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

Quest. 23. Is it not most unreasonable impiety, for that man •• speak against too strict exact obedience, and against serving God •• much, that hath served the world, the flesh, and the Devil in •• vigour and flower of his days, and this with pleasure, and never said, It is too much? When thou wast drinking and sporting, thou wast not aweary: When it comes to a matter of riches, or honour, or ease, or pleasure, to gratify thy worldliness, pride, laziness and voluptuousness, then thou never sayest, It is too much? And is all too little for sin and the Devil, and all too much for thy soul and God? Let Conscience tell thee whether this be just.

Quest. 23. Is it not most unreasonable impiety, for that man •• speak against too strict exact obedience, and against serving God •• much, that hath served the world, the flesh, and the Devil in •• vigour and flower of his dayes, and this with pleasure, and never said, It is too much? When thou wast drinking and sporting, thou wast not aweary: When it comes to a matter of riches, or honour, or ease, or pleasure, to gratifie thy worldliness, pride, laziness and voluptuousness, then thou never saist, It is too much? And is all too little for sin and the Devil, and all too much for thy soul and God? Let Conscience tell thee whether this be just.

Quest. 24. Is it not a foolish wickedness, for that man to cry out ⟨p. 79⟩against making haste to heaven, and going so fast in the ways of God that hath loitered already till the evening of his days, and lost so much time as thou hast done? If thou hadst begun as soon as thou hadst the use of reason, and remembered thy Creator in the days of thy youth, and never lost an hour of thy time since then till now, thou hadst done no more then what thy God, thy soul, and all right reason required of thee! For surely he that made thee, hath in wisdom proportioned thy time to thy work, and hath not given thee an hour too much. A long life is short enough to prepare for everlasting. And shall a loitering Rebel that hath wasted so much of his little time, cry out, What needs so much ado?