Two treatises· I. Of the nature and practise of repentance. II. Of the combat…Tvvo treatises· I. Of the nature and practise of repentance. II. Of the combat…

The misery on the right hand is prosperity and ease: which by reason of mans sin is an occasion of many judgements. In it men¹ practised the horrible sins of Sodom: it puffs up the heart with devilish pride, so as men shall think themselves to be as God him self, as Sennacherib, Nebuchad-nezzar, Antiochus, Alexander, Herod, Domitian did. It steals away mans heart from God, & quenches the sparks of grace. As the Lord complaineth of the Israelites. I spake unto thee when ²thou wast in prosperity: but thou saidest, I will not hear: this hath been thy manner from ⟨p. 44⟩thy youth. It is like the Ivy that embraces the tree and winds round about it, but yet draws out the juice and life of it. Hence is it that many turn it to an occasion of their destruction. Solomon saith, Prosperity of fools destroyeth them. When the milt swells, the³ rest of the body pines away: and when the heart is puffed with pride, the whole man is in danger of destruction. The sheep that goes in the best pasture, soonest comes to the slaughter-house; and the ungodly man fats himself with continual prosperity, that he may⁴ the sooner come to his own damnation.

The miserie on the right hand is prosperitie and ease: which by reason of mans sinne is an occasion of many iudgements. In it men¹ practised the horrible sinnes of Sodome: it puffes up the heart with divelish pride, so as men shall thinke themselves to be as God him selfe, as Senacherib, Nebuchad-nezzar, Antiochus, Alexander, Herode, Domitian did. It steales away mans heart frō God, & quenches the sparkes of grace. As the Lord complaineth of the Israelites. I spake unto thee when ²thou wast in prosperitie: but thou saydest, I will not heare: this hath bene thy manner from ⟨p. 44⟩