Ease (The Plain)

"This oasis in the desert was narrow, and extended but a very brief space. Ease is granted to pilgrims, but only for a little time, and for present and passing necessity; and this necessity being answered, they must again take the road, and bear its flints, and endure hardness as good marching soldiers of the heavenly King. It is not well for pilgrims to sit too long 'at ease in Sion.' And soon, recruited and refreshed, they must up and away for the onward journey. So our Pilgrims, entering on the plain of Ease, 'were quickly got over it.' And as this refreshment was for compensation of the past, so is it also designed as a preparation for a danger soon to come."[1]