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

Secondly, How unlike are they to God, who having might and power in their hand, despise the mean, and the oppressed, who come to them for Justice! Such are not like God, the Judge• all men, but like that Judge, whose Character was (Luke 18.2.) He feared not God, nor regarded man; he despised all; what cared he for them, or their tears, so he might serve his own turn, and carry on his own ends? Woe to the mighty, who despise the Cause, much more who despise the cries of the oppressed.

Secondly, How unlike are they to God, who having might and power in their hand, despise the mean, and the oppressed, who come to them for Justice! Such are not like God, the Judge• all men, but like that Judge, whose Character was (Luke 18.2.) He feared not God, nor regarded man; he despised all; what cared he for them, or their tears, so he might serve his own turn, and carry on his own ends? Woe to the mighty, who despise the Cause, much more who despise the cryes of the oppressed.

Thirdly, The mighty men of the earth usually despise those whom God honoureth most. God despiseth not any, but he highly esteemeth his own; whereas the mighty men of the World are apt to despise all, especially his, that is, the Generation of the righteous; they that are nearest to Gods heart, are farthest from theirs. The affections and estimations of the mighty, seldom fall in with, but run cross to Gods, (Psal. 10.3.) He blesseth the Covetous, whom God abhors; that is, he hath a high esteem of those, whom God cannot abide; and he that doth so, will never ⟨p. 174⟩abide those whom God highly esteems, and those least whom God esteems most highly; away (saith he) with those that are so strict in their way, away with them (saith he) that walk in the narrow way. O let such mighty ones as despise these, consider how unlike they are to the mighty God, who despiseth not any, who greatly honoureth these. Michal, Davids Wife, Sauls Daughter, had a piece of this spirit in her; though David was a mighty King, she despised him, only because he was a holy and a zealous King: When she saw how he danced before the Ark, when she saw how he was taken with the things of God, she despised him in her heart, and for that was punished with a barren womb, as long as she lived, (