For the law of sin is the violence of custom,
whereby the mind is drawn and holden, even against its will; but
deservedly, for that it willingly fell into it. Who then should
deliver me thus wretched from the body of this death, but Thy grace
only, through Jesus Christ our Lord?
And how Thou didst deliver me out of the bonds of desire,
wherewith I was bound most straitly to carnal concupiscence, and out
of the drudgery of worldly things, I will now declare, and confess
unto Thy name, O Lord, my helper and my redeemer. Amid increasing
anxiety, I was doing my wonted business, and daily sighing unto
Thee. I attended Thy Church, whenever free from the business under the
burden of which I groaned. Alypius was with me, now after the third
sitting released from his law business, and awaiting to whom to sell
his counsel, as I sold the skill of speaking, if indeed teaching can
impart it. Nebridius had now, in consideration of our friendship,
consented to teach under Verecundus, a citizen and a grammarian of
Milan, and a very intimate friend of us all; who urgently desired, and
by the right of friendship challenged from our company, such
faithful aid as he greatly needed.
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