A39662:1880
An exposition of the assemblies catechism with practical inferences from each question as it…
An exposition of the assemblies catechism with practical inferences from each question as it was carried on in the Lords Days exercises in Dartmouth, in the first year of liberty, 1688 / by John Flavell.
London: printed for Tho. Cockerill, 1692
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
A. It forbids all cruelty and incompassionateness to others in necessity, and keeping back from them that relief which is made theirs by Gods command, Prov. 11.24. —There is that with-holdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty. Lev. 19.9, 10. And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest. And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard: thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger: I am the Lord your God.
Q. 9. What is the third Sin forbidden in this Command?
A. It forbids the detaining of the Hirelings Wages, when it is due, Hab. 2.9, 10, 11. Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil. Thou hast consulted shame to thy house, by cutting off many people, and hast sinned against thy soul. For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.
A. It forbids the detaining of the Hirelings Wages, when it is due, Hab. 2.9, 10, 11. Wo to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil. Thou hast consulted shame to thy house, by cutting off many people, and hast sinned against thy soul. For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.