A65276:369
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.
SECT. 12.
The twelfth Argument to Contentation.
The twelfth Argument to Contentment is, whatever change or trouble a child of God meets with, it is all the hell he shall have. Whatever eclipse may be upon his name, or estate; I may say of it as Athanasius of his banishment, it is nubeucla citò transitura, a little cloud which will soon be blown over; and then his gulf is shot, his hell is past; Albus ut obscuro detergit nubila coelo ⟨p. 203⟩Saepè notus, neque parturit imbres Perpetuos, sic tu Sapiens finire memento Tristitiam. Hor. Ode 7. l. 1.
The twelfth Argument to Contentment is, whatever change or trouble a childe of God meets with, it is all the hell he shall have. Whatever eclipse may be upon his name, or estate; I may say of it as Athanasius of his banishment, it is nubeucla citò transitura, a little cloud which will soon be blowen over; and then his gulf is shot, his hell is past; Albus ut obscuro detergit nubila coelo ⟨p. 203⟩Saepè notus, neque parturit imbres Perpetuos, sic tu Sapiens finire memento Tristitiam. Hor. Ode 7. l. 1.