Liberty is sweet to a believer; but he can live in a prison, yea, and live merrily too, he can sing there if Christ be within the grate: Bread is sweet, but he can live in a wilderness (a desolate howling desart) and sing there too, as Moses did, if Christ be there, yea and prefer it before Canaan. If thy presence go not with us, carry us not hence. A wilderness with Christ is more precious than a Canaan without him. If ye were thorough believers; the world would not be accounted among the necessaries. One thing is necessary, one, not many. Other things may divert, or may a little refresh, but Christ is the necessary.
Lewis Stuckley — Lewis Stuckley, A Gospel Glass: Representing the Miscarriages of English Professors; or, A Call from Heaven to Sinners and Saints, by Repentance and Reformation to Prepare to Meet God, new edition recommended by Dr. Ryland (London: R. Edwards, 1809), section headed “Their partial Reception of Christ,” p. 45
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