A65276:207
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.
9. The next Apology that discontent makes for it self,1 is the evils of the times. The times are full of Heresy and Impiety, and this is that which troubles me. This Apology ⟨p. 100⟩consists of two branches, to which I shall answer in specie; and first,
9. The next Apology that discontent makes for it self,1 is the evils of the times. The times are full of Heresie and Impiety, and this is that which troubles me. This Apology ⟨p. 100⟩consists of two branches, to which I shall answer in specie; and first,
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1. The times are full of Heresy.1 This is indeed sad,2 when the Devil cannot by violence destroy the Church, he endeavours to poison it; when he cannot with Samsons Foxtails set the corn on fire, then he sows tares; as he labours to destroy the peace of the Church by Division, so the truth of it by Error; we may cry out with Seneca, Verè vivimus in temporum faecibus. We live in times wherein there is a sluice open to all novel opinions, and every mans opinion is his Bible. Well, this may make us mourn, but let us not murmur through discontent: Consider.
1. The times are full of Heresie.1 This is indeed sad,