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~uildcd, they pffinted, &c. verf. 2.8. When ·men generally apply themfelves to worldly buGnefs, •cis a fad Prognofiick, they do but - bring forth for the Murtherer, and heap up for the Plunderer: 1 The[.; 3· whentheyfoallfay,Peactllndfafety,thenfuddende. jJruEfion cometh upon them, aJ travel upon a Woman with child. and they foal/ not e{cape. When fecurity runneth rior, and is like to degenerate into utter contempt of God, men are not likely to profit by the Word, therefore God taketh the rod in hand, that by the feverity of difcipline he may teach men that which they would not learn by kinder and milder perfwafions. Plethorick bodies muft have their veins opened : And when apeople are grown to fuch a bNahum~.1. wancon fulnefs,God will fmd uthe Emptiers to empty them. • Verfe 4· Behold the hire ofyour Laborers 'Which have rMped down your fields, Which is of you k_ept b"cl(_ by fraud, cryeth: and the cries of thtm v~hich have reaped, are entered into the cars ofthe Lord of S~tbb~tth. Htre is another Argument of Convid:ion produced, [c. the op– preffion of their fervants and labourers, in detrauding them of their reward; a fin fo injurious,and of fuch an hainous quality,that it cry– eth to God for vengeance : The phrafes will be opened in the Points. Obferve, Obfervat. 1. 1. From the Context, Thttt there is nojinfohainomalfldbafe, but Covetoufnejs may be a mother or anurfe to it. What more ford id, then for arich man to detain the labourers wages? 'Twas bafe to hoard up their own treafures till corrupted with moth or . rufi ; but apraCtice moll accurfed', after they had fucked out the . firengrh and fweet of the labourer, to deprive him of his reward: c §)__ui p;-upyla Yet ufually thus it is, c men that do not pare with their own right, n~n trdz/munt ,a. will not make Confcience of invading anothers : Firfi men arcjpalmza <llnt1lt. . d b · · · D n. h" fi · h h t · rmg, an t en zn;urzom. etcu t IS mWit t emore avehation, you know not how far it will carry you ; the Apofile faith, It is the root ofall evil, I Tim.6.IO. Ob[ervM. 2.. 2. From that [cryeth:] Some fins ar-e crying, and do more efje– cially r"equire vengumce at the hands ofGod. ThiscrJing is apply– ed to blood, Gen. 4· 10. Th] brothers b/9odcryeth; not his Soul, but his blood. So to the wickednefsofSodom, Gen.xS.zo. The cry of Sodom and Gomorrah isgreat 1 bec~ufe their fin isgrie'lloHs. So ~ ro

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