God's anger

God came to low conditions in the behalf of Sodom: Abraham brought him down to ten. He came to lower conditions in the behalf of ¹Jerusalem; he brought himself down to one: See ²if you can find a man, if there be any that seeketh the truth in the whole City, and I will pardon it. O how epidemical is that wickedness, where not one escapeth the corruption? We have found the Lord angry enough with a whole people, for the sin of one man. Lord, hath one man sinned, and wilt thou be wroth with the whole Congregation? ³No, Gods vengeance, when it is the hottest, makes difference of offenders: and knows to distinguish betwixt the heads of a faction, and the train. Though neither be faultless, yet the one is plagued, the other pardoned. Depart from the tents of these wicked men, lest you be consumed in their sins. So soon as the innocent are severed, the guilty perish. One Achan sins, all Israel suffers. One David sins in pride, seventy thousand ⁴of his subjects suffer in the plague. One Saul slew the Gibeonites, three years dearth lies upon the ⁵Israelites for it. The blood of those Canaanites shed against Covenant, almost forty years before, by the then King, is now called for of the whole people. They had all sins enough, but God fixeth his eye of anger upon this. Every sin hath a tongue, but that of blood outcries them all: ⟨p. 19⟩And if Justice do not revenge the murder of one, God will require it of the whole nation. When seven of Sauls sons were hanged up, God was entreated ⁶for the land. Then shall the clouds drop fatness, and the earth run forth into plenty: Then do the valleys stand thick with corn, land the ⁷little hills rejoice on every side. Some drops of blood shed in Justice, procure large showers from heaven. A few carcasses laid in their graves, are a rich compost to the earth. There can be no peace, where blood cries unheard, unregarded: but when it is expiated by the blood of the offenders, there will be a cessation of Judgements. Phinehas executed judgment, and the plague