A65276:76
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.
Ans. Yes:1 Unto thee have I opened my cause, Jer. 20. 12.* and David poured out his complaint before the Lord*. We may cry to God, and desire him to write down all our injuries; Shall not the child complain to his Father? When any burden is upon the spirit, Prayer gives vent, it easeth the heart: Hannah's spirit was burdened, I am (says she) a woman of a troubled spirit*. ⟨p. 34⟩Now, having prayed and wept, she went away, and was no more sad; only, here is the difference between an holy complaint and a discontented complaint; in the one we complain to God, in the other we complain of God.
Ans. Yes:1 Unto thee have I opened my cause, Jer. 20. 12.* and David poured out his complaint before the Lord*. Wee may cry to God, and desire him to write down all our injuries; Shall not the childe complaine to his Father? When any burden is upon the spirit, Prayer gives vent, it easeth the heart: Hannah's spirit was burdened, I am (says shee) a woman of a troubled spirit*. ⟨p. 34⟩Now, having prayed and wept, she went away, and was no more sad; onely, here is the difference between an holy complaint and a discontented complaint; in the one we complaine to God, in the other wee complaine of God.