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

And do you not know that it is worse to be without holy affections to the God that made you, and the Christ that bought you? and to despise, forsake or abuse the Lord? Thou hadst thy Being more from him then from thy Parents. They knew not how thy parts were formed! It was he that gave thee thy immortal soul: It is by him that thou hast lived until now; much more then on the food thou eatest, or the air thou breathest in. And art thou so unnatural as to be ungodly, and deny him thy love, and care, and service, that hath made thee? and to call a holy, heavenly life, a needless toil? Deut. 32. 6. [Do you thus requite the Lord, O foolish people and unwise? Is he not thy Father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee and established thee?] If an unholy man be an honest man, that is so unnatural as to cross the end of his Creation, and deny his service to the Lord that made him; then he is honest that spits in his Fathers face, and despiseth his Mother that brought him forth.

And do you not know that it is worse to be without holy affections to the God that made you, and the Christ that bought you? and to despise, forsake or abuse the Lord? Thou hadst thy Being more from him then from thy Parents. They knew not how thy parts were formed! It was he that gave thee thy immortal soul: It is by him that thou hast lived until now; much more then on the food thou eatest, or the air thou breathest in. And art thou so unnatural as to be ungodly, and deny him thy love, and care, and service, that hath made thee? and to call a holy, heavenly life, a needless toyl? Deut. 32. 6. [Do you thus requite the Lord, O foolish people and unwise? Is he not thy Father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee and established thee?] If an unholy man be an honest man, that is so unnatural as to cross the end of his Creation, and deny his service to the Lord that made him; then he is honest that spits in his Fathers face, and despiseth his Mother that brought him forth.

4. Do you think that he is an honest man that is unthankful? It is agreed on by all the world, that unthankfulness is a principal point of dishonesty. He is no honest man that will abuse or despise those by whom he liveth, or that have engaged him by kindness. If you were so used your selves, by one whose lives or estates you had preserved, would you not say, [What an unworthy wretch is this? have I deserved this usage at his hand?] Why all the unthankfulness against men in the world, is not to be compared to thy unthankfulness against God. What are the Benefits which man hath given thee in comparison of his? Did ever man do any thing for thee that is comparable to thy Creation, and Redemption, and offering thee salvation from everlasting misery, and a room with Angels in everlasting glory? besides every hour mercy