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

2. And also these fleshly baits and pleasures are discordant even among themselves: They draw the sinner several ways; and one of them fighteth against the other: The riches of the sensualist do usually contradict his ease; and often his voluptuous humour: and his ambition and pride doth bridle his disgraceful lust; and one sin will not let another have its end, but robbeth him of the poor expected fruit: And thus they do distract the sinners, and tear their very hearts in pieces; and divide and dismember them, where God would heal them and unite them in himself. And the toilsome cares and labours by which these things must be obtained, are many, and oft contrary to each other; and a great deal of stir it is that a deluded sinner▪ makes to little purpose.

2. And also these fleshly baits and pleasures are discordant even among themselves: They draw the sinner several waies; and one of them fighteth against the other: The riches of the sensualist do usually contradict his ease; and often his voluptuous humour: and his ambition and pride doth bridle his disgraceful lust; and one sin will not let another have its end, but robbeth him of the poor expected fruit: And thus they do distract the sinners, and tear their very hearts in pieces; and divide and dismember them, where God would heal them and unite them in himself. And the toilsome cares and labours by which these things must be obtained, are many, and oft contrary to each other; and a great deal of stir it is that a deluded sinner▪ makes to little purpose.

The sum then of both these Heads is this. The matter of a Christians Faith, and Religion, Desire, Hope and Love, is therefore called One thing, because God who is One, is the sum of all. It is but One Sun, though it hath many beams, and all these beams are nothing but the emanations of the Sun; and have nothing but what they have from it: God is All to the Religion and the Soul of a true Believer: and therefore All to him is One: Creatures, and Duties, and Ordinances which are many, are all but One to him in God. His Faith beholdeth them, and his Affections relish them as united all in God. 1. As their spring from whom they flow. 2. And as the Life by whom they are all animated; and as the matter and sense which they signify and import. 3. And as their end to which they tend, and in which they all terminate and agree.