Amos 2:1-3

We have some account of Moab's cruelty, for which the Lord is here bringing him to accounts 2 Kings 3:26. It is worthy observation, and I take occasion to remark it in this place, in the Lord's displeasure at Moab, that though the Lord doth And will punish sin wherever it is found, yet the sin most to be dreaded is sin in the Lord's people. Here we find the Lord's provocation most marked. Sin is sin in all men, as weeds are weeds wherever they grow; but most offensive, and soonest to be rooted out in a garden. Hence, when the Lord's people became forgetful of the rock that begat them, we are told, when the Lord saw it he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters. Deuteronomy 32:15. Reader! mark this with peculiar emphasis! I do not say as much, but I verily believe it, and perhaps it may be so, all the sorrows and calamities of public life begin at this place; the Church of Jesus in her transgressions.