A65276:235
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.
The twelfth Apology answered.
The twelfth Apology that Discontent makes for it self,1 is this: It is not my trouble that troubles me, but it is my sins that do disquiet and discontent.
The twelfth Apology that Discontent makes for it selfe,1 is this: It is not my trouble that troubles me, but it is my sins that do disquiet and discontent.
- 112. Apology.
Answ. Be sure it be so; do not prevaricate with God and thy own soul, in true mourning for sin, when the present suffering is removed, yet the sorrow is not removed; but suppose the Apology be real, and sin is the ground of your discontent▪ Yet I answer, a mans disquiet about sin, may be beyond its bounds in these three cases.
Answ. Be sure it be so; doe not prevaricate with God and thy own soule, in true mourning for sinne, when the present suffering is removed, yet the sorrow is not removed; but suppose the Apology be real, and sin is the ground of your discontent▪ Yet I answer, a mans disquiet about sin, may be beyond its bounds in these three cases.