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

If the Saints grieve the Spirit of God, by a wilful neglect of his assisting Grace, and fall into presumptuous sins, although from the perfection of his Nature he is not capable of passionate grief, yet he infinitely dislikes their sins. And as grief when 'tis oppressing, causes the Spirits to retire to the Heart, and Nature is as it were shut up in its springs, and obstructed from communicating agility and vivacity in the ordinary operations of the senses: thus the holy Spirit when grieved withdraws, and there follows a disconsolate eclipse and interruption of his reviving quickening presence. But the indulgent habituate Sinners, provoke him finally to leave them to their own Lusts. 'Tis true, his deserting them is usually gradual, as in a consumptive Person ⟨p. 66⟩the stomach, the colour, the strength, decline by degrees, till Nature sinks irrecoverably under the Disease; so the motions of the Spirit in those who have often repelled them, are not so frequent and vigorous as before; his after calls are weaker, wasting, and dying every day, till his total withdrawing from them. How fearful and hopeless is the state of such a sinner? This spiritual Judgment always proceeds from inexorable severity, and ends in the eternal ruin of sinners. For without the Spirit's supernatural working, they can never be renewed to Repentance, never reconciled to God. They may for a time live in a voluptuous course, or follow the Business of the World; and a little breath may separate between them and Hell, ⟨p. 67⟩but they shall at last die in their sins, in an impardonable state for ever. 'Tis said of the Jews, They rebelled and vexed his Holy Spirit, therefore he turned to be their Enemy, and fought against them.

If the Saints grieve the Spirit of God, by a wilful neglect of his assisting Grace, and fall into presumptuous sins, altho from the perfection of his Nature he is not capable of passionate grief, yet he infinitely dislikes their sins. And as grief when 'tis oppressing, causes the Spirits to retire to the Heart, and Nature is as it were shut up in its springs, and obstructed from communicating agility and vivacity in the ordinary operations of the senses: thus the holy Spirit when grieved withdraws, and there follows a disconsolate eclipse and interruption of his reviving quickning presence. But the indulgent habituate Sinners, provoke him finally to leave them to their own Lusts. 'Tis true, his deserting them is usually gradual, as in a consumptive Person