3 3 4 A Sermon on Occafion of a public Paft. SERM. a lover of virtue and hater of iniquity ; that XIII. this, I fay, will juftify the application of the doctrine of the text to any nation, fo far, that nothing is more reafonable or becoming reli- gioufly difpofed minds, when they plainly fee that any land or people have finned by grie= voufly trefpaffing againft God, than to ap- prehend his difpleafure, or, that his hand will be f retched out upon that land, and therefore to humble themfelves before him : and when they can difcern any providentialftroke threat- ned or infliaed, then to refolve it into their national fins as the procuring caufe, to fearch and ;try their ways, and turn again to the Lord, as the belt and molt effectual way for preventing public calamities. In the farther profecution of this fubject, I fhall, firll, make fome obfervations to il.. Iuftrate the fuppofition in the text, of a land, or a people, finning by trefpafJïng grievoufly againfl God. Secondly, confider the methods by which he teftifies his difpleafure againft that land, fignified by his flretching out his hand upen it. Firji, I am to make fome obfervations for illuftrating the fuppofition in the text, of a land, or a people, finning by trefpafing grie- voully
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