A65276:306
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. Humility, commonly prosperous and proud; corrections are Gods corrosives to eat out the proud flesh. Jesus Christ is a Lily of the valleys*, he dwells in an humble heart; God brings us into the valley of tears, that he may bring us into the valley of humility; Remembering my affliction, the wormwood and the gall, my soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me*. When men are grown high, God hath no better way with them, then to brew them a cup of wormwood. Afflictions are compared to thorns*; Gods thorns are to prick the bladder of pride: suppose a man run at another with a sword to kill him, accidentally, it only lets out his impostume, this doth him good. Gods sword is to let out the impostume of pride, and shall that which makes us humble, make us discontented?
1. Humility, commonly prosperous and proud; corrections are Gods corrosives to eat out the proud flesh. Jesus Christ is a Lily of the vallies*, he dwells in an humble heart; God brings us into the valley of teares, that he may bring us into the valley of humility; Remembring my affliction, the wormwood and the gall, my soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me*. When men are grown high, God hath no better way with them, then to brew them a cup of wormwood. Afflictions are compared to thorns*; Gods thornes are to prick the bladder of pride: suppose a man runne at another with a sword to kill him, accidentally, it onely lets out his impostume, this doth him good. Gods sword is to let out the impostume of pride, and shall that which makes us humble, make us discontented?
- *Cant. 2. 1.
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