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- THE
CONFESSIONS OF S. AUGUSTINE,
BISHOP OF HIPPO.
## Book 3.
After an Invocation of God, Augustine declares the beginnings of his life; his infancy and boyhood up to his fifteenth year. He confesses that at this age he was more fond of childish amusements and follies than of learning.
## CHAPTER I.
He declares the greatness of God: and by Him aroused desires to seek and call upon Him.
"Great art Thou, O Lord, and greatly to be praised" (Ps. cxlv. 3); "great is Thy power, and Thy wisdom is infinite" (Ps. cxlvii. 5). And Thee would man praise, though but a fragment of Thy creation; man, that bears about him his mortality, that bears about him the witness of his sin, even the witness, that "Thou resistest the proud" (1 S. Pet. v. 5); yet would man praise Thee though but a fragment of Thy creation. Thou dost arouse us to delight in praising Thee; for Thou hast made us for Thyself, and our heart is restless, until it find rest in Thee. Grant me, Lord, to know and understand whether to call on Thee be the first thing, or to praise Thee? and again, whether to know Thee or to call on Thee? for who can call on Thee, that knoweth not Thee? for he that knoweth not
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