The harmony of the Gospels in the holy history of the humiliation and sufferings…

5. The fifth affliction of poverty is, when a man is poor, men think that God despiseth them, as they themselves do. Thus they dealt by Jesus Christ, Isai. 53.4. we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God and afflicted, Jer. 5.4. poor and foolish, poverty renders a man destitute, forlorn & despicable, poverty layeth a man by like a broken potsherd good for nothing, Prov. 10.15. the destruction of the poor is his poverty.

5. The fifth affliction of poverty is, when a man is poor, men think that God despiseth them, as they themselves do. Thus they dealt by Iesus Christ, Isai. 53.4. we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God and afflicted, Ier. 5.4. poor and foolish, poverty renders a man destitute, forlorn & despicable, poverty layeth a man by like a broken potsheard good for nothing, Prov. 10.15. the destruction of the poor is his poverty.

6. The sixth affliction of poverty is, every one will be bold to afflict, wrong, tread upon the poor man, Psal. 10.2, 8, 6, 14. the wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor. his eyes are fiercely set against the poor, he catcheth the poor when he draweth him into his net, men are bold to injure the poor, because they know they are not able to revenge themselves, and they think no body else will, they think not of God that he hath taken the protection of the poor, and that he will behold their mischief, and ⟨p. 38⟩