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

I answer,

First, The Lord giveth right to the poor, sometimes, when the poor perceive it not. (Psal. 97.2.) Clouds and darkness are round about him, Righteousness and Judgement are the habitation of his Throne. When a man cannot see the Lord doing right, yet the Lord doth right. The Sun shineth when eclipsed or covered with a Cloud. The Lord never ceaseth to right the poor, though neither poor nor rich perceive how, or which way he doth it.

First, The Lord giveth right to the poor, sometimes, when the poor perceive it not. (Psal. 97.2.) Clouds and darknesse are round about him, Righteousnesse and Judgement are the habitation of his Throne. When a man cannot see the Lord doing right, yet the Lord doth right. The Sun shineth when eclipsed or covered with a Cloud. The Lord never ceaseth to right the poor, though neither poor nor rich perceive how, or which way he doth it.

Secondly, I answer, He giveth right to the poor, even when they want right, or when they are under the sorest oppressions, by supporting their hearts in this persuasion, that he will give them right. The poor have right when their minds are satisfied that they shall have right. There is no true Godly poor man in the world, how much soever afflicted, but his heart is, or may be satisfied, that he shall have right. That's a sure word (Psal. 9.18.) The needy shall not always be forgotten, the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever. And therefore we may pray with confidence, Forget not, O Lord, the Congregation of thy poor for ever, (