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

If this be not so, never talk of your Christianity for shame: Your Religion is vain, if this be not your Religion. Alas I know that we have all of us yet too much of the flesh, and are too cold in our affections, and too slow and uneven in our endeavours for our end: But yet for all that I must still tell you, (as I have often done because it is necessary) that here lieth the difference between the truly sanctified soul, and all the hypocrites and half-Christians in the world: [Every true Christian is devoted unto God, and hath made an hearty and absolute resignation of himself and all that he hath unto him; and therefore loveth him with his superlative, most appreciative love, and serveth him with the best he hath, and thinks nothing too good or too dear for God, and for the attainment of his everlasting Rest: Christ hath the chiefest room in his heart, and the bent and drift of his life is for him: He studieth how he may best serve and please him with his time, his interest, and all that he hath: and if he fall, as it is contrary to the habitual resolution of his soul, and contrary to the scope and current of his heart and life, so he riseth again by repentance with sorrow for his sin, and loathing of himself, and sincerely endeavours to amend, and goeth on resolvedly in his holy course.] This is the state of every one that is in a state of life.

If this be not so, never talk of your Christianity for shame: Your Religion is vain, if this be not your Religion. Alas I know that we have all of us yet too much of the flesh, and are too cold in our affections, and too slow and uneven in our endeavours for our end: But yet for all that I must still tell you, (as I have often done because it is necessary) that here lyeth the difference between the truly sanctified soul, and all the hypocrites and halfChristians in the world: [Every true Christian is devoted unto God, and hath made an hearty and absolute resignation of himself and all that he hath unto him; and therefore loveth him with his superlative, most appretiative love, and serveth him with the best he hath, and thinks nothing too good or too dear for God, and for the attainment of his everlasting Rest: Christ hath the chiefest room in his heart, and the bent and drift of his life is for him: He studyeth how he may best serve and please him with his time, his interest, and all that he hath: and if he fall, as it is contrary to the habitual resolution of his soul, and contrary to the scope and current of his heart and life, so he riseth again by repentance with sorrow for his sin, and loathing of himself, and sincerely endeavours to amend, and goeth on resolvedly in his holy course.] This is the state of every one that is in a state of life.