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The bright star which leadeth wise men to our Lord Jesus Christ, or, A…
The bright star which leadeth wise men to our Lord Jesus Christ, or, A familiar and learned exposition on the ten commandments gathered from the mouth of a faithful pastor by a gracious young man, sometime scholar in Cambridge.The bright star which leadeth wise men to our Lord Jesus Christ, or, A familiar and learned exposition on the ten commandements gathered from the mouth of a faithfull pastor by a gracious young man, sometime scholler in Cambridge.
London: printed by John Harison for Thomas Man, 1603London: printed by Iohn Harison for Thomas Man, 1603
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So Deut. 24. 14. Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant, thou shalt give him his wages for his day, nor shall the sun go down upon it. This is condemned as an unjust and unmerciful thing, that when one hath hired a servant or any to do his work, when the work is done, he should either give him no ⟨p. 38⟩wages, or else give it him in convenient and due time, but he must seek for it, when he should have use of it, for his relief, and God saith there if such a one be pinched with necessity and cry unto God, God will hear and revenge his wrong. And Job to prove himself no hypocrite, useth an imprecation concerning this sin in chapter. 31. that if he have eaten the fruit of his land without silver, and hath not paid the wages to him that tilled it and brought in his harvest, or if the furrows of his land have cried together against him, then let his ground be accursed, as indeed he had been an accursed person and broken this commandment in an high degree. And if he had done so, the very earth would have cried, the furrows would have made a complaint against. For two sins there be in the second table that makes the land cry to God, that he can have as it were no rest till he take vengeance, the one Sodomy, and the other oppression and cruelty against this commandment. As afore in Deuteronomy and in James he saith, Howl you rich men, and why? what misery is near? why the cry of the poor oppressed by you, is come up in the ears of the Lord; When one gets his good so ill, and enricheth himself by withholding other mens dues, though the man should be silent and say nothing; yet his necessity, his belly and his back, would make an hideous outcry before God till he had executed his vengeance. And for sinning in this branch of this commandment Jehoiachin was blamed Jerem. 22. 13. to 20. vers. Which is so much the rather to be noted, because most men think that the differences of persons may make some excuse for their sin, but it is not so. For if any might use the labour of an other without recompense, then might the King who is the sovereign Lord of all; yet he being a King is reproved by God for this, it is said he built his house without equity: how is that proved?
So Deut. 24. 14