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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

Take vp and reade Take vp and reade ST. AVGVSTINES translatedand With some marginall notes illustrated By WIlliam Watts Rector of St. Albanes Woodstreete 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 LONDON Printed by IOHN NORTON for IOHN PARTRIDGE and are to be sold at the signe of the Sunne in Pauls Church-yard 1631. TO THE NOble and Religious Lady the Lady Elizabeth Hare Wife to the Honourable Sir Iohn Hare of Srow in Norff. and daughter to the Right Honourable Thomas Lord Couentry Lord Keeper of the great Seale c. Madam HOW great aduantage a natiue disposition to goodnesse is we confesse all all know how much the goodnesse of the Stock conferres towards the sweetnesse of the Fruite And yet haue our Gardeners obserued another aduancement of Nature namely how wonderfully the goodnesse of the Stock is improued by the vertue of the Cyon and that t is the Graft and not the Plant alone which renders the fruit more pleasant Besides that naturall preeminence therefore which your Ladyship hath to be honorably descended you are as the world acknowledges vertuously descended also your Stock is good and you are which the world knowes not high borne too your Cyon is better borne from aboue not onely once but againe and I fully perswade my selfe that I haue long since seene many vnsayned assurances of it I must not tempt your Ladyship with your own prayses your neighbours can speake foorth them and did I not know you to be most discreetly humble I might not haue sayd so much Let me now be bold good Madame to adde one Counsell after many Commendations it shall be but such a one as I know you most apt to take giue mee leaue to put you in mind that al this though the chiefe yet is it not the onely Engagement your Ladyship stands obliged to Almighty God in but that you owe him aboue most women a daily thankefulnesse both for his domesticke and worldly blessings God hath endowed your Ladyship with a most plentifull fortune And aboue that with a well-chosen and a towardly Gentleman one of the early hopes and prayses of his Country a yoake-fellow equall to your Selfe in blood in youth in personage And to increase all these blessings hath God increast you both with a sweete numerous Issue euen so numerous that your Oliue branches are already round about your table So that blessed be God neyther of you both are likely to want Heyres nor they Inheritances Thus hath God blest you as he did Ioseph with blessings of the Heauen aboue and blessings of the Deepe beneath blessings of the brests and of the womb And what could God haue done more to his Vine And what remaines for your Ladyship to doe but to cultiuate to p●une and to water both Stock and Cyon with a religious industry I know your Ladyship to be addicted as well to the Closet as to the Church to priuate Reading as to publike Hearing and I haue heretofare serued your Ladyship in both In thankfulnesse therfore for your salt which I haue eatē ●here make present of a most fit instrument for your Spirituall culture St. Austens own Pruning knife by which Hee cut off his sinnes by Repentance an exercise for your Closet deuotion the deuout st piece of all St. Austen and the vsefullest by which Confession is made vnto Saluation I direct not this to your Name by any chance but vpon deliborate choyce for I presume to be so priuy to the way of your Religion as to know that euen this Subiect of Priuate Confessions will much please you It will I hope do your soule good Let it therefore I beseech you Madam partake againe of your Goodnesse Countenance it I intreate your Ladyship with your Nime and defend it with the priuiledge of a Ladies Honour which no man I hope will be so vnmannerly as to vivlate God blesse your Honored Husband and Selfe and Children and Kinred and Family with Grace in this Life and with Glory in the next Thus prayes he affectionately who still remaines Madame Your good Ladyships obliged to honour and serue you VVilliam VVatts To the deuout Reader FOr such a one I hope this booke will make thee I am forced for want of paper to turne an Epistle into an excuse If thou here missest the Preface know that the swelling of the volum shut it out This Translation I began for the exercise of my Let●ten Deuotions but I quickly found it to exercise more then my Deuotion it exercised my skill all I had it exercised my Patience it exercised my Friends too for t is incomparably the hardest taske that euer I yet vndertooke the Presse wrought as fast as I wrote and I could not recall what was past Some things therefore may be ouerslipt but neither many I hope nor materiall to Religion nor so many by many as those of the former Translation which misled me as much as helpt me especially the two first books when I too much trusted him Who was the Author of it I assuredly know not some name Parsons others name a knight That I somtimes touch him too tartly was my a●ale against him not onely for being so Arrantly Partially Popish but for being so spitefull to the Holy Scriptures which he neuer honors with quoting in his margent euery where debases by aduancing the Romish Church aboue them If finding himselfe aggrieued hee shall in Print discouer himselfe against me I hope this of mine will one day come to a second Impression Now in the meane time I humbly desire the Deuout Reader to bee a Courteous Censurer I promise to send any man as many Thanks as he shall fairely send me word of Faults escaped in my booke God blesse the Readers and send them all to make confession vnto Saluation So prayes your Chaplayne the Translater W. W. St. Augustines owne testimony of this Booke taken out of his Retractations THe thirteene bookes of my Confessions both of my sinnes and good deedes do prayse God who is both iust and good and doe excite both the affection and vnderstanding of man towards him In the meane time for as much as concerneth me they wrought this effect when I wrote them and so they yet do when now I read them What others find thereby let themselues obserue but this I know That they haue much pleased and do much please many of my brethren From the first th●●●● the whole tenth Booke they are written of my selfe in the three Books following of the holy Scripture from that place where it is sayd In the beginning God made heauen earth till he speaks of the Rest of the Sabbath In the fourth book when I confessed the misery of my mind vpon occasion of my friends 〈◊〉 sayes I hat my soule was as it were made one of both