A65276:238
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.
1. When it is disheartening, 1that is, when it sets up sin above mercy. If Israel had only pored upon their sting,2 and not looked up to the ⟨p. 115⟩brazen Serpent, they had never been •ealed. That sorrow for sin which •rives us away from God, is not without sin, for there is more despair in it then remorse; The soul •ath so many tears in its eyes, that it cannot see Christ. Sorrow as sorrow •oth not save (that were to make a Christ of our tears,) but is useful as •t is preparatory in the soul, making sin vile, and Christ precious. Oh •ook up to the Brazen Serpent, the Lord Jesus; a sight of his blood will revive, the medicine of his merits […] broader then our sore.
1. When it is disheartning, 1that is, when it sets up sin above mercy. If Israel had onely pored upon their sting,2 and not looked up to the ⟨p. 115⟩brazen Serpent, they had never been •ealed. That sorrow for sinne which •rives us away from God, is not without sinne, for there is more de•paire in it then remorse; The soule •ath so many teares in its eyes, that it cannot see Christ. Sorrow as sorrow •oth not save (that were to make a Christ of our teares,) but is useful as •t is preparatory in the soule, making sinne vile, and Christ precious. Oh ook up to the Brazen Serpent, the Lord Iesus; a sight of his blood will evive, the medicine of his merits broader then our sore.