Thomas Boston, Works, 2:339:
Observe the language of a contented mind: not only just, but “Good is the will of the Lord,” Isa. 39:8. Content suffers not a person to go drooping under God’s yoke, but makes him carry it evenly with a sort of complacency in it. Wise men have a pleasure in the working of physic, though it gripe them sore, if their physician thinks it good for their health, and they think so too. And grace sometimes finds a pleasure in pain, and a paradise within the thorny thicket of afflictions.
Observe the language of a contented mind: not only just, but “Good is the will of the Lord,” Isa. 39:8. Content suffers not a person to go drooping under God’s yoke, but makes him carry it evenly with a sort of complacency in it. Wise men have a pleasure in the working of physic, though it gripe them sore, if their physician thinks it good for their health, and they think so too. And grace sometimes finds a pleasure in pain, and a paradise within the thorny thicket of afflictions.
