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

1. That this hath always been the old complaint of the most wicked men, which God himself hath testified against: When Lot did but gently admonish the abominable Sodomites to forbear a villainy not to be named, Gen. 19. 7, 8, 9. [I pray you Brethren, do not so wickedly] What said they to him? and how did they take it? Why [they said, stand back: and they said again, This One fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a Judge! Now will we deal worse with thee then with them.] Is not this the case between us now? How are we unpeaceable? Because we are against sin? If we would hinder men from wronging God, and from condemning their own souls, and others, then forsooth, we are their troublers, and we judge them, and we disturb their Peace? Just like the Sodomites, [These precise fellows, say they, will need be our Judges, and we must be ruled by them; before they came among us we had none of this ado;] But did not God, think you, decide the controversy aright? He first took Lot and his family ⟨p. 179⟩away, that the Sodomites might be troubled with that precise and busy fellow no more; and then he sent fire from Heaven on Sodom, and consumed them all, making them an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire, Jude 7. Or as it is fully set forth by the Holy Ghost. 2 Pet. 2. 6, 7, 8, 9. [Turning the Cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, he condemned them with an overthrow, making them an example to those that after should live ungodly: (Mark this) And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds) The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust to the day of Judgement to be punished.]

1. That this hath alwayes been the old complaint of the most wicked men, which God himself hath testified against: When Lot did but gently admonish the abominable Sodomites to forbear a villany not to be named, Gen. 19. 7, 8, 9. [I pray you Brethren, do not so wickedly] What said they to him? and how did they take it? Why [they said, stand back: and they said again, This One fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a Judge! Now will we deal worse with thee then with them.] Is not this the case between us now? How are we unpeaceable? Because we are against sin? If we would hinder men from wronging God, and from condemning their own souls, and others, then forsooth, we are their troublers, and we judge them, and we disturb their Peace? Just like the Sodomites, [These precise fellows, say they, will neede be our Judges, and we must be ruled by them; before they came among us we had none of this ado;] But did not God, think you, decide the controversie aright? He first took Lot and his family