i'art li. · A 'St~Jnt or 4Brute.' 24·3· 'lehn I 5. 3. Their hearts areP.MrifiedV] faith, .A£1s 15. 9· I Pe!· 1. 22. 1 1ohn 3. 3. And therefore the mofi odious pare of thetr difhonour is removed ; fin u a reproach to any people, Prov ~ r4· 34· Whatever it may feem before ungodly men, it is ji;t that ts you11 foame before the: Lord : And thi:~ reproach the godly are now cleanfed from. Though it be a difbononr to them that they were ungodly once, it is their honour that now they are net f uch; and that they are doathed with the righteoufmefs of Chrifl:. . 5. The Holy n.tture of theSaints dijpoftth their hearts, and e~::. Clineth their wills to the higbe{i and moft Honourable thin[,:r. As tn their KNow/edge, fo in their Inclinations, they are above the bafe– nefs of the world. The nature of man ia not to feed as beafts and horfes, and dogs do :. he is ab/Jve their food; and above their converfe and kind of life: that will not content him that content- · eth them. And tbenew nature ofa fawrti(ifdman, is (lbove the de– lights and contents of the ungodly. His heart cannot endure to take up with their kind of life. To mind nothing bnt this world, and to have no pleafure but to the fldh , and live as an .utter :fl:ranger to God, and not to feed on the Heavenly delights, atld riches of the Gofpel , but live as if there were no fuch things; this fenfuallife is /Jdo'W his JnclinatifJn, r.s feeding on · drofs, or converfing only with fwine or cattle, is below the nature of a man. The noble foul is that which is inclit~eJ to the nohle ft objeas: even to God, and Holinefs, and cverlafiing life : and cannot en– dure the poor, and low, and fordid life of men , that have their .portion here. Pfalm 17. 14- No.thing that is corporeal, or tnn– ficory, yea mothing below God, can fatisfie aholy foal. It is this Holy Difpofttion, that fits men for ho~y Duties: and.that is their ficnefs for erernal Happinefs. If Angels were not Holyer then Devils, and godly men then the ungodly, Heaven could not hold · ' them, nor could they any more fee or enjoy the Lord, then they that are cafi into outer darknefs. And therefore if you dare fay that the Holy are no more Honourable then the t:mholy, yoa mqfi fay that theHoly Angels are no moreH(}nourable then thed,vils: which fure you will fcarce be fo defperateas to fpeak. · 6. Holinefs in the godly is the Image of G(}d, in which we were · created : and according to which we are renewed by the Holy GhoH. Ep.h. 4. 24. Col. 3. 10. Gm. 1. 27. And what can be fpoken more Honourable of a creamre, then that he bath his Ma- ~r~ !_m11ge, ~~!~f~~S. ~~~~~Degree'· that f~l!'!~ ~~!~ ~~re ohf it: ~ l1 2 t en A ._- ·- 0• ...-¥: .J
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