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 examples of this Vice, recorded in the holy Scriptures, are very many. It was one of the first sins which tainted our first Parents; who upon the Devils word promised unto themselves, in the transgression of Gods Commandment, not only impunity for their sin, but also a great addition to their present happiness. The old World was drowned in deep security, before it was drowned with the general Deluge. For though Noah, the Preacher of Righteousness, denounced Gods Judgements, that he might bring them to repentance, yet they securely went on in their sins without fear ⟨p. 8⟩of danger, eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until ¹the day that Noah entering into the Ark, the Flood came and took them all away. It was a chief sin of Sodom and Gomorrah, accompanying their Ease and Plenty, Peace and Prosperity, which made them to bless themselves in all their abominable wickedness, to stop their ears to righteous Lot, fore-telling their imminent plagues; and to run on in their sinful courses, as though they were obnoxious to no danger. For as our Saviour noteth, They did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded, until the day that Lot departing out of Sodom, it rained Fire and Brimstone from Heaven and destroyed them all. Thus David complaineth of the great Ones of his time, who grievously oppressed the Poor, presuming of Gods connivency and their own impunity: He hath said in his heart, God hath