A65276:417
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. 5.
5. Rule. Learn to deny your selves.
Look well to your affections, bridle them in. Do two things,
1. Mortify your desires. 2. Moderate your delights.
1. Mortifie your desires. 2. Moderate your delights.
1. Mortify your desires; We must not be of the Dragons temper, who (they say) is so thirsty, that no water will quench his thirst; Mortify therefore your inordinate affection*; in the Greek it is [Greek or Hebrew], your evil affection; to show that our desires when they are inordinate, are evil. Crucify your desires, ⟨p. 245⟩[Greek or Hebrew], be as dead men; a dead man hath no appetite.