This is one of Watson's most treasured works, and shares equal billing with Jeremiah Burrough's classic The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment. Soli Deo Gloria published it first in a lithograph of a 19th century edition, but were compelled to retypeset that work and publish it in an entirely new book so as to give it an even broader readership.
Table of Contents:
Epistle to the Reader
To the Christian Reader
- Introduction to Text
- The First Branch of the Text
- The Second Proposition
- The Second Branch of Text
- Resolving Some Questions
- The Nature of Contentment
- Reasons Pressing to Holy Contentment
- The First Use: How a Christian May Make This Life Comfortable
- The Second Use: A Check to the Discontented Christian
- The Third Use: A Persuasion to Contentment
- Divine Motives to Contentment
- Three Necessary Cautions
- How a Christian May Know Whether He Has Learned this Divine Art
- Rules About Contentment
- Use of Comfort
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