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phorically, ve have heaped a Trealurc Rom, 2. 5. or literally, {ift, and fatal days, in which God 15 bringing thoſe on you winch will contuine all, : >hold s, the hire of your Jabourers which have reaped down your fields 7, which is of you kept back . by traud . cricth x, and * the cries of them waich ave reaped, 41re entred into the {ubbaoth y.
S This is cit her a Note of Demonſtration, as 7ohn 1. 25. q. d. the caſe is plat ” and cannot be denied ; or of Excitation, q. d. ſeri- outly confid ſer it; or rather, of Conirmation, to intimate, Threatnis he cre den "I ſhou!d certainly be made good upon them. Sec Tude 1, T.þ. The Wazes of thoe, and Sweat ye your ſelves he and are nouriſhed, Either who!ly denied the Mm, Or detained from them, when due to them, contrary to the Law, Levit. 15. 13. Deit. 24.14, 15» Deterring Payment 13 4 fort oi defrauding, as 1t bereaves the Creditor of the Benctit ot Improvement ; and fo they are taxed liere with Injuſtice, as well as Covetouſnefs, in that they lived upon other Men's Labours, and ſtarved the Poor to enrich themſeives, x Viz. to God for Venzeance, as ſuch Sins are ſaid to do, which cither arc ſo openly and boldly committcd, as to dare tne Juſtice of God ; or lo fecret- Iv, or ſccurely, that they are like to cfcape the Jufttce of Men, Gen.
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Will they are ready to execute, He mentions God by tins Title, not only tor the encourazeme nt of the poor opprelied, whoſe Patron and Protcettor he avows himſ-lf to be, Exod. 22. 23, 24,2 » Prov. 23. 11. But for terror to the powerful Oppretiors, who think them- leives out of the reach of Mens Judzments,
5 Ye have lived in pleature Z on the earth @, and | been wanton F, YC have nouriſhed vour hearts c as 1m +
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\ Luxuriouſly and TIO 6 "I Appetites, Amos 6. 4, 5,5. Luke 15. 19, 25 a Where you place vour happineſs without looking higher, and from whence you tetcit your deltghts, Phil. 3. 19, b The ſame ward 15 uſed, 1 7/5. 5, 1t feems to imply effeminate laſcivious behaviour, as the effect o! their riotous living, c Either by an Hebrew phraſe, ye have nou- rilh nk your hearts, for ye have nouriſhed your ſelves, Eſth. 5. 6. Fob 10. 13. : or, ye have cheared up, and encouraged your hearts 112 your r Laxary, by pampering your Fleſh (Luke 12.19.) and teed- inz not to the {atisfaRion of Nature, but the enflamfhs of your Luſts, & Either ſecurely, and without fear of the Deſtruttion coming upon you, as Sheep graze quietly, tho' by and by to be brought to the Shambles; or, rather in a day of laughter, i.e. ina day of ſolemn Feaſting, when many Beaſts were killed in Sacrifice, on which they were wont to Feaſt, Prov. 7. 1.4. and 17. 1, They made every day a keaſting day, and that too, laviſhing out other Men's dues upon cheir own tf! h, and ſparing trom their Labourers, that they might ſpend upon their Luſts. Thus he brings to a2EUne their fin,
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? f, e. Procured by your cdl and Power the para s unrigh:- Senten WES, 2nd thereby the deſtrution of the Jait. 'f Inde- nnitely and collectively, the jt for any juft Man, viz. fuch as innocent and juft in comp ariſon of their Perſecutors. g This notes nor only the patience of ſuch in bearing injuries, but their weak- nets too, and being deſtitute ot humane help againſt their rics POWEr.
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h I'rr, To Judzment, and that cither particular to avenze the quarrels of innocent ſufferers upon their Tyrannical Perſecutors ; or, rather to the General Judzment, 1n vw hich a full retribution is to be made botn to thc Juit and Unjuit, Rm. 2. 5,5, &c. To which