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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A22627	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; Confessiones. English	Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo.; Watts, William, 1590?-1649.	1631 (1631)	STC 912; ESTC S100303	327,312	1,035

prey by those flying spirits For by more waies than one is there sacrrifice offered to the collapsed Angels CHAP. 18. That men care more to observe the Rules of Grammar than the Lawes of God 1. BVt what wonder was it if I were thus carryed towards vanity and estranged from thee O my God wheneas such men were propounded to me to imitate who should they deliver any of their owne Acts though not evill with any Barbarisme or Soloecisme they were utterly dasht out of countenance but should they make a copious and neat Oration of their owne lusts in a round and well followed stile would take a pride to bee applauded for it These things thou seest O Lord long suffering and of much mercy and truth and thou keepest silence but wilt thou be silent for ever and forbeare to draw out of this horrible pit that soule that seeks after thee and that thirsts after thy pleasures whose heart saith unto thee I have sought thy face and thy face Lord will I seeke For I had straggled farre away from thy countenance in the mistynesse of my affections 2. For we neither goe nor returne from or to thee upon our feet or by distance of spaces or did that yonger brother seeke Post-horses or Waggons or Ships flye away with visible wings or take his journey by the motion of his hammes that living in a farre Countrey hee might prodigally waste that portion which thou hadst given him at his departure A sweet Father because thou gavest him his portion yet farre sweeter to the poore wretch returning for that he went from thee out of a voluptuous affection that is to say a darkned one and such that is which is farre from thy countenance Behold O Lord God and patiently behold as thou still doest how diligently the sonnes of men observe the Rules of letters and syllables received from former speakers and yet regard not the eternall covenants of everlasting salvation received from thy selfe Insomuch that he who either holds or teaches the ancient Rules of pronunciation if contrary to Grammar hee shall pronounce ominem that is a man without H in the first syllable he shall displease men more than if against thy Rules he should hate a man As if any man should thinke his enemy to be more pernicious to him than that hatred of his own is whereby he is set on against him or imagine that hee does worse skath to another man by persecuting him than he does to his own heart by contriving enmity against him 3. And certainely there is no other inward knowledge of Letters but this Law of Nature written in the conscience Not to doe to another what himselfe would not suffer How secret art thou O thou onely great God! which dwellest in the highest and in silence with an untyred destiny dispersing blindnesses for punishments upon unlawfull desires When a man affects the credit of Eloquence standing before a mortall Iudge a multitude of mortals standing about him inveighing against his Adversary with his fiercest hatred he takes heed most watchfully that his tongue trips not before men but takes no heed at all lest through the fury of his spirit he should destroy a man out of the society of men CHAP. 19. How he was more carefull to avoid barbarisme of speech than corruption of manners 1. IN the Road-way of these Customes lay I wretched Boy and upon that Stage I play'd my Prizes where I more feared to commit a barbarisme in speaking than I tooke care when I committed any not to envie those that committed none All this I declare and confesse to thee my God namely in what things I was by them applauded to please whom I then accounted equall to living honestly For I then discerned not that whirle-poole of filthinesse whereinto I was cast from thine eyes For in thine eyes what was more filthy than I where also I displeased such as my selfe with innumerable lyes deceiuing both my Tutor and Masters and Parents all for love of play out of a desire to see toyes and of imitating them with a ridiculous unrestfulnesse 2. Theevery also I committed out of my Fathers Buttery and Table eyther gluttony oft commanding mee or that I might have something to give my play-fellowes selling-mee their Babies with which they were as much delighted as my selfe In these play-games I being often over-matcht did with a vaine desire to be counted excellent aspire to winne though by foule play And what was I so unwilling to indure and what if I found out the deceipt would I so fiercely wrangle at as even those very trickes which I would put upon others and being my selfe taken with the manner I would rather fall flat out than yeeld to it 3. Is this that childish innocencie It is not LORD it is not LORD I cry thy mercie O my GOD for wranglings about Nuts and Balls and Birds are as much to boyes yet under their Tutors and Masters as the ill getting of Gold and Mannor Houses and Slaves is to Kings and to Governours But this Boyes-play passes over as more yeeres come on just as greater punishments follow after the Ferula Thou therefore O our King hast allowed of the Character of humility in the stature of Childehood when once thou saydest To such belongeth the Kingdome of God CHAP. 20. He thanketh God for his Benefits 1. BVt yet O Lord thankes had beene due to thee our God and most excellent Creator Governour of this Vniverse although thou hadst not beene pleased to have brought me any further than that age of Childhood For even then a Being I had yea Life and Senses even then had I a care of mine owne wel-being which is an impression of that most secret unity of thine whence I had my Being in my inward sense preserved I the intirenesse of my outward senses and in these slender faculties was I delighted with the truth of meane conceipts I would not willingly bee decerved a fresh memory I had in formes of speaking I was well tutored by friendly usage I was made tractable I avoyded all sadnesse dejectednesse and ignorance in such a little Creature what was there not admirable not commendable But all these are the gifts of my God for I bestowed them not upon my selfe Good endowments they were and all these was I. Good therefore is Hee that made me yea he is my God and to him I rejoyce for all my good gifts which of a Child I had But here was my oversight that I sought not my selfe and other pleasures honours and trueths in Him but in his Creatures and therefore rusht I my selfe upon sorrowes disorders and errours Thankes to thee my sweetnesse my honour my trust and my God Thankes to thee for all thy gifts but be pleased to preserve them still vnto me and thus shall my selfe bee preserved and thy Gifts shall be both increased and perfected yea and I shall be with thee for my being is of thy giving *