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A32785 A consolatory discourse for the support of distressed widows and orphans of general use to all Christians who either are or may be left in such circumstances. Camfield, Benjamin, 1638-1693. 1690 (1690) Wing C378; ESTC R35835 24,183 35

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Execute judgment in the morning and deliver him that is spoiled out of the hand of the Oppressour lest my Fury break out like fire and burn that none can quench it because of the evil of your doings which again he repeats Chap. 22.3 c. Execute ye judgment and righteousness and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the Oppressour and doe no wrong doe no violence to the Stranger the Fatherless and the Widow neither shed innocent bloud in this place But if you will not hear these words I swear by my self saith the Lord that this house shall become a desolation And thus in the Prophet Ezekiel we find it reckon'd up by name among those Abominations for which Jerusalem was judged and burnt as dross in the fornace Chap. 22.7 In the midst of thee have they dealt by Oppression with the Stranger in thee have they vexed the Fatherless and the Widow See it again once more in the Prophet Zechary Chap. 7.9 10 c. Thus speaketh the Lord of Hosts saying Execute true judgment and show mercy and compassions every man to his Brother And oppress not the Widow nor the Fatherless the Stranger nor the Poor and let none of you imagine evil against his Brother in his heart But alas saith the Prophet they refused to hearken and pulled away the shoulder and stopped their ears that they should not hear c. Therefore saith he came a great Wrath from the Lord of Hosts Therefore it is come to pass that as he cried and they would not hear so they cried and I would not hear saith the Lord of Hosts Yea and our blessed Lord and Saviour having said Wo unto you Scribes Pharisees and Hypocrites for you devour Widows houses and for a pretence make long prayer Saint Mat. 23.14 adds forthwith upon it Therefore you shall receive the greater Damnation viz. upon both these accounts first for devouring Widows houses and then doing of it under a devout pretence or colour The Psalmist represents it as the utmost Impiety and Atheism together to commit such an horrid wickedness and yet to think that God will connive at it Psal 44.6 c. They slay the Widow and the Stranger and murther the Fatherless Yet say they the Lord shall not see neither shall the God of Jacob regard it Understand O ye Brutish among the People and ye Fools when will you be wise And it is a peculiar Curse which he leaves upon some heinous sinners such especially as had been unmercifull themselves and delighted in Cursing others that they shall leave their Children Fatherless and their Wives Widows and that in so destitute and forlorn a condition they shall find none to pity or relieve them Psalm 109.9 12. And so likewise in the Prophet Isaiah we read Chap. 9.17 Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men neither shall have mercy on their Fatherless and Widows for every one is an Hypocrite and an Evil doer And this is the Retaliation particularly threatned unto those who afflict the Fatherless and Widows and I noted before from Exod. 22. But then Thirdly Let it be farther observed what singular care it pleased God to take among his People the Jews in the stated Provisions which he appointed to be made for them of which there are sundry instances 1. For these by name it was as well as for the Levites that he allotted the third year's Tith of their increase to be brought in and laid up Deut. 14.29 And the Levite because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee as the other Tribes had and the Fatherless and the Widow within thy Gates shall come and eat and be satisfied that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest For the right understanding of which you must know that there was a first Tith given to the Levites See Mr. Ainsworth on Exod. 14.22 out of which they also paid a tenth part again to the Priests Num. 18.24 28. Nehe. 10.37 38. And then of that which remained the owners separated a second Tith which themselves did eat before the Lord the first and second year and this was that which on the third year and so on the sixth year was to be given unto the Levites and the Poor here specified Now this third years Tithing had a solemn Confession and Prayer annexed to it Deut. 26.12 c. When thou hast made an end of Tithing all the Tiths of thy increase the third year which is the year of Tithing and hast given it to the Levite the Stranger the Fatherless and the Widow that they may eat within thy Gates and be filled then thou shalt say before the Lord thy God viz. by way of appeal unto him as Witness and Compurgator of thy integrity in the Case and Judge and Avenger if it be otherwise I have brought away the hallowed things out of my house and also have given them unto the Levite and unto the Stranger to the Fatherless and to the Widow according to all the Commandments which thou hast commanded me I have not transgressed thy Commandments neither have I forgotten them Look down from thy Holy habitation from Heaven and bless thy People Israel and the Land which thou hast given us as thou swarest unto our Fathers a Land that floweth with Milk and Honey thus regularly claiming the promised Blessing upon their conscientious performing the condition of it And the violation of this Commandment God sometimes punished them for with a great Dearth and Famine Nehem. 5.3 13.10 And unto this that notable expoustlation in the Prophet Malachi seems to referr See Dr. Peacock on the place Mal. 3.8 c. Will a man rob God yet ye have robed me But ye say wherein have we robbed thee In Tiths and Offerings ye are cursed with a curse even ' this whole Nation In this they were generally guilty that they detain'd part of these Tiths which they ought according to God's Law to have paid and thereby did abridge God of his due Bring ye all the Tiths therefore saith he into the Store-house that there may be meat in my house not only provision for the daily and annual Sacrifices and for the Priests and Levites waiting on the Altar but for the Residue also of the Poor of God's Family the Fatherless and the Widow who are mentioned particularly among those in whose behalf he threatens to appear as a swift witness in judgment against them verse 5. And prove me now herewith saith the Lord if I will not open you the windows of Heaven and pour you out a Blessing that there shall not be room enough to receive it And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes and he shall not destroy the fruits of your Ground neither shall your Vine cast her fruit before the time in the field saith the Lord of Hosts and all Nations shall call you Blessed for ye shall be a delightsome Land saith the