An exposition with practical observations continued upon the twenty-second, twenty-third, twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth, and twenty-sixth…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the twenty-second, twenty-third, twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth, and twenty-sixth…

Name: An exposition with practical observations continued upon the twenty-second, twenty-third, twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth, and twenty-sixth…
Author: Joseph Caryl

An exposition with practical observations continued upon the twenty-second, twenty-third, twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth, and twenty-sixth chapters of the book of Job being the sum of thirty-seven lectures, delivered at Magnus near London Bridge. By Joseph Caryl, preacher of the Word, and pastor of the congregation there.An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the twenty-second, twenty-third, twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth, and twenty-sixth chapters of the book of Job being the summe of thirty-seven lectures, delivered at Magnus near London Bridge. By Joseph Caryl, preacher of the Word, and pastour of the congregation there.

Joseph Caryl 1602–1673London: printed by M. Simmons, 1655

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:187p. 52

Hence note; That violently to take or unjustly to detain the pledge committed to us, is to act the part of the oppressor.

Hence note; That violently to take or unjustly to detaine the pledge committed to us, is to act the part of the oppressor.

:188p. 52–53

That Law which saith; Thou shalt not steal, doth as much forbid ⟨p. 53⟩the detaining in our hands, as the laying of our hands upon that which is our neighbours. And he that withholds the pledge when the debtor is ready and offers to redeem it, is like him that withholds the debt when the lender desires him, and he is able to repay it. Thou hast taken or withholden a pledge. That's thy sin.

That Law which saith; Thou shalt not steale, doth as much forbid ⟨p. 53⟩the detaining in our hands, as the laying of our hands upon that which is our neighbours. And he that withholds the pledge when the debtor is ready and offers to redeem it, is like him that withholdes the debt when the lender desires him, and he is able to repay it. Thou hast taken or withholden a pledge. That's thy sinne.

:189p. 53

Secondly, There is a further aggravation of sin in the words respecting the person from which the pledge was taken; A Brother: Thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother. This addeth to the sin; we should be kind to all, but especially to a brother. A brother, may be taken either strictly for one next or near by birth or blood, a brother by consanguinity: such are in the most proper sense, our brethren and our own flesh. Or the word brother may be taken in a large sense, for any that are near to us, as being either of the same profession of Religion with us, or living in the same Cit, society, or under the same Government with us. These are our brethren and our own flesh too. And so the Prophet calleth them even when pinched with hunger and nakedness, the more to move the bowels of our compassion towards them, (

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