The meditations, soliloquia and manuall of the glorious doctour S. Augustine translated into English.

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The meditations, soliloquia and manuall of the glorious doctour S. Augustine translated into English.
Author
Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo.
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Paris :: Printed by Mrs. Blagaert,
1655.
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Theology -- Early works to 1800.
Theology -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600.
Spiritual life.
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"The meditations, soliloquia and manuall of the glorious doctour S. Augustine translated into English." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A26212.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 6, 2024.

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THE FIRST CHAPTER. Of the wonderfull essence of God.

THov O Lord, dost fill heauen & earth; carrying all things, and yet they are no burthen to thee. Thou fillest all thinges, with∣out being shut vp by them. Thou art euer working, yet euer quiet; ga∣thering togeather, yet thou needest nothing; seeking, yet wanting no∣thing; louing, yet without passion; iealous, yet without feare. Thou repentest, yet thou art not sory; thou art angry, yet thou art not moued;

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thou changest thy workes, yet thou dost not change thy decree. Thou takest what thou findest, yet thou dist neuer loose any thing; thou art not poore, and yet thou exactest vsu∣ry at our hands; thou payest them, to whom thou owest nothing; and we are enabled by thee, to pay thee more then we owe thee, and yet who hath any thing, but of thy guift? Thou payest thy debtes, and yet thou owest nothing; thou releasest our debtes, and yet thou loosest nothing; thou art euery where, and yet altogether; thou canst be felt, and yet thou canst not be seene; thou art no where ab∣sent, and yet thou art farre from the harts of wicked men. For thou art not absent euen when thou art farre off, because where thou art not by grace, thou art by reuenge; thou art present euery where, and yet we can hardly find thee out; we follow thee who art standing still, and yet we are not able to lay hold on thee; thou contaynest all things, thou fil∣lest all thinges, thou imbracest all thinges, thou exceedest all thinges, and thou sustainest all thinges. Thou

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instructest the hartes of thy faythfull seruants, without noyse of wordes, thou art not extended in place, thou art not varied by time, nor hast thou any commings, or goinges; thou dost inhabite that inaccessible light which no eye of man hath seene, or can see. Reposing all quiet in thy selfe, thou goest euery where about all thinges; for thou canst not be deuided, or cut, because thou art truely one, nor dost thou impart thy selfe by parts, but all that which thou art, holdeth all thinges, filleth all things, illustrateth & possesseth all things.

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