will give the world the prehemi nence, and your flesh must be pleafed, and your profperity fecured, and God muft have but complements, or the leavings, your mifery is at hand, and vengeance fhall undeceive thofe hearts that would not be undeceived by the Word. And you shall remember to the increafe of your anguish, that you were told this day, that your feeming trifling Religion would prove vain. But I befeech you, as you are men, as you love your fouls, difmifs us with fome better hopes; and now refolve to be downright Chriftians. Which as I have begged of you,1 fhall now beg of God.

THE

Fools Profperity.

A

SERMON

Preached at Corven-Gar

den: published upon

occafion of fome of

fence and misreports.

By R. B.

Printed in the year, 1660..

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Prov. 1. 32,33.

For the turning away of the fimple Shall flaythem, and the profperity of fool's shall destroy them. But who fo hearkeneth unto me, shall dwell fafely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.

HE bounteous offers and vehement

exhortations of

Chrift here in this

Chapter, were accompanied with a

forefight and prediction of their rejection, by many yet doth not that prevent the offers and exhortations but occafion the prediction of the calamity of the refufers, God will not go out of his

way,