- 'Ihe Confc1ence of Chteritie. - ~4p. r 4. He d~thexecute, faithMufo~1 .. Deut. IO.I8,19: ~ . •• ~- tbejudgement of tb~ fotherltfl and widgw, and hr~Jetb the flranger in givi11.g him fopd and r:~iment: Love ye thereforetl~e firange:r, for ye were flranv:_erJ in the L·mdof EgJP'. · But alas the ill c:oniciencrs ofthefe tim(S: !. lf'hi#mem~:tk the bl~ating nf ihe Jheep, and /ow– ing of the exen,fbalt 1Jaj l Or, What meaneth thebeatingof th~ poor to piu'u, and grinding of ~heit very frJceJ, faith the Lord? Surely he will enter into judgement With t~e Antients . pf the People, and with the Princes thereof,_ pecaufe the fpoil of the poor i1 in their houfe~, Hi.' 3 14,1) . Vv"hat judgment$ 4o you read :threatened in all the· Prophets,_for this un– merciful! negletting or opprefEng of the poor, AmnJ z. 6._G<?d threaten$ lfra~l not tq ~urnaw.ry their punijbment, hect~ufo theymade nl} more of tbe por~ m;~.n t~nd hi! cauft , then of a p.lit of old jhone.r. The like lldic.zh 3. 3,4. ' Surely this .is one of t~1c c~"ying fi:JSof om~ .~ime$, that ~he cauCe i1 not judgect the caqfe J(l'. s ~ ~~, of the pom·, and th~ right of the needir, 1 But.: · a-9. may we pot fay, Hath not the Lor(l begun to · '(J ijitfor t ~ ~ 'e tbingJ, and {hall he nnt be avmged on fuch a M-uir:naJ thi1 ere he hath done? Rom. IJ . I ) . VFhen the ApoiHe in a certain cafe would tdl a qun he walks not cun_{cientiouj!J, he tds him, Thou walkdt not chtJritably : · \\;hat is it therdore to walk charitably' but tmdcn iably t o walk conici ~nt.iouf!y ? I con– d ud"e this thereforewith theApofHes exhor– tation, Gel, ~. 12. Put on, cu tb~ Elef1 of ~od,, . . . ~ . .hi!/J
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