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

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Perhaps you will say, that It was for both: for as you have a soul and a body, so you must look to both: Yea, but so as one ••at knoweth, that One thing is Needful: As your body is but ••e prison, the case, the servant of your souls; so it must be pro••ded for and used but as a servant, and maintained only in a fit•ess for its work: But the question is, Which of them hath had 〈…〉 ⟨p. 24⟩〈…〉 ⟨p. 25⟩⟨p. 24⟩the preheminence? Which hath had the life of your affections and endeavours? Which of them was your end? and about which hath been the chief business that you have most carefully and diligently carryed on? This is the great question.