I answer, _Hypocrites_ may say so, but yet are angry when _God_ seems to deal with them, as he deals with others. Hence they quarrell with _God_, as if that _God_ seemed not to respect their offerings of _prayer_, and _fasting_, _Isa: 58_ But _Gods_ children confessing themselves _Beggars_ at _Gods_ door, and _Dogs_ under his _Table_, they wait for, and are humbly thankfull for every _crum_ of grace and mercy: So _Christ Jesus_ teacheth us to give thanks for the mercy of a little _bread_, and then for a little _Fish_, (_Mark 6_.) So after most heavy and wonderfull _afflictions_, _Jeremie_ cries out _Jehova_ is _righteous_, and professeth it is _mercy_ that it is not worse, and that they were not burnt up and consumed. [Sidenote: 6thly.] A 6th. Argument of the spiritual _health_ and _temper_, is when the _affections_ work strong and lively after _God_, after _God_ for himself, after _God_ as a _portion_ and _inheritance_, after _God_ as an _Husband_: when as the _Heart_ panteth after the _water-brooks_, so pant our _Hearts_ after _God_, when as the thirsty _ground_ longeth for the _showers_ of _Rain_, so long our _souls_ after _God_: When his words are sweeter then the honey, and honey comb, and of more esteem then thousands of _gold_ and _silver_. _Ob._ But may not _Hypocrites_ (as _Balaam_) professe so much and that in earnest? [Sidenote: Hypocrite affection to God.] I answer, the deceitfull _heart_ of a man will go wonderfull far this way: Yet certain it is an _Hypocrite_ respects _God_, but as a _Dog_ respects his _Master_, yea sometimes a _stranger_, and an _Enemy_ for a crust, or as an _Hireling_ for his _wages_: But _Gods children_, in the want of all things, are content with _God_ alone, his _Christ_, his _Spirit_, his _Favour_, his _Word_, his _Ordinances_: Hence _David_ professeth _Psal. 4_. Thou puttest more _joy_ into my _heart_, then in the time when their _corn_ and _wine_ increaseth: And _Habacuck_, when _Vine_, and _Fig-tree_, and _Flock_ and _Heard_ fail, he professeth to rejoyce in _God_, and to glory in the _God_ of his _salvation_. [Sidenote: God himself the portion of his.] 2ly. In the losse of all things, in the greatest _straights_ and _extremities_, _Gods_ children yet find comfort in _God_, that _God_ their portion is not lost. Thus as _David_ when his _wives_, and _children_, and _friends_, and _servants_, and _cattell_ were all devoured by an enslaving and captivating _sword_, and he finds no _Remainder_, but burnt _walls_ and _ashes_, and his own company ready to _stone_ him, yet as _David_ they take comfort, and incourage themselves injoying their _God_. [Sidenote: 7thly.] [Sidenote: Ready obedience to God.]