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

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, di•ing 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 ⟨p. 319⟩[serving divers lusts and pleasures] as Paul that had tried both ways, confesseth, Tit. 3. 3. None so unlike to be the servants of Christ, as they that are clothed in purple and fine linen, and that fare sumptuously or deliciously every day, Luk. 16. To live in rioting and drunkenness, in chambering and wantonness, in strife and envying, and to make provision for the flesh to fulfil the lusts thereof] is the description of one that walks not honestly, and is far from a Christians life and hopes, Rom. 13. 13, 14. It is those voluptuous sensual sinners, that most obstinately shut out all reproofs, and refuse him that speaketh to them from heaven, and will not so much as soberly consider of the things that concern their everlasting peace; and therefore are oft so forsaken of grace, that they grow to be scorners of the means of their salvation, and [being past feeling do give themselves over to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness] Eph. 4. 19. Which then is most desirable? the healing or the wounding pleasures? the quickening or the killing mirth? the wholesome or the poisonous sweet? the delights that mend us and further our salvation, or corrupting pleasures that drown men in perdition?

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? seldome 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