538 Chap,. zo. An Expofrtion upon the Booke of J 0 B. Verf., ißá Cher take our fenfe, as a difcovery ofhis fin ; He hack forfaken the pore ; To forfake is to withdraw helpe, affiance,counfell9, proreet on, any thing which might doe another good ; Thefe words may be expounded as an aggravationof the former fin, oppreffion ; As ifZ phar had Paid, becaufe he bath not bnely opprefTd but forfaken the poore, denying them all helpe, when he bath made them unable to helpe themfelves, Thereforeevill, ,fball be upon him, c. Hence note ; That as it itfinfull to forfake thepore, though he have never, oppreffed them, fo to oppreffe and then forfake them ùfarce morefinfull. Thoughwe have not taken from them, yet ifwe have not gi= ven them, though wehave not made them naked, yetif we have not cloathed them, this will becharged in that great day(1Lfac. 25. 3 5, 36,) we finde the poore complaining (Aá. 6. 1.) In thofe dayet when thenumber of theDifciples mas rnultiplied,there arofe a murmuring ofthe Grecians againfi the Hebrewes, becaufe their widdowes were negleEled in thedaily minifiration. Negle& ofthe poor, efpecially of the Godly poor,is a fin in ail, efpecial-, ly in the Churches. Howgreat then is their fin, whomake many poore, andthen neglesçt them ; let them finke or fwim, 'Lis all one to them. Fora man to take force care of, or beftowforne Aimes upon the poore whom he bath opprefl'ed, is no fatisfaeii- on for his finne, but not to take careofthe poore whom he bath opprffed, is a great aggravationofhisfinne. 73ecaufe he bathviolently taken away the kaufe which he bail- , ded not._ Thefe words are ( upon the matter) thefame with the for,-.- mer, He hash violently taken away; °Cis but one word in the He- brew, He bath not taken away by dealt!), by trickes and de- ceits, but in openview. Some take away houles which they budded not, craftily, and upon pretenfions or colours of Law and right.; others take them away violently without any co- lour ofright. The former is as unjuft a wayof taking as the latter. But the latter bath not only injuffice in it, but impu- dence..Ttiefe are fo farcegone in fin, that they are paft fhanie They rapMit ape;te abffu it Ter aut ßerfenar
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