Chap. 24. Anexpoficion upon the Reokof J O B. Verf. 14; to love them for their owne or Gods fake. Hypocrites love the wayes of God for the fpoyle which they find there, for the car- nal advantages which they meet with there; were thofe wayes Poore and needy,leane and empry;they fhould not at all be filled with their company. The prophane mil rife up in Judgement a- g .snit there profeffors, for they kill the poreand needy ; They do e till, where they cannot have any hopes ofreceiving good by ir. Secondly, For anfwer ; By The por andneedy, we may here underffandthe Innocent and honeft, not as if all who are poore and needy, were alto Innocent (for there are many wicked poor) nor as if all who are innocent, were alto poor and needy (for there are m;ny godly rich) but becaufe ufuolly theyare fo : men that are rich and great may be Innocent and holy, but thefe are rare conjunctions ; dually the Innocent are pooreand needy. Againe, we are not to take the poor and needy for them who (as we fay) have not a penny tobuy them bread,but by the poor we understand thofe of the midle or rather Inferiour rank, fuch poor andneedy they kill. But what's their quarrel! at them ? Firtt , Becaufe fuch poor boneft men (land in the light of wicked men,that is,the wicked cannot be fo wicked as they would becaufe force goodmen are neere them, and therefore they muff be removed out ofthe world,that they may be out of their way. Oc, fecondly, becaufe fuch poor honett men either have given,or are ready to give evidence, or be witneffes againit them before theMagiftrate : now either to prevent or revenge this, they rife with the light andkill the poore and needy. Hence Obferve. That a wickedman will doe hi, tcrmcfl to remove gafe wholiard in hie way, or oppefe loins in hia wickedneffe. Hewill kill Tome that he may vex others ;that's his aym here, the poore and needy are not his utmof ayme ; but the poor and needy nand in his way, they hind:r him in his other proehïs. And whatfoever interpofeth between him and the enjoyment of his loft, he will remove k ifhe can. And as he will kill force that he may vexothers,fo he will much rather kil thofe who vex him. Holy `David being let under the power ofa throng Temptarion, flew
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