Now Playing: Bach, "Sonata in B Minor", "Andante." Two weeks until my recital! Augh!

Burroughs on discontentment and using God's mercies now to fight discontentment:

“To be discontented in any afflicted condition is sinful and evil, but to be discontented when we are in the midst of God’s mercies, when we are not able to count the mercies of God, still to be discontented because we have not got all we would have, this is a greater evil.” (Ch. 10)

“… Job helped himself against all murmuring thoughts against the ways of God, with this consideration, that he had received so much good from the Lord.” (Ch. 10)

“If you do not make the mercies of God help you against your murmuring, you will make them aggravations of the sin of murmuring.” (Ch. 10)

Burroughs comparing us to old horses--old horses don't do much work, so they are turned out to pasture and not fed as much: “… when our consciences tell us we live and do but little service for God, why, what if God should turn us upon the commons? We are being fed according to our work.” (Ch. 10)

“[Of walking with God like Enoch] To observe what work God is now about, and to join with God in that work of his; so that, according as God turns this way or that way, the heart should turn with God, and have workings suitable to the workings of God toward him.” (Ch. 10)