The Art of Divine Contentment

Name: The Art of Divine Contentment
Author: Thomas Watson

Autarkeia, or, The art of divine contentment by Thomas Watson.

Thomas Watson d. 1686London: printed by T.M. for Ralph Smith, 1654

[13], 280, [6] p. · 44k words · Wing W1102 · ESTC R23954

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THE ART OF DIVINE CONTENTMENT. › Chapter 9

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A check to the discontented Christian.

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Use. II. Here is a just Reproof to such as are discontented with their condition.¹

Use. II. HEre is a just Reproof to such as are discontented with their condition.¹

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This disease is almost Epidemical.^* Some are not content with their callings which God hath set them in; they must be a step higher, from the Shop to the Pulpit^*; they would be in the Temple of Honour, before they are in the Temple of Virtue; who step into Moses ⟨p. 53⟩chair, without Aaron's Bells and Pomegranates; like Apes, which do most show their deformity when they are climbing. Is it not enough that God hath bestowed gifts upon men, in private to edify, that he hath enriched them with many mercies; but, seek they the Priest-hood also^*? What is this but discontent arising from high-flown pride? These do secretly tax the Wisdom of God, that he hath not screwed them up in their condition a peg higher. Tentat Superbia, ⁴

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A check to the discontented Christian.