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1 Int | of man’s utter need and God’s abundant grace. But the
2 Int | and head. His doctrine of God holds the Plotinian notions
3 Int | emphasis upon the sovereign God’s active involvement in
4 Int | never wearied of celebrating God’s abundant mercy and grace -
5 Int | irresponsibility before God - but against all detractors
6 Int | detractors of the primacy of God’s grace, he vigorously insisted
7 Int | writings is the sovereign God of grace and the sovereign
8 Int | and the sovereign grace of God. Grace, for Augustine, is
9 Int | Grace, for Augustine, is God’s freedom to act without
10 Int | earth” and the “city of God.” Grace is God’s unmerited
11 Int | city of God.” Grace is God’s unmerited love and favor,
12 Int | the ground of human pride. God’s grace became incarnate
13 Int | through the gracious action of God’s redeeming love. To understand
14 Int | he was sure that it was God’s grace that had been his
15 Int | of a sustained prayer to God.~The Confessions are not
16 Int | permissive atmosphere of God’s felt presence, to recall
17 Int | the mysterious actions of God’s prevenient and provident
18 Int | materialistic prejudice that if God existed he had to exist
19 Int | become able to conceive of God in non-dualistic categories.
20 Int | free acknowledgment, before God, of the truth one knows
21 Int | means to acknowledge, to God, the truth one knows about
22 Int | the truth one knows about God. To confess, then, is to
23 Int | is to praise and glorify God; it is an exercise in self-knowledge
24 Int | finite self find the infinite God (or, how is it found of
25 Int | secondly, how may we interpret God’s action in producing this
26 Int | exploration of man’s way to God, a way which begins in sense
27 Int | ineffable encounter between God and the soul in man’s inmost
28 Int | and how “In the beginning God created the heavens and
29 Int, 1 | we can view the drama of God’s enterprise in human history
30 Int, 1 | treatise on the grace of God and represents Augustine’
31 Int, 1 | Christian faith is that God is to be served by man in
32 Int, 1 | enough, with a discussion of God’s work in creation. Augustine
33 Int, 1 | of fallen man, to which God’s wholly unmerited grace
34 Int, 1 | about the appropriation of God’s grace lead naturally to
35 Int, 1 | his most rigid ideas of God’s ruthless justice toward
36 Int, 1 | and his sudden glimpses of God’s glory. Augustine’s style
37 Int, 1 | for and the celebration of God’s grace and glory by which
38 Int, 1 | praise the righteous and good God as they speak either of
39 Int, 1 | there, In the beginning God created the heaven and the
40 Int, 1 | that in them I said to my God, again and again, “Give
41 Int, 1 | Now what, indeed, does God command, first and foremost,
42 Int, 1 | account of my conversion when God turned me to that faith
43 Int, 1 | certainly declared there that God by his grace turns men’s
44 Int, 1 | other ways in which I sought God’s aid in my growth in perseverance,
45 1 | BOOK ONE~ ~In God’s searching presence, Augustine
46 1 | has been - and to praise God for his constant and omnipotent
47 1 | paean of grateful praise to God.~ ~
48 1, II | how shall I call upon my God - my God and my Lord? For
49 1, II | I call upon my God - my God and my Lord? For when I
50 1, II | there in me into which my God can come? How could God,
51 1, II | God can come? How could God, the God who made both heaven
52 1, II | come? How could God, the God who made both heaven and
53 1, II | anything in me, O Lord my God, that can contain thee?
54 1, II | could I go that there my God might come to me - he who
55 1, IV | What, therefore, is my God? What, I ask, but the Lord
56 1, IV | What, I ask, but the Lord God? “For who is Lord but the
57 1, IV | Lord himself, or who is God besides our God?”13 Most
58 1, IV | or who is God besides our God?”13 Most high, most excellent,
59 1, IV | nothing thereby. Yet, O my God, my life, my holy Joy, what
60 1, V | by thy mercy, O Lord, my God, what thou art to me. “Say
61 1, V | transgressions unto thee, O my God; and hast thou not put away
62 1, VI | I wish to say, O Lord my God, but that I know not whence
63 1, VI | For it is from thee, O God, that all good things come -
64 1, VI | things come - and from my God is all my health. This is
65 1, VI | thou wast, and thou art the God and Lord of all thy creatures;
66 1, VI | tell me, thy suppliant, O God, tell me, O merciful One,
67 1, VI | pregnant women. But what, O God, my Joy, preceded that period
68 1, VII | CHAPTER VII~ ~11. “Hear me, O God! Woe to the sins of men!”
