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 1 Pre|     this book was knit together by the linking of many arguments,
 2 Pre|       thought altogether, lest, by busying my mind to no purpose,
 3 Pre|        forth without some title by which they might, in some
 4 Pre|     after, both had been copied by many under these titles,
 5 1  |         created to see God. Man by sin lost the blessedness
 6 1  |       may see you in it? Again, by what marks, under what form,
 7 1  |         I am compelled to frown by the sorrow of my heart.
 8 1  |         my heart is made bitter by its desolation; sweeten
 9 1  |        consumed and wasted away by vices, and obscured by the
10 1  |     away by vices, and obscured by the smoke of wrong-doing,
11 4  |        what I formerly believed by your bounty, I now so understand
12 4  |     bounty, I now so understand by your illumination, that
13 7  |   impotence. God can do nothing by virtue of impotence, and
14 7  |       is thus capable is so not by power, but by impotence.
15 7  |         is so not by power, but by impotence. For, he is not
16 7  |        else power over him. Or, by a figure of speech, just
17 8  |        because you are affected by no sympathy for wretchedness.~ ~
18 9  |     with them; he frees sinners by the authority of justice.
19 9  |        good to the wicked, both by punishing and sparing them,
20 9  |      better than he who is good by punishing them alone. Therefore,
21 9  |         but sinners you do free by the authority of justice.
22 9  |     authority of justice. Those by the help of their deserts;
23 9  |     their deserts oppose. Those by acknowledging the goods
24 9  |    goods you has granted; these by pardoning the evils you
25 9  |         you should be good only by requiting (retribuendo)
26 9  | requiting (retribuendo) and not by sparing, and that you should
27 11 |         to save the wicked, yet by no consideration can we
28 13 |      that is in any way bounded by place or time is less than
29 14 |        is seen and yet not seen by those who seek him. ~HAS
30 14 |         understand this, except by seeing light and truth?
31 14 |        eye of the soul darkened by its infirmity, or dazzled
32 14 |       its infirmity, or dazzled by your glory? Surely it is
33 14 | darkened in itself, and dazzled by you. Doubtless it is both
34 14 |   Doubtless it is both obscured by its own insignificance,
35 14 | insignificance, and overwhelmed by your infinity. Truly, it
36 14 |    Truly, it is both contracted by its own narrowness and overcome
37 14 |         narrowness and overcome by your greatness.~For how
38 14 |   whatsoever has been made, and by whom, and through whom,
39 16 |     upon it long. It is dazzled by the brightness, it is overcome
40 16 |      brightness, it is overcome by the greatness, it is overwhelmed
41 16 |    greatness, it is overwhelmed by the infinity, it is dazed
42 16 |       the infinity, it is dazed by the largeness, of the light.~
43 17 |         them to objects created by you, after their sensible
44 17 |        and have been obstructed by their long listlessness.~ ~
45 18 |        that it may be gladdened by all at once. How, then,
46 18 |       unity itself, indivisible by any conception. Therefore,
47 20 |         to have an end; but you by no means? For so they actually
48 23 |        accomplished in the Word by which he expresses himself.
49 23 |         you, can be in the Word by which you do express yourself;
50 26 |     receive what you do promise by virtue of your truth, that