A65276:168
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.
4. You have a friend in Heaven will never fail you;1 There is a friend (saith Solomon) that sticketh closer then a brother Such a friend is God;2 he is very studious and inquisitive in our behalf; he hath a debating with himself, a consulting and projecting how he may do us good; he is the best friend, which may give contentment in the midst of all discourtesies of friends.
4. You have a friend in Heaven will never faile you;1 There is a friend (saith Solomon) that sticketh closer then a brother Such a friend is God;2 he is very studious and inquisitive in our behalfe; he hath a debating with himselfe, a consulting and projecting how he may doe us good; he is the best friend, which may give contentment in the midst of all discourtesies of friends.
- 14. Reply.
- 2Pro. 18. 14.
Consider, 1. He is a loving friend. God is love*, hence he is said sometimes to engrave us on the Palms of his hand, 2Isa. 49. 16. that we may be never out of his eye, and to carry us in his bosom, 3