| ### BOOK I |

| ### Index |

| #### CONSPECTUS #### CHAPTER I. HE PROCLAIMS THE GREATNESS OF GOD, WHOM HE DESIRES TO SEEK AND INVOKE, BEING AWAKENED BY HIM. #### CHAPTER II. THAT THE GOD WHOM WE INVOKE IS IN US, AND WE IN HIM. #### CHAPTER III. EVERYWHERE GOD WHOLLY FILLETH ALL THINGS, BUT NEITHER HEAVEN NOR EARTH ' CONTAINETH HIM. #### CHAPTER IV. THE MAJESTY OF GOD IS SUPREME, AND HIS VIRTUES INEXPLICABLE. #### CHAPTER V. HE SEEKS REST IN GOD, AND PARDON OF HIS SINS. #### CHAPTER VI. HE DESCRIBES HIS INFANCY, AND LAUDS THE PROTECTION AND ETERNAL PROVIDENCE OF GOD. #### CHAPTER VII. HE SHOWS BY EXAMPLE THAT EVEN INFANCY IS PRONE TO SIN. #### CHAPTER VIII. THAT WHEN A BOY HE LEARNED TO SPEAK, NOT BY ANY SET METHOD, BUT FROM THE ACTS AND WORDS OF HIS PARENTS. #### CHAPTER IX. CONCERNING THE HATRED OF LEARNING, THE LOVE OF PLAY, AND THE FEAR OF BEING WHIPPED NOTICEABLE IN BOYS: AND OF THE FOLLY OF OUR ELDERS AND MASTERS. #### CHAPTER X. THROUGH A LOVE OF BALL-PLAYING AND SHOWS, HE NEGLECTS HIS STUDIES AND THE INJUNCTIONS OF HIS PARENTS. #### CHAPTER XI. SEIZED BY DISEASE, HIS MOTHER BEING TROUBLED, HE EARNESTLY DEMANDS BAPTISM, WHICH ON RECOVERY IS POSTPONED HIS FATHER NOT AS YET BELIEVING IN CHRIST. #### CHAPTER XII BEING COMPELLED, HE GAVE HIS ATTENTION TO LEARNING; BUT FULLY ACKNOWLEDGES THAT THIS WAS THE WORK OF GOD. #### CHAPTER XIII HE DELIGHTED IN LATIN STUDIES AND THE EMPTY FABLES OF THE POETS, BUT HATED THE ELEMENTS OF LITERATURE AND THE GREEK LANGUAGE. #### CHAPTER XIV. WHY HE DESPISED GREEK LITERATURE, AND EASILY LEARNED LATIN. #### CHAPTER XV. HE ENTREATS GOD, THAT WHATEVER USEFUL THINGS HE LEARNED AS A BOY MAY BE DEDICATED TO HIM. #### CHAPTER XVI HE DISAPPROVES OF THE MODE OF EDUCATING YOUTH, AND HE POINTS OUT WHY WICKEDNESS IS ATTRIBUTED TO THE GODS BY THE POETS. #### CHAPTER XVII. HE CONTINUES ON THE UNHAPPY METHOD OF TRAINING YOUTH IN LITERARY SUBJECTS. #### CHAPTER XVIII. MEN DESIRE TO OBSERVE THE RULES OF LEARNING, BUT NEGLECT THE ETERNAL RULES OF EVERLASTING SAFETY. |