An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, and thirty-seventh chapters of…

They make the oppressed cry, but they say not, Where is God? They neither speak nor think of God, who hath clothed them with power, and made their arm mighty. We find this frame frequently ascribed in Scripture to oppressors; Elihu chargeth Job with it, (Chap. 22d) where having told him to his face, of many acts of oppression; Thou hast stripped the naked of their clothing, (v. 6.) Thou hast withholden bread from the hungry, (v. 7.) And the arms of the fatherless have been broken, (v. 9.) Having (I say) reckoned up these his supposed oppressions, he concludes, ⟨p. 63⟩(v. 13.) And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark Cloud? David in prayer, speaks the same of his oppressors, (Psal. 86.14.) O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul, and have not set thee before them. (Psal. 94.5, 6.) They break in pieces O Lord thy people, and afflict thine heritage; They slay the widow, and the stranger, and murder the fatherless: Yet they say, the Lord doth not see it, neither shall the God of Jacob regard it. All these Scriptures may be resolved into the Text; They say not, Where is God my maker? They who do all they can to unmake and undo their fellow-creatures, care not to remember him, who is the maker and creator of us all. But

They make the oppressed cry, but they say not, Where is God? They neither speak nor think of God, who hath cloathed them with power, and made their arme mighty. We finde this frame frequently ascribed in Scripture to oppressors; Elihu chargeth Job with it, (Chap. 22d) where having told him to his face, of many acts of oppression; Thou hast stripped the naked of their clothing, (v. 6.) Thou hast withholden bread from the hungry, (v. 7.) And the armes of the fatherless have been broken, (v. 9.) Having (I say) reckoned up these his supposed oppressions, he concludes, ⟨p. 63⟩(v. 13.) And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark Cloud? David in prayer, speaks the same of his oppressors, (Psal. 86.14.) O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul, and have not set thee before them. (