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- The Confessions of S. Augustine. 5
Thou hast forgiven the wickedness of my sin” (Ps. xxxii. 6). “I contend not in judgment with Thee” (Job ix. 2), who art the truth; I seek not to deceive myself; “lest mine iniquity lie unto itself” (Ps. xxvi. 12, Vulg.). Therefore I contend not in judgment with Thee; “for if Thou, Lord, art extreme to mark what is done amiss, O Lord, who may abide it” (Ps. cxxx. 3).
## CHAPTER VI.
*He describes his infancy; and extols the protecting care and eternal providence of God.*
YET let me speak unto Thy mercy, me, “dust and ashes.” Yea, let me speak, since to Thy mercy I speak, and not to scornful man. Thou too, perhaps, despisest me, yet wilt Thou “return and have compassion” (Jer. xii. 15) upon me. For what would I say, O Lord my God, but that I know not whence I came hither; into this dying life (shall I call it?) or living death. Then immediately did the consolations of Thy mercies take me up as I have heard from the parents of my flesh, out of whose substance Thou didst sometime fashion me; for in truth I remember it not. Thus there awaited me the comforts of woman’s milk. For neither my mother nor my nurses stored their own breasts; but Thou didst bestow on me the food of infancy through them, according to Thine ordinance, and to the riches distributed even through the first springs of things. Thou also gavest me to desire no more than Thou gavest; and to my nurses willingly to give me what Thou gavest them. For they with an affection ordained by Thee willingly gave me, what they abounded with from Thee. For good for them was my good from them, which, indeed, was not from them but through them; for from Thee, O God, are all good things, and “from my God is all my salvation” (2 Sam. xxiii. 5). For this I since have learned, that Thou dost call to me by these gifts, which within me and without me Thou dost give. For then I knew but to suck; to rest in the delights, but to weep at the vexations of my flesh; nothing more.
Afterwards I began to smile; first in sleep, then waking: for so it was told me of myself, and I believed it; for we
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