69 1, VII | 12. Therefore, O Lord my God, thou who gavest life to
70 1, VII | Most High.22 For thou art God, omnipotent and good, even
71 1, VII | where, I pray thee, O my God, where, O Lord, or when
72 1, VIII | the mind which thou, O my God, hadst given me. When they
73 1, IX | CHAPTER IX~ ~14. O my God! What miseries and mockeries
74 1, X | yet I sinned, O Lord my God, thou ruler and creator
75 1, X | ruler - I sinned, O Lord my God, in acting against the precepts
76 1, XI | humility of the Lord our God, who came down to visit
77 1, XI | death - thou didst see, O my God, for even then thou wast
78 1, XI | thy Christ, my Lord and my God. The mother of my flesh
79 1, XI | it was her desire, O my God, that I should acknowledge
80 1, XI | command.~18. I ask thee, O my God, for I would gladly know
81 1, XII | done me came from thee, my God. For they did not care about
82 1, XIII | wretched self dying to thee, O God, my life, in the midst of
83 1, XIII | death in not loving thee, O God, light of my heart, and
84 1, XIII | write.~22. But now, O my God, cry unto my soul, and let
85 1, XIII | while I confess to thee, my God, what my soul desires, and
86 1, XIII | Yet, by thy ordinance, O God, discipline is given to
87 1, XV | O Lord, my King and my God, may all things useful that
88 1, XVI | sober judge. And yet, O my God, in whose presence I can
89 1, XVII | 27. Bear with me, O my God, while I speak a little
90 1, XVII | to me, O my true Life, my God, that my declaiming was
91 1, XVIII | estranged from thee, O my God, when men were held up as
92 1, XVIII | face.~29. Look down, O Lord God, and see patiently, as thou
93 1, XVIII | O thou, the only great God, who by an unwearied law
94 1, XVIII | and confess to thee, my God. I was applauded by those
95 1, XVIII | entreat thy mercy, O my God, for these same sins as
96 1, XIX | would be due thee, O our God, even if thou hadst not
97 1, XIX | all these are gifts of my God; I did not give them to
98 1, XIX | that made me, and he is my God; and before him will I rejoice
99 1, XIX | pride, my confidence, my God - thanks be to thee for
100 2, I | that I may love thee, O my God. For love of thy love I
101 2, III | this? Not to thee, O my God, but to my own kind in thy
102 2, III | I was to thy tillage, O God, who art the one true and
103 2, III | didst hold thy peace, O my God, while I wandered farther
104 2, III | brightness of thy truth, O my God; and my iniquity bulged
105 2, IV | forbidden. Such was my heart, O God, such was my heart - which
106 2, V | neglecting thee, O our Lord God, and thy truth and thy law.
107 2, V | but not at all equal to my God, who hath made them all.
