ty will reach. Bread here is largely tobe taken, 7/a. 58. 7.r Such astru- + ly want, are not able to help themſelves ; and we may with reaſon Ws think, have none to help them if we do not. « Clothed the naked, | M8 1;;. who elſe are like to periſh for want of Clothing; as70b 31. 19. Who 7 __ are ſuch, and live ſo juſt, ſo holy, ſo inoffenſive, fo beneficent a Life a | af mong Men, ſhall not ſuffer for the Sins others commit. FX by 8 He that hath not * given forth upon » uſury, Þall i * neither hath taken z any #@ increaſe, that hath with." _ drawn his hand from 6 iniquity, hath executed c tus FM 5; judgment between man and man; > 9 x Lent or put into anothers Hand, on condition of returning not | 8 bv! the ſame, or equal Value, but much more. » Biting Uſury (asthe | 8 #© Word implieth) which no doubt is prohibited, becauſe of the ol. Ma% ir coth to the Borrower, and the undue Gain it brings to the Lender, | 8 1-2 A r1gorous impoſing Conditionsof Gain for the Loanof Money or þ © ficd Goods, and exaQting them without reſpe& to the condition of the þ * ſuc] Borrower, whether he gain or loſe ; whether Poverty occaſioned his | ® Jud Borrowing, or whether viſible likelihood of Gain by imploying the Þ Dy borrowed Goods ; which ſort of Uſury is againſt both the Law of | WM 272} Charity, as well as againſt the expreſs Willof God, who prohibits it, Þ his Exod. 22. 25. Lev. 25. 35, 36, 37. Deut. 23. 19, 20. z Any, is not Þ © and in the Hebrew, though Interpreters here inſcrt it for the greater Em- niry phaſis and weight. This increaſe here mentioned is by che Criticks ſelt in the Hebrew ſaid to be, either a receiving of the Borrower ſom: © © I Gratuity for lending that, for which the Borrower muſt pay Uſe alſo; ® MF fath a kind of oppreſſion too common among us, called Procuration, o: Þ + nor
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o Hath 4 walked in my e ſtatutes, and hath kept 1 - = y; he #4 juſt, he ſhall ſfureiy IT ;-* live, faith the Lord GOD. s T7
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1 TH8 JVI _ x according to the beſt of his Knowledg and Judgment, & Is juſt corn- | w» payatively, fo far righteous, that he ſhall not feel, nor needs he fear e;: " fuſf:r what others Sins bring upon chem, he ſhall not ſaffer what he
I hath nor deſerved. # Shall be delivered from Famine, Peſtilence and * o1]. fee 7! al. 34. . his Teeth ſhall not þ b- Curord, thail ſez good Days, on Pſal 2h: 706 FEY . th b. ft on edge, whatever quarelling Sinners fay,or think; bur the Righ- fright ecomnefs of the Righteous ſhall be upon him. © au je 10 © If & he begeta fon 7hat ;5a || / robber, a m ſhed. n+ 5" or of blood, and r44t doth the 7 || like to ary o one of
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Us : + The juſt Man before deſcrib'd, who tranſmits his Nature, bnt p: cangitt tranſmit his Vertues to his Son. / That by force and violence
ICT - eats over the Law of God and Man, takes away what is another lf-, ? Man's; ſuch a Thief as ſticks not to deſtroy, thar he may rob. » fe, ly That is a murderer ; for ſhedding of blood here, is not leſs than Mur- Wy) der, as by the Phraſe, -Ger. 9. 6. Deut. 21.7. 1 Sam. 25.33. Pal. 79. V. |; 10. »u The thing that is Brother to one of theſe, as the Hebrew may
-- "M tear, There are things like theſe, which deſtroy either the Life or INg Ig. ; Eftares of our Neighbour ; for there are many Methods and Arrtifices, 0n <9, which fuck violent Ones uſe, 6 Ir might ſeem to ſpeak one ſingle uſe Ac unpardonable : but I refer this Text to that Gen. 9. 6. and Num.
TXo 15 31, The Law doth condemn ſuch to Death ; Man muſt nor,tho” : be God my pardon ſuch a one. ; wo: 11 And that p doeth not 94 any of r thoſe duties, but ken even hath eaten s upon the mountains, and z defiled his ns neighbours wite, | | | oh p In the former Verſe, Sins which ace Violations of the Law by a
. Man's doing the Evil which was forbidden ; in the former Part of this [et V-rle, the Sins which are omiſſions of Good required, are mentioned, yy Negle&s all, frames not to dothem. » Vid. wer. 6,7, 8. } Vid. lod fr. 6, 7 Fer, 6. | :
$- 12 Hath « oppreſſed the x poor and needy, hath » ſpoil-/ Al Me ed by violence, hath not = reſtored the pledge, aud hath ws, a lite up his eyes to the idols, 5 hath committed abomi- and” nation,
22, « Vid. on vcr. 7, & In the ſeventh Perſe the Words are more large, awn, condemning the opprefling of any one ; here they do more particular- | Ups; iy condemn opprefling the Poor, which have little to maintain, and , and ;, Icſ5 to defend themſelves; and needy 1s added, to render us more ſen. Caſes | fible of the greatneſs of this Sin, which takes away Right where we 1.24 ſhould ſhew Charity. » See wer. 7. let. vr. z See wer. 7. let, 9. a See bove wer. G. let. k. 6 7. ce. Come near to a menſtruous Woman, which is agit ver. 6, exprefly named, and here pointed at, or elfe Idolatry.
f rhe 13 Hath c given forth upon ufury, and hath d taken in- : ” "© creaſe : ſhall he thene live 2 he ſhall f not live : g he hath but. | - done / all theſe & abominations, he ſhall 7 ſurely die, his «try. {Sf biocd (hall be upon him. eaſon c See wv. 8. let. x,and y, d See v.8. let. z, and s. e Do you think aked, his Father's Righteouſneſs ſhall preſerve him from the Puniſhment his Who own Unrightcouſneſs deſerveth, my Law threatneth, and my Juſtice | ife 2 inflicteth ? Shall he not. with other Sinners be ſpoiled, beſieged, die » by the ſword or Famine, or languiſh in a Jong Captivity, and there fury P: dic? f A dccilive Anſwer to the former Queſtion ; Such a one ſhall
Ta not proſper, nor long eſcape the Stroaks of my Juſtice, and the An. with. Px 1wcr is parallel with chat chap 17. 10. g ls perſonally involved in the
true | 8 Sins which are worthy of Death, and which are fo expreſly threat.