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

2. What monstrous ingratitude is that man guilty of, that when God hath provided, and Christ hath purchased such high delights, and freely tendered them to unworthy sinners, will say, I find no pleasure in them, and take them for no delights at all? When the Lord beheld thee wallowing in thy filth, and laughing in thy misery, and making a sport of thine own perdition, he pitied thee, and provided and offered to thee the most noble and excellent delights, that thy nature is capable of enjoying: And wilt thou cast them back unthankfully in his face, and say, They are unpleasant tedious things? If your child did so by his meat or clothes, yea or a beggar at your door did so by his alms, you would think it proved his great unworthiness: If he throw away the best you can give him, and say, [It is naught, there is no sweetness in it] would you not think it fit that want should help to mend his relish, and cure his ingratitude? And will you do so your selves by Christ and Holiness, and say as those, Mal. 1. 13. What a weariness is it? Take heed lest you provoke the Lord to cast you into a state in which you shall have more cause to be aweary. If you are weary of reading, and praying, and hearing, and other holy exercises, and weary of heart-searching, penitent meditations, will you not be wearier of Hell-fire, and of the dolorous reviews of this your folly, and of the endless, easeless, remediless sense of the wrath of God, and gripes of your own self-tormenting consciences! How just is it with God to give those men somewhat that they have cause to be aweary of, that will be thus aweary of his sweetest service, and reject the greatest mercies he can offer them, as if they were some burdensome worthless things!

2. What monstrous ingratitude is that man guilty of, that when God hath provided, and Christ hath purchased such high delights, and freely tendred them to unworthy sinners, will say, I find no pleasure in them, and take them for no delights at all? When the Lord beheld thee wallowing in thy filth, and laughing in thy misery, and making a sport of thine own perdition, he pittied thee, and provided and offered to thee the most noble and excellent delights, that thy nature is capable of enjoying: And wilt thou cast them back unthankfully in his face, and say, They are unpleasant tedious things? If your child did so by his meat or cloathes, yea or a beggar at your door did so by his alms, you would think it proved his great unworthyness: If he throw away the best you can give him, and say, [It is naught, there is no sweetness in it] would you not think it fit that want should help to mend his rellish, and cure his ingratitude? And will you do so your selves by Christ and Holiness, and say as those,