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

The secure and foolish Sinners, that now make a mock ⟨p. 160⟩of Sin, and have so far lost their Innocence and Ingenuity, that shame and request for their foul Actions is counted a vicious Infirmity, a degenerous Humour, they shall understand in what degree Sin is hateful to the Holy God. They who now sleep out all the denunciations of the Law, will find at last, they have to do with a terrible inexorable God: Because I have called, and ye refused, ¹I have stretched out my hand, and no Man regarded; But ye have set at nought all my Counsel, and would have none of my Reproof: I also will laugh at your Calamity, and mock when your Fear comes: When your Fear comes as Desolation, and your Destruction comes as a Whirlwind; when Distress and Anguish come upon you. Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but ⟨p. 161⟩they shall not find me. For that they hated Knowledge, and did not choose the Fear of the Lord. This dreadful Threatening is pointed against foolish Sinners who abuse Prosperity: When those who shut their Eyes against Danger, shall be constrained to open them, and see the fearful Face of Death attended with Judgment, and Judgment with an eternal Hell: when Diseases in the Body, and Anguish in the Soul, shall assail them at once, like two Clouds that by collision break forth in Thunder, and they mournfully cry for Mercy, their Prayers will be rejected with scorn, and their Ruin be remediless.

The secure and foolish Sinners, that now make a mock ⟨p. 160⟩of Sin, and have so far lost their Innocence and Ingenuity, that shame and request for their foul Actions is counted a vicious Infirmity, a degenerous Humour, they shall understand in what degree Sin is hateful to the Holy God. They who now sleep out all the denunciations of the Law, will find at last, they have to do with a terrible inexorable God: Because I have called, and ye refused, ¹I have stretched out my hand, and no Man regarded; But ye have set at nought all my Counsel, and would have none of my Reproof: I also will laugh at your Calamity, and mock when your Fear comes: When your Fear comes as Desolation, and your Destruction comes as a Whirlwind; when Distress and Anguish come upon you. Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but