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

7. A firm resolution to part with all Possessions and Dignities, when God's Honour, and the testimony of his Truth requires it, is an excellent Antidote against the Evil of Prosperity. God doth sometimes call forth his Servants to hard Trials, to declare with more strength and evidence their love to his Name, their zeal for ⟨p. 240⟩advancing his Glory: Satan is an irreconcilable Enemy to God and his Saints; and inspires the perverted World with his own Malice against them. Rage has no Reason: the Jews would excommunicate the blind Man, because he saw, and ascribed the Glory of the Miracle to our Saviour: and Lazarus must die, because he was raised from the Grave. Now when a Christian is prepared for this noble Act of Self-denial, to forsake all things when his Duty to Christ requires it; this preserves him from the ensnaring temptations of Prosperity.

7. A firm resolution to part with all Possessions and Dignities, when God's Honour, and the testimony of his Truth requires it, is an excellent Antidote against the Evil of Prosperity. God doth sometimes call forth his Servants to hard Trials, to declare with more strength and evidence their love to his Name, their zeal for ⟨p. 240⟩advancing his Glory: Satan is an irreconcileable Enemy to God and his Saints; and inspires the perverted World with his own Malice against them. Rage has no Reason: the Jews would excommunicate the blind Man, because he saw, and ascribed the Glory of the Miracle to our Saviour: and Lazarus must die, because he was raised from the Grave. Now when a Christian is prepared for this noble Act of Self-denial, to forsake all things when his Duty to Christ requires it; this preserves him from the ensnaring temptations of Prosperity.

'Tis observable, the same Divine Disposition of Soul, makes us temperate in the use of present Abundance, and patient in the loss of it. The low esteem of earthly things, joined with the ⟨p. 241⟩