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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10738	A sermon against oppression and fraudulent dealing: preached at Paules Crosse, the eleuenth of December, by Charles Richardson, preacher at Saint Katherines neare the Tower of London	Richardson, Charles, fl. 1612-1617.	1615 (1615)	STC 21017; ESTC S121051	31,098	45

A SERMON AGAINST OPpression and fraudulent Dealing PREACHED AT PAVLES CROSSE the eleuenth of December BY CHARLES RICHARDSON Preacher at Saint KATHERINES neare the Tower of LONDON ECCLESIASTES CHAP. 5. VER 8. If thou seest the oppression of the poore and violent peruerting of iudgement and iustice in a Prouince maruel not at the matter for he that is higher then the highest regardeth and there be higher then they LONDON Imprinted by George Furslowe for Ioseph Browne and Thomas Harper 1615. TO THE RIGHT Honourable Sir IVLIVS CAESAR Master of the Rolles and one of his Maiesties most Honourable Priuie Counsell Encrease of grace in this life and eternall happinesse in the life to come Right Honourable AS it pleased God to giue better approbation to this poore Sermon in the deliuering of it then I expected I haue beene earnestly intreated since by some of my good friends to giue way that it might bee printed And though I am not ignorant of mine own inability yet because I know that God can and doth worke as well by weake as by greater meanes I haue yeelded to their request I confesse it is written in a rude homely stile and I doubt not but the curious censurers of this age who like nothing but that which is for their owne humors will carpe cauill at the plainenesse of it but my desire was to make it appear that as Barnard sayeth in the like case I rather sought Edification then Ostentation Now because the meanes of that maintenance which I haue is chiefly by your honourable fauour I haue therefore presumed to publish it vnder your Honours name And howsoeuer there be nothing in it worthy your Honours contemplation yet I beseech you to accept of it as a poore testimony of that dutiful affection which most deseruedly I owe vnto you The Lord blesse your Honour with increase of all sauing graces that you may long be a profitable instrument of his glory both in the Church and in the common wealth Your Honors in all humble duety and seruice C. R. 1. THESSAL 4.6 That no man oppresse and defraude his brother in any matter for the Lord is the auenger of all such as wee haue tolde you before and testified THe Apostle Paul hauing planted a Church at Thessalonica Act. 17.1.2.3.4.5.15 c. and being driuen from thence by some malicious enemies of the truth hee made his abode for a while at Athens where vnderstanding what troubles and persecutions were raysed vp against these new Conuerts out of his loue and care for their good 1. Thess 3.1.2.5 hee sendeth Timotheus vnto them to visite and comfort them And being certified by him with what great patience and inuincible constancy they endured tribulation for the Gospels sake Ver. 6.7 c. because hee could not come vnto them as hee desired hee writeth this Epistle to confirme and establish them in the present truth Wherein in the three former Chapters he congratulateth with them for their faith loue patience reuerence to the word and other excellent graces which God by his spirit had wrought in them which gratulation he concludeth in the end of the third Chapter with a gracious prayer in their behalfe Ver. 12.13 that God which had begunne so good a worke in them would stablish them in the same vnto the end In the two next Chapters he exhorteth them to holinesse and to a Christian conuersation And that first generally that they should not content themselues with their good beginning Ver. 1.2 but increase more and more and labour to surpasse and to goe beyond themselues Then more particularly he descendeth to the parts of sanctification and layeth downe certaine speciall rules the better to direct them how to runne in this Christian course The first respecteth euery mans owne person in the priuate carryage of himselfe Namely This is the will of God Ver. 3.4.5 euen your sanctification c. The second respecteth a mans dealing with his neighbour in this verse that I haue read That no man oppresse c. For it is not enough for a man Tit. 2.11.22 to liue soberly in regard of himselfe vnlesse hee also liue righteously in respect of others The words are imperfect in themselues and must bee supplyed out of the third verse in this manner It is the will of God that no man oppresse defraud his brother c. And this is the coherence that these wordes haue with the former Now for our more orderly proceeding in the handling of them wee haue to consider two things in generall First the exhortation it selfe and secondly the reasons whereby it is inforced In the exhortation we may obserue first the branches of it secondly the extent of it The branches are two First that no man oppresse secondly that no man defraud his his brother The first signifieth violence and manifest force the second deceitfull and fraudulent dealing and that by a generall consent of the most interpreters The extent is eyther in respect of the persons oppressing and oppressed no man his brother of whatsoeuer place or condition he be or in respect of the obiect in any matter whatsoeuer great or small And howsoeuer these vniuersal tearms be not expressed yet the proposition being indefinitely set downe it is as much as if they were expressed The reasons are likewise two The first is included in the word his brother which as we shall see afterward containeth in it a very forcible argument The second is expressed and it is taken from the vengeance of God For the Lord is the auenger of all such And this is further amplified and confirmed by the Apostles former testimony in the last words as wee haue tolde you before and testified And this is briefly the summe and resolution of this portion of Scripture Let vs now see the instructions that arise from thence for our further learning That no man oppresse This is the first branch of the exhortation The word here vsed in the Originall 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 doth properly signifie to goe vpon or to climbe vpon a man and to tread him vnder foot representing vnto vs those persons who hauing oppressed a man by violence doe trample vpon him As wee read of Ioshuah who hauing vanquished those fiue Kings of the Amorites called the Captaines that were with him and bad them put their feet vpon their neckes Iosh 10.24 And to this purpose is that threatning denounced by Moses against the disobedient Israelites Deut. 28.43 The stranger that is with thee shal climbe vp aboue thee on high and thou shalt come downe beneath very low A plaine description of that which is signified here And the Church of God complaining of the iniuries of her enemies saith Psal 66.12 Thou hast caused men to ride ouer our heads This is referred as hath been said to violent oppressions vvhen they that are mighty powerfull take boldnesse to hurt and wrong those that are vnder them