3 3 8 A Sermon on Occaf on of a public Faf SEAM. mankind, be fatisfied towards others, even XIII. the Canaanites. Thus far I have explained the fuppofition in the text, of a land or people finning by trefpaffing grievoufly againft God, having fhewn you that it imports their having heinoufly abufed the divine patience, been obftinately irreclaimable, and defeated the means of re- formation ; and that the crimes committed are of a very atrocious kind, reproachful to the human nature ; which was the cafe of thofe finners upon whom the flood came and deftroved them; the cafe of Sodom and others, who were made monuments of the divine difpleafure ; and particularly Ifrael and yu- dah, whofe tranfgreffions were the more ag- gravated by being committed againft the clear light which they were favoured with beyond others. We may farther obferve that the grievous trefpaffes of a land, whereby it is pre- pared for the judgments of God, are univer- fal ; I mean, fo generally pra±ifed, that the community is juftly chargeable with them. The prophets often mention this as the foun- dation of God's controverfy with Ifrael and ,7udah, that not a few, but the whole mul- titude of the people had finned ; and they enumerate the various orders of men who had involved
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