A65276:240
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.
2. When sorrow is indisposing, it untunes the heart for prayer,1 meditation, holy conference; it cloisters up the soul. This is not sorrow, but rather sullenness, and doth render a man not so much penitential, as Cynical.
2. When sorrow is indisposing, it untunes the heart for prayer,1 meditation, holy conference; it cloisters up the soul. This is not sorrow, but rather sullennesse, and doth render a man not so much penitentiall, as Cynical.
- 12. Dolour impediens.2. Dolor impediens.
3. When it is out of season; God bids us rejoice, 1and we hang our harps upon the Willows; he bids us trust, and we cast our selves down, and are brought even to the margin of despair. if Satan cannot keep us from mourning, he will be sure to put us upon it when it is least in season.
3. When it is out of season; God bids us rejoyce, 1and we hang our harps upon the Willowes; he bids us trust, and we cast our selves down, and are brought even to the margin of despaire. if Satan cannot keep us from mourning, he will be sure to put us upon it when it is least in season.
- 13. Dolour intempestivus.3. Dolor intempestivus.