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

1. If this be true that the world is so bad, which part is it of the world that you mean? Is it all, or some? Not all sure; that were too horrible censoriousness to say. Then God would presently ⟨p. 182⟩destroy the world. Sodom had one Lot, and his family in it Well? it is but some then that are so bad. And which part is it? Is it the Godly, or the Ungodly? If Godliness be naught, then Heaven is naught, where there is nothing else; And then take it not ill to be shut out? If it be the Ungodly that are naught, that's it that I am saying. It is time then to leave it, and to turn to God. Is it not you your selves that make the complaint that are the men that make the world so bad? Is is not you that are so Covetous and worldly that you have nothing for the poor, and no time to spare for the work that you were made for? nor scarce any room, to think or speak of the life to come? Is it not you that have so little Charity that you even hate men for Loving and serving God, and seeking diligently to save their souls? Its true, that there was never greater wickedness in the world then since there hath been so much Preaching. But What is that wickedness, and in whom? It is the despising and disobeying the calls of God; and the hating and neglecting of a holy life. Those that are saved by the Gospel, may say that it was a happy message unto them: but those that slight it, and wilfully sin in the openest light, may well say that it is a bad world with them: and worse it is, and will be for ever, if they be not converted, then if they had never heard the Gospel: It is you, and such as you that despise the mercies of the Lord, that make it a bad world; and then you impudently complain of it, and charge it on them that will not be as bad as your selves: and take away the candle and shut the windows, that the light may not trouble you.

1. If this be true that the world is so bad, which part is it of the world that you mean? Is it all, or some? Not all sure; that were too horrible censoriousness to say. Then God would presently ⟨p. 182⟩destroy the world. Sodome had one Lot, and his family in it Well? it is but some then that are so bad. And which part is it? Is it the Godly, or the Ungodly? If Godliness be naught, then Heaven is naught, where there is nothing else; And then take it not ill to be shut out? If it be the Ungodly that are naught, thats it that I am saying. It is time then to leave it, and to turn to God. Is it not you your selves that make the complaint that are the men that make the world so bad? Is is not you that are so Covetous and worldly that you have nothing for the poor, and no time to spare for the work that you were made for? nor scarce any room, to think or speak of the life to come? Is it not you that have so little Charity that you even hate men for Loving and serving God, and seeking diligently to save their souls? Its true, that there was never greater wickedness in the world then since there hath been so much Preaching. But What is that wickedness, and in whom? It is the despising and disobeying the calls of God; and the hating and neglecting of a holy life. Those that are saved by the Gospel, may say that it was a happy messageunto them: but those that slight it, and willfully sin in the openest light, may well say that it is a bad world with them: and worse it is, and will be for ever, if they be not converted, then if they had never heard the Gospel: It is you, and such as you that despise the mercies of the Lord, that make it a bad world; and then you impudently complain of it, and charge it on them that will not be as bad as your selves: and take away the candle and shut the windows, that the light may not trouble you.