confessions and enchiridion
AUGUSTINE: CONFESSIONS & ENCHIRIDION
translated and edited by ALBERT C. OUTLER
AUGUSTINE'S TESTIMONY CONCERNING THE CONFESSIONS
I. THE Retractations, II, 6 (A.D. 427)
1. My Confessions, in thirteen books, praise the righteous and good God as they speak either of my evil or good, and they are meant to excite men's minds and affections toward him. At least as ...