ERRORS IN PRAYER. 835 never enquiring whether a little more would not be a little better ; knowing, that if God had so judged, it would have been as easy for him to have given the more as the less. That is not true con- tent, which does not enjoy as the gift of Infinite Wisdomwhat it has, nor is that true patience, which does not suffer meekly the loss of what it had, because it is not his will that it should have it longer. The contentment of the irreligious man is apathy, his patience either pride or insensibility. The language of the patient man under trials is, It. is the Lord. - Shall a living man complain ? is his interrogation. " A good man," says Solomon, " is satisfied from himself." Here the presumptuous might put in his claim to the title. But his pretension arises from his mistake, for his satisfac- tion is with himself; that of the Christian with Providence ; it arises from the grace of God shed abroad in his heart; which is become a perennial spring of consolation and enjoyment ; and which,
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