The danger of prosperity discovered in several sermons upon Prov. I. 27 /

The Equity of God's Ways, and the Iniquity of Mens, will at the last be clear to every Eye. Then all the Blessings they received will rise up in judgment against them, as proofs of their Wickedness, that makes them more guilty, and deservedly miserable. Then Conscience, that is now stupefied by sensuality, will make furious reflections upon the folly of their Choice, and be more tormenting than the infernal Fiends. When Croesus, the ⟨p. 156⟩rich King of Lydia, was bound to the Stake, and the Fire kindled for his burning, he lamentably cried out, Solon, Solon, Solon; and being asked the reason of it, declared, that in the height of his Prosperity, that wise Grecian had advised him to prepare for a Revolution from his Glory and Greatness into a miserable State, and his neglect of that Counsel was more tormenting than the loss of his Kingdom. How piercing will the remembrance be to lost Souls of their despising the Instructions, Warnings, and gracious Methods of the Divine Wisdom, to have prevented their ruin? that Mercy was so often and so rebelliously resisted? this will be the Hell of Hell.

The Equity of God's Ways, and the Iniquity of Mens, will at the last be clear to every Eye. Then all the Blessings they received will rise up in judgment against them, as proofs of their Wickedness, that makes them more guilty, and deservedly miserable. Then Conscience, that is now stupified by sensuality, will make furious reflections upon the folly of their Choice, and be more tormenting than the infernal Fiends. When Cresus, the ⟨p. 156⟩rich King of Lydia, was bound to the Stake, and the Fire kindled for his burning, he lamentably cried out, Solon, Solon, Solon; and being ask'd the reason of it, declared, that in the height of his Prosperity, that wise Grecian had advised him to prepare for a Revolution from his Glory and Greatness into a miserable State, and his neglect of that Counsel was more tormenting than the loss of his Kingdom. How piercing will the remembrance be to lost Souls of their despising the Instructions, Warnings, and gracious Methods of the Divine Wisdom, to have prevented their ruin? that Mercy was so often and so rebelliously resisted? this will be the Hell of Hell.