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

LUKE 10. 41, 42. And Jesus answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things; but One thing is Needful: and Mary hath chosen the good part which shall not be taken away from her.

IN order to the decision of the Great Controversy practically managed through the the world, Whether Godliness, or worldliness and sensuality be better? I have already performed the first part of my task, in proving the Certainty of the Principles of Godliness, and of Christianity; which of it self will infer the Conclusion, which I undertake to prove; that the Reasons for Godliness are so sure, and clear, and great, that every one must be A SAINT or A BRUTE: He that will not choose a life of HOLINESS, hath no other to fall into but a life of SENSUALITY: Either the superior faculties proper to a Rational Nature must be predominant; and then we can be no less than SAINTS▪ Or else the inferior brutish faculties will be predominant; and then, (though from your natural Powers you are called MEN, yet) if you may be denominated from your intended END, and from the USE of your faculties in order to that END, you are but an ingenious kind of BRUTES; exceeding A••• and Monkeys in the cunning contrivance of your unhappy designs; but incomparably worse in your successes▪ because you ⟨p. 2⟩were indeed entrusted with the noble faculties and gifts of MEN, while you captivated them unto your Appetites and Sense, and lived but to the END of BEASTS.

IN order to the decision of the Great Controversie practically managed through the the world, Whether Godliness, or worldliness and sensuality be better? I have already performed the first part of my task, in proving the Certainty of the Principles of Godliness, and of Christianity; which of it self will inferr the Conclusion, which I undertake to prove; that the Reasons for Godliness are so sure, and clear, and great, that every one must be A SAINT or A BRUTE: He that will not choose a life of HOLINESS, hath no other to fall into but a life of SENSUALITY: Either the superiour faculties proper to a Rational Nature must be predominant; and then we can be no less than SAINTS Or else the inferiour brutish faculties will be predominant; and then, (though from your natural Powers you are called MEN, yet) if you may be denominated from your intended END, and from the USE of your faculties in order to that END, you are but an ingenious kind of BRUTES; exceeding A and Monkies in the cunning contrivance of your unhappy designs; but incomparably worse in your successes because you