God's anger

Thus the universality of sin calls for the universality of repentance, or else it will provoke Gods anger to strike us with universal judgements. If the whole people be guilty, the whole people must fall to deprecation. Such was the Ninevites repentance, every man turning from ¹his evil ways. We have sinned, even the whole ⟨p. 20⟩nation: and as if we had not sins enough of our own, we borrow of our neighbours. What nation under heaven do we trade withal, from whom the sins of that Nation are not brought hither? And those are merchandises that might be well spared. Are we all in the transgression, and do we lay the burden of repentance upon some few? If we expostulate with God, Lord hath one man sinned, and wilt thou be wrath with the whole Congregation? May he not more ²justly expostulate with us; Hath the whole Congregation sinned, and is it enough for one man to repent? Is the whole garment foul, and must only the skirts be washed? Is the whole building ruinous, and do we think it a sufficient reparation to patch up one corner of it? No, the plaster of our repentance must be fully as large as the orifice of our wickedness; or we cannot be healed. But still God will be angry with us, yea though we were his own people: For,

Thus the universality of sin calls for the universality of repentance, or else it will provoke Gods anger to strike us with universall judgements. If the whole people be guilty, the whole people must fall to deprecation. Such was the Nivites repentance, every man turning from ¹his evill ways. We have sinned, even the whole ⟨p. 20⟩nation: and as if we had not sins enough of our own, we borrow of our neighbours. What nation under heaven do we trade withall, from whom the sinnes of that Nation are not brought hither? And those are merchandizes that might be well spared. Are we all in the transgression, and do we lay the burden of repentance upon some few? If we expostulate with God, Lord hath one man sinned, and wilt thou be wrath with the whole Congregation? May he not more