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

8. The Delights of Holiness do make us better; They are so far from disordering the mind, and leading us to sin, that they compose and purify the mind, and make sin much more odious to us, then before. No man hates sin so much as he that hath seen the pleased face of God, and tasted most the sweetness of his grace, and tried the pleasant paths of life. And therefore it is, that when a believer comes from fervent prayers, or from heavenly conference or meditation, or from hearing the blessed word of life, laid open plainly, and applied powerfully to his soul, he would then abhor a temptation to sensual delights, if they were set before him. Till we lose the relish of Holy things, and suffer our Delight in God to fade, we are seldom taken in the snares of any fleshly vanities. Money is dirt to us, and honour a smoke, and lust doth stink, as long as we maintain our delight in God. He is the best and highest Christian, that hath most of these spiritual delights.

8. The Delights of Holiness do make us better; They are so far from disordering the mind, and leading us to sin, that they compose and purifie the mind, and make sin much more odious to us, then before. No man hates sin so much as he that hath seen the pleased face of God, and tasted most the sweetness of his grace, and tryed the pleasant paths of life. And therefore it is, that when a believer comes from fervent prayers, or from heavenly conference or meditation, or from hearing the blessed word of life, laid open plainly, and applyed powerfully to his soul, he would then abhor a temptation to sensual delights, if they were set before him. Till we lose the relish of Holy things, and suffer our Delight in God to fade, we are seldome taken in the snares of any fleshly vanities. Money is dirt to us, and honour a smoak, and lust doth stink, as long as we maintain our delight in God. He is the best and highest Christian, that hath most of these spiritual delights.

But fleshly Pleasures make men worse; They intoxicate the mind, and fill it with vanity and folly; They are the snares to entrap us; and the harlots that do bewitch us, and defile the soul that should be chaste for God; The noise of this sensual foolish mirth, doth drown the voice of God and Reason, so that in the needfullest matters they cannot be heard. In their hunting and hawking, diing and carding, drinking and revelling, feasting and dancing how little of God or heaven is on the sinners mind? seldom is the soul so unfit for duty, so uncapable of instruction, so hardened against the word and warnings of the Lord, as in the depth of sensual delights. Then it is that they are [foolish, disobedient, and deceived,] when they are