yet the humble in heart are the house that thou dwellest in: For thou vayself* 1.2vvthose that are bowed down: and neuer can they fall, whose strength thou art.
Notes
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Conse∣quentia. which are not ill ha∣bits and customes of sinne, as the other Translater notes.