"When we go about the performance of weighty and seroius duties, we should withdraw ourselves from all occaisions that may hinder or disturb us therein; especially, when we go about holy and spiritual actions and duties; as our Saviour now, being to give himself to Prayer, and withall inteneding to comfort his Disciples by revealing to them this extrtaordinary and miraculous Vision or Apparition of his heavenly Glory; he therefore withdrawes himself from all company except three of the Disciples and goes apart with them alone into a private solitary Mountain, where no unfit company, or other outward occaisions, might hinder or disturb him. So when we go about religious duties of God's Worship publick or private, we are first to separate and free ourselves from hinderances, we must ascend up above them, and leave them below us, when we are to pray, read, hear the Word, &c. ... The not doin og this is one main cause that we often find so many hinderances and distractions in performance of such duties."
-- George Petter on Mark 9:2
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