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

Quest. 12. Consider also but the infinite Joys of Heaven, and tell me, Whether thou dost think, they are not worthy the greatest cost or pains that thou canst be at to get them? Dost thou think that Heaven is not worthy of the labour; that is bestowed for it by the holyest Saints on earth? Will it not requite them to the full? Will any that comes thither repent that they obtained it at so dear a rate? If now thou couldst speak with one of those Believers, mentioned in Heb. 11. that lived as strangers and pilgrims on earth, as seeking a better, even a heavenly Country, that preferred the reproach of Christ before the treasure of the world, and chose affliction with the people of God, before the pleasures of sin for a season, that were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might receive a better resurrection; that had trial of cruel m••kings and scourgings, and of bonds and imprisonments, and were stoned, sawn asunder, tempted, slain with the sword, wandered about in sheep-skins, and goat-skins, being destitute, afflicted, and tormented, though men of whom the world was not worthy: Would any one of these now tell you, that they did or suffered too much for Heaven? Or that it was not worth ten thousand times more? If ⟨p. 75⟩thy tongue dare say that Heaven is not worth the cost or trouble of a holy life, (or if thy life say so, though thy tongue dare not) thou judgest thy self unworthy of it, and sentencest thy self unto damnation.

Quest. 12. Consider also but the infinite Joyes of Heaven, and tell me, Whether thou dost think, they are not worthy the greatest cost or pains that thou canst be at to get them? Dost thou think that Heaven is not worthy of the labour; that is bestowed for it by the holyest Saints on earth? Will it not requite them to the full? Will any that comes thither repent that they obtained it at so dear a rate? If now thou couldst speak with one of those Believers, mentioned in Heb. 11. that lived as strangers and pilgrims on earth, as seeking a better, even a heavenly Countrey, that preferred the reproach of Christ before the treasure of the world, and chose affliction with the people of God, before the pleasures of sin for a season, that were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might receive a better resurrection; that had tryal of cruel mkings and scourgings, and of bonds and imprisonments, and were soned, sawn asunder, tempted, slain with the sword, wandred about in sheep-skins, and goat-skins, being destitute, afflicted, and tormented, though men of whom the world was not worthy: Would any one of these now tell you, that they did or suffered too much for Heaven? Or that it was not worth ten thousand times more? If