A guide to godliness or a Treatise of a Christian life showing the dutiesA guide to godlynesse or a Treatise of a Christian life shewing the duties

The third means is, often to call unto our remembrance Gods fearful Judgements executed upon all sinners, but especially upon such as have ¹continued in their wickedness with careless security, and wholly neglected to keep this watch; as of the old world, who lived in all reckless security, eating and drinking, buying and selling, marrying, and giving in marriage, so doing these things, as that they neglected all things else which were necessary for their safety and salvation, until Noah entering into the Ark, they were all swept away with an universal deluge. Thus also Sodom and Gomorrah living in their sins with all security, were attached with Gods fearful Judgements when they least thought of them, and were wholly destroyed with fire and brimstone. Thus Babylon exceeding ²in security, as much as in all other sins, had those punishments which she least feared, inflicted upon her. Thus the Lord threatened the Church of Sardis, that if they would not watch, he would come as a thief against ³them; that is, bring upon them suddenly unexpected judgements, with which, when they neglected this warning, they were afterwards fearfully surprised. But of this point I have spoken at large in another ⁴