The beatitudes

There is another Law made, Lev. 19.9. 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. See how God indulged the poor, some corners of the Field were for the poor's sake to be left uncut; and when the Owners did reap, they must ⟨p. 199⟩not go too near the Earth with their Sickle; the Vulgar Latin reads it, non tondebis usque ad solum, thou shalt not shear to the very ground. Something like an after-crop must be left; the shorter ears of corn, and such as did lie bending to the ground, were to be reserved for the poor, saith Tostatus.

There is another Law made, Lev. 19.9. 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. See how God indulged the poor, some corners of the Field were for the poors sake to be left uncut; and when the Owners did reap, they must ⟨p. 199⟩not go too near the Earth with their Sickle; the Vulgar Latine reads it, non tondebis usque ad solum, thou shalt not shear to the very ground. Something like an after-crop must be left; the shorter ears of corn, and such as did lie bending to the ground, were to be reserved for the poor, saith Tostatus.

And God made another Law in favour of the poor, Deutr. 14.28. At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth the tithe of thy increase the same year, and thou shalt lay it up in thy gates, and the Levite and the fatherless, and the widow which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat, and be satisfied. The Hebrews write that every third year, besides the first tithe given to Levi, which was called the perpetual tithe,