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  1 Pre|     finally named it Proslogium, --that is, A Discourse.~AFTER I
  2 Pre|           is ignorant; considering that this book was knit together
  3 Pre|       would suffice to demonstrate that God truly exists, and that
  4 Pre|         that God truly exists, and that there is a supreme good
  5 Pre|        this end, and at some times that which I sought seemed to
  6 Pre|       despaired offered itself, so that I eagerly embraced the thoughts
  7 Pre|    repelling.~Thinking, therefore, that what I rejoiced to have
  8 Pre|     accordingly gave each a title, that the first might be known
  9 Pre|        name to these writings. And that this might be done more
 10 Pre|       named the first, Monologium, that is, A Soliloquy; but the
 11 Pre|            the second, Proslogium, that is, A Discourse.~
 12 1  |         excludes all thoughts save that of God, that it may seek
 13 1  |         thoughts save that of God, that it may seek Him. Man was
 14 1  |          created man in his image, that he might be mindful of him,
 15 1  |            not seek to understand, that he may believe, but he believes
 16 1  |           believe, but he believes that he may understand: for unless
 17 1  |         shut out all thoughts save that of God, and such as can
 18 1  |            Or who shall lead me to that light and into it, that
 19 1  |            that light and into it, that I may see you in it? Again,
 20 1  |         have I seen you. It is you that hast made me, and has made
 21 1  |            and not yet have I done that for which I was made.~O
 22 1  |           of man, when he has lost that for which he was made! O
 23 1  |         for which he was not made. That has departed without which
 24 1  |        which nothing is happy, and that remains which, in itself,
 25 1  |           when he could so easily, that whose lack we should feel
 26 1  |            death upon us? Wretches that we are, whence have we been
 27 1  |           fate!~But alas! wretched that I am, one of the sons of
 28 1  |            Restore yourself to us, that it may be well with us, --
 29 1  |             I beseech you, O Lord, that I may not lose hope in sighs,
 30 1  |            seek you; I beseech you that I may not cease to hunger
 31 1  |           grant, even after sighs, that which I may eat. Lord, I
 32 1  |         look downward; raise me up that I may look upward. My iniquities
 33 1  |            from them; unburden me, that the pit of iniquities may
 34 1  |        acknowledge and I thank you that you has created me in this
 35 1  |          this your image, in order that I may be mindful of you,
 36 1  |          of you, and love you; but that image has been so consumed
 37 1  |          the smoke of wrong-doing, that it cannot achieve that for
 38 1  |             that it cannot achieve that for which it was made, except
 39 1  |      compare my understanding with that; but I long to understand
 40 1  |          do not seek to understand that I may believe, but I believe
 41 1  |         For this also I believe, --that unless I believed, I should
 42 2  |          profitable, to understand that you are as we believe; and
 43 2  |         you are as we believe; and that you are that which we believe.
 44 2  |          believe; and that you are that which we believe. And indeed,
 45 2  |             And indeed, we believe that you are a being than which
 46 2  |          and another to understand that the object exists. When
 47 2  |  understanding, and he understands that it exists, because he has
 48 2  |         even the fool is convinced that something exists in the
 49 2  |       understanding. And assuredly that, than which nothing greater
 50 2  |          is greater.~Therefore, if that, than which nothing greater
 51 2  |  impossible. Hence, there is doubt that there exists a being, than
 52 3  |   conceived not to exist. --God is that, than which nothing greater
 53 3  |        greater can be conceived. --That which can be conceived not
 54 3  |         assuredly exists so truly, that it cannot be conceived not
 55 3  |            not to exist. Hence, if that, than which nothing greater
 56 3  |            not to exist, it is not that, than which nothing greater
 57 3  |         can be conceived to exist, that it cannot even be conceived
 58 3  |         you exist, O Lord, my God, that you can not be conceived
 59 3  |       evident, to a rational mind, that you do exist in the highest
 60 3  |         degree of all? Why, except that he is dull and a fool?~ ~
 61 4  |         not conceive; or how is it that he could not conceive what
 62 4  |           what God is can conceive that God does not exist; although
 63 4  |         signification. For, God is that than which a greater cannot
 64 4  |        this, assuredly understands that this being so truly exists,
 65 4  |        this being so truly exists, that not even in concept can
 66 4  |      Therefore, he who understands that God so exists, cannot conceive
 67 4  |            exists, cannot conceive that he does not exist.~I thank
 68 4  |   understand by your illumination, that if I were unwilling to believe
 69 4  |          were unwilling to believe that you do exist, I should not
 70 5  |           But what are you, except that which, as the highest of
 71 6  |         degree in respect of this, that you do cognise all things
 72 7  |              This man sits just as that man does," or, "This man
 73 7  |             This man rests just as that man does"; although to sit
 74 9  |            justice; for it is just that God, than whom none is better
 75 9  |    supremely just, do you anything that is not just? Or, what justice
 76 9  |          just? Or, what justice is that to give him who merits eternal
 77 9  |            and you do not anything that is not just? Or, since your
 78 9  |         abundance of your goodness that you are good to those who
 79 9  |          the evil, and it is known that the supremely Good has willed
 80 9  |      exceed all understanding, let that compassion come upon me,
 81 9  |       justice; yet we must believe that it does not oppose justice
 82 9  |     goodness without justice; nay, that it is in true harmony with
 83 9  |          Is it because it is just, that you should be so good that
 84 9  |         that you should be so good that you can not be conceived
 85 9  |           be conceived better; and that you should work so powerfully
 86 9  |          should work so powerfully that you can not be conceived
 87 9  |          Assuredly it could not be that you should be good only
 88 9  |            and not by sparing, and that you should make good only
 89 9  |         way, therefore, it is just that you should spare the wicked,
 90 9  |             it is right to believe that you justly pity the wicked.~ ~
 91 10 |      deserved.~BUT it is also just that you should punish the wicked.
