John Trapp on Matthew 24:7

Verse 7. For nation shall rise, &c.] See here the wofull effects of refusing Gods free offers of grace. They that would have none of the Gospel of peace, shall have the miseries of warre. They that loathed the heavenly Manna, shall be hunger-starved. They that despised the only medicine of their soules, shall be visited with the pestilence. They that would not suffer heart-quake, shall suffer earthquake. Or as that Martyr expresseth it. TheyBradford. that trembled not in hearing, shall be crusht to peeces in feeling. As they heap up sinne, so they treasure up wrath: as there hath been a conjuncture of offences, so there shall be of their miseries. The black horse is at the heels of the red, and the pale of the black, Rev. 6. 4. God left not Pharaoh, that sturdy rebell, till he had beaten the breath out of his body: nor will he cease pursuing men with his plagues, one in the neck of another, till they throw the traytours head over the wall.