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title: 'Samuel Davies on National Judgments'
type: post
author: 'R. Andrew Myers'
date: 2025-08-09
url: https://confessional.org/blog/2025-samuel-davies-on-national-judgments
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# Samuel Davies on National Judgments

“If the affairs of nations are at the disposal of the King of heaven, then how dreadful is the case of a guilty, provoking, impenitent nation! If he be the Supreme Ruler of the kingdoms of the earth, then it belongs to his character to punish the rebellious disobedience to his authority, the contempt of his laws, the abuse of his mercies, and a sullen incorrigibleness under his chastisements. These crimes must turn his heart from a people, and provoke him to punish them. This world, as I observed before, is the only place where societies are punished as such; for in the future world they are dissolved; and every man is dealt with according to his own personal works. And if God be turned against a nation, if he be resolved to punish them, how helpless is their condition! Who can defend them if the Ruler of the universe be their enemy?” — [**Samuel Davies**](/authors/samuel-davies), “God the Sovereign of All Kingdoms,” in *Sermons*, Vol. 3 (1864 ed.), pp. 348-349