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

5. The Holy nature of the Saints disposeth their hearts, and inclineth their wills to the highest and most Honourable things. As in their Knowledge, so in their Inclinations, they are above the baseness of the world. The nature of man is not to feed as beasts and horses, and dogs do: he is above their food; and above their converse and kind of life: that will not content him that contenteth them. And the new nature of a sanctified man, is above the delights and contents of the ungodly. His heart cannot endure to take up with their kind of life. To mind nothing but this world, and to have no pleasure but to the flesh, and live as an utter stranger to God, and not to feed on the Heavenly delights, and riches of the Gospel, but live as if there were no such things; this sensual life is below his Inclination, •s feeding on dross, or conversing only with swine or cattle, is below the nature of a man. The noble soul is that which is inclined to the noblest objects: even to God, and Holiness, and everlasting life: and cannot endure the poor, and low, and sordid life of men, that have their portion here. Psalm 17. 14. Nothing that is corporeal, or transitory, yea nothing below God, can satisfy a holy soul. It is this Holy Disposition, that fits men for holy Duties: and that is their fitness for eternal Happiness. If Angels were not Holier then Devils, and godly men then the ungodly, Heaven could not hold them, nor could they any more see or enjoy the Lord, then they that are cast into outer darkness. And therefore if you dare say that the Holy are no more Honourable then the unholy, you must say that the Holy Angels are no more Honourable then the devils: which sure you will scarce be so desperate as to spe•• ▪

5. The Holy nature of the Saints disposeth their hearts, and •nclineth their wills to the highest and most Honourable things. As in their Knowledge, so in their Inclinations, they are above the baseness of the world. The nature of man is not to feed as beasts and horses, and dogs do: he is above their food; and above their converse and kind of life: that will not content him that contenteth them. And the new nature of a sanctified man, is above the delights and contents of the ungodly. His heart cannot endure to take up with their kind of life. To mind nothing but this world, and to have no pleasure but to the flesh, and live as an utter stranger to God, and not to feed on the Heavenly delights, and riches of the Gospel, but live as if there were no such things; this sensual life is below his Inclination, s feeding on dross, or conversing only with swine or cattle, is below the nature of a man. The noble soul is that which is inclined to the noblest objects: even to God, and Holiness, and everlasting life: and cannot endure the poor, and low, and sordid life of men, that have their portion here.