A65276:208
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. 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,2 when the Divel cannot by violence destroy the Church, he endeavours to poison it; when he cannot with Samsons Foxtailes set the corne on fire, then he sowes tares; as he labours to destroy the peace of the Church by Division, so the truth of it by Errour; we may cry out with Seneca, Verè vivimus in temporum faecibus. We live in times wherein there is a sluce open to all novel opinions, and every mans opinion is his Bible. Well, this may make us mourne, but let us not murmur through discontent: Consider.
- 11 Branch.
- 2The Heresy of the times.The Heresie of the times.
1. Error makes a discovery of men,1
1. Errour makes a discoverie of men,