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

Quest. 19. Art thou wiser in this, and more to be believed, then all the ancient Prophets, and Apostles, and servants of God in former ⟨p. 77⟩ages, and then all that are now alive on earth, that ever tried a holy life? The Scripture will tell thee that Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, David, and all the rest of the Saints that were then most dear to God, were so far from thinking that a holy life was more then needs, that they thought they could never be holy enough, and blamed their defects when they excelled such as now thou blamest as too precise. And if thou wilt prefer the words and example of a worldling, or of a sottish sensual man, before the judgement and example of these Saints, the company that thou choosest, and the deceivers whom thou followest, shall be also thy companions in calamity, where shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see the Saints from East and West, from North and South, sit down with Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the Prophets, in the Kingdom of God, and you, and such as you thrust out: Even when the last in time (whom you here despised) shall be equal to the first and ancient Saints, Luke 13. 27, 28, 29, 30. Why do you hypocritically honour the names and memorials of the Prophets, Apostles, and other former Saints, and keep Holy-days for them▪ and yet reproach their holy course, and prefer the judgement of a drunkard or a malignant enemy of godliness before theirs? For so you do when you argue against a holy life.

Quest. 19. Art thou wiser in this, and more to be believed, then all the antient Prophets, and Apostles, and servants of God in former ⟨p. 77⟩ages, and then all that are now alive on earth, that ever tryed a holy life? The Scripture will tell thee that Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, David, and all the rest of the Saints that were then most dear to God, were so far from thinking that a holy life was more then needs, that they thought they could never be holy enough, and blamed their defects when they excelled such as now thou blamest as too precise. And if thou wilt preferr the words and example of a worldling, or of a sottish sensual man, before the judgement and example of these Saints, the company that thou choosest, and the deceivers whom thou followest, shall be also thy companions in calamity, where shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see the Saints from East and West, from North and South, sit down with Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the Prophets, in the Kingdom of God, and you, and such as you thrust out: Even when the last in time (whom you here despised) shall be equal to the first and antient Saints,