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| He Calls Upon God, and Proposes to Himself to Worship Him.
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Chapter I.—He Calls Upon God, and
Proposes to Himself to Worship Him.
1. I Call upon Thee,
my God, my mercy, who madest me, and who didst not forget me,
though forgetful of Thee. I call Thee into1168
| 1168 See i. sec. 2, above. | my soul, which by the desire which
Thou inspirest in it Thou preparest for Thy reception. Do not Thou
forsake me calling upon Thee, who didst anticipate me before I
called, and didst importunately urge with manifold calls that I
should hear Thee from afar, and be converted, and call upon Thee
who calledst me. For Thou, O Lord, hast blotted out all my evil
deserts, that Thou mightest not repay into my hands wherewith I
have fallen from Thee, and Thou hast anticipated all my good
deserts, that Thou mightest repay into Thy hands wherewith Thou
madest me; because before I was, Thou wast, nor was I [anything] to
which Thou mightest grant being. And yet behold, I am, out of Thy
goodness, anticipating all this which Thou hast made me, and of
which Thou hast made me. For neither hadst Thou stood in need of
me, nor am I such a good as to be helpful unto Thee,1169
| 1169 Similar views as to God’s not having need of us,
though He created us, and as to our service being for our and not
His advantage, will be found in his De Gen. ad Lit. viii.
11; and Con. Adv. Leg. et Proph. i. 4. | my Lord
and God; not that I may so serve Thee as though Thou wert fatigued
in working, or lest Thy power may be less if lacking my assistance
nor that, like the land, I may so cultivate Thee that Thou wouldest
be uncultivated did I cultivate Thee not but that I may serve and
worship Thee, to the end that I may have well-being from Thee; from
whom it is that I am one susceptible of well-being.
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