Concerning National Sins, Edward Leigh.
Sins though committed by particular persons, may be national: First, when they are interwoven into the policy of a State: Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law? Psa. 94. 20, Secondly, when they are universal and overspread the whole Kingdom: Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men. And they bend