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

I tell thee blasphemer, to the Justifying of my Lord, that all the world hath never done the thousandth part against mens faults, as God hath done. Never were there stricter Laws against them, then his Laws. And never more terrible executions. And yet wilt thou say, that its long of God, or Scripture, or Religion, that the world is naught? If thou stay a little longer impenitently in thy blasphemy, till death have but given thee the mortal stroke, (and its hard at hand) thou shalt then be answered in another manner, and God will easily justify himself, and stop all such vile and arrogant months, and confute thee with an everlasting Vengeance. Remember that thou wast forewarned.

I tell thee blasphemer, to the Justifying of my Lord, that all the world hath never done the thousandth part against mens faults, as God hath done. Never were there stricter Laws against them, then his Laws. And never more terrible executions. And yet wilt thou say, that its long of God, or Scripture, or Religion, that the world is naught? If thou stay a little longer impenitently in thy blasphemy, till death have but given thee the mortal stroak, (and its hard at hand) thou shalt then be answered in another manner, and God will easily justifie himself, and stop all such vile and arrogant months, and confute thee with an everlasting Vengeance. Remember that thou wast forewarned.

9. Yea furthermore, you are confuted and shamed by your own complaints. What is it that you quarrel with the Law of God for? is it not because it is so strict, and forbiddeth sin, and threateneth damnation for it? Is it not because it requireth so much goodness, and telleth you that none of the unconverted ungodly shall be saved? And what is it that you quarrel with the godly for? Is it not for serving God, and because they will not be as bad as others? And yet the same tongues dare blaspheme the Laws of God, and say, the world is the worse for them! And the same tongue dares revile the godly as the cause that the world is so bad! What should one say to such unreasonable men, that will at the same time murmur at the Holy word and ways of God, because they contradict the wickedness of the world, and threaten them with Hell fire because they repent not, and yet say it is long of this very word, and the preaching and obeying of it in a holy life, that the world grows worse! O impudent mouths! that at once revile the servants of Christ, because they will not be as bad as others, and yet say that its they that make the world so bad. God will very shortly stop such unreasonable mouths.