Everyone may not be prosperous or afflicted according to their obedience or disobedience to Almighty God. But national prosperity is the effect of national obedience, and national judgments are brought on by national wickedness. National wickedness will end in the ruin of any people, especially where the word of God and the light of the gospel are enjoyed. Sooner or later, sin will be the ruin, as well as the reproach, of every people. Oh If we would all be humbled for our sins, we might avert the rising storm before it bursts upon us! God grant that we may, in this our day, consider the things which belong to our eternal peace.

The sin of sinners will never be their security. Who knows the power of God's anger; how high it can reach, how forcibly it can strike?