1. The Sins. 1. Pride; 'Tis hard to enjoy plenty, and not to grow haughty; prosperous Winds soon fill the Sails, but blowing too strongly, overturn the Vessel; how few are able to carry a full Cup without spilling? to manage plenty without pride? men grow rich and then high minded, and that's the next way to ruin. 2. Idleness, an easy careless life maketh way for danger, God sent all into the world for action, standing pools putrefy, and things not used, contract rust; so doth idle persons settle into vile and degenerate lusts. 3. Fullness of bread; that is corporal delights, Luk. 17. 28. They eat, they drunk, they bought, they sold, they builded; their whole lives were but a diversion from one pleasure to another; how soon are earthly comforts abused into luxury and excess? Fullness of estate maketh way for fullness of bread, and many beastly sins. 4. Unmercifulness, you never knew any Prodigal, but they were also uncharitable; as Sodom here and the Epicure, Luk. 16. and you shall see James 5. 4, 5▪ those that nourished their hearts as in a day of slaughter, oppressed the labourers; they that set their hearts for ease and pleasure, know not the bitterness of grief, and therefore do not compassionate it in others, Amos 6. 6. 5. Uncleanness, and fornication, this followeth on the former; fullness of bread must be emptied and unladed in lust. 6. That beastly wickedness implied in the Text. When the Angels came to destroy them, because they were of a comely visage, they came raging at the doors, Gen. 19. as usually wickedness is increased to the height when God cometh to punish it. Well ⟨p. 337⟩then if we put all these together, they were a lazy, easy, secure, oppressing, filthy and unclean people: we may wonder more at Gods patience that he bore with them so long, then at his justice, that he punished them so sorely.
1. The Sins. 1. Pride; 'Tis hard to enjoy plenty, and not to grow haughty; prosperous Winds soon fill the Sailes, but blowing too strongly, overturn the Vessel; how few are able to carry a full Cup without spilling? to manage plenty without pride? men grow rich and then high minded, and that's the next way to ruine. 2. Idlenesse, an easie carelesse life maketh way for danger, God sent all into the world for action, standing pooles putrifie, and things not used, contract rust; so doth id•e persons settle into vile and degenerate lusts. 3. Fulnesse of bread; that is corporal delights, Luk. 17. 28. They eat, they drunk, they bought, they sold, they builded; their whole lives were but a diversion from one pleasure to another; how soon are earthly comforts abused into luxury and excesse? Fulnesse of estate maketh way for fulnesse of bread, and many beastly sins. 4. Ʋnmercifulnesse, you never knew any Prodigal, but they were also uncharitable; as Sodom here and the Epicure, Luk. 16. and you shall see James 5. 4, 5▪ those that nourished their hearts as in a day of slaughter, oppressed the labourers; they that set their hearts for ease and pleasure, know not the bitternesse of griefe, and therefore do not compassionate it in others, Amos 6. 6. 5. Ʋncleannesse, and fornication, this followeth on the former; fulnesse of bread must be emptied and unladed in lust. 6. That beastly wickednesse implyed in the Text. When the Angels came to destroy them, because they were of a comely visage, they came raging at the doors, Gen. 19. as usually wickedness is encreased to the height when God cometh to punish it. Well ⟨p. 337⟩then if we put all these together, they were a lazy, easie, secure, oppressing, filthy and unclean people: we may wonder more at Gods patience that he bore with them so long, then at his justice, that he punished them so sorely.
