A65276:241
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.
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.
When God calls us in a special manner to be thankful for mercy, and put on our white robes, then Satan will be putting us into mourning; and in stead of a garment of praise, clothe us with a spirit of heaviness; so God loseth the acknowledgement of a mercy, and we the comfort.
When God calls us in a speciall manner to be thankfull for mercy, and put on our white robes, then Satan will be putting us into mourning; and in stead of a garment of praise, cloath us with a spirit of heavinesse; so God loseth the acknowledgement of a mercy, and we the comfort.
If thy sorrow hath tuned and fitted thee for Christ, if it hath raised in thee high prizings of him, strong hungerings after him, sweet delight in him; this is as much as God requires, and a Christian doth but sin to vex and torture himself further upon the wrack of his own discontent.