of danger, eating and drinking, marrying and giuing in marriage, vntill the day that Noah entring into the Arke, the Flood came and tooke them all away. It was a chiefe sinne of Sodom and Gomorrah, accompa∣nying their Ease and Plentie, Peace and Prosperitie, which made them to blesse themselues in all their abominable wickednesse, to stop their eares to righteous Lot, fore-telling their imminent plagues; and to run on in their sinfull courses, as though they were obnoxious to no danger. For as our Sauiour noteth, They did eate, they dranke, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded, vntill the day that Lot de∣parting out of Sodom, it rayned Fire and Brimstone from Heauen and de∣stroyed them all. Thus Dauid complayneth of the great Ones of his time, who grieuously oppressed the Poore, presuming of Gods conni∣uency and their owne impunitie: Hee hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten, hee hideth his Face, hee will neuer see it. This was the sinne of old Babylon, who hauing lifted vp her selfe by blood and crueltie aboue all other Nations, neuer laid her sinnes to heart, but dwelled care∣lesly and gaue her selfe to pleasure, and concluded, That shee should be a Lady for euer, and neuer sit as a Widdow, nor know the losse of Children. And such is the carnall securitie, of the new Babylon and the Romane Antichrist, as the Apostle Iohn describeth it, who hauing multiplied her Idolatries, and made the Kings and Nations of the Earth drunke with the golden cup of her Fornications, and her selfe with the blood of the holy Martyrs, securely goeth on in her sinnes without repen∣tance, and presumeth notwithstanding of impunitie, and the long continuance of her worldly prosperitie. Such was the securitie of those desperate sinners, of whom the Prophet Esay speaketh, who made a couenant with Death, and were at an agreement with Hell, and so securely went on in their sinne, promising vnto themselues, that when the ouer-flowing scourge should passe through, it should not come vnto them; because they had made lyes their refuge, and were hid vnder false∣hood. For this the Ancients of the House of Israel are condemned, who hauing committed many and great abominations in the darke, were out of all feare of punishment, saying. The Lord seeth vs not, the Lord hath forsaken the Earth. And finally, this was the securitie of the people of the Iewes, who were setled on their lees, and resolued to goe on in their wicked courses, saying in their hearts, The Lord will not doe good, nor will hee doe euill.