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begat them they were unmindful, & forgat t GoD that formed them. This was t return they made for GoD miracles of goodness & grace toward them, & this is the return which all natural men will make in similar circumstances. The natural heart, does not see G. as t author of all the good it enjoys, Prosperity, naturally harden t. heart, that is not reconciled to GoD. While men are full of earthly good they say to their souls, take your ease, eat, drink, & be merry. They forget GoD, like t fatted bullock they kick ag him, & like Belshazzer, they drink in bowls & praise t gods. They devote their services to sensual gratification, & continually form new modes of idolizing themselves, or their object of pleasure. They will only wax worse & worse. So we, if our hearts have unclear unclear unclear to GoD, t. more unclear