Divine Conduct, or The Mystery of Providence

Whatever prosperity and success makes men forget God, and cast off the care of duty, is not sanctified to them. It is unsanctified prosperity which lulls men asleep into a deep oblivion of God, Deut. 32. 13, 14, 15, 18. He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock, butter of Kine, and milk of Sheep, with fat of Lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and Goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat, and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape; but Jesurun waxed fat and kicked; thou art waxed fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness: then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his Salvation. Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee. Rare fumant foelicibus arae.

Whatever prosperity and success makes men forget God, and cast off the care of duty, is not sanctifJed to them. It is unsanctifJed prosperity which lulls men asleep into a deep oblivJon of God, Deut. 32. 13, 14, 15, 18. He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oyl out of the flinty rock, butter of Kine, and milk of Sheep, with fat of Lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and Goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat, and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape; but Iesurun waxed fat and kicked; thou art waxed fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness: then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his Salvation. Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee. Rarè fumant foelicibus arae.

When prosperity is abused to sensuality, and merely serves as fuel to maintains fleshly lusts, ⟨p. 245⟩