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

Thus much being said for the Explication of the Text, there is no more necessary but what will fall in most conveniently ⟨p. 7⟩with the Matter: The sense is as if Christ should have said […] Martha, Martha; I know thou dost all this in love to me, and •anest well in it; and it is no more then whats thy duty in its •per season: But O what is the food that perisheth in compari• of that which endureth to everlasting life! It is my meat •d drink to do the will of him that sent me, in feeding and in •ing souls: Thou hadst now an opportunity to hear my word; […] word of the Son of God, thy Saviour, and thereby to have emoted thy Everlasting happiness, as Mary doth; and this should have been preferred even before this provision for our bodies: and […] for this thou hadst now omitted thy care and labour about eat and drink, I would not at all have been offended with thee: thou hadst thy choice, and Mary had her choice; Thou hast chosen •e and trouble about many things, and made thy self a great •al ado; but Mary hath chosen that one thing that was necessary, which is the better part, and therefore it shall not be taken from •er, but she shall possess the benefit of her choice.]

Thus much being said for the Explication of the Text, there is no more necessary but what will fall in most conveniently ⟨p. 7⟩with the Matter: The sense is as if Christ should have said 〈…〉 Martha, Martha; I know thou dost all this in love to me, and •anest well in it; and it is no more then whats thy duty in its •per season: But O what is the food that perisheth in compari• of that which endureth to everlasting life! It is my meat •d drink to do the will of him that sent me, in feeding and in ing souls: Thou hadst now an opportunity to hear my word; word of the Son of God, thy Saviour, and thereby to have moted thy Everlasting happiness, as Mary doth; and this should have been preferred even before this provision for our bodies: and for this thou hadst now omitted thy care and labour about eat and drink, I would not at all have been offended with thee: thou hadst thy choice, and Mary had her choice; Thou hast chosen e and trouble about many things, and made thy self a great al ado; but Mary hath chosen that one thing that was necessary, which is the better part, and therefore it shall not be taken from er, but she shall possess the benefit of her choice.]