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

Quest. 15. Moreover, What an Hypocrite art thou to profess thy self a member of the Holy Catholic Church, if Holiness which is the life of the Church, seem needless to thee? Why dost thou profess to believe and desire the Communion of Saints, if the life of Saints seem needless to thee, and thou wilt not have Communion with them in their sanctity? Dost thou not plainly renounce thy Covenant, and faith, and duty, when thou renouncest a holy life as a thing unnecessary?

Quest. 15. Moreover, What an Hypocrite art thou to profess thy self a member of the Holy Catholick Church, if Holiness which is the life of the Church, seem needless to thee? Why dost thou profess to believe and desire the Communion of Saints, if the life of Saints seem needless to thee, and thou wilt not have Communion with them in their sanctity? Dost thou not plainly renounce thy Covenant, and faith, and duty, when thou renouncest a holy life as a thing unnecessary?

Quest. 16. Dost thou think, or darest thou say, that the bloody death, and holy life of Jesus Christ were more then needs in order to ⟨p. 76⟩thy salvation? Unless thou be a professed Infidel, I know thou darest not say so: And if thy soul were worth the sufferings of the Lord of Life, is it not worth all the cost and labour of thy duty? Christ lived a life of perfect holiness: he never sinned: he fulfilled all righteousness: he prayed all night, and with greatest fervency: preaching and doing good was his employment. Though he hated Pharisaical superstition, and the teaching for doctrines the Commandments of men, and serving God according to mens traditions, yet was there never so holy, and pure, and precise, and strict, and heavenly a life as Jesus Christ's: And this was for our redemption, and our example. And darest thou say that this was needless? Should we not endeavour to imitate our pattern? Are they better that are likest Christ, or they that are most unlike him? And which dost thou think is liker Christ, the holy or the unholy? Sure we that fall so short of the example that Christ hath given us, are far from being more diligent then needs, when Christ went not too far, nor was too strict, that went so very far beyond us.