An Antidote of Rare
Physick.
No rarer thing that you can find,
To Cure a Discontented mind;
A contented mind it is most rare,
If you serve the Lord and stand in fear:
And let no want nor poverty,
Disquiet your mind, I tell to ye;
For God hath all things still in store,
If you have Content you need no more.
The Tune is, No love like a contented mind: Or, Phancies Phenix.
This may be Printed, June 5. 1685. R.L.S. Entred according to Order.
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INdeed this world is so unjust,
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Men cannot one another trust;
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Some are so troubled in their mind,
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One scarcely now a friend can find:
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There is such wavering every way,
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Makes many a Man stand at a stay:
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A contented mind it is most rare,
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If we serve the Lord and stand in fear.
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If a man be poor and have but small,
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If he be content it's the best of all;
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There's some has thousands at command;
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That's not contented I understand;
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They pinch and spare to make it more,
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And grind the faces of the poor:
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A contented mind, etc.
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If sickness comes count that no loss,
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But be content then with thy Cross;
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If it be Gods will it must be so
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It's a blessing, pray you say not no:
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And remember Job in all his ways,
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He evermore gave God the praise:
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A contented mind, etc.
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If you be cast in Prison never fear.
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Let not your heart and mind dispair,
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But be content and hope the best,
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When God is pleas'd you shall be releas'd:
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That man that serves the God of might.
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If Man do wrong him, God will do him right
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A contented mind it is most rare,
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If we serve the Lord and stand in fear.
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If a man have a charge of Children small,
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And has but little to maintain them withal,
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Let his Prayers be still unto the Lord,
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Then relief for them he will afford;
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And never murmur at your want,
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Although sometimes that things be scant:
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A contented mind, etc.
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Content is a pleasant thing therefore,
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And especially for the Poor;
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If a man be brought into distress,
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It will relieve him in his heaviness,
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And make him understand and see,
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What our good God can do for thee and me,
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A contented mind, etc.
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What ever troubles comes or goes,
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Let's serve the Lord, and give him praise;
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And keep our hearts both clear and sound,
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That no evil may our conscience wound:
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And love all men both Rich and Poor,
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And be content for evermore:
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A contented mind, etc.
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If Maids and young-men be cross'd in love
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And neither party be unkind,
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Let them put their trust in God above,
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And he will ease their troubled mind:
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And never pine at it I do say,
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Many has brought themselves unto decay:
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A contented mind, etc.
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Content's the best thing we can find,
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If any trouble do vex your mind,
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It will preserve us from all evil,
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And expell the Poyson of the Devil;
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For if our hearts be whole and sound,
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No evil thing can there abound:
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A contented mind, etc.
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The man that lives without content,
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And hath his heart now on Riches bent,
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Ne'r has enough, he'd still have more,
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His wicked mind runs on his store;
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But the poor man that enjoys content,
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Is in a better way when his life is spent:
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A contented mind, etc.
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Content will Cure a wounded heart,
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Content will never let it smart,
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Content it is a precious store,
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And he that hath it need no more;
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It's a remedy for Rich Poor,
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And a Plaister for every wounded Sore;
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Content it is so rare a thing,
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Great comfort to you it will bring.
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