[Terribilia Dei. Remarkable judgements of God, on several sorts of offenders, in several scores…

The Eighth Remark.

Let us a Little Sum up the Gains, of those who have used Irregular Methods of Oppression, or of Dishonesty, to Gain the World. I have done it; and I'll tell you what I have seen the Sum Total to be. The Judgments of God have brought it unto That, in Jer. 17.11. He gets Riches, and not by Right; At his End he shall be a Fool. Father Latimer, would speak of a Grievous Cough ⟨p. 46⟩which would come upon them that swallowed Unrighteous Gains. Truly, Losses have usually followed upon such Gains, like so many Coughs, & men have Coughed, & Coughed, until they vomited up all that they had got. It is the Charge of our Lord Jesus Christ upon us, That no man go beyond, or oppress his Brother▪ in a matter; because that the Lord is the Avenger of all such. We are told, If thou seest the Oppression of the Poor, He that is Higher than the Highest, Regards it. We are told, God considers all the Oppressions that are done under the Sun. There was much Notice taken of This, in the Infancy of our Plymouth Colony, when the poor Planters had their Dependence on certain Adventurers in England. The Adventurers, taking their Advantages, of the Extreme Straits, which those poor Planters were in, sent over Supplies unto them, at the most Extremest Rates imaginable. The poor Planters made Return in Peltry; but the Vessel was taken by a Turks Man of War, and carried into Sally, where they Sold the Peltry for Groats a piece; as much too Low, as the Goods for which they had been Returned were too High, and the men were made Prisoners into the Bargain, to the great Loss of the Adventurers. But it would spend many Hours to Relate, the Notice which might have been since taken, of many more, such Evident Judgments o• God, on the Ways of the Oppressor. Oh! do not Learn his Ways; God gives unto all sorts