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

3. The work also that they are employed in, is like the Design. Sin, which is the Basest thing in the world, is their employment. The work of a Scullion, or the basest honest trade you can imagine, is a thousand times less dishonourable, then sin: Yet flattered Gallants believe not this, when they can please their flesh without losing the teputation of worthy Gentlemen! Nor will our common ungodly people be persuaded of it, that are more ashamed to be found praying then sinning, and to be called a Puritan then a Good-fellow or a Swearer: and that think they are as good men as others, when up to the ears in the drudgery of the Devil: As if the filth of sin were no dishonour to them, which nothing but the Spirit and blood of Christ is able to wash out. These are the men that Paul mentioneth with weeping, Phil. 3. 18. that mind earthly things, whose God is their belly, and who glory in their shame.

3. The work also that they are employed in, is like the Design. Sin, which is the Basest thing in the world, is their employment. The work of a Scullion, or the basest honest trade you can imagine, is a thousand times less dishonourable, then sin: Yet flattered Gallants believe not this, when they can please their flesh without losing the teputation of worthy Gentlemen! Nor will our common ungodly people be perswaded of it, that are more ashamed to be found praying then sinning, and to be called a Puritane then a Good-fellow or a Swearer: and that think they are as good men as others, when up to the ears in the drudgery of the Devil: As if the filth of sin were no dishonour to them, which nothing but the Spirit and blood of Christ is able to wash out. These are the men that Paul mentioneth with weeping, Phil. 3. 18. that mind earthly things, whose God is their belly, and who glory in their shame.

4. Moreover, it is a Base disposition that ungodly men are possessed with. Though their Natures are essentially noble as being the work of God, and capable of most glorious things; yet have they made them Dispositively Vile: They are fleshly-minded, earthly-minded, ignorant of Heavenly things, not savouring the things of the Spirit, but like the Serpent, crawling on earth, and feeding on the dust Grass is sweeter to a horse then junkets; and a little money or vain-glory is sweeter to a fleshly mind then God and Glory, and all the treasures of Saints and Angels. A swine never thinks of God or Heaven, but of his draff and sty: Ease, and good cheer, and money, and the flattery of men, are the God and the Heaven of sensual men. And are not these men of Base dishonourable spirits? Unworthy men! might you have an Everlasting life, and will you