God's anger

Indeed, there be some sinners more insensible, more insensate then beasts: if we find the hungryest ox feeding in the meadow, and cannot with many pricks of the goad make him remove from his place, we wonder at his stupidity. Yet the insatiate world-affecters, though God not only affright them with menaces, but even afflict them with many scourges, cannot be gotten from their covetous practises. So long as they can by any means grow wealthy, they will not believe that God is angry with them. As if there were none ^ethat have more then heart could wish; yet live all this while in the sphere of Gods Indignation. We ⟨p. 13⟩can read Gods wrath in a storm, not in a calm yet […] may be most angry, when he least expresseth it. ^fMy Jealousy shall depart from thee, and I will be no more angry with thee: Oh that is the height of his displeasure […] ^gThe Prophet speaks of a true Peace: True, were a needless epithet, if there were not a false peace in carnal hearts. How fondly doth the secure sinner flatter himself, in the conceit of his own happiness? All is well at home: he quarrels not with himself, for he denies himself no sensual pleasure. God quarrels not with him, he feels no checks of a chiding conscience, he sees no frowns of an angry Judge: nothing but prosperity shines upon him. He sees no difference in the face of heaven, whatsoever he does, or says: the same entertainment is given to his blasphemies, as to his prayers. Sure, he thinks himself in Gods books above other men. And so he is indeed; in Gods book of debts, in Gods book of arrearages, in his book of Judgments: so he is far in Gods books. He owes such men a payment, and they shall have it. Alas, this is not the sinners peace, but stupidity: not the Makers favour, but his fury. All this while he is very angry, though he suspends the execution of his wrath. Thus long sin lies like a sleeping bandog at the door of their hearts: They look upon the cur as if he would never wake: or if he did, yet as if hewer so chained, & clogged, & muzzled, that he could never hurt them. But when once God rouseth him, then have at their throats: then they shall feel what it is to have lived so long in the anger of ⟨p. 14⟩