comfortablemilking with Gad. . 275 all compoft d of gold, pleafures, pofreflions, honours, Dia- dems, and all the glorious and molt defireable treafures un- der the Sunne. And who in refpeet of any unconfcionable. neffe, wrongs, iniuftice, or wicked wayes of getting, might with fincerityof heart, proportionably to their Rates and callings, take up Samuels proteftation : Behold, here I am,: SA111.11'3' vimfe againfi rnee befire the Lord, and before his Anointed Whole Oxe have I taken? or whole Afe have I taken ? or whom have Idefrauded ? whom have Iopprefed? or of whole hand have I receivedany bribe,to blindmine eyes there with ? and sore it. And fincere thoughts, refolutions, andproteftations to this purpofe, sre cleere evidences of unearthly minded- neffe. Bleffed JobBoth pregnantly illuftrate this point : His owne friend chargeth himwith inhumanity covetoufneffe, and cruelty and thereupon inferreth that Godsaffli linghand was heavyupon him : Howmuch more thinke you, would the childrenof fides, and children of , viler then the earth, of whom he die where complaines, vexe him flande. roufly?Is not thy wickednefpgreat,fa i th 2. 5' .&e., and thine iniquities infinite ? For thou haft taken a pledgefrom thy brotherfor nought, andfiripped the nakedof their cloathing. Thou haft notgiven water to the weary to drinke, and thouhaft with. holden bread from the hungry..-Thoti haftfiwt rridowes away empty, andthe armes of thefatherlefi have beene broken. Thereforefnares are round about thee, and _ladder; [care trots-, bleth thee.Whereas,indeed and truth,righteous Iob was right nobly minded, tender-hearted, charitable, bountiful! ; as ap- peares by his confident conteftation to the contrary, Iob 3 16, &c. If Ihave withheld thePoorefront their defire, or have caufed the eyesof the widdow tofaile : or have eatenmy morfell myfelfi alone, and thefigherleffe bath not eaten thereof ; If I havefeene any periA for want ofcloathing, or any Poorewithout covering: If We loynes he not bleffedme, andi f he were not warmedwith thefleece of my Sheepe : If Ihave lift upmy hand eigainfl thefatherlefe, when I faw my helpe in the gate : then let minearme fallfiom my fhoulder blade, and mine arme bee brakenfrom thebane. T Thus
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