Call not your burden sad

From "To honour God":The spirituality of Oliver Cromwell, edited and introduced by Michael A. G. Haykin, Douglas, Ontario: Joshua Press.

"Dear Robin, ...Thou desirest to hear of my experiences. I can tell thee. I am such a one as thou didst formerly know, having a body of sin and death, but I thank God, through Jesus Christ our Lord there is no condemnation, though much infirmity, and I wait for the redemption. And in this poor condition I obtain mercy, and sweet consolation through the Spirit, and find abundant cause every day to exalt the Lord, and abase flesh, and herein I have some exercise.

"As to outward dispensations, if we may so call them, we have not been without our share of beholding some remarkable providences, and appearances of the Lord. His presence hath been amongst us, and by the light of his countenance we have prevailed. We are sure the good-will of him who dwelt in the bush has shined upon us, and we can humbly say, We know in whom we have believed, who is able and will perfect what remaineth, and us also in doing what is well-pleasing in his eyesight.

"I find some trouble in your spirit; occasioned first, not only by the continuance of your sad and heavy burden, as you call it, upon you, but by the dissatisfaction you take at the ways of some good men whom you love with your heart...

"To the first: call not your burden sad or heavy. If your Father laid it upon you, he intended neither. He is the Father of lights, from whom comes every good and perfect gift, who of his own will begot us, and bade us count it all joy when such things befall us, they being for the exercise of faith and patience, whereby in the end we shall be made perfect (James 1)."...