God's People Should Be Affected With God's Judgments On Their Nation

Oh that all would lay to heart the national miseries that God's indignation threatens upon us. It is said, Psal. 107-34. -A fruitful-land is turned into barrenness for the wickedness of them that dwell-therein.- It was long since told England by one of its faithful-watchmen, 'The nation and church in which we are, are the-common ship in which we are all embarked, and if this in judgment-be cast away, whether dashed against the rocks of any foreign power,-or swallowed up in the quicksands of domestic divisions, it must-need hazard all the passengers- Or if you were sure, that for your-parts you might be safe, would it not be a bitter thing to stand upon-the shore, and see such a glorious vessel as this nation is, to be cast-away-- To see this glorious land defaced, the blessed gospel polluted,-the golden candlestick removed, it cannot but affect men that have-any bowels of compassion.