Be sure of your call to every business you go about. Though it is the least business, be sure of your call to it; then, whatever you meet with, you may quiet your heart with this: I know I am where God would have me. Nothing in the world will quiet the heart so much as this: when I meet with any cross, I know I am where God would have me, in my place and calling; I am about the work that God has set me.

I beseech you to consider that God does not deal by you as you deal with him.

It is a special part of the divine worship that we owe to God, to be content in a Christian way, as has been shown to you.

To be well skilled in the mystery of Christian contentment is the duty, glory and excellence of a Christian.

It is the happiness of heaven to have God be all in all.

I am discontented because I have not these things which God never yet promised me, and therefore I sin much against the Gospel, and against the grace of faith.

Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, which freely submits to and delights in God's wise and fatherly disposal in every condition.