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

6. Do you think that a perfidious unfaithful man, or a faithful man that will not be hired to break his word, is the honester man? Sure this is no hard question neither. A Knight of the Post, that will say and unsay, swear and forswear, and will betray his dearest friend for a groat, is taken by few for an honest man, in comparison of him that will rather die then lye or be unfaithful. Why nothing is more plain, then that all you that are ungodly, are treacherous to the Lord himself: You are perfidious Covenant-breakers: You owe him your selves wholly on the grounds that I before expressed: and yet you are unfaithful to him. You have all from him, and you serve his enemy with it: You call him your God, and will not Love, nor honour, nor serve him as your God, Mal. 1. 6. You bound your selves to him in your Baptism, and many a time since, by a solemn Vow or Covenant: but you live in the treacherous breach of it continually. You Covenanted to take the Lord for your God; and yet you will not seek him, nor be Ruled by him. You Covenanted to take Jesus for your saviour, and yet will not be saved by him from your sins, Matth. 1. 21. You Covenanted to take the Holy-Ghost for your Sanctifier, to purify your hearts and lives; and yet you resist his holy motions, and hate his sanctifying word and work, and some of you will mock at Sanctification and the Spirit. And can the soul of man be guilty of greater unfaithfulness or treachery? You Covenanted to forsake the flesh, the world, and the Devil: and now you serve them more then Christ, and think your time is better bestowed for them, then in the service of the Lord! And is this ⟨p. 212⟩your Covenant-keeping? No Traitors, no perjured wretches in the world are dishonest men, if these be not dishonest.

6. Do you think that a perfidious unfaithful man, or a faithful man that will not be hired to break his word, is the honester man? Sure this is no hard question neither. A Knight of the Post, that will say and unsay, swear and forswear, and will betray his dearest friend for a groat, is taken by few for an honest man, in comparison of him that will rather die then lye or be unfaithful. Why nothing is more plain, then that all you that are ungodly, are treacherous to the Lord himself: You are perfidious Covenant-breakers: You owe him your selves wholly on the grounds that I before expressed: and yet you are unfaithful to him. You have all from him, and you serve his enemy with it: You call him your God, and will not Love, nor honour, nor serve him as your God,