When is a people so overgrown with dross as that it is necessary the good and the bad should go into the same furnace-- I shall name but two plain things--- 1. When the generality of a people are openly wicked and profane. You will see in the following verses of this chapter the reason given why God will put them all into the furnace. And why is it-- Because the prophets were wicked, and the priests were wicked, and the princes were wicked, and the people were wicked.