Your soul is exercised and enameled with the graces of the spirit,
and is this not enough to give contentment?
Grace is of a divine birth; it is the new plantation;
it is the flower of the heavenly paradise;
it is the embroidery of the Spirit;
it is the seed of God;
it is the sacred unction;
it is Christ's portrait in the soul;
it is the very foundation on the which the superstructure of glory is laid.
Oh, of what infinite value is grace!
What a jewel is faith!
Well may it be called "precious faith" (2 Peter 1:1).
What is love but a divine sparkle in the soul?
A soul beautified with grace is like a room richly hung with tapestries or the firmament bespangled with glittering stars.
These are the true riches;
and is not there enough here to give the soul contentment?
-Thomas Watson, The Art of Divine Contentment
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