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4° Theáangeroufnes ofw rldlyproferitie. &al fee them in the time ofaduerfitie,religious and deuout, £orfaking their finites and Peeking the Lord ; but being re- flored and repo!£effed ofGods bleffings, and florifhing in profperitie,you Thall finde them polluting Gods houfe, ere - ¿ting idolatrie,forfakingGod,and worlhipping diue!s.And this good Ezraobfcrued and confeffed, namely, that the Etra9.84o, people hauing obtained but a little breathing time from their affli9ions, did take occafion thereby to forfakeGods commandements. And Nehemiah acknowledgeth that the people abounding with all plentie did Bate, fill themfelues, andbecame fat,and thengrew rebellious and difobedient, committing all manner offinne and outrage; for which be- ing deliuered into the hands of their enemies and affliófed, they humbled themfelues and cried vnto the Lord for titer. Nehem 17.2$ cie and deliuerance, but hauing againe obtained reff,they returned to doe euill before him., §.SecI.8. But vnto the experience of ancient ages, wee may adde Thedanger of our owne times :. for who Teeth not that commonly where prolperitiefhe- there is moll afHi6hon, there isalfo moil deuotion,religion, wed by e he and obedience ?and contrariwife where there is profperitie refine times. and plentie of all things, there is moll want of the fearc of God,and greatepenurie ofgrace and venue. For the eke- ring of this, compare the prifon with the Court, and the houle of mourning with the bottle of feafling and reioy- cing; and whereasin the oneyou !hall heare religious dif- courfes, prayers to God, and inuediues againfi the worlds vanities; in the other you (hall finde nothing but riot and ribauldrie, vaine idling and biafphemous f nearing, furfet- ting and drunkennes,chambring andwantonnes,audacious bolducs in euill, and thamefaflnesin nothing,vnlefí'e at vna- wares,being among their wicked conforts, they haue raid or done fomething that fauoureth of religion, as though there were neither God, nor diuell,heaucn, norheli,and as though they had fold themfelues voto finite, and had ex- changed the eternal! ioyes of Gods kingdome, with the temporarie vanities of the world. But left this diffimilitude ofbehauiour fhould fecme to arife front the 'di trence of thepedons,and not ofthcireffates,Iet.vs confider the diners cifras