Reformation, Then Desolation Preached Dec. 22, 1641

The sins of a Church and people may come to that height, and God's wrath may be kindled to that heat, notwithstanding their reformation, God will inexorably go on to a desolation. Notwithstanding all that Josiah did, the Lord turned not from His fierce wrath. The third is, this being done for Manasseh's provocations, I observe, that the sins of one generation may be the ground and cause of the destruction and ruin of the succeeding generation. The abominations that Manasses committed and commanded in his time, were the cause why God was unappeasably bent to the destruction of the generation that lived after him.