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CHAP. XXII.
The first maine pollicy which Satan hath vsed in these latter dayes to preuent liberality, is, Enclosing of grounds, &c.
BY which his drift is, that the people of God being turned out of their dwellings might so perish through the vnmercifulnesse of the weather, & so the Land being dispeopled, these cormo∣rants might riot freely, no more might be troubled with the cries of the poore, might themselues wholly consume, that they call, their owne, without enuy or controulement, and so fat vp themselues against the day of slaughter. Ier. 12. 3.
For remedy of which mischiefe I would such did consider these things.
1 That the rich and the poore goe together, the Lord is the ordayner of them both. If the Lord had not seene it fit they should be together, he might and would, no doubt, haue made all rich. Pro. 22. 2. But as our Sauiour saith, like∣wise