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

But now it is the care of godly men to keep the Covenants they have made with God. All that which you reproach them for as too much preciseness, is but the performance of their Baptismal Vow. And if you be against the keeping our Covenants with God, should you not be against the making them? Are you not ashamed to be so forward to engage your children to God in Baptism, and when you have done, would have them he ungodly, and break the Vow they make? Will you by your Profession of Christianity, and coming to the Lords Table, renew your Covenants with Christ your selves, and yet make no conscience to break them, and plead against the keeping of them? We promise Holiness, and the serving of God, and forsaking the world, at every Sacrament, and whenever we promise but to be Christians: And are you for the making of these promises, and yet for the breaking of them, and revilers of those that endeavour but to keep them? O fearful impudency! Is this your Honesty? and would you have us all as faithless and dishonest, even with God? This was the perfidiousness of the Jews, Ecek. 16. 8. [I sware unto thee, and entered into a Covenant with thee; and thou be•••est mine.] We are married in Baptism to Christ; and is Adultery with the world, and forsaking our Husband, no dishonesty! Why then what is?

But now it is the care of godly men to keep the Covenants they have made with God. All that which you reproach them for as too much preciseness, is but the performance of their Baptismal Vow. And if you be against the keeping our Covenants with God, should you not be against the making them? Are you not ashamed to be so forward to engage your children to God in Baptism, and when you have done, would have them he ungodly, and break the Vow they make? Will you by your Profession of Christianity, and coming to the Lords Table, renew your Covenants with Christ your selves, and yet make no conscience to break them, and plead against the keeping of them? We promise Holiness, and the serving of God, and forsaking the world, at every Sacrament, and whenever we promise but to be Christians: And are you for the making of these promises, and yet for the breaking of them, and revilers of those that endeavour but to keep them? O fearful impudency! Is this your Honesty? and would you have us all as faithless and dishonest, even with God? This was the perfidiousness of the Jews, Ecek. 16. 8. [I sware unto thee, and entredinto a Covenant with thee; and thou be•••est mine.] We are married in Baptism to Christ; and is Ad••tery with the world, and forsaking our Husband, no dishonesty! Why then what is?