A65276:78
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. It excludes a vexatious repining, 1this is properly the daughter of Discontent. I mourn in my complaint*: he doth not say, I murmur in my complaint. Murmuring is no better then mutiny in the heart; it is a rising up against God. When the Sea is rough and unquiet, it casts forth nothing but foam; when the heart is discontented, it casts forth the foam of anger, impatience, and sometimes little better then blasphemy. ⟨p. 35⟩Murmuring is nothing else but the scum which boils off from a discontented heart.
1. It excludes a vexatious repining, 1this is properly the daughter of Discontent. I mourne in my complaint*: he doth not say, I murmur in my complaint. Murmuring is no better then mutinie in the heart; it is a rising up against God. When the Sea is rough and unquiet, it casts forth nothing but foame; when the heart is discontented, it casts forth the foam of anger, impatience, and sometimes little better then blasphemie.