Religion our true interest, or, Practical notes upon the third chapter of Malachi the…Religion our true interest, or, Practical notes upon the third chapter of Malachy the…

7. He who Fears God will not oppress his Neighbour. Levit. 25.17. Ye shall not oppress one another, but thou shalt fear thy God. How can he be Holy who is not just? A Saint, yet an Extortioner is a Solecism. A cruel oppressor is like Judas, his bowels are fallen out. The Fear of God would cure this. Neh. 5.8. Will ye sell your brethren? v. 9. Ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God? As if Nehemiah had said, If ye ⟨p. 57⟩had the Fear of God ye would not be so wicked, ye would not rise upon the ruins of others, and to wrong them, damn your selves.

7. He who Fears God will not oppress his Neighbour. Levit. 25.17. Ye shall not oppress one another, but thou shalt fear thy God. How can he be Holy who is not just? A Saint, yet an Extortioner is a Soloecism. A cruel oppressor is like Iudas, his bowels are fallen out. The Fear of God would cure this. Neh. 5.8. Will ye sell your brethren? v. 9. Ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God? As if Nehemiah had said, If ye ⟨p. 57⟩had the Fear of God ye would not be so wicked, ye would not rise upon the ruines of others, and to wrong them, damn your selves.

8. He who Fears God is given to works of Mercy. The Fear of God is always joined with love to our Brethren. Grace may have a Trembling hand, but it hath not a Withered hand, it stretcheth out its self to relieve the indigent. Jam. 1.27. Pure Religion before God and the Father is this, to Visit the Fatherless and the Widows in their Affliction. To Visit them is not only to go to see them in Affliction: our Saviour expounds what Visiting is,