Book, Chapter
1 1, 9-14 | serve to the "praise of men," and to deceitful riches.
2 1, 9-14 | But, Lord, we found that men called upon Thee, and we
3 1, 9-15 | which, throughout all lands, men call on Thee with extreme
4 1, 9-15 | commiserates either boys or men. For will any of sound discretion
5 1, 13-22| aright, as to the signs which men have conventionally settled.
6 1, 13-22| wooden horse lined with armed men," and "the burning of Troy,"
7 1, 16-25| divine nature to wicked men, that crimes might be no
8 1, 16-25| to imitate not abandoned men, but the celestial gods." ~ ~
9 1, 16-26| thee are cast the sons of men with rich rewards, for compassing
10 1, 17-27| in more ways than one do men sacrifice to the rebellious
11 1, 18-28| presence, O my God, when men were set before me as models,
12 1, 18-28| or change of place, that men leave Thee, or return unto
13 1, 18-29| how carefully the sons of men observe the covenanted rules
14 1, 18-29| pronunciation will more offend men by speaking without the
15 2, 1-1 | to please in the eyes of men. ~ ~
16 2, 4-9 | written in the hearts of men, which iniquity itself effaces
17 2, 9-17 | laughter sometimes masters men alone and singly when on
18 3, 3-6 | bepraised, the craftier. Such is men's blindness, glorying even
19 3, 4-8 | after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of
20 3, 6-10 | 10 Therefore I fell among men proudly doting, exceeding
21 3, 6-11 | profitable truly than these men's five elements, variously
22 3, 7-12 | wives at once, and did kill men, and sacrifice living creatures?"
23 3, 7-13 | judged unrighteous by silly men, judging out of man's judgment,
24 3, 7-13 | been lawful for righteous men formerly, which now is not;
25 3, 7-13 | because they are times. But men whose days are few upon
26 3, 7-14 | righteousness, which good and holy men obeyed, did far more excellently
27 3, 8-15 | such as were those of the men of Sodom: which should all
28 3, 8-15 | which hath not so made men that they should so abuse
29 3, 8-15 | offences against the customs of men, are to be avoided according
30 3, 8-16 | all together; and so do men live ill against the three,
31 3, 8-16 | But Thou avengest what men commit against themselves,
32 3, 9-17 | iniquities, are sins of men, who are on the whole making
33 3, 9-17 | an action then which in men's sight is disapproved,
34 3, 9-17 | testimony approved; and many, by men praised, are (Thou being
35 3, 9-17 | ordinance of some society of men, who doubts but it is to
36 3, 9-17 | seeing that society of men is just which serves Thee?
37 3, 10-18| fruits of the earth than men, for whom they were created.
38 4, 6-11 | speedily make an end of all men, since it had power over
39 4, 7-12 | knowest not how to love men, like men! O foolish man
40 4, 7-12 | not how to love men, like men! O foolish man that I then
41 4, 12-19| against Him. O ye sons of men, how long so slow of heart?
42 4, 15-22| 22 For so did I then love men, upon the judgment of men,
43 4, 15-22| men, upon the judgment of men, not Thine, O my God, in
44 4, 15-22| Why, since we are equally men, do I love in another what,
45 4, 15-23| unpraised, and these self-same men had dispraised him, and
46 4, 17-31| blushed not then to profess to men my blasphemies, and to bark
47 5, 3-4 | foreshowed. At these things men, that know not this art,
48 5, 3-6 | creature retained I from these men, and saw the reason thereof
49 5, 5-8 | but went about to persuade men, "That the Holy Ghost, the
50 5, 8-14 | that I heard that young men studied there more peacefully,
51 5, 8-14 | might be drawn thither, by men in love with a dying life,
52 5, 10-18| make excuses of sins, with men that work iniquity; and,
53 5, 10-19| rest, for that they held men ought to doubt everything,
54 5, 12-22| subvertings" by profligate young men were not here practised,
55 5, 13-23| world as among the best of men, Thy devout servant; whose
56 6, 2-2 | as it doth too many (both men and women), who revolt at
57 6, 2-2 | a lesson of sobriety, as men well-drunk at a draught
58 6, 5-7 | many continually of other men, which unless we should
59 6, 6-9 | therein, but sought to please men by it; and that not to instruct,
60 6, 11-18| every thing! O you great men, ye Academicians, it is
61 6, 11-19| bound of desire. Many great men, and most worthy of imitation,
62 6, 12-21| of those who as married men had cherished wisdom, and
63 6, 14-24| business and the bustle of men; and this was to be thus
64 6, 16-26| of requital according to men's deserts, which Epicurus
65 7, 5-8 | things to come, but that men's conjectures were a sort
66 7, 7-11 | care of, and wouldest judge men, and that in Christ, Thy
67 7, 9-13 | Thou hadst traced out to men the way of humility, in
68 7, 9-13 | made flesh, and dwelt among men:- Thou procuredst for me,
69 7, 9-13 | the life was the light of men, and the light shineth in
70 7, 9-14 | made in the likeness of men, and found in fashion as
71 7, 10-16| I am the food of grown men, grow, and thou shalt feed
72 7, 13-19| judges of the earth; young men and maidens, old men and
73 7, 13-19| young men and maidens, old men and young, praise Thy Name.
