If I get Content by having my desire satisfied, that is but self-love; but when I am Contented with the hand of God, and am willing to be at his dispose, that comes from my love to God, in having my desire satisfied there I am contented through self-love, but through the grace of Contentment I come to be Contented out of love to God; and is it not better to be contented from a principle of love to God, than from a principle of self-love?

Burroughs, J. (1651). Sermon VI. In The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment (p. 76). London: W. Bentley.