THE

CONFESSIONS OF AUGUSTINE.

Edited, with an Introduction,

BY

WILLIAM G. T SHEDD.

Sume libros quos desiderasti confessionum mearum. Ibi me inspice, ne me laudes
ultra quem sum. Ibi non aliis de me crede, sed mihi. Ibi me adtende, et vide quid
fuerim in me ipso per me ipsum; et si quid in me tibi placuerit, lauda ibi mecum quem
laudari volui de me; neque enim me: quoniam ipse fecit nos, et non ipsi nos; nos
autem perdideramus nos, sed qui fecit, refecit. Cum autem ibi me inveneris, ora pro
me, ne deficiam, sed perficiar.- AUGUSTINI EPISTOLA 231, DARIO COMITI.

ANDOVER:

WARREN F. DRAPER.

BOSTON: GOULD & LINCOLN. NEW YORK: JOHN WILEY.
PHILADELPHIA: SMITH, ENGLISH & CO.

1860.

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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1860, by
WARREN F. DRAPER,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

ANDOVER:

ELECTROTYPED AND PRINTED

BY W. F. DRAPER.

ADVERTISEMENT.

THIS edition of Augustine's Confessions is a reprint of an old translation, by an author unknown to the editor, which was republished in Boston in 1843. A very little use has also been made of another edition, published at Oxford. This contains only ten books, and where it differs from the old version, almost uniformly differs for the worse.

The principal labor in preparing this edition, has been to make a careful comparison of the whole work with the Latin text, and to add a few explanatory notes. The object of comparing the old version with the original, was

not so much to make changes, for the translation, as a

whole, like all the early English translations from Latin