The Confessions of Saint Augustine Book One In God ˇs searching presence, Augustine under takes to plumb the depths of his memory to trace the mysterious pilgrimage of grace whic h his . THE CONFESSIONS OF SAINT AUGUSTINE By Saint Augustine Bishop of Hippo BOOK I Great art Thou, O Lord, and greatly to be praised; great is Thy power, and Thy wisdom infinite. And . Confessions, orat least forhis beginningto write them,Augustine was forty-three. Hehadbeena baptized Catholic for ten years, a priest