 92 10 |         For what is more just than that the good should receive
 93 10 |       evils? How, then, is it just that you should punish the wicked,
 94 10 |         according to yours; seeing that, as in saving us, whom it
 95 10 |        deserve, but because you do that which becomes you as the
 96 11 |            to your nature, O Lord, that you should punish the wicked?
 97 11 |          wicked? Surely it is just that you should be so just that
 98 11 |         that you should be so just that you can not be conceived
 99 11 | inconsistency: For, it is not just that those whom you do will to
100 11 |        punish should be saved, and that those whom you do will to
101 11 |           should be condemned. For that alone is just which you
102 11 |        just which you do will; and that alone unjust which you do
103 11 |            justice.~For it is just that you should be so good that
104 11 |         that you should be so good that you are good in sparing
105 13 |        begin to be.~BUT everything that is in any way bounded by
106 13 |         place or time is less than that which no law of place or
107 13 |          eternal. How is it, then, that other spirits also are said
108 13 |       alone uncircumscribed? Is it that a created spirit, when compared
109 13 |        altogether circumscribed is that which, when it is wholly
110 13 |             But uncircumscribed is that which is, as a whole, at
111 13 |           time, uncircumscribed is that which, when it is anywhere
112 14 |           better can be conceived; that this being is life itself,
113 14 |          and blessed eternity; and that it is every where and always.~
114 14 |          have found him, why is it that you do not feel you have
115 14 |            other than it has seen, that it may clearly see what
116 14 |           none in you; but it sees that it cannot see farther, because
117 14 |        greatness.~For how great is that light from which shines
118 14 |           which shines every truth that gives light to the rational
119 14 |        rational mind? How great is that truth in which is everything
120 14 |       truth in which is everything that is true, and outside which
121 15 |           O Lord, you are not only that than which a greater cannot
122 15 |          since it can be conceived that there is such a being, if
123 16 |          can penetrate this light, that it may see you there. Truly,
124 16 |         understanding cannot reach that light, for it shines too
125 18 |         fallen into it, but I feel that I am enveloped in it. I
126 18 |          lost to himself and to us that which when we wish to seek
127 18 |            when we find, it is not that which we seek.~Do you help
128 18 |      enlighten the eye of my mind, that it may behold you. Let my
129 18 |           see so many at one view, that it may be gladdened by all
130 18 |           identical with yourself, that in no respect are you unlike
131 18 |         this way, then, it appears that you have no parts, and that
132 18 |        that you have no parts, and that your eternity, which you
133 19 |       whole forever? Or is it true that nothing of your eternity
134 19 |           eternity passes away, so that it is not now; and that
135 19 |            that it is not now; and that nothing of it is destined
136 20 |          other things have not yet that part of their eternity which
137 20 |          to be, and have no longer that part which is past.~HENCE,
138 20 |            while they have not yet that part of their eternity which
139 20 |        just as they no longer have that part which is past? For
140 20 |           with yourself, and since that to which they have not yet
141 21 |          you are so great, O Lord, that all things are full of you,
142 21 |          are so without all space, that neither midst, nor half,
143 23 |        nothing can proceed, except that which is this, of which
144 23 |         Father; this is your Word, that is, your Son. For nothing,
145 23 |         are of so simple a nature, that of you nothing can be born
146 23 |            to you and to your Son, that is, the Holy Spirit proceeding
147 23 |         you or to your Son; seeing that you do love yourself and
148 23 |            and Holy Spirit; seeing that each separately is none
149 23 |      necessary Being. Now, this is that single, necessary Being,
150 24 |         character and how great is that good! For, if individual
151 24 |      earnestness how delectable is that good which contains the
152 25 |           is a long and sound life that pleases you, there a healthful
153 25 |         xxxvi. 8).~If it is wisdom that delights you, the very wisdom
154 25 |  undoubtedly they shall be as sure that those goods, or rather that
155 25 |        that those goods, or rather that good, will never and in
156 25 |        them; as they shall be sure that they will not lose it of
157 25 |           of their own accord; and that God, who loves them, will
158 25 |            against their will; and that nothing more powerful than
159 25 |        each as yourself. Hence, in that perfect love of innumerable
160 25 |        joys? And doubtless, seeing that every one loves another
161 25 |           other's good, and as, in that perfect felicity, each one
162 25 |           more than in his own and that of all the others with him.~
163 25 |          mind, and all their soul, that still all the heart, and
164 25 |          mind, and all their soul, that all the heart, and all the
165 26 |          Ask and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full (John
166 26 |             For I have found a joy that is full, and more than full.
167 26 |           all the man, are full of that joy, joy beyond measure
168 26 |          remain. Hence, not all of that joy shall enter into those
169 26 |            shall wholly enter into that joy.~Show me, O Lord, show
170 26 |         the joy of their Lord. But that joy, surely, with which
171 26 |        much they shall love you in that life.~I pray, O God, to
172 26 |          to know you, to love you, that I may rejoice in you. And
173 26 |     advance from day to day, until that joy shall come to the full.
174 26 |          and there let it be full, that here my joy may be great
175 26 |            ask; and you do promise that we shall receive, that our
176 26 |     promise that we shall receive, that our joy may be full. I ask,
177 26 |           by virtue of your truth, that my joy may be full. Faithful
178 26 |             I ask. I will receive, that my joy may be full. Meanwhile,