A65276:164
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.
Answ. 'Tis sad when a friend proves like a Brooke in Summer*; The Traveller being parched with heat, comes to the brook, hoping to refresh himself; but the brook is dried up: yet be content.
Answ. 'Tis sad when a friend proves like a Brooke in Summer*; The Traveller being parched with heat, comes to the brook, hoping to refresh himselfe; but the brook is dryed up: yet be content.
1. You are not alone,1 others o• the Saints have been betrayed by friends; and when they have lean• ed upon them, they have been as […] foot out of joint. This was true in the Type, David*; It was not […] enemy reproached me, but it was thou• a man, mine equal, my guide and […] acquaintance; we took sweet counsel together; and in the Antitype, Christ• ⟨p. 79⟩he was betrayed by a friend; and why should we think it strange to have the same measure dealt out to us as Jesus Christ had? The servant is not above his Master.
1. You are not alone,1