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

Quer. 6. Moreover, I would know of you that doubt so of the life to come, Whether you have been true to so much Light as you received, and have lived in obedience to the Truth which God revealed to you. Or rather whether you have not wilfully and knowingly lived in some secret or open sin, and striven against the Light and Spirit of Christ, and abused the truth which you have known, and used violence with your own conscie•••• If so (which its ten to one is your case) it is no wonder […] ⟨p. 135⟩are Infidels, forsaken of God whom you first forsook, and given up to Pride and Self-deceit.

Quer. 6. Moreover, I would know of you that doubt so of the life to come, Whether you have been true to so much Light as you received, and have lived in obedience to the Truth which God revealed to you. Or rather whether you have not wilfully and knowingly lived in some secret or open sin, and striven against the Light and Spirit of Christ, and abused the truth which you have known, and used violence with your own conscie•••• If so (which its ten to one is your case) it is no wonder 〈…〉 ⟨p. 135⟩are Infidels, forsaken of God whom you first forsook, and given up to Pride and Self-deceit.

Quer. 7. If Man have no Life to live but this, and no further End of his Actions then a Beast, nor any further account to give, then he is indeed but one of the higher sort of Beasts, differing but gradually from a Dog, as a Dog doth from a Swine. And if this be indeed thy judgement of thy self, I demand, Whether or no thou be content to be used as a Beast? Wilt thou not take it ill to be called or judged a Beast by another? Or wouldst thou have others judge better of thee then thy self? Wouldst thou have no man regard thy Propriety, or Life any more then a Beast is to be regarded? A Beast hath no Propriety, no not of that which Nature hath given him. You accuse not your selves of doing him any wrong, when you deprive the sheep of his fleece, nor when you make a constant drudge of your Horse or Ox. And do you think it lawful before God, for any one that can but master you, to do the like by you? to strip you naked, and to make pack-horses of you, and use you as their slaves? We take it to be no sin to take away the lives of Beasts, if it be but for our own commodity: We kill Oxen, and calves, and sheep, and swine, and fowl and fishes for our daily food. And is it lawful before God for others to do so by you? Should nothing restrain them but want of Power to overcome you? If you say that you are Beasts, as Beasts you should be used.