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24 against themselves, But they are the Achans in the camp, the Jonahs in the ship, having a notable hand in bringing wrath on others too.

(2.) The higher one's hand is in a sinning time, the deeper may their share be expected to be in a time of suffering or calamity, when the Lord will appear to vindicate the glory of his name.

2. To those who weigh not the evil of the days, but live on carelessly, and are never stirred up to their duty thereby. They consider not how matters stand betwixt God and the generation. This is a common evil amongst us, and a sad evidence of the low state of religion at this day. O that such would be stirred up to consider their ways, and the grounds of the Lord's controvesy with the generation. A wake, O sleeeper, and call upon thy God, lest thou perish in the furious storm, which is likely to break out upon us. It is not a time to live at ease and unconcerned, when so many marks of the Lord's displeasure are so visible, that he who runs may read. Awake therefore, shake off thy sloth, and betake thyself to the Lord Jesus by faith, as the only means of thy escaping the wrath that is to come.—Amen.