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earth_n	let_v	people_n	praise_v	12,053	5	10.9906	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75792	The life of S. Augustine. The first part Written by himself in the first ten books of his Confessions faithfully translated.; Confessiones. Liber 1-10. English	Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo.; R. H., 1609-1678.	1660 (1660)	Wing A4211; Thomason E1755_2; ESTC R208838	184,417	226

it He that knows truth knows this light and he that knows it knows eternity and Love knows it O eternal Truth and true Love and loving Eternity Thou art my God For thee I sigh day and night And when I first began to know thee thou elevatedst me that I might see that there was something which I might see but that I was not yet such as could see it For thy beames streaming vehemently upon me reverberated my weak sight and I stood trembling with love and fear And I found my self to be very remote from thee hearing thy voice as it were a farre off from on high I am the Meat of the strong Grow and thou shalt feed on me not that thou shalt convert me into thee as fleshly food but that thou shalt be converted into me And I knew that with rebuke thou correctest man for iniquity Psal 39.11 and madest my soul to consume away like a moth And I said is the Truth then nothing because it hath no extension finite or infinite in place And thou criedst out unto me as it were from a very farre off Yes surely and I am He that only am And I heard thee as men hear in the heart and it caused to cease in me all further doubt and I should rather question that I live than that there is not the Truth Which is clearly seen being understood by the things which are made CHAP. XI That the Creatures may be said in some sense to have in another not to have a Being ANd I beheld those things below thee and I saw them neither altogether truly to be nor altogether not to be To be indeed because they are from thee and yet not to be because that which thou art they be not Psal 73.28 and that only truly is which without change abides so To me therefore 't is good to adhere to God because if I shall not abide in thee neither can I in my self But thou Psal 15.2 vulg abiding in thy self makest all things anew and art my Lord who hast no need of me or my Good things CHAP. XII That all natures even the corruptible are good though not the supreme Good ANd it became clear to me that those things also are good which are subject to corruption which things neither could be corrupted if they were the supreme Good nor again could be corrupted unless they were good for * if they were the supreme good they would be incorruptible * if not good at all there would be nothing in them corruptible For corruption doth some hurt unto them and if it diminish no good in them it hurteth them not Either therefore corruption hurts them not at all which cannot be said or things corrupted are deprived of some good which is most certain But if they are deprived of all good they will no longer be at all For if they be still then when no further deprivable of good nor capable of further corruption something better they must be than before so corrupted because now they will subsist incorruptibly And what more monstrous and absurd than to say that things become better by the losse of all in them that is good Therefore what is deprived of all good absolutely ceaseth to be It follows then as long as they are that they are good and therefore whatever things are are good And consequently that evil which I so long sought whence it was is no substance for were it a substance it would be good and not evil good either incorruptible and so an excellent good or corruptible and so good because it may be corrupted Thus I saw and it was most manifest to me that thou madest all things good and that there were no substances at all which thou madest not And because thou hast not made all things equal therefore all things taken ●everally are good but all things together very good because thou Gen. 1.31 our God hast made all things in their conjunction very good CHAP XIII That there can be nothing in the world simply but only relatively evil ANd to Thee there is nothing evil in any case neither to thy self nor yet to thy Creature universally considered Because there is not any thing without thee and it that can break in and corrupt the order thou hast placed in it But indeed in the parts thereof some things to othersome because disconvenient are counted evil and yet are those same both agreeable and ●o good to some others and also good in themselves And all these things so opposite among themselves are most agreeing to this lower part of Nature which we call earth to which its cloudy and stormy heaven is very congruous and highly advantageous And although when considering these lower corporeals apart or as the only things in being I could have fancied and desired perhaps some things better and more excellent than they yet farre be it from me to desire that these things should not be since were these alone in being much praise for them were due unto thee Because these also shew thy praise So Psal 148.7 c. Praise the Lord from the earth the dragons and all deeps fire and hail snow and vapour and stormy wind fulfilling his word mountains and all hills fruit-bearing trees and all cedars beasts and all cattel creeping things and flying fowles Kings of the earth and all people Princes and all Judges of the earth young men and maidens old men and children let them praise thy name But when as from the heavens other things also do praise thee For these do praise thee O our God in the Highest Psal 148.1 2 c. all thy Angels all thy H sts Sun and Moon all the Starrs and Light the Heavens of Heavens and the Waters that are above the Heavens let them praise thy name Now my desires could aspire to no things better than they when my thoughts comprehended all And with a more sound judgement I now apprehended as the things higher to be much better than the things below so all together to be much better than the higer only CHAP. XIV BUt no sound reason or judgement is there in those who are displeased with any thing of thy Creation as in me there was not whom many things offended which thou hadst made and because my soul did not dare to be displeased also with my God therefore she would by no meanes have it thy work whatever displeased her And hence she run into the opinion of two substances But after thou hadst cured my sick head and removed this my frenzy I awakened to behold thee but not with my former eye of sense and I saw thee infinite in a much other manner than formerly I imagined thee CHAP. XV. ANd I cast back my eye on other things and saw them to owe unto thee their being and to be in thee finite and bounded yet not as circumscribed by place but as all supported by the hand of thy reality and verity And I saw