THE CONFESSIONS

OF

ST. AUGUSTINE,

BISHOP OF HIPPO.

TRANSLATED AND ANNOTATED BY

J. G. PILKINGTON, M.A.,

VICAR OF ST. MARK'S, WEST HACKNEY; AND SOMETIME CLERICAL SECRETARY
OF THE BISHOP OF LONDON'S FUND.

"Thou hast formed us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless till they find rest in
Thee."-Confessions, i. 1.

"The joy of the solemn service of Thy house constraineth to tears, when it is read
of Thy younger Son, that He was dead, and is alive again, and was lost, and is
found."-Ibid. viii. 6.

EDINBURGH:

T. & T. CLARK, 38 GEORGE STREET.
MDCCCLXXVI.

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TO HIS MOTHER,

THIS TRANSLATION,

CONTAINING THE RECORD OF A MOTHER'S DEVOTION TO HER SON,

IS DEDICATED

BY THE TRANSLATOR.