108 2, VI | Creator of all, O thou good God - God the highest good and
109 2, VI | of all, O thou good God - God the highest good and my
110 2, VI | eating it. And now, O Lord my God, I ask what it was in that
111 2, VI | high-spiritedness, although only thou, O God, art high above all. Ambition
112 2, VI | really to be feared but God only? What can be forced
113 2, VI(54) | turns the soul away from God; this is sin. By grace it
114 2, VI(54) | By grace it is turned to God; this is conversion.~
115 2, VIII | can explain it to me but God, who illumines my heart
116 2, IX | done it at all.~Behold, my God, the lively review of my
117 2, X | fell away from thee, O my God, and in my youth I wandered
118 3 | to the true faith and to God.~
119 3, I | food which is thyself, my God - although that dearth caused
120 3, I | love I was longing for. My God, my mercy, with how much
121 3, II | under the protection of my God, the God of our fathers,
122 3, II | protection of my God, the God of our fathers, who is to
123 3, II | that thou dost act, O Lord God, for thou lovest souls far
124 3, II | life! But was it life, O my God?~
125 3, III | thou my greatest mercy, my God, my refuge from those terrible
126 3, IV | How ardent was I then, my God, how ardent to fly from
127 3, VI | was seeking after thee, my God! To thee I now confess it,
128 3, VII | Whence comes evil?” and, “Is God limited by a bodily shape,
129 3, VII | And I did not know that God is a spirit who has no parts
130 3, VII | everywhere as Spirit is, as God is. And I was entirely ignorant
131 3, VII | us by which we are like God, and which is rightly said
132 3, VII | Scripture to be made “after God’s image.”~13. Nor did I
133 3, VII | the most perfect law of God Almighty - by which the
134 3, VII | commended by the mouth of God were righteous and were
135 3, VII | that is not so now; or that God, for certain temporal reasons,
136 3, VII | submitted, all those things that God had commanded were gathered,
137 3, VII | use of present things as God had commanded and inspired
138 3, VII | foreshadowing things to come, as God revealed it to them.~
139 3, VIII | unrighteous for a man to love God with all his heart, with
140 3, VIII | fellowship that should be between God and us is violated whenever
141 3, VIII | unseemly. Nevertheless, when God commands anything contrary
142 3, VIII | we unhesitatingly to obey God, the Governor of all his
143 3, VIII | the lesser, so also must God be above all.~16. This applies
144 3, VIII | strings, thy Decalogue, O God most high and most sweet.76
145 3, VIII(76) | commandments pertain to God and seven to men.~
146 3, IX | offend neither thee, our Lord God, nor social custom. For
147 3, IX(78) | doubtless had in mind is God's command to Abraham to
148 3, X | sigh forth particles of God, although these particles
149 3, X | of the most high and true God would have remained bound
150 3, XII | time,” he said, “only pray God for him. He will of his
151 4, I | and stricken by thee, O my God. Nevertheless, I would confess
152 4, II | guilty man. And thou, O God, didst see me from afar,
153 4, II | of a pure love of thee, O God of my heart, for I knew
154 4, III | this Creator but thou, our God, the sweetness and wellspring
155 4, IV | thy fugitives - at once a God of vengeance and a Fountain
156 4, IV | didst do at that time, O my God; how unsearchable are the
157 4, IV | if I said, “Hope thou in God,”96 she very properly disobeyed
158 4, VI | me.~Look into my heart, O God! Behold and look deep within
159 4, VII | fantasm. Thus my error was my god. If I tried to cast off
160 4, IX | And who is this but our God: the God that created heaven
161 4, IX | is this but our God: the God that created heaven and
162 4, X | Turn us again, O Lord God of Hosts, cause thy face
163 4, X | in all these things, O God, the Creator of all; but
164 4, XI | away?” asks the Word of God. Fix your habitation in
165 4, XI | and you with them, before God, who abides and continues
166 4, XI | who made it all. He is our God and he does not pass away,
167 4, XII | objects please you, praise God for them, but turn back
168 4, XII | you, let them be loved in God; for in themselves they
169 4, XII | may climb up, climb up to God. For you have fallen by
170 4, XII | bring them along with you to God, because it is by his spirit
171 4, XIII(105) | Manicheans, VIII-XV; City of God, XI, 18; De ordine, I, 7:
172 4, XIV | What was it, O Lord my God, that prompted me to dedicate
173 4, XIV | judgment, and not thine, O my God, in whom no man is deceived.
174 4, XV | not come from thee, O my God, from whom are all things.
175 4, XV | light my lamp; the Lord my God will lighten my darkness”108;
176 4, XV | then, does the soul, which God created, err?” But I would
177 4, XV | ask me, “Why, then, does God err?” I preferred to contend
178 4, XV | to interpret them, O my God, so that even thy wonderful
179 4, XV | thou knowest, O Lord my God, because both quickness
180 4, XV | supposed that thou, O Lord God, the Truth, wert a bright
181 4, XV | And I do not blush, O my God, to confess thy mercies
182 4, XV | sound faith.~O Lord our God, under the shadow of thy
183 5, III | lay bare in the sight of God the twenty-ninth year of
184 5, III | him, and know that he is God, they do not glorify him
185 5, III | they do not glorify him as God; neither are they thankful
186 5, III | glory of the incorruptible God for an image of corruptible
187 5, IV | CHAPTER IV~ ~7. Yet, O Lord God of Truth, is any man pleasing
188 5, IV | blessing, if knowing thee as God he glorifies thee and gives
189 5, VI | language. But thou, O my God, hadst already taught me
190 5, VI | now recall it, O Lord my God, Judge of my conscience?
