A65276:305
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. They are disciplinary; they teach us*. The Psalmist having very elegantly described the Churches trouble, Psal. 74. prefixeth this title to the Psalm, [Greek or Hebrew], which signifies a Psalm giving instruction; that which seals up instruction, works for good. God puts us sometimes under the black rod; but it is virga disciplinaris, a rod of discipline; Hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed it*. God makes our Adversity, our University: Affliction is a Preacher; *Blow the trumpet in Tekoah, Jer. 6. 1. The Trumpet was to preach to the people, as appears, vers. 6. Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem. Sometimes God speaks to the Minister to lift up his voice like a Trumpet*; and here he speaks to the Trumpet, to lift up its voice like a Minister. Afflictions teach us.
1. They are disciplinary; they teach us*. The Psalmist having very elegantly describ'd the Churches trouble, Psal. 74. prefixeth this title to the Psalme, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, which signifies a Psalme giving instruction; that which seales up instruction, works for good. God puts us sometimes under the black rod; but it is virga disciplinaris, a rod of discipline; Hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed it*. God makes our Adversity, our University: Affliction is a Preacher; *Blow the trumpet in Tekoah, Ier. 6. 1