"A saint cares not how ill it goes with him so it goes well with Jesus Christ; he saith, as mephibosheth to David, 'Yea, let him take all, for as much as my lord the king is come again in peace unto his own house.' (2 Samuel 19:30). So it may go well with God's name, Moses cares not though his be blotted out of the book of life; and, said John the Baptist, 'He must increase, but I must decrease. This my joy, therefore, is fulfilled." - Ralph Venning (1621-1673 or 1674). From Spurgeon's sermon notes
