A65276:134
The Art of Divine Contentment
Autarkeia, or, The art of divine contentment by Thomas Watson.
London: printed by T.M. for Ralph Smith, 1654
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
5. If God hath taken away one of your children,1 he hath left you more; he might have stripped you of all. He took away all Jobs comforts, his estate, his children, and indeed his wife was left, but as a cross. Satan made a bow of this rib (as Chrysostom speaks) and shot a tentation by her at Job, thinking to have shot him to the heart; Curse God and die: but Job had upon him the breast-plate of Integrity; and though his children were taken away, yet not his ⟨p. 64⟩graces; still he is content, still he blesseth God. O think how many mercies you still enjoy; yet our base hearts are more discontented at one loss, then thankful for an hundred mercies.
5. If God hath taken away one of your children,1 he hath left you more; he might have stripp'd you of all. He tooke away all Iobs comforts, his estate, his children, and indeed his wife was left, but as a crosse. Satan made a bow of this rib (as Chrysostom speaks) and shot a tentation by her at Iob, thinking to have shot him to the heart; Curse God and die: but Iob had upon him the brest-plate of Integrity; and though his children were taken away, yet not his ⟨p. 64⟩graces; still he is content, still he blesseth God. O thinke how many mercies you still enjoy; yet our base hearts are more discontented at one losse, then thankfull for an hundred mercies.
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God hath plucked one bunch of Grapes from you, but how many precious Clusters are left behind?
God hath plucked one bunch of Grapes from you, but how many precious Clusters are left behinde?