The religion of most men lies in the marketplace and in the view of others; their hearts, their closets are not privy to any secret transactions between God and their souls, and in the praise of men they have their reward. But the thriving trade of Christianity is the secret trade. Christians be most in those duties which men least observe and chiefly excellent in the invisible part of your visible work. Public duties are most honorable, but secret duties the most gainful (Matt 6:4).

— Bartholomew Ashwood

Heavenly Trade, 376

Ore from the Puritans’ Mine, 407