VB R s.4. . An Expofiti~n, with Notn CHAP.). their reward, either through bad payment, or crafty cavils : The Lord faith, Mal. 3• 5. I Will be afwift Witnefs againft thofe tholt appre(i the hireling in hu Wages : So 'cis in the Text, by fraud k!pt lur.ck.; God knoweth what's oppreffion, though vailed under craf- . ty pretences. + When you diminilh or change their wages · as 'ds faid of Laban, that he changedJacobs Wages ten times, Ge'-1:3 I. - 4r. 5. When you delay payment: God commanded the Jews eo do it ere Su.l!l-fet; fee Deut. 24.14, ts. Levit.19. 30. 'Tis a maxim of the Law, minm folvit,qui minm tempore folvit, that not to pay it at the time, is to pay the lefs, becaufe·of the advantage of improvement: And in the Text 'cis faid, kept back_ by fraud; though not wholly taken away, yet k_ept 6ack_ entitled them to fin. TheLord (you know) rewardeth his fervants ere they have done . tl,leir work; we have much of our wages aforehand, &c. Ohferv at, 4. 4· Though the poor jbould tJOt cry, the very hire and money \vou/d cry, andrequire vengeance againft oppre.ffors. The Apo!He faith, not only. the reapers cry, but the hire cryeth: So fee Job 3r. 38,39,40. If my Landcry againft me, and thefurrowJ thereoflik..e– w.ife comp./!iin; if I have eaten thefr~tits thereofVPithout money, or ht~ve c~eufed ~he owi:lers thereofto Jofe their life, &c. God cannot want witneifes againll: cruelty · t4ehir.e (hall cry, the poor (h:dl cry, the beam rtnd the.ftone out tJthe 'f?vall{hall cry, Habak.;2. the very affiid:ion _thaU cry; ~cis fa id}Gen. r6. I r. He heard Hagars ajfiiai– on, when Sarah had u[ed h~r hadhly and irnperioufly: So the Chnrch fa·ith,Lam.2..I8.The apple ofmine eye'f!(a!! mt k!ep .fi~enc·e: Their groans clamour, and itheir tears have a loud NO¥Ce. O_h_then– confider this, fecret wrongs will be known to God ~ The children of ·God may not know who ·harmed them; wicked men aCl: at a Q.ifbnce; likeaSpider, when fhe bath Wtaved anee, goeth.out of the way : buc. yet the Lord -knowech; their very affi.idions will ~r¥ ,again.fr y9u,. wheiJthey know not againfi whom to cuy. · · ollfer-vat. ). ; 1 5·. Frqm t9a; [t_he Lord of Sa~bath. ]That is,nhe Lord of H~tl,s.; a,~~r;ne of~en ufed tn the P(ophetJcal Books, but mofl: commm;ly m 1(4iah and Zcchariah; ~·cis not ufull.in the New Teftamem, Goos Titfes being th€re, fuller of {weetnefs and, gta~e: And: th~ reafoo~ why ·cwa.s.fo n1uch_ ur€-1! then, w~ be~aufe tine peo.pkof·God;were ingrea;.mi_fery, n~~.ad; lll_l!lch; deffo~ and proteC\:i(!)n~ 'aoo \:V~Pe ih qaoger rp let f,~U- ~tu:tr {10p<i:s out of rear ofm~n•. ~f;wa~a Name•0f G.od.' fo. com~Ql<llX knQWC\ :ill<\ u(ed,._ t~ac. eh( S.epmagint rettin~d. t!le.
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