A65276:182
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.
2. If your reproach be for God,1 as Davids was; For thy sake I have borne reproach*, then it is rather matter of triumph then dejection; Christ doth not say, when you are ⟨p. 86⟩reproached, be discontented; but [Greek or Hebrew], Rejoice*. Wear your Reproach as a Diadem of honour, for now a spirit of glory rests upon you*. Put your reproaches into the inventory of your riches; so did Moses*. It should be a Christians ambition to wear his Saviours livery, though it be sprinkled with blood, and sullied with disgrace.
2. If your reproach be for God,1 as Davids was; For thy sake I have borne reproach*, then it is rather matter of triumph then dejection; Christ doth not say, when you are ⟨p. 86⟩reproached, be discontented; but 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Rejoyce*. Weare your Reproach as a Diadem of honour, for now a spirit of glory rests upon you*. Put your reproaches into the inventory of your riches; so did Moses*. It should be a Christians ambition to wear his Saviours livery, though it be sprinkled with blood, and sullied with disgrace.