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

I give you no harder language then God himself hath frequently given you in his Word, and then you will shortly give your selves, if you repent not; yea and sooner if you do repent. If you have (in this) the use of your Reason, you must needs know what you have your Reason for: And I beseech you tell me for what you have it, if not to serve and please your Maker, and prepare for your everlasting state? Is it only that you may know how to plough and sow, and follow your trades and pleasure in the world, and satisfy your flesh a little while, and then die as the beasts that perish? None of you, I suppose, will say so, that calls himself a Christian: If God had made you for no higher things then beasts, he would have given you no higher faculties and endowments. As they be not made to enjoy God, so they have no knowledge of him: he sendeth not his Word to them, and calleth them not to learn the knowledge of his will: But you know, or may know, that there is a God, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him; and are capable of Loving him, intending him, and serving him, and therefore of enjoying him: Beasts are not ruled by the hopes and fears of a life after this: For their nature and end do not require it. But men must be thus ruled, or else there can be no sufficient ruling of them, in an ordinary way: Which shows that the Nature of man is capable of the things which are the matter of their hopes and fears.

I give you no harder language then God himself hath frequently given you in his Word, and then you will shortly give your selves, if you repent not; yea and sooner if you do repent. If you have (in this) the use of your Reason, you must needs know what you have your Reason for: And I beseech you tell me for what you have it, if not to serve and please your Maker, and prepare for your everlasting state? Is it only that you may know how to plow and sow, and follow your trades and pleasure in the world, and satisfie your flesh a little while, and then die as the beasts that perish? None of you, I suppose, will say so, that calls himself a Christian: If God had made you for no higher things then beasts, he would have given you no higher faculties and endowments. As they be not made to enjoy God, so they have no knowledge of him: he sendeth not his Word to them, and calleth them not to learn the knowledge of his will: But you know, or may know, that there is a God, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him; and are capable of Loving him, intending him, and serving him, and therefore of enjoying him: Beasts are not ruled by the hopes and fears of a life after this: For their nature and end do not require it. But men must be thus ruled, or else there can be no sufficient ruling of them, in an ordinary way: Which shews that the Nature of man is capable of the things which are the matter of their hopes and fears.