A saint or a brute the certain necessity and excellency of holiness, &c. ...…

1. How blind and wicked is the heart that can find more pleasure in sin than holiness? Is the creature pleasant to thee, and God unpleasant? What a shame is this to thy Understanding and thy Will? It proclaimeth thy pernicious Folly and Impiety. If thou hadst no more wit then to be Pleased more with stones then gold, with dung then meat, with shameful nakedness then clothing, thou wouldst not be judged wise enough to be left to thy own dispose and government. But the folly which thou dost manifest, is unspeakably greater. Darkness is not so much worse then Light, and Death is not so much worse then Life; as sin is worse than Holiness, and the world than God. And is the Worst more Pleasant to thee then the Best? It is a fool indeed, to whom ⟨p. 343⟩it is a sport to do mischief, Prov. 10. 23. and so great a mischief as sin is: and yet hath no delight in understanding, Prov. 18. 2. Delight is not seemly for such fools, Prov. 19. 10.

1. How blind and wicked is the heart that can find more pleasure in sin than holiness? Is the creature pleasant to thee, and God unpleasant? What a shame is this to thy Understanding and thy Will? It proclaimeth thy pernicious Folly and Impiety. If thou hadst no more wit then to be Pleased more with stones then gold, with dung then meat, with shameful nakedness then cloathing, thou wouldst not be judged wise enough to be left to thy own dispose and government. But the folly which thou dost manifest, is unspeakably greater. Darkness is not so much worse then Light, and Death is not so much worse then Life; as sin is worse than Holiness, and the world than God. And is the Worst more Pleasant to thee then the Best? It is a fool indeed, to whom ⟨p. 343⟩it is a sport to do mischief, Prov. 10. 23. and so great a mischief as sin is: and yet hath no delight in understanding, Prov. 18. 2. Delight is not seemly for such fools,