191 5, VII | caught. For thy hands, O my God, in the hidden design of
192 5, VII | me. For it was thou, O my God, who didst it: for “the
193 5, VIII | country to the other, O God, but thou didst not disclose
194 5, IX | couldst thou, O most merciful God, despise the “contrite and
195 5, X | an execrable iniquity, O God Omnipotent, that I would
196 5, X | desired to meditate on my God, I did not know what to
197 5, X | to believe that the good God never created any evil substance,
198 5, X | piety to regard thee, my God - to whom I make confession
199 5, XII | thee to such learning, O God, the truth and fullness
200 5, XIII | full knowledge. That man of God received me as a father
201 6, I | and thus not finding the God of my heart. I had gone
202 6, I | that man as an angel of God, since she knew that it
203 6, II | it seems to me, O Lord my God - and my heart thinks of
204 6, IV | converted; and I rejoiced, O my God, that the one Church, the
205 6, V | of the one and most true God?” For this was the point
206 6, VII | enthralled. Thou knowest, O our God, that I had no thought at
207 6, IX | a thief. I believe, O my God, that thou didst allow this
208 6, XI | abomination to believe that God is limited by the form of
209 6, XI | that calls for inquiry. God forbid that it should be
210 6, XI | over the entire world, and God would never have done such
211 6, XI | myself wholly to seek after God and the blessed life?~“But
212 6, XII | wisdom, who had pleased God and had been loyal and affectionate
213 6, XVI | Manichean conceptions of God and evil and the dawning
214 6, XVI | dawning understanding of God’s incorruptibility. But
215 6, I | longer thought of thee, O God, by the analogy of a human
216 6, I | sovereign and only true God. In my inmost heart, I believed
217 6, I | I no longer thought of God in the analogy of a human
218 6, III | thou our Lord, the true God, who madest not only our
219 6, III | believe that the immutable God was mutable, lest I should
220 6, III | handiwork of my most sweet God? If the devil is to blame,
221 6, IV | something better than my God, if thou wert not incorruptible.
222 6, IV | corruption in no way injures our God, by no inclination, by no
223 6, IV | chance - because he is our God, and what he wills is good,
224 6, IV | for the will and power of God are God himself. And what
225 6, IV | will and power of God are God himself. And what can take
226 6, IV | why that substance which God is cannot be corrupted;
227 6, IV | were so it could not be God?~
228 6, IV(179) | the famous "definition" of God in Anselm's ontological
229 6, V | infinite. And I said, “Behold God, and behold what God hath
230 6, V | Behold God, and behold what God hath created!” God is good,
231 6, V | what God hath created!” God is good, yea, most mightily
232 6, V | whence does it come, since God who is good has made all
233 6, VI | this to thee also, O my God. For thou, thou only (for
234 6, VII | endure! What sighs, O my God! Yet even then thy ears
235 6, IX | Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The
236 6, IX | with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning
237 6, IX | was in the beginning with God. All things were made by
238 6, IX | the light; but the Word of God, being God, is that true
239 6, IX | but the Word of God, being God, is that true light that
240 6, IX | power to become the sons of God, even to them that believed
241 6, IX | Similarly, I read there that God the Word was born “not of
242 6, IX | will of the flesh, but of God.”189 But, that “the Word
243 6, IX | the Son was in the form of God and thought it not robbery
244 6, IX | not robbery to be equal in God,”191 for he was naturally
245 6, IX | of the cross. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted
246 6, IX | is Lord, to the glory of God the Father”192 - this those
247 6, IX | Thus, though they know God, yet they do not glorify
248 6, IX | they do not glorify him as God, nor are they thankful.
