A65276:464
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. 14.
14. Rule. Consider how little will suffice nature.
The body is but of small continent, and is easily recruited. Christ hath taught us to pray for our daily bread; Parvaseges satis est, nature is content with a little; [Greek or Hebrew], not to thirst, not to starve is enough, saith Gregory Nazianzen, meat and drink is a Christians riches, saith St. Hierome*; and the Apostle saith, Having food and raiment, let us be content.
The body is but of small continent, and is easily recruited. Christ hath taught us to pray for our daily bread; Parvaseges satis est, nature is content with a little; 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, not to thirst, not to starve is enough, saith Gregory Nazianzen, meat and drinke is a Christians riches, saith St. Hierome*; and the Apostle saith, Having food and raiment, let us be content.
- *Cibus & potus sunt divitiae Christianorum.