N Chap. 24. An Expoftion upsn the Backe(JOB. Verf. 3 Sot It isfïnftall to + arong and, hit much more to wrong the poore, Sordtdo facto having met with this point from other paffages in this booke, ruicnrer, cc I onely name it and adde, that t here are two things which Phew paupe;qudem v PuD ant the finfulneffe of taking from the Poore. Fit ft , becaufe they fee . -e recurinr, are weak'.. and unable either to refit injuries, or to right theca- yui etre;r,uri felves ; They canno: helpJhemfelves, nor can they eafily procure hmniníóatujàm help from others. The poor and him that ;lath no help', are put jcr;. Z I:ehCJÚOrCI, together (P;44l.7a. ra,) and ufually they are the fame. Iretur- ned (fáithSolomon, Eccl..}. x.) and earl all theopprcfons that aredone under the Sun Lana behold the t cares of inch a4 were oppreffed, andthey had no comforter 8 and :;n thefide oftheir opprrf fors there waa power, bat they had no comforter. kid they who have no comforter, furely haveno helper. N.> w it is Moll finfull to hurt diem who are kalt able to help themfelves, or find help from ochers,And who fo helpleffe,as the fatherleffc and she wid- dow ? Secondly, it is therefore excrcamely f nfull ro wrong the poor, andefpecially there poore, becaufe God bath commended them to the care, and tuition of the rich; they are his .charge, Godhash taken them into his prote&ion, and bath milted there over to men of power, that they fhould look to there. Magi ftrates fhauld be as a wall ofdefence. to the farherleffe, and wid- dow,they fhooid provide for chem,and nourifh them. Therefore to (poile, and rob them ofall, how great a wickedneffe is this ? this is (as much as in them is) to make God a lyar, and unfaich- full to his word and promife. As then it fhouldbe a great encou- ragement"tohelp, he Godly poore, becaufe in fo doingwe are a meanes to fultìll the promifeof God to them. So we fhould therefore be afraid to wrong them, becaufe in fo doing we dot what we can tomake the promife ofGod to them void.Nomar. veile then,ifthe Apoftle ?ames placeth all religion,as to prat i1e, inthe vifitation ofthe voiddow,d. thefatherlefe in their afflill'ionp: and if,in that fence,all religionbe placed in it,what frill' we judge of their religion, who :f;& the widdow, cod the fathcrlefï! ? Andifto vifittbemnin trouble, beanat not onelyofcharitv'co them, but ofhonour and religion towards God, becaufe God` (who provides for all) bath taken upon him to provide for the fatherleff;,and the widdow,by name(So that we difchargeGods debt ofpromife to the fatherleffe,and widdow,when we do them good. If, I fay, it be thus) then how groffean a& is it both ofmil than
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