249 6, IX | changing the truth of God into a lie and worshiping
250 6, X | Beloved Eternity! Thou art my God, to whom I sigh both night
251 6, XI | for me to hold fast to God, for if I do not remain
252 6, XI | And thou art the Lord my God, since thou standest in
253 6, XII | them is very good, for our God made all things very good.207~
254 6, XIII | thy angels praise thee, O God, praise thee in the heights, “
255 6, XIV | not be displeased with my God, it would not allow that
256 6, XIV | had then made for itself a god extended through infinite
257 6, XVI | bent aside from thee, O God, the supreme substance,
258 6, XVII | stable enough to enjoy my God steadily. Instead I was
259 6, XVII(214) | K.E. Kirk, The Vision of God (London, 1932), pp. 319‑
260 6, XVIII | embraced that “Mediator between God and man, the man Christ
261 6, XVIII | Jesus,”215 “who is over all, God blessed forever,”216 who
262 6, XIX | Catholics to believe that God was so clothed with flesh
263 6, XIX | with flesh that besides God and the flesh there was
264 6, XXI | may “delight in the law of God after the inward man,” what
265 6, XXI | my soul be subject unto God, for from him comes my salvation?
266 6, XXI | comes my salvation? He is my God and my salvation, my defender;
267 6, XXI(226) | both these references to God's Wisdom and Word as "created"
268 6, XXI(226) | Christ was a "creature" of God. But Augustine was a Chalcedonian
269 6, XXI(226) | consubstantiality of Jesus Christ and God the Father.~
270 7, I | CHAPTER I~ ~1. O my God, let me remember with gratitude
271 7, I | not have the knowledge of God, or have not been able,
272 7, I | Creator, and thy Word - God with thee, and together
273 7, I | and the Holy Spirit, one God - by whom thou hast created
274 7, I | men, who “when they knew God, they glorified him not
275 7, I | they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful.”236
276 7, II | pathway led to belief in God and his Word.~Then, to encourage
277 7, II | melted away! But the Lord God was thy servant’s hope and
278 7, III | CHAPTER III~ ~6. O good God, what happens in a man to
279 7, III | does this mean, O Lord my God, when thou art an everlasting
280 7, V | and to enjoy thee, O my God, the only certain Joy, was
281 7, VI | himself before thee, our God, in the church in constant
282 7, VI | chose to become a friend of God, see, I can become one now.”
283 7, VI | I am determined to serve God; and I enter into that service
284 7, VIII | will and covenant, O my God, while all my bones cried
285 7, X | perish from thy presence, O God, as vain talkers, and deceivers
286 7, X | soul to be the same as what God is, and thus have become
287 7, X | would serve the Lord my God now, as I had long purposed
288 7, X | other bad. Thus, O true God, thou dost reprove and confute
289 7, XI | it they suggested, O my God? Let thy mercy guard the
290 7, XI | rather in the Lord their God? The Lord their God gave
291 7, XI | their God? The Lord their God gave me to them. Why do
292 7, XI | the law of the Lord thy God.” This struggle raging in
293 8, I | child to thee, O Lord my God - my light, my riches, and
294 8, II | in me, thou knowest, my God, that I began to rejoice
295 8, III | Thanks be unto thee, our God; we are thine. Thy exhortations,
296 8, IV | to serpents.280~8. O my God, how did I cry to thee when
297 8, IV | When I called upon thee, O God of my righteousness, thou
298 8, IV | deeply was I touched, O my God; for I had now learned to
299 8, IV(284) | oneness and immutability of God.~
300 8, IV | pray for me to thee, the God of all health. And I wrote
301 8, IV | was terrified, O Lord my God, because from my earliest
302 8, VI | thee thy gifts, O Lord my God, creator of all, who hast
303 8, VII | persecution.~Thanks to thee, O my God. Whence and whither hast
304 8, VIII | must hasten. Receive, O my God, my confessions and thanksgiving
305 8, VIII | thou do at that time, O my God? How didst thou heal her?
306 8, IX | also didst bestow, O my God, my Mercy, upon that good
307 8, X | Christian before I died. My God hath answered this more
308 8, XI | about thy gifts, O invisible God, which thou plantest in
309 8, XI | replied: “Nothing is far from God. I do not fear that, at
310 8, XII | against her. But yet, O my God who made us, how can that
311 8, XII | Luctusque solvat anxios.”~ ~“O God, Creator of us all, ~Guiding
312 8, XIII | pour out to thee, O our God, on behalf of thy handmaid,
313 8, XIII | my Praise and my Life, O God of my heart, forgetting
314 8, XIII | And inspire, O my Lord my God, inspire thy servants, my
315 9 | path by which men come to God. But this brings him into
316 9 | for the Mediator between God and man to have been the
317 9, II | confession therefore, O my God, is made unto thee silently
318 9, III | profit, then, O Lord my God - to whom my conscience
319 9, IV | small profit, O Lord my God, that many people should
320 9, IV(326) | the saints went up before God out of the angel's hand" (
321 9, VI | these I love when I love my God. Yet it is true that I love
322 9, VI | and embrace in loving my God, who is the light and sound
323 9, VI | what I love when I love my God.~9. And what is this God?
