A65276:181
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.
1. It is a sign there is some good in thee;1. Quid mali feci? saith Socrates; what evil have I done that this bad man commends me? The applause of the wicked usually denotes some evil, and their censure imports some good*. David wept and fasted, and that was turned to his reproach*; as we must pass to Heaven through the pikes of suffering, so through the clouds of Reproach.
1. It is a sign there is some good in thee;1. Quid mali feci? saith Socrates; what evil have I done that this bad man commends me? The applause of the wicked usually denotes some evil, and their censure imports some good*. David wept and fasted, and that was turned to his reproach*; as we must passe to Heaven through the pikes of suffering, so through the clouds of Reproach.
- 11. Reply.
- *Ps. 38. 20
- *Ps. 69. 10
2. If your reproach be for God,1 as Davids was; For thy sake I have borne reproach