And even where this is prevented by the grace of God, where men do _possess their souls in patience_, it may nevertheless occasion much inward heaviness, the soul sympathizing with the body. 2. All diseases of long continuance, though less painful, are apt to produce the same effect. When God _appoints over_ us _consumption_ or _the chilling and burning ague_, if it be not speedily removed, it will not only _consume the eyes_, but _cause sorrow of heart_. This is eminently the case with regard to all those which are termed _nervous disorders_. And faith does not overturn the course of nature: natural causes still produce natural effects. Faith no more hinders the _sinking of the spirits_ (as it is called) in an hysteric illness, than the rising of the pulse in a fever. 3. *Again, when _calamity cometh as a whirlwind_, and poverty _as an armed man_, is this a little temptation? Is it strange, if it occasion sorrow and heaviness? Although this also may appear but a small thing, to those that stand at a distance, or who look and _pass by on the other side_, yet it is otherwise to them who feel it. _Having food and raiment_ indeed (the latter word σκεπάσματα implies lodging as well as apparel) we may, if the love of God is in our hearts, _be therewith content_. But what shall they do, who have none of these? Who as it were _embrace the rock for a shelter_? Who have only the earth to lie upon, and only the sky to cover them? Who have not a dry, or warm, much less a clean abode for themselves and their little ones? No, nor cloathing to keep themselves, or those they love next themselves, from pinching cold, either by day or night? I laugh at the stupid Heathen, crying out _Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se Quam quod ridiculos homines facit!_