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

Judge now by all these wonderful Titles, whether any but an Atheist or Infidel can deny, that the Godly are the most Honourable people in the world. If it be not a contemptible thing to be the son of a King, much less to be the sons of the eternal King. Deny the Honour of those that are so nearly related to him, and you deny the Honour of God himself, and consequently deny him to be God. Atheism is the beginning and end of all.

3. Moreover the servants of the Lord have the most Honourable Natures or Dispositions in the world. And the Honour that ariseth from a mans intrinsical Disposition, is far greater then that which accrueth to him from his parentage, or wealth, or worldly greatness, or any such extrinsic accidents. Many a proud and worthless person doth boast of the Nobility of their Ancestors, and tell you what blood doth run in their veins; when they have debased souls, and nothing advanced them of their Ancestors, but their Riches, or the pleasure of some Prince; and they know that the beggars at their doors did come from Noah as well as they. The Surgeon findeth no purer blood in their veins, then in the beggars; nor are their carcasses any more sweet or lovely; and therefore if their manners are worse, they are more base then honest beggars. It is the mind that beareth the true stamp of Nobility. They are the Noblest that have the Noblest souls. All the Silks and Velvets in the world, will not make an Ape as Honourable as a Man, nor an Idiot as a wise man. Solomon in all his Royalty was not clothed like some of the flowers in the field, Mat. 6. 28. 29. and yet he was more Honourable then they. A Corpse may be most sumptuously adorned: A Crown may be set on the head of an image. Such as the mind is, such is the man. And that the souls of the sanctified are more Nobly qualified then of other men, is easily demonstrated. For,

3. Moreover the servants of the Lord have the most Honourable Natures or Dispositions in the world. And the Honour that ariseth from a mans intrinsecal Disposition, is far greater then that which accrueth to him from his parentage, or wealth, or worldly greatness, or any such extrinsick accidents. Many a proud and worthless person doth boast of the Nobility of their Ancestors, and tell you what blood doth run in their veins; when they have debased souls, and nothing advanced them of their Ancestors, but their Riches, or the pleasure of some Prince; and they know that the beggars at their doors did come from Noah as well as they. The Surgeon findeth no purer blood in their veins, then in the beggars; nor are their carkasses any more sweet or lovely; and therefore if their manners are worse, they are more base then honest beggars. It is the mind that beareth the true stamp of Nobility. They are the Noblest that have the Noblest souls. All the Silks and Velvers in the world, will not make an Ape as Honourable as a Man, nor an Ideot as a wise man. Solomon in all his Royalty was not cloathed like some of the flowers in the field,