Chap. 24. In Expafation upon the Book of J O B. Verf. 1 Hence Note. Opprefon io a crying fin, and wake' clot oppreffedcry. The bloodof ribel, who was the firft man that ever was out- wardly wounded, cryed when he was dead howmuch more do theycry whole blood is powring out, and themfelves under pre - feat fear ofdeath.The fouls under. the Altarcryed h)w long L9ref, haw long, (Rev. 6. 9.) Thofe foules had fuf%red, and were paft fuffering yet they cryed out for vengeance upon their adverfaries howmuch more will their foules cry who are under fufferings ? Thewounds of the wounded are as fo many,wide mouths crying oat to God, though their own foules fhould be filent and fay no.- thing. I have upon other paffages in this book metwith the fin ofoppreffìon, and the cry of the poore upon it, therefore I (hall not further flay here, but a while infift upon the Taft claufe of this context, which holdsout the chiefand moft confiderable matter ofit. The oppreffor doth all thefe wickedneffes, but what doth God? Surelywe might aped to hear of God in the next words,, healing and helping the wounded who make this cry,andwotnda ing the hairy fcalpe ofchafe who made themcry; had not God a fit occafion put in his hand to fhew himfelfe ? firft, for the reieife ofthe opprefed ; and, fecondly, for the punifhment of the op. preffor. He that beholds fuch siftings as thefe,the fatherles pluck- ed from the breafts, the poore madeHaves, the labourer denyed his wages, the wounded crying, groaning, (he I fay,that beholds all this) might fay in his heart,furely nowGod will prefently ap- peare, and indeed Godpath often appeared, when the wicked have been in the heareoffuch a tinge. and the poore in the heat of loch fufferings. (mial. 12. 5.) For the oppreffion of the poore, for thefighing ofthe needy, now Iwill arifefaith the Lord,Iwillfet him in safety front him that puffetbat him. Yet here we find no fuch thing; nothing like the Lords arifing for the laving of the poore from oppreffion, or for the breaking of oppreffors. ?ob lawor had feen the poore opprefTed, and the needy fighing, but did not fee Gód coming eitherwith deliverance or revenge ? for he adds, though all this bedone, ret god layette notfolly to them. Matter Broughton. reads; And ¡he puißent atarketh pot theun- /awryy 541_
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