The way to prosperity a sermon / preached to the honourable convention of the…

To Despise and Reject the Glorious Gospel of Jesus Christ, is an Evil, than which none is more evil; and yet nothing is more ordinary than this extraordinarily sinful Sin; which Unbelief may be accounted, as Tertullian of old esteemed Idolatry, the Praecipuum •rimen Humani generis, the grand Crime of ⟨p. 2⟩Mankind. Low thoughts about the Person, and the Office, and the Beauty of the Lord Jesus; contemt•uous Apprehensions of His Truths and His ways, and His Ordinances; these are the Things which bring the most Signal slery Wrath of God upon the Children of unpersuadableness. The peculiar Controversy of God with man, in the managing of which the most High God inflicts upon particular persons, at once a Blasting on their Estates, and a Blindness on their Spirits here, as the Prologue to the Hottest Vengeance of Eternal sire in the dismal vaults of Hell below, is not so much on the score of all their other Profanity & Iniquity, as this one thing, They sleight the Redeemer of their souls. And this is that thing, by which whole Nations & Peoples bring swift Destruction upon themselves; that thing for which all the Seals, all the Trumpets, all the Vials in the Apocalypse, have brought in the direful plagues of the Almighty upon the Pagan and the Papal, after the Ruin of the Jewish World. They have maintained a vile Prejudice against the Saving and the Ruling Hands of a Gracious Mediator. O that, besides the other innumerable Rebukes of Heaven upon mankind for this Madness in their hearts, the following Instances of Divine Displeasure may awaken us to Take heed of an evil heart of Unbelief.