The Confessions Of Saint Augustine

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Chapter VI – He Is Baptized At Milan With Alypius And His Son Adeodatus. The Book “De Magistro.”

Chapter V – At The Recommendation Of Ambrose, He Reads The Prophecies Of Isaiah, But Does Not Understand Them.

Chapter IV – In the Country He Gives His Attention To Literature, And Explains The Fourth Psalm In Connection With The Happy Conversion Of Alypius. He Is Troubled With Toothache.

Chapter III – He Retires To The Villa Of His Friend Verecundus, Who Was Not Yet A Christian, And Refers To His Conversion And Death, As well As That Of Nebridius.

Chapter II – As His Lungs Were Affected, He Meditates Withdrawing Himself From Public Favour.

Chapter I – He Praises God, The Author Of Safety, And Jesus Christ, The Redeemer, Acknowledging His Own Wickedness.

Contents – Book IX

Chapter XII – Having Prayed To God, He Ours Forth A Shower Of Tears, And, Admonished By A Voice, He Opens The Book And Reads The Words In Rom. XIII. 13; By Which, Being Changed In His Whole Soul, He Discloses The Divine Favour To His Friend And His Mother.

Chapter XI – In What Manner The Spirit Struggled With The Flesh, That It Might Be Freed From The Bondage Of Vanity.

Chapter X – He Refutes The Opinion Of The Manichaeans As To Two Kinds Of Minds, – One Good And The Other Evil.