A65276:213
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.
3. God raiseth the price of his truth the more;1 the very shreds and filings of truth are venerable.2 When there is much counterfeit metal abroad, we prize the true Gold the more: the pure wine of Truth is never more precious then when unsound doctrines are broached and vented.
3. God raiseth the price of his truth the more;1 the very shreds and filings of truth are venerable.2 When there is much counterfeit metall abroad, we prize the true Gold the more: the pure wine of Truth is never more precious then when unsound doctrines are broached and vented.
- 13. Reply.
- 2Etiam ramenta auripretiosa.
4. Error makes us more thankful to God for the jewel of Truth.1 When you see another infected with the Plague, how thankful are you, that God hath freed you from the infection? when we see others have the Leprosy in the head, how thankful are we to God that he hath not ⟨p. 105⟩given us over to believe a lie, and so •e damned? It is a good use that may be made even of the Error of the times, when it makes us more humble and thankful, adoring the free grace of God who hath kept us from drinking of that deadly poison.