74 7, 18-24| Mediator betwixt God and men, the Man Christ Jesus, who
75 8, 1-2 | chiefly wishing that all men were as himself was. But
76 8, 1-2 | it. Surely vain are all men who are ignorant of God,
77 8, 2-3 | of his office, had (which men of this world esteem a high
78 8, 2-4 | afraid to confess Him before men, and appeared to himself
79 8, 3-7 | pleasures of human life men acquire by difficulties,
80 8, 3-7 | pinching of hunger and thirst. Men, given to drink, eat certain
81 8, 5-12 | sleep for ever, and in all men's sober judgment waking
82 8, 8-20 | body many such motions as men sometimes would, but cannot,
83 8, 9-21 | the secret penalties of men, and those darkest pangs
84 8, 11-27| there were so many young men and maidens here, a multitude
85 9, 2-2 | was known to Thee; but to men, other than our own friends,
86 9, 4-9 | unto us, said, O ye sons of men, how long slow of heart?
87 9, 6-14 | surpassed many grave and learned men. I confess unto Thee Thy
88 9, 8-17 | 9.8.17 Thou that makest men to dwell of one mind in
89 9, 10-23| removed from the din of men, we were recruiting from
90 9, 11-28| have it remembered among men, that after her pilgrimage
91 9, 13-34| the commendable life of men, if, laying aside mercy,
92 9, 13-34| Thine own gifts? O that men would know themselves to
93 9, 13-34| would know themselves to be men; and that he that glorieth
94 10, 1-1 | be sorrowed for, the less men sorrow for them. For behold,
95 10, 2-2 | utter any thing right unto men, which Thou hast not before
96 10, 3-3 | What then have I to do with men, that they should hear my
97 10, 3-3 | confess unto Thee, that men may hear, to whom I cannot
98 10, 3-4 | by this book confess to men also in Thy presence what
99 10, 4-6 | of the believing sons of men, sharers of my joy, and
100 10, 6-10 | on what they report. But men can ask, so that the invisible
101 10, 8-15 | seizes me upon this. And men go abroad to admire the
102 10, 16-25| where I have been, thus men's faces whom I have seen,
103 10, 20-29| which Greeks and Latins, and men of all other tongues, long
104 10, 21-31| how is this, that if two men be asked whether they would
105 10, 23-33| the happy life. Or do all men desire this, but because
106 10, 23-33| is yet a little light in men; let them walk, let them
107 10, 34-53| all pious meaning, have men added to tempt their own
108 10, 34-53| beautiful patterns which through men's souls are conveyed into
109 10, 35-55| exhibited in the theatre. Hence men go on to search out the
110 10, 35-55| profits not, and wherein men desire nothing but to know.
111 10, 36-59| to be feared and loved of men, for no other end, but that
112 10, 36-59| especially it comes that men do neither purely love nor
113 10, 36-59| to be loved and feared of men, the adversary of our true
114 10, 36-59| in the deceivingness of men; and be pleased at being
115 10, 36-59| Who would be praised of men when Thou blamest, will
116 10, 36-59| will not be defended of men when Thou judgest; nor delivered
117 10, 37-60| furnace is the tongue of men. And in this way also Thou
118 10, 37-61| things, be praised by all men, or being consistent and
119 10, 38-63| mouth, and deeds known to men, bring with them a most
120 10, 38-63| own, solicits and collects men's suffrages. It tempts,
121 10, 38-64| like temptation; whereby men become vain, pleasing themselves
122 10, 42-67| to God, something like to men; lest being in both like
123 10, 42-67| this hath he in common with men, that with them he should
124 10, 43-68| immortal just One; mortal with men, just with God: that because
125 10, 43-68| was showed forth to holy men of old; that so they, through
126 11, 2-2 | service which we owe to men, or which though we owe
127 11, 8-10 | outwardly in the ears of men; that it might be believed
128 11, 23-29| a longer? God, grant to men to see in a small thing
129 11, 28-38| whole age of the sons of men, whereof all the lives of
130 11, 28-38| whereof all the lives of men are parts. ~ ~
131 11, 30-40| endure the questions of men, who by a penal disease
132 12, 2-2 | given to the children of men? Where is that heaven which
133 12, 2-2 | Lord's, not the sons' of men. ~ ~
134 12, 4-4 | suitably intimated unto men, by the name of earth invisible
135 12, 8-8 | Thou gavest to the sons of men, to be seen and felt, was
136 12, 8-8 | things, which we sons of men wonder at. For very wonderful
137 12, 16-23| my Confessions and these men's contradictions. ~ ~
138 12, 27-37| whatever of the like sort, men's acquaintance with the
139 13, 11-12| that vision. I would that men would consider these three,
140 13, 15-16| with skins didst clothe men, when they by sin became
141 13, 15-16| by the ministry of mortal men Thou spreadest over us.
142 13, 17-20| Nor is the bitterness of men's wills, but the gathering
143 13, 17-20| restrainest the wicked desires of men's souls, and settest them
144 13, 21-30| to imitation. For thus do men hear, so as not to hear
145 13, 21-31| shalt thou be beloved by all men); and good cattle, which
146 13, 23-33| of spiritual and carnal men, who are known unto Thine
147 13, 24-35| as the fishes, fowls, or men, do by generation increase
148 13, 25-38| man stood by me, but all men forsook me. I pray God that
149 13, 25-38| they are due to them, as men; yea and due to them also,
150 13, 27-42| O Lord, that when carnal men and infidels (for the gaining
151 13, 30-45| understood, that certain men there be who mislike Thy
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