The Danger of Prosperity 4

Chapter 4. How to avoid the evils that usually attend prosperity and improve it to our eternal advantage. 1. Humbly preserve a sense of your original meanness, continual frailty, and sinful unworthiness. 2. Maintain a meek temperament and deportment. 3. Sanctify prosperity with a solemn and affectionate thanksgiving to God for his mercies. 4. Fear God and take great care to be vigilant in avoiding the sins that so easily encompass us. 5. Use worldly things in moderation. 6. Let the favour of God be your most precious and joyful possession. 7. Employ riches and power for the glory of God and the good of others. 8. Resolve firmly to part with all possessions and dignities when God’s honour and the testimony of his truth requires it. 9. Pray earnestly and constantly to God for divine grace.

Bates, William. The Danger of Prosperity (Kindle Locations 48-63). The Digital Puritan. Kindle Edition.

Narrated by Duane Linn