324 9, VI | God.~9. And what is this God? I asked the earth, and
325 9, VI | replied, “We are not your God; seek above us.” I asked
326 9, VI | was deceived; I am not God.” I asked the heavens, the
327 9, VI | answered, “Neither are we the God whom you seek.” And I replied
328 9, VI | You have told me about my God, that you are not he. Tell
329 9, VI | should I have sought my God, whom I had already sought
330 9, VI | therein, who said, “We are not God, but he made us.” My inner
331 9, VI(332) | who taught that the air is God. . . ."~
332 9, VI | frame of earth about my God, and it answered, “I am
333 9, VI | earth nor anybody is your God.” Their very nature tells
334 9, VI | life to a body. But your God is the life of your life.~
335 9, VII | that I love when I love my God? Who is he that is beyond
336 9, VII | vital power that I find my God. For then “the horse and
337 9, VIII | or that could happen!” “God prevent this or that.” I
338 9, VIII | exceedingly great, O my God - a large and boundless
339 9, VIII(337) | 7; see also the City of God, XI, 26.~
340 9, XVII | It is a true marvel, O my God, a profound and infinite
341 9, XVII | What, then, am I, O my God? Of what nature am I? A
342 9, XVII | O thou my true life, my God? I will pass even beyond
343 9, XX | For when I seek thee, my God, I seek a happy life. I
344 9, XXIII | thee, who art the Truth, O God my Light, “the health of
345 9, XXIII | of my countenance and my God.”343 All wish for this happy
346 9, XXIV | Truth, there found I my God, who is the Truth. From
347 9, XXV | itself. For thou art the Lord God of the mind and of all these
348 9, XXVI(345) | When he is known at all, God is known as the Self-evident.
349 9, XXIX | could be continent unless God gave it to him, even this
350 9, XXIX | never quenched. O Love, O my God, enkindle me! Thou commandest
351 9, XXX | at such a time, O Lord my God? And is there so much of
352 9, XXX | not thy hand, O Almighty God, able to heal all the diseases
353 9, XXXI | I hear the voice of my God commanding: “Let not your
354 9, XXXI | this it appears, O my holy God, that thou dost give it,
355 9, XXXI | meat does not commend us to God”365; and that “no man should
356 9, XXXI | praise be to thee, O my God and Master, who knockest
357 9, XXXIII | But do thou, O Lord, my God, give ear; look and see,
358 9, XXXIV | possession of my soul! Rather let God possess it, he who didst
359 9, XXXIV | to praise thee for it, “O God, Creator of Us All,” take
360 9, XXXIV | made to be!~And I, O my God and my Joy, I also raise
361 9, XXXV | drives us to make trial of God when signs and wonders are
362 9, XXXV | from my heart, as thou, O God of my salvation, hast enabled
363 9, XXXV | abhor. And yet, O Lord my God, to whom I owe all humble
364 9, XXXVI | praised. For the gift of God in man was pleasing to the
365 9, XXXVI | man than with the gift of God.~
366 9, XXXVII | of which thou knowest, O God, for it renders me uncertain.
367 9, XXXVII | I beseech thee now, O my God, to reveal myself to me
368 9, XLII | But a mediator between God and man ought to have something
369 9, XLII | have something in him like God and something in him like
370 9, XLII | man he should be far from God, or if only like God he
371 9, XLII | from God, or if only like God he should be far from man,
372 9, XLII | something in common with God, for not being clothed with
373 9, XLIII | that “Mediator between God and man, the man Christ
374 9, XLIII | mortal; he was righteous as God is righteous; and because
375 9, XLIII | righteousness united with God, cancel the death of justified
376 9, XLIII | because he was equal to God, and God with God, and,
377 9, XLIII | he was equal to God, and God with God, and, with the
378 9, XLIII | equal to God, and God with God, and, with the Holy Spirit,
379 9, XLIII | with the Holy Spirit, one God.~69. How hast thou loved
380 10 | alteration in the being of God. He then considers the question
381 10 | the abiding eternity of God. From this, he prepares
382 10, I(406) | greatness and goodness of God - Creator and Redeemer.
