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

I will add but this one word of terror. To scorn at Holiness, is to scorn at the Holy Ghost, whose office or work it is to sanctify us. As the Father hath commanded us to be Holy as he is Holy, 1 Pet. 1. 16. and made it his Image on us; and as the Son hath come to destroy unholiness, 1 John 3. 8. and give us an example of perfect holiness, and sanctify to himself a peculiar people, Titus 2. 14. so is it the undertaken work of the Holy Ghost, as sent therefore from the Father and the Son, to make Holy all that God will save. And though I say not that it is the unpardonable Blasphemy against the Holy Ghost to scorn his very work and office, yet I say it is a Blasphemy against the Holy Ghost▪ so near that which is unpardonable, that the thoughts of it should humble all that have been guilty, and make men fear so horrible a sin. But [Blessed is he that walketh not in the Counsel of the ⟨p. 237⟩Ungodly, •or standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful: but his delight is in the Law of the Lord, and in his Law doth he meditate day and night.] The curse of the Lord is in the house of the wicked, but he blesseth the habitation of the just: Surely he scorneth the scorners, but he giveth grace unto the lowly, Prov. 3. 33, 34. These are the true sayings of the Lord.

I will add but this one word of terror. To scorn at Holiness, is to scorn at the Holy Ghost, whose office or work it is to sanctifie us. As the Father hath commanded us to be Holy as he is Holy, 1 Pet. 1. 16. and made it his Image on us; and as the Son hath come to destroy unholiness, 1 John 3. 8. and give us an example of perfect holiness, and sanctifie to himself a peculiar people,