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

But let us hear what God saith of this. Prov. 14. 9. [Fools make a mock at sin.] vers. 34. [Righteousness exalteth a Nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.] And yet you would make the avoiding it, a reproach.) Gen. 4. 7. [If thou do well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou dost not well, sin lieth at the door.] Numb. 32. 23. [Be sure your sin will find you out.] Jam. 1. 15. [Sin when it is finished bringeth forth death.] 1 Thes. 5. 22. [Abstain from all appearance of evil.] Matth. 12. 36, 37. [But I say unto you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgement: For by thy words thou shalt be justified; and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.] Matth. 5. 19. [Whosoever shall break one of the least of these Commandments, and shall teach men so, shall be called least in the Kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and •e••h them, the same shall be called great in the Kingdom of heaven.] vers. 22. [But I say unto you, that whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause, shall be in danger of the judgement—but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire. vers. 28. [I say unto you, that whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her, hath committed adultery already with her in his heart.] Vers. 34, 35, 36, 37. [I say unto you, swear not at all: Neither by heaven for it is Gods throne: nor by the earth; for it is his footstool:—But let your communication be Yea, Yea; Nay, Nay; for whatsoever is more then these cometh of evil.] Jam. 4. 12. [But above ⟨p. 94⟩all things, my Brethren, swear not; neither by heaven, neither by the earth, nor by any other oath: but let your Yea be Yea, and your Nay, Nay, lest you fall into condemnation.] Epes. 5. 3, 4. [But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not once be named amongst you as becometh Saints: Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient but rather giving of thanks. An hundred such passages of Scripture I might recite, that might quickly satisfy you, what God expecteth, and whether it be too much preciseness to fear the smallest sin.