722 Chap. 34. An E.xpofition upois the Book of 3 O B. Verf. 28, takea kinde of liberty, ifhe be a rich man that they are to put a reckoning upon, they thinke they May doe it fomewhat largely, and fay , he is able to beare it. But be the mannever fo rich and able to beare ir, yet to wrong him is a fin, and a fin that God will take notice of to punish. And though he can bartre the wrong dohe, "yet the wrong=doer will hardly be able to beare it when hecomes to reckon with "God for it. Thus (I fay) tówwrong the richoffends God ; but to wrong the poore cryeth to God; and as it follorveth in the text. Heheareth the cry of the afitled. Many t'ryes comeup to 'God which he doch not heats, he doch not regard there , and 'tis poflible for a poore than to cty to God and God not heare him, in the fence here fpoken of; Some poore men cry( as we fay ) before theyare hurt ; they cry rather but ofdifcölitent then want, they cry becaufe they have not what they delire, nöt becaufe they have not what they need. God will not heare the cry of fuch, though poore :but when a pooremagi is afflicted, when a poore man that is humbled (as the word here lignifies) and layd low in his flate , is low alfo iii fpirit , and lowly in mtnde, God heareth the cry of fuch a poore man. If a poore man have a proud fpirit , ór is humorous, Godwill not hearehim, though he cry. Theword here rendred, al{iled, fig= nines not only a man deflituteof helpe, of flrength, of friends, ü"äV mopes of aífiiance ( fuch is the reach and fltength ofthat word) but he ¡deft, del ttur isone of a iubmitcin patient f irit or it noteth,a mannot only ' y res refijlars, fi rfl, unable to refill "his oppreffor,but, fecondly, unwilling at leafs 'fedmalumpsi- not fo, ward ro make refinance, but fitting dewne by the lone tolerantes et quietly , or pofleffïng his foule in patience when he bath loft all ¡lei.cientes fe that he poffeffedby opprellion. The Lord hears the cry of this as afliaed man ; he will not reje& his cry, nor flophis ears again( it. And when Elrku faith, Sole heareth the cry ofthe afliaed , his meaning i , he ye lds or grants him the thing hecryes for. Hence note. Firfi , Godgracioufy hearer the cryofkumble cppreffed ones. Whofoever cry to him upon jufl caufe, being indeed opprefi, though they are not godly, yet Godwill take notice of rbeir cry fer, he will right the opprefed as opprefled, and therefore the Jewes Isadrhofe cautions 'C taxed: 22, a. Pests 24.15,) not
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