Page 460
Oppressors of the Fatherlesse, Widdows, Strangers, and Servants.
Are threatned with speedy punishment: & perhaps the more speedy, because their op∣pressours put it so farre away: for these were the words of the Jewes, Where is the God of judgement? Mal: 2. 17. But in the following Chapter, you have this threat, And I will come neere to you in judgement, and I will be a swift witnesse against the Sorcerers, &c. and a∣gainst these that oppresse the hireling in his wages, the widow and the fatherlesse: and that turne aside the stranger from his right, & feare not me, saith the Lord of hoasts, vers. 5. And feare not me, saith the Lord of hoasts] or, feare not me, who am the Lord of hosts; and there∣fore able: nay, who am a father* 1.1 of the fa∣therlesse, and a judge of the widowes, Ps. 68. 5. a preserver of the stranger, Ps. 146. 9. and a judge of all that are oppressed