383 10, I | confess to thee, O Lord my God - for “Thou art good and
384 10, II | not owe it.~3. O Lord my God, hear my prayer and let
385 10, II | hear and pity! O Lord my God, light of the blind, strength
386 10, II | righteousness.417~Observe, O God, from whence comes my desire.
387 10, III | truth; I beseech thee, my God, forgive my sins, and as
388 10, V | didst thou make them? How, O God, didst thou make the heaven
389 10, VI | pass, but the Word of my God remains above me forever.”
390 10, VII | understand the Word - the God who is God with thee - which
391 10, VII | the Word - the God who is God with thee - which is spoken
392 10, VII | immortality.~This I know, O my God, and I give thanks. I know,
393 10, VIII | I ask of thee, O Lord my God? I see it after a fashion,
394 10, IX | 11. In this Beginning, O God, thou hast made heaven and
395 10, X | who ask us: “What was God doing before he made heaven
396 10, X | new motion has arisen in God, and a new will to form
397 10, X | before? For the will of God is not a created thing,
398 10, X | came before it. The will of God, therefore, pertains to
399 10, X | arisen in the Essence of God that was not there before,
400 10, X | was the eternal will of God that the creation should
401 10, XI | understand thee, O Wisdom of God, O Light of souls. They
402 10, XII | him who asks, “What was God doing before he made heaven
403 10, XII | Rather, I say that thou, our God, art the Creator of every
404 10, XII | to say further: “Before God made heaven and earth, he
405 10, XIII | that thou, the Almighty God, the All-creating and All-sustaining,
406 10, XVII | am not affirming it. O my God, direct and rule me.~Who
407 10, XVIII | existing - I confess, O my God, I do not know. But this
408 10, XX(437) | of hope and confidence in God's provident grace.~
409 10, XXII | intricate enigma. O Lord my God, O good Father, I beseech
410 10, XXIII | others a shorter time? O God, grant men to see in a small
411 10, XXV | ignorance. Behold, O my God, in thy presence I do not
412 10, XXV | candle; thou, O Lord my God, wilt enlighten my darkness.443~
413 10, XXVI | that I thus measure, O my God, and how is it that I do
414 10, XXVI | measure, I ask thee, O my God, when I say either, roughly, “
415 10, XXVII | attend with all your power. God is our Helper: “it is he
416 10, XXX | hold and say, “What did God make before he made heaven
417 10, XXXI | CHAPTER XXXI ~ ~41. O Lord my God, what a chasm there is in
418 11 | possibility” from which God created, itself created
419 11, I | who shall break it? “If God be for us, who can be against
420 11, VII | Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty”465 - thus it was
421 11, VII | mightest create these things, O God, one Trinity, and trine
422 11, XI | say to it, “Where is your God?”471; if now it requests
423 11, XII | hast given me ability, O my God, as thou hast excited me
424 11, XIII | what I understand, O my God, when I hear thy Scripture
425 11, XIII | saying, “In the beginning God made the heaven and the
426 11, XIII | days, “In the beginning God created the heaven and the
427 11, XIV | wonderful is their depth, O my God, marvelous is their depth!
