An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh chapters…

Such as have raised themselves upon the ruins of others, shall raise others by their own ruin. God will send devourers to eat up the estate of those, who have devoured the estates of their brethren; especially, if they have devoured the estates of his own people. The Apostle, Gal. 6. 7. gives this general law, Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. He that sows oppression, or makes his seed-time, to be the reaping of his neighbours harvest, may find reapers, which he hired not, in his field at harvest. The Prophet Isaiah denounceth a woe against those, that join house to house by oppression, and what is the woe? their houses shall be made desolate; So Zeph. 3. 19. I will undo all that afflict there. And Jer. 30. 16. They that devour thee shall be devoured; and they that spoil thee shall be a spoil, and all that prey upon thee will I give for a prey; It is just with God (2 Thes. 1. 6.) to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you. The rich man who hoards up that for himself and for his children, which he hath pulled out of the bellies of others, shall have his meat devoured from his table, and pulled from between his teeth.

Such as have raised themselves upon the ruines of others, shall raise others by their own ruine. God will send devourers to eate up the estate of those, who have devoured the estates of their brethren; especially, if they have devoured the estates of his own people. The Apostle, Gal. 6. 7. gives this generall law, Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reape. He that sowes oppression, or makes his seed-time, to be the reaping of his neighbours harvest, may find reapers, which he hired not, in his field at harvest. The Prophet Isaiah denounceth a woe against those, that joyne house to house by oppression, and what is the woe? their houses shall be made desolate; So Zeph. 3. 19. I will undoe all that afflict there. And Jer. 30. 16