A65276:155
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.
3. Say not,1 you have brought forth a child for the Devil, God can reduce him; He hath promised to turn the heart of the children to their Parents*, and to open springs of grace in the Desert*; When thy child is going full-sail to the Devil, God can blow with a contrary wind of his Spirit, and alter his course. When Paul was breathing out persecution against the Saints, and was sailing hell-ward, God turns him another way; before he was going to Damascus, God sends him to Ananias; before a Persecutor, now a Preacher. Though our children are for the present fallen into the Devils pound, God can turn them from the power of Satan*, and bring them in at the twelfth hour. Monica was weeping for her son Augustine, at last God gave him in upon prayer, and he became a famous instrument in the Church of God.
3. Say not,1 you have brought forth a childe for the Devill, God can reduce him; He hath promised to turne the heart of the children to their Parents*, and to open springs of grace in the Desert*; When thy childe is going full-saile to the Devill, God can blow with a contrary winde of his Spirit, and alter his course. When Paul was breathing out persecution against the Saints, and was sailing hell-ward, God turns him another way; before he was going to Damascus, God sends him to Ananias; before a Persecutor, now a Preacher. Though our children are for the present fallen into the Devills pound, God can turne them from the power of Satan*, and bring them in at the twelfth houre. Monica was weeping for her son Augustine, at last God gave him in upon prayer, and he became a famous instrument in the Church of God.