Inward Gaze is harder than Outward Acts
Tis hard to look inward. External acts of religion are facile; to lift up the eye to Heaven, to bow the knee, to read a prayer; this requires no more labour than for a Catholic to tell over his beads; but to examine a man’s self, to turn in upon his own soul, to take the heart as a watch all in pieces, and see what is defective; this is not easy
The Christian Soldier, or Heaven Taken by Storm
p. 56
Thomas Watson, The Christian Soldier, or Heaven Taken By Storm (New York: Robert Moore, 1816)