Were it simply that they are called upon to rejoice, how uncouth is this to men in that posture and circumstance they are supposed fallen into! Well, but yet count it joy, says he : not only moderate, keep in, and smother your contrary passions, - which was the highest lesson that philosophy and the Stoics, the best of philosophers, had taught, - but the gospel calls upon us 'therefore,' &c., or for and upon these temptations, to rejoice. 'Count it joy;'