Excerpt from The Meditations of St. Augustine, His Treatise of the Love of God, Soliloquies, and Manual: With Select ContemplationsAnd now, O Father of mercies, and God of all comfort, perfect, 1 beseech thee, these gracious designs upon thy servant, possess me thoroughly with thy fear, that I may not dare to incur thy threatenings, and support me with the joy of thy salvation, that I may be filled with thy love, and cheerfully run the race that leadeth to thy gracious promises. Thou, O Lord, art my strength, my God, my refuge and only deliverer: 0 be thou pleased to inspire my soul with proper thoughts of thee: teach my tongue fit words to call upon thee acceptably, and enable my hands, and every member, to do the thing that pleaseth thee. I know full well that there is one way of pacifying thy wrath, one offering which thy mercy will not reject. The sacrifices of God are a troubled spirit, a bro/sen and a contrite heart my God will not des pise. (ps. Ii.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.