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

This is the Glory promised to the Saints; This is that Good part which they choose. I cite not the Texts of Scripture that prove all this, because the things are all so plainly and frequently expressed in the premises. And I shall have occasion to do somewhat of this anon. And so (in brief) I have told you what the Good part is.

2. We are next to enquire, What it is that is put by worldly▪ carnal men, into the other end of the scales, and is set up in comparison with all this Everlasting Glory? Yea what it is that is preferred by ungodly men before it? What is it that fin and the world will do for men? What do they find that lose the Lord? What do they get that miss of Heaven? What do they choose, t••• refuse the Needful, Better part?

And here I am even amazed at that which I must give you an account of; O wonderful astonishing thing, that ever such base unworthy trifles should by Reasonable men be put into any comparison with God! Wonderful, that so much madness and wickedness can enter into the mind and heart of man, as to let go all this Glory for a toy? And yet more wonderful, that this should be the case of the greatest part of men on earth! And yet more wonderful, that so m••y make so mad a choice, even when the case is opened to them, and plainly opened, and frequently opened; and when they are earnestly entreated to be wiser, and importuned to make a better choice!