[ 1012] The incorrigible Sinners stupidity.
IT is reported of Silkworms,* 1.1 that at the noyse of Thunder, they are oft-times even terrified unto death, insomuch that they which keep them, use to beat a drum a∣mongst them, that they being accustomed to the softer noyse of the drum, may not be daunted with louder claps▪ of Thunder. Thus it is with incorrigible sinners of all sorts, they are so affected with the whisperings of wordly pleasures, so taken up with the jingling noyse of Riches, so delighted with the empty sound of po∣pular applause,* 1.2 and secular preferments; so sottish and besotted are they, that they are not sensible of Gods anger against them, the very custome of sinne hath taken away the sense of sin; that they do not so much as hear that which all the world be∣sides heareth with trembling and amazement, the dreadful voyce of Gods wrathful and everlasting displeasure.