A65276:136
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.
Object. But it was my only Child,1 the staff of my age, the seed of my comfort, and the only blossom, out of which the honour of an ancient family did grow.
Object. But it was my only Childe,1 the staffe of my age, the seed of my comfort, and the only blossome, out of which the honour of an ancient family did grow.
- 1Object.
Answ. 1.1 God hath promised you (if you belong to him) a name, better then of sons and daughters*; Is he dead that should have been the monument to have kept up the name of a Family? God hath given you a new name, he hath written your name in the book of Life; behold, your spiritual Heraldry; here is a name that cannot be cut off.
Answ. 1.1 God hath promised you (if you belong to him) a name, better then of sons and daughters*; Is he dead that should have been the monument to have kept up the name of a Family? God hath given you a new name, he hath written your name in the booke of Life; behold, your spirituall Heraldry; here is a name that cannot be cut off.
- 1Answ. 1.
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