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

Quest. 13. And are the torments of Hell so small and tolerable, that thou thinkest a holy life too dear a means for to prevent them? Dost thou believe the threatenings of the Lord, that he will come in flaming fire to take vengeance on them that know not God, and obey not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ; who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power! 2 Thes. 1. 8, 9. and yet canst thou say, What needs all this ado, to scape such endless misery! Thou wilt take any medicine to cure but the gout or stone, if once thou have felt them? Thou wilt draw out a tooth to prevent the pain of it. And is Holiness so hateful or grievous a thing to thee, that thou wilt venture on Hell it self to avoid it? If so much of Hell be in thy heart already, blame none but thy self if thou have thy choice.

Quest. 13. And are the torments of Hell so small and tolerable, that thou thinkest a holy life too dear a means for to prevent them? Dost thou believe the threatnings of the Lord, that he will come in flaming fire to take vengeance on them that know not God, and obey not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ; who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power! 2 Thes. 1. 8, 9. and yet canst thou say, What needs all this ado, to scape such endless misery! Thou wilt take any medicine to cure but the gowt or stone, if once thou have felt them? Thou wilt draw out a tooth to prevent the pain of it. And is Holiness so hateful or grievous a thing to thee, that thou wilt venture on Hell it self to avoid it? If so much of Hell be in thy heart already, blame none but thy self if thou have thy choice.

Quest. 14. Why wast thou baptized into the Covenant of holiness, to God the Father, Son and Holy-Ghost, if thou think it needless to perform thy Covenant? A holy life is no more then▪ in Baptism thou wast solemnly engaged too: There didst thou renounce the flesh, the world and the Devil; and tookest God for thy portion and absolute Lord, and gavest up thy self to be ruled by him, and saved by Christ, and sanctified by the holy Spirit; and dost thou now say, What needs all this ado? Are we all by our Baptismal Vow engaged to a needless thing? I tell thee, there is not the holyest man on earth, that doth any more then what he is bound to by the Covenant-Relations which he undertook in Baptism.