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

In their Praises and Thanksgivings it is God that they deal with: and the words of their mouths and the meditation of their hearts, are acceptable is the sight of their Redeemer, Psal. 19. 14. They pour out their souls before him: and he openeth his ears and his bosom ⟨p. 249⟩unto them, Psal. 62. 8. & 10. 17. [He will feed kis flock like a shepherd: he will gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.] Isa. 40. 11. And in the public Worship of God in the holy Assemblies, his servants also have communion with him: It is him that they hear whoever be the messenger: It is him that they adore, and praise and magnify [Come (say they) and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord: to the house of the God of Jacob, and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths—Come, and let us walk in the light of the Lord] Isaiah 2. 3, 5. [We have thought of thy loving kindness, O God, in the midst of thy Temple] Psalm 48. 9. [In his Temple doth every man speak of his glory.] Psalm 29. 9. Yea, the common employments of the Godly are sanctified, and thereby advanced above the highest actions of the wicked. For it is God and Glory that is in all their ultimate End. [Whether they eat or drink, or what ever they do, they do it to his glory, 1 Cor. 10. 31. That is, They intend his Glory as their end, and they do it in reverent obedience to his Will, and in a holy manner behaving themselves as may honour him whose work they do. And he that hath the face to say, that Prayer, Praise, Thanksgiving, Meditation, holy conference and other works of Holiness and Righteousness, are not a more Honourable employment then the sordid drudgery of the world, must say also that the life of a worldling is more Honourable then the life of the holy Angels and the heavenly host. They are obeying and praising God, and living in the sense of his dearest love, while you are sinning and scraping in this Earth. And can you believe that your life is more Honourable then theirs? If not; you must confess, that the Godly that come nearest the work of Angels, do live a more Honourable life then you. When Christ called Peter to leave his fishing and follow him and be his servant, he tells him that he will make him a fisher of men: