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

2. What think you of all the godly able Ministers of Christ that are now alive, or ever were? Are they not wiser then you, and a few drunkards that have scarce wit enough to do the Devils service without such sottishness as shames his cause? Have none of Christs Ministers, that spend their days in studying and searching after knowledge, more wit even in the matters of God, then a carnal Gentleman, or ignorant malicious wretch, that never used the means for Knowledge as these have done? In any other matter you will allow men that have made it the study of their lives to know more then you. If you want counsel for your states, you'll go to one that hath studied the Law. If you are sick, you will sooner seek advice of one that hath made it the business of his life to understand diseases and remedies, then to one that never studied it. You'll sooner take the judgement of every tradesman in his trade, then your own or another's that never learned it. Allow but those men to be competent witnesses that have bent their thoughts and prayers and cares this way, and the controversy is resolved. For what is it that all our Sermons plead for but Holiness in order to Everlasting Happiness? What is it that so many thousand Books are written for, but for Holiness? Open the Books of the wisest men, and see which side it is that they are on? Go to the wisest ablest Ministers, and ask them which is the better part?

2. What think you of all the godly able Ministers of Christ that are now alive, or ever were? Are they not wiser then you, and a few drunkards that have scarce wit enough to do the Devils service without such sottishness as shames his cause? Have none of Christs Ministers, that spend their days in studying and searching after knowledge, more wit even in the matters of God, then a carnal Gentleman, or ignorant malicious wretch, that never used the means for Knowledge as these have done? In any other matter you will allow men that have made it the study of their lives to know more then you. If you want counsel for your states, you'l go to one that hath studied the Law. If you are sick, you will sooner seek advice of one that hath made it the business of his life to understand diseases and remedies, then to one that never studied it. You'l sooner take the judgement of every tradeseman in his trade, then your own or anothers that never learned it. Allow but those men to be competent witnesses that have bent their thoughts and prayers and cares this way, and the controversie is resolved. For what is it that all our Sermons plead for but Holiness in order to Everlasting Happiness? What is it that so many thousand Books are written for, but for Holiness? Open the Books of the wisest men, and see which side it is that they are on? Go to the wisest ablest Ministers, and aske them which is the better part?