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- 30 The Confessions of S. Augustine.
pure and untainted, till she returns to Thee. Thus all perversely imitate Thee, who put Thee far from them, and lift themselves up against Thee. But even by thus imitating Thee, they imply Thee to be the Creator of all nature; whence there is no place whither altogether to retire from Thee. What then did I love in that theft? and wherein did I even wickedly and perversely imitate my Lord? Did it please me to do contrary to Thy law, at any rate by artifice, if I could not by power, so that though a prisoner, I might mimic a maimed liberty by doing with impunity things unpermitted me, a shadowy likeness of Thy Omnipotency? Behold, Thy servant, fleeing from his Lord, and obtaining a shadow. O rottenness, O monstrousness of life, and depth and death! could I like what I might not, for nothing else than that I might not?
## CHAPTER VII.
*He renders thanks to God for the forgiveness of his sins; and warns against pride any whom God has kept from such grave offences.*
“WHAT shall I render unto the Lord” (Ps. cxvi. 12), that, whilst my memory recalls these things, my soul is not affrighted at them? “I will love Thee, O Lord, and give thanks unto Thee, and confess unto Thy name;” because Thou hast forgiven me these so great and wicked deeds of mine. To Thy grace I impute it, and to Thy mercy, that Thou hast melted away my sins as it were ice. To Thy grace I impute also that some evil I have left undone; for what might I not have done, who even loved a sin for its own sake? And I confess that all have been forgiven me; both those sins which, of my own will, I did, and those which, of Thy guidance, I left undone. What man is there who, conscious of his own infirmity, dares to ascribe his chastity and innocency to his own strength; that so he should love Thee the less, as though Thy mercy had been the less necessary for him; the mercy whereby Thou remittest sins to those that turn to Thee? For whosoever, called by Thee, followed Thy voice, and shunned those things which he reads me recording and confessing of myself, let him not scorn me, who being sick, was cured by
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