“Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, which freely submits to and delights in God’s wise and fatherly disposal in every condition…It is opposed to an unsettled and unstable spirit by which the heart is distracted from the present duty that God requires in our several relationships, towards God, ourselves and others…Contentment is soul business…”
Jeremiah Burroughs, (1600-1646), Puritan Preacher, The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment (1648; Edinburgh, Banner of Truth, 1964) 2-4.