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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65276	Autarkeia, or, The art of divine contentment by Thomas Watson.	Watson, Thomas, d. 1686.	1654 (1654)	Wing W1102; ESTC R23954	98,303	304

of the Text The Lesson it selfe with the Proposition II. I Come now to the second which is the maine thing The Lesson it selfe In whatever state I am therewith to be content Here was a rare piece of learning indeed and certainly more to be wondered at in Saint Paul that he knew how to turne himself to every condition then all the learning in the word besides which hath been so applauded in former ages by Iulius Cesar Ptolomy Xenophon the great admirers of Learning The Text hath but few words in it In every state content but if that be true which once Fulgentius said that the most golden sentence is ever measured by brevity and suavity then this is a most accomplished speech here is magnum in parvo The Text is like a precious Jewel little in quantity but great in worth and value The maine Proposition I shall insist upon is this Doctr. That a gracious spirit is a contented spirit The Doctrine of Contentment is very superlative and till we have learned this we have not learned to be Christians 1. It is an hard Lesson The Angels in heaven had not learned it they were not contented Though their estate was very glorious yet they were still soaring aloft and aimed at something higher Iude ver 6. The Angels which kept not their first estate They kept not their estate because they were not contented with their estate Our first Parents cloath'd with the white robe of innocency in Paradise had not learned to be content they had aspiring hearts and thinking their humane nature too low and home-spun would be crowned with the Deity and be as gods Though they had the choice of all the trees in the Garden yet none would content them but the tree of Knowledge which they supposed would have been as eye-salve to have made them omniscient Oh then if this Lesson were so hard to learne in innocency how hard shall we finde it who are clogged with corruption 2. It is of Universal extent it concernes all 1. It concernes Rich men One would think it needlesse to presse those to Contentment whom God hath blessed with great estates but rather perswade them to be humble and thankfull nay but I say Be content Rich men have their discontents as well as others As appears 1. When they have a great estate yet they are discontented that they have no more they would make the hundred talents a thousand A man in wine the more he drinks the more he thirsts Covetousnesse is a dry dropsie an earthly heart is like the grave that is never satisfyed therefore I say to you rich men Be content 2. Rich men if we may suppose them to be content with their estate which is very seldome yet though they have estate enough they have not honour enough if their barnes are full enough yet their turrets are not high enough They would be some body in the world as Theudas who boasted himselfe to be some body they never go so chearfully as when the winde of honor and applause fills their sailes if this wind be down they are discontented One would think Haman had as much as his proud heart could desire he was set above all the Princes advanced upon the pinnacle of honour to be the second man in the Kingdome yet in the midst of all his pompe because Mordecai would not uncover and kneele he is discontented vers 2. and full of wrath vers 5. and there is no way to asswage this plurisie of revenge but by letting all the Jewes blood and offering them up in sacrifice The itch of honour is seldom allayed without blood therefore I say to you rich men Be content 3. Rich men if we may suppose them to be content with their honour and magnificent titles yet they have not alwayes Contentment in their relations She that lies in the bosome may sometimes blow the coales as Iobs wife who in a pet would have him fall out with God himself Curse God and die Sometimes children cause discontent how oft is it seen that the mothers milke doth nourish a Viper and he that once sucked her brest goes about to suck her blood Parents doe often of Grapes gather thornes and of Figs thistles Children are Sweet-briar Like the Rose which is a fragrant flower but as Basil saith it hath its prickles Our relative comforts are not all pure wine but mixed they have in them more dregs then spirits and are like that River Plutarch speaks of where the waters in the morning runne sweet but in the evening run bitter We have no charter of exemption granted us in this life therefore rich men had need be called upon to be contented 2. The Doctrine of Contentment concernes poore men You that do not suck so liberally from the brests of Providence be content it is an hard Lesson therefore it had need be set upon the sooner How hard is it when the livelihood is even gone a great estate boyled away almost to nothing then to be content The means of subsistance is in Scripture called our life because it is the very sinewes of life The woman in the Gospel spent all her living upon the Physicians in the Greek it is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 She spent her whole life upon the Physicians because she spent her means by which she should live 'T is much when poverty hath clipped our wings then to be content but difficilia pulchra though hard it is excellent and the Apostle here had learned in every state to be content God had brought Saint Paul into as great a variety of condition as ever we read of any man and yet he was content else sure he could never have gone through it with so much chearfulnesse See into what vicissitudes this blessed Apostle was cast We are troubled on every side there was the sadnesse of his condition but not distressed there was his content in that condition We are perplexed there is his affliction but not in despaire there is his contentation And if we read a little further In afflictions in necessities in distresses in stripes in imprisonments in tumults c. there is his trouble and behold his content As having nothing yet possessing all things When the Apostle was driven out of all yet in regard of that sweet Contentment of minde which was like musick in his soul he possessed all We read a short Map or History of his sufferings In prisons more frequent in deaths oft c. Yet behold the blessed frame and temper of his spirit I have learned in whatsoever state I am therewith to be content Which way soever Providence did blow he had such heavenly skill and dexterity that he knew how to steer his course For his outward estate he was indifferent he could be either on the top of Iacobs ladder or the bottom he could sing either placentia or lachrymae the dirge or the antheme he could be