436 Cha[?. 3 t. An Expaíition upon the Book! of J o a. Verf.14. Lb was really afrayd ofafterreckonings, if he hadover.rec- kon'd, or dealt unrighteoufly with his fervants. It is our dude to mind our danger, chat we may be more mindfull of the rule. Penalties are the word of God as wel as precepts,and threatnings as wei as.commandements. Not todoe evil! meerly for feare of Timor bit Ton evil!, oronly for wraths fake, is the feare ofa ¡lave not of a fon pertn'óat fed yet that feare of evil! which helpes to keepe the heart and life ronft'Onat* cleane, is a fon.like feare. Feare is a grace as wel as love, and Augufl. workes as purely inagracious foule. This feare doch not trouble us inour way,but ¡!ayes us in it.?ob was a man fearing God,and this feare wrought in his heart when he fayd what fheuld I doe when God rifethup, and when he vifteth what(hallIanfwer Fourthly, Obferve. god will callall to anaccount about ,chat they have done,. and puni¡h all thofe that have done wrong. There is nothing pafeth from man, but he muft paffe an ac- count about it fooner or later. When the peopleof Ifrael were in hard bondage, God arofe for them, and called Egypt to a rec- koning ( Exod. 3.7. ) Ihavefeene I have feene the a4lillion of my people, &c. And Iam come dorene to deliver them, &c. And by (Motes he warnes Maflera to ufe their fervants well, leaft it goe ill with t hemfelves ('Deut.a4.14, I 5. ) Thou¡halt not oppref fe an hiredfervant that ie pomre andneedy, &c. At his day thou fhalrgive him hie hire, neither¡hall the Swine gee downe upon it, for he is peore, andfetter, hie heart upon it, left he cry againfî thee unto the Lord, and it befin unto thee ; that is, left as it is fin in its nature, fo thou findeft and feeler it to be fin lathe effects ofit,Thus the Apoilie awakens the griping rich men of thofe times, andof all times (Tames 5.4. ). Behold the hireof the labourers which is of you kFpe Backe byfraud cryeth; And the cryes cf them which have reaped, are entred into the earee of the LordofSabath. (Pfal. 12. 5. ). For the apprefTon ofthe pore, for the lighing cf the needy,. nowwill I arofe, faith the Lord, Iwillfet him in fafetie from biro that pta#ethat him. And whentheLord lets the poore in fafety, will non their rich oppreffors be in danger ? He that folds the ffteepe, will deftroy theLyons and the Wolves. Once more; If then. ( faith Solomon, Eccl: 5. 8. ) feefg the opprefon of thepeore, and violent perverting of7udgemcnt and Nice in a Province, marueL
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