"It may be easy to get the mind fraughted with noise, news, notions; but to get the heart established with grace, drawn into a more substantial and experimental communion with Jesus Christ, according to the tenor of the New-Covenant, and in the Grace and Truth thereof; this is not so easy to be found and maintained, without extraordinary watch and diligence . . . Soul-searching, Heart-preparing, Sin-mortifying work, may have more advantage from the retirement of a nasty Prison, then (unless abundance of Grace be ministered) from being left to walk in a large place, especially if with a large principle of Liberty to touch withal, but being laid in Gospel-bonds under the Instituted charge of none."
Abraham Cheare, Words in Season (London, Printed for Nathan Brookes, in Bartholomew-Close, 1668), 252
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