A supplement to the several discourses upon various divine subjects

In that day will I sever the Land of Goshen; I will put a division between my people and thy people. And therefore in Psal. 78. the Psalmist reckoning those Plagues, never mentions the Lice, because that was inflicted upon Israel as well as Egypt. This is a way to keep the Soul from common infection. 'Tis difficult for a Soul to defile it self with the sins of the times, when tears are continually running down the eyes for them. 'Tis an Antidote against the sin, & against the Plague which follows at the heels of it. If we look not upon them with grief, we are in danger to be snared in the same temptation. Besides, not sorrowing for them is an implicit consent to them, and by consenting to them, we are little better than actors in them. By grieving for them, we enter our dissent, & pass our vote against them. When any sin becomes national, it is imputed to the body of the Nation; as in some transgressions of the Law, the whole body of the Nation of the Jews was involved; and there is no way for any particular person to remove the guilt from him, but by disowning it before God.

In that day will I sever the Land of Goshen; I will put a division between my people and thy people. And therefore in Psal. 78. the Psalmist reckoning those Plagues, never mentions the Lice, because that was inflicted upon Israel as well as Aegypt. This is a way to keep the Soul from common infection. 'Tis difficult for a Soul to defile it self with the sins of the times, when tears are continually running down the eyes for them. 'Tis an Antidote against the sin, & against the Plague which follows at the heels of it. If we look not upon them with grief, we are in danger to be snar'd in the same temptation. Besides, not sorrowing for them is an implicit consent to them, and by consenting to them, we are little better than actors in them. By grieving for them, we enter our dissent, & pass our vote against them. When any sin becomes national, it is imputed to the body of the Nation; as in some transgressions of the Law, the whole body of the Nation of the Jews was involved; and there is no way for any particular person to remove the guilt from him, but by disowning it before God.