Chap. 31. An Expo:4;am upon eke Took of J o B. Verf. 14 43 s9 and that writep-iev,u/ntp that they have prefcribed(that is,who are not only foun;uft as to give order for the doing of grievous things,ut fo impudent as to (auk their orders to be entred & re- corded as publicke Monuments of theirinjoftice andoppreflion) to carne afide the needyfrom jna'gi tetnt, and to take away the right from the poore ofmy people, that widelows may be their prey ,and that they may rob the fatherleffe. And what willye d e in the day ofvi- fitation and in the defolationwhich/hall came from far ? The Pro- phet fpeakes ofthe fame vifitation for kind that 74 did, and he fpeakes ofthe perlons tobe vifired in the fame words ; What will ye dee ? And ( as it followes) to whom willye fleefor helpe ? As the poore have fought helpe ofyou but found none,toyou (hail leek toothers for helpe but fhall not find it. And where willye leave year glory That is, your riches and worldly goods which you have fcraped out of the belles ofthe poore, and count your glo- ry, or glory in them. This will be the General! cry of finners whenGod comes to vifit, What (hall we doe? who will helpe us? They who nowwill not doe what they know they ought, or will doewhat they know theyought not, fhall at LotI cry out in vaine, woe and alsffe, what (hail we doe ? we know not what to doe. WhenGod called Cain toaccount for his brothers blood, which cryed to him for vengeance, he hadnothing to anfwer, but that which was no anfwer, A SW IMU brothers keeper ? When God. than call the idle and unprofitable tervant to account, who bath hid his talent in a napkin or under ground, what will he anftver When God fhall call the evil] fervant to account, who woke his brother by the throate for anhundred pence, after himfelfe bad been forgiven all his debt, even ten thoufand talents,what will be have toanfwer? There are many finners., who Rand mute now, and will not confeffe their fins, And in the great vifiration day, All finners will be forced to Rand mute, as not being able ta anfwer for fo much as.anyone of their fins. thief: now men get the anfwer of a good confcience purged by the blood and Spirit ofour Lord jefus Chrilt, Their evil! confciences will never be able to make any anfwer at his Tribunal!. Let every ienpeni, tent finner put thee ()eftionsoften to his owne heart, what, 'hall I doe, when God up ? andwhen he vifitetb, what ¡hall I anfwer ? He that ferioufly catechizeth his owne foule with thefe Qvilions, will eyther refolve, in the Rrengch of Ostia, not to continue
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