Much now have we said of the heaven of heavens, and of the earth invisible and without form, and of the darksome deep, in reference to the wandering instability of its spiritual deformity, unless it had been converted unto him, from whom it had its then degree of life, and by his enlightening became a beauteous life, and the heaven of that heaven, which was afterward set between water and water.

And under the name of God, I now held the Father, who made these things; and under the name of the beginning, the Son, in whom he made these things; and believing, as I did, my God as the Trinity, I searched further in his holy words, and lo! thy Spirit moved upon the waters.

Behold the Trinity, my God!--Father, and Son, and Holy Ghost Creator of all creation." That I might convey to my reader a just impression of the character of St.Augustine's philosophical writings, I have, in the two quotations here given, substituted for my own translation that of the Rev.Dr.
Pusey, as contained in Vol.

I.of the "Library of Fathers of the Holy Catholic Church," published at Oxford, 1840.
Considering the eminent authority which has been attributed to the writings of St.Augustine by the religious world for nearly fifteen centuries, it is proper to speak of them with respect.

And indeed it is not necessary to do otherwise.