The Art of Divine Contentment

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.

4. Errour makes us more thankfull 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 Leprosie 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 Errour 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.

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2. The second Branch of the Apology that discontent makes,¹ is the impiety of the times. I live and converse among the profane,²