428 11, XIV | they say: “The Spirit of God who wrote these things by
429 11, XIV | but as we say.” To them, O God of us all, thyself being
430 11, XV | thing is eternal. But our God is eternal.~“Again, he tells
431 11, XV | mutable is eternal. But our God is eternal.” These things
432 11, XV | and I conclude that my God, the eternal God, hath not
433 11, XV | that my God, the eternal God, hath not made any creature
434 11, XV | the true and truly eternal God that, although it is not
435 11, XV | of him alone?” If thou, O God, dost show thyself to him
436 11, XV | himself. This is “the house of God.” It is not an earthly house
437 11, XV | not coeternal with thee, O God, since it is not without
438 11, XV | and equal with thee, our God, its Father, the Wisdom
439 11, XV | made the righteousness of God in him.”474 Therefore, there
440 11, XV | came to be from thee, our God, but in such a way that
441 11, XV | was the holy servant of God, and that his books were
442 11, XV | it not in this ‘house of God’ - not coeternal with God,
443 11, XV | God’ - not coeternal with God, yet in its own mode ‘eternal
444 11, XV | good and cleaves fast to God.”~“It is so,” they reply. “
445 11, XV | my heart cried out to my God, when it heard, within,
446 11, XV(479) | To "the house of God."~
447 11, XVI | further, in thy presence, O my God, with those who admit that
448 11, XVI | me, I ask of thee, O my God, that thou shouldst not
449 11, XVI | and confirm forever, O my God, my Mercy. But as for those
450 11, XVI | I say this: “Be thou, O God, the judge between my confessions
451 11, XVII | revelation, ‘In the beginning God created the heaven and the
452 11, XVII | always beholds the face of God. And by the term ‘earth’
453 11, XVII | that only those works of God which were visible should
454 11, XVII | the whole creation which God has made in his wisdom -
455 11, XVII | not from the essence of God, but from nothing; and because
456 11, XVII | not the same reality that God is; and because there is
457 11, XVII | as the eternal house of God abides or whether they are
458 11, XVII | reads, ‘In the beginning God created the heaven and the
459 11, XVIII | how would it harm me, O my God, thou Light of my eyes in
460 11, XVIII(486) | essential common premises about God's primacy as Creator; cf.
461 11, XX | sense of “In the beginning God created the heaven and the
462 11, XX | coeternal with himself, God made both the intelligible
463 11, XX | that “In the beginning God created the heaven and the
464 11, XX | coeternal with himself, God made the universal mass
465 11, XX | that “In the beginning God created the heaven and the
466 11, XX | coeternal with himself, God made the unformed matter
467 11, XX | sense that “In the beginning God created the heaven and the
468 11, XX | coeternal with himself, God made the unformed matter
469 11, XX | that “In the beginning God created heaven and earth”
470 11, XX | of creating and working, God made that unformed matter
471 11, XXI | That corporeal entity which God made was as yet the formless
472 11, XXI | as it had said before - God made the heaven and the
473 11, XXI | Scripture had already said, God made heaven and earth, namely,
474 11, XXII | there was something that God had not made out of which
475 11, XXII | Scripture has not told us that God made this matter, unless
476 11, XXII | said, ‘In the beginning God created the heaven and earth.’
477 11, XXII | understand by it that which God himself hath made, as it
478 11, XXII | in the previous verse, ‘God made heaven and earth.’”
479 11, XXII | unformed matter was created by God, from whom all things are,
480 11, XXII | not said specifically that God made this formlessness -
481 11, XXII | yet it is clear that God made all of these. If in
482 11, XXII | upon which the Spirit of God moved? For if they are understood
483 11, XXII | that beauty at the time God said of them, ‘Let the waters
484 11, XXII | silent about anything that God hath made, which neither
485 11, XXII | understanding doubts that God hath made, let not any sober
486 11, XXII | waters were coeternal with God because we find them mentioned
487 11, XXII | abyss as having been made by God from nothing; and thus understand
488 11, XXIV | the other. For see, O my God, I am thy servant, and I
489 11, XXIV | wrote, “In the beginning God created the heaven and the
490 11, XXV | both are true - then, O my God, life of the poor, in whose
491 11, XXV | thought.494~35. Hear, O God, best judge of all! O Truth
492 11, XXV | true light of the Lord our God, why do we disagree about
493 11, XXV | instead, “love the Lord our God with all our heart, with
494 11, XXV | precepts of love, we shall make God a liar, if we judge of the
495 11, XXVI | XXVI~ ~36. And yet, O my God, thou exaltation of my humility
496 11, XXVI | cannot as yet understand how God createth would still not
497 11, XXVII | these words,500 think that God, like some sort of man or
498 11, XXVII | contained. And when they hear, “God said, ‘Let such and such
499 11, XXVII | certain the conviction that God made all entities that their
500 11, XXVII | wretchedly. Have pity, O Lord God, lest those who pass by
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