A65276:225
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.
SECT. XI.
The eleventh Apology answered.
The next Apology is,1 The troubles of the Church. Alas, my disquiet and discontent is not so much for my self, as the public. The Church of God suffers.
The next Apology is,1 The troubles of the Church. Alas, my disquiet and discontent is not so much for my self, as the publick. The Church of God suffers.
- 111. Apology.
Answ. I confess it is sad, and we ought for this to hang our Harps upon the Willows*; he is a wooden leg in Christs body, that is not sensible of the state of the body. As a Christian ⟨p. 111⟩must not be proud flesh, so neither dead flesh. When the Church of God suffers, he must sympathize; Jeremiah wept for the Virgin daughter of Zion. We must feel our brethren's hard cords through our soft beds; in Music, if one string be touched, all the rest sound; when God strikes upon our brethren, our bowels must sound as an Harp