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Yea suppose they do not cry themselves; ^kthey sit down by it, and thrust their mouths in the dust, ^lswallow their grief with silence, and ^mbear that burden with patience that God hath called them to undergo and endure, ⁿpraying rather to God for those that persecute and oppress them, then either expostulating with them, or exclaiming against them, or making solemn appeal and complaint to God of them. They need not. Resipsaclamat; The thing it self doth it, whether they do or no. ^oThe very hire of the Labourers that is with-held from them, it self crieth, saith James: and the cry of it as well as of the persons themselves entereth into Gods ears. As, ^pthe blood of Abel from of the earth; so ^qthe very timber and stone from the building that is founded upon falsehood and built up with blood, crieth for vengeance to heaven. And not ^rfrom the sins of Sodom only, that filthy sty, but ^sfrom the sins of Nineveh too, that ^tbloody shambles where lies and robbery roost, and oppression and injustice harbour, doth a loud cry ascend and appear before God.

Yea suppose they doe not crie themselues; ^kthey sit downe by it, and thrust their mouths in the dust, ^l