Covenant and Judgments

“This is a truth we also acknowledge. In one sense, the antebellum South was a Christian nation, but it was a Christian nation that invited, and received, a genuinely severe judgment from the God who is not mocked. This judgment from a holy God included all the atrocities of Sherman, and sinful men must always bow before the judgments of the Almighty and turn to the Scriptures to learn how to accept those judgments. A man will reap what he sows, and so do nations. Dabney was convinced that a holy God commanded that the South fall, and that she fall because of her sins. This is basic to covenantal thinking” (Black and Tan, p. 90).