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- The Confessions of S. Augustine. 3
# CHAPTER III.
*God wholly fillet all things: but Him, nor Heaven, nor Earth containeth.*
Do heaven and earth then contain Thee, since Thou fillest them? or dost Thou fill them and yet more of Thee remaineth, since they do not contain Thee? or whether pourest Thou forth what remaineth of Thyself when the heaven and the earth are full? or hast Thou no need that Thou by aught shouldest be contained, since Thou containest all things, for what Thou dost fill by containing Thou dost fill? for the vessels which are full of Thee uphold Thee not, since, though they were broken, Thou wert not poured out. And when Thou art “poured out upon us” (Joel ii. 28), Thou art not Thyself cast down, but Thou upliftest us; neither art Thou scattered, but Thou gatherest us. But Thou who fillest all things, fillest Thou them with Thy whole self? or, since all things cannot contain Thee wholly, do they contain a part of Thee? and all at once the same part? or does each contain its own part, the greater more, the smaller less? And is, then, one part of Thee greater, another less? or art Thou wholly everywhere, though naught contains Thee wholly?
# CHAPTER IV.
*The Majesty of God is supreme: and His perfections cannot be expressed.*
What art Thou then, my God? what, I ask, but the Lord God? “For who is Lord but the Lord? or who is God except our God?” (Ps. xviii. 31, Vulg.). O Thou Most highest, most good, most potent, most omnipotent; most merciful, yet most just; most hidden, yet most present; fairest, yet most strong; firm fixed, yet incomprehensible; who changest not, yet changest all things; never new, never old; yet who makest all things new, and “bringest age upon the proud, and they know it not;” ever working, ever at rest; that gatherest, yet lackest nothing; that bearest, and fillest, and coverest; that createst, and nourishest, and makest perfect; that seekest, and yet possessest all things. Thou dost love without
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