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

Quest. 6. Doth not that wretch set up the flesh and the world abo•• the Lord, that thinks not most of his thoughts, and cares, and words, and time, and labour for the world to be too much ado, and yet thinks less for God and heaven to be too much? And dost thou think in thy conscience that the flesh is better worthy of thy Love, and care, and labour▪ then the Lord? or that earth will prove a better reward to thee then Heaven? Who, thinkest thou, will have the better bargain in the end? The fool that laid up riches for himself, and was not rich to God, and shall lose all at once that he so much valued, and so carefully sought, (Luke 12. 20, 21.) or he that laid up his treasure in Heaven, and there set his heart, and sought for the never fading Crown? Matth. 6. 20, 21, 33. and counted all as loss and dung for the excellent knowledge of Jesus Christ, Phil. 3. 8. Do you think that there is any thing more worth your care, and time, and labour, or can you more profitably lay it out?

Quest. 7. Have you not immortal souls to save or lose? And are not your bodies for their service? and to be used and ruled by them? And should not your souls then have more of your care and diligence, then corruptible flesh that must turn to dirt?

Quest. 8. Dare any one of you say that you are wiser then the All-knowing God? Is not thy wisdom less to his, then a glow-worms light is to the Sun? And hath not God most plainly and frequently in his Word commanded thee a holy life? Yea every part and parcel of it, is nothing else but the obeying of that Word: For if it be not prescribed by the Lord, it is not Holiness, nor that which I am pleading for. And when the living God hath told the world his mind and will, shall a sinful man stand up and say, I am wiser then my Maker? I know a better way then this? What need there all this stir for Heaven? What dost thou less then thus blaspheme, and set up thy folly above the wisdom of the Lord,