A65276:224
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.
Answ. Experiments in Religion are beyond notions, and impressions beyond expressions. Judas no doubt could make a learned discourse of Christ; but welfare the woman in the Gospel, that felt virtue coming out of him*. A sanctified heart is better then a silver tongue. There is as much difference between gifts and grace, as between a Tulip painted on the wall, and one growing in the Garden.
Answ. Experiments in Religion are beyond notions, and impressions beyond expressions. Iudas no doubt could make a learned discourse of Christ; but welfare the woman in the Gospel, that felt vertue coming out of him*. A sanctified heart is better then a silver tongue. There is as much difference between gifts and grace, as between a Tulip painted on the wall, and one growing in the Garden.
II. Thou sayest, thou canst not pray with that elegance as others.
II. Thou sayest, thou canst not pray with that elegancy as others.