Sixthly, Then are we in an healthfull _frame_ of _Grace_, when _God_ hath brought down our _hearts_ to be content with the changes of his _right-hand_ upon us: when we have learnt the _lesson_ of _Paul_, to be content with _food_ and _raiment_, with a _travellers_ and _strangers portion_, of so much as may serve us in our _Journey_: When we can tell how to abound without _Pride_, or _security_, or _trust_ in earthly things, and when we can tell how to want all outward _mercies_ with _quietnesse_ and _contentation_. _Obj._ But may not _Hypocrites_ be contented with smal _matters_, and suppresse their desires of great _things_, and say with _Esau_ unto _Jacob_: Keep that thou hast _my brother_, I have enough? [Sidenote: All changes and losses are made up to Gods people only by himselfe.] _I answer_, the desires of all men are not alike _greedy_; but yet the desires of men are truely satisfied without _God_: Now when _changes_ and the _losse_ of all things fall upon the _Hypocrite_, he cannot finde those _changes_ and those _losses_ made up in _God_: No _Habakkuk_ tels us, That it is the _Character_ of _Gods_ children, when the _corne_ is gone, and the _flocks_ and the _heards_, and the _vine_, and the _figtree_ faile, to rejoyce in _God_ alone for a _portion_, and to _glory_ in the _God_ of their _Salvation_. [Sidenote: _Seventhly._] [Sidenote: Joy in Sorrow.] Seventhly, Then are our hearts in an _healthfull_ frame, when we are not onely willing to suffer for the name of _Christ Jesus_, but when we also conceive a kinde of _pleasure_ in it; so saith _Paul_, I take _pleasure_ in _necessities_, in _distresses_, and for _Christs_ sake; Hence the Saints (_Heb. 13. 10_.) not onely suffered the spoyling of their _goods_, but they took the spoyling of their _goods_ with _joy_. _Object._ May not _Hipocrites_ suffer joyfully for _Christ?_ [Sidenote: Hypocrites pretend to suffer for Christ.] _I answer_, An _Hypocrite_ may doe and suffer with a seeming _joy_ for _Christ_: But he can never doe this out of _love_ to _Christ_, _1 Cor. 13_. but always out of _self-love_ for his owne _glory_ and _honour_, out of strong conviction of _conscience_, least he be damned in denying his _light_, _&c._ Onely _Gods children_ can out of _love_ to _Christ Jesus_ rejoyce (as some true _friend_ or _wife_) to be _afflicted_ and to _sorrow_ and loose for their _Souls beloved_. _Object._ Why then are many of _Gods children_ so _heavy_ in their _sufferings_ and _losses_ for _Christ Jesus_? _I answer_, This hapneth sometimes out of distemper of _body_; sometimes out of distemper and weaknesse of _minde_, which they labour against, and chide themselves for as did _David_, _Psal. 42. & 43._ why art thou disquieted O my _Soul_, and why art thou so heavy within me? still trust in GOD, for I will praise him, who is the _health_ of my _countenance_ and my _God_. [Sidenote: _Eightly._] [Sidenote: Christian weanedness from this worlds comforts.]