The confessions of St. Augustine. Edited by The Rev. E. B. Pusey, D. D. Introduction by The Very Rev. H. C. Beeching D. D., D. Litt. Blackie and son Limited. London Glasgow and Bombay.Confessions is a book in which Saint Augustine wrote about his sinful youth and how he converted to Christianity. ... To a great extent this primacy was gained by his Confessions. In this work Saint Augustine offers us his autobiography and the description of his definitive spiritual attitude as a man before God.