The Cause and Cure of the Cattle Plague - A Plain Sermon

Do you ask me what I suppose to be the purpose of this visitation—and what, therefore, we have to do as a nation and as individuals by way of repentance and amendment?  I venture not to answer particularly, picking out the precise sins which characterise us as a people, for which God is provoked, to visit us with present wrath, or for which He is but graciously chastising us, that we may cease from them ere they bring forth His displeasure.  I rather bid you consider for what reasons God sent His sore plagues among His people of old, and then ask yourselves what there is in us like unto them, what we lack that God thus laboured to produce in them.  I do not even venture to say that God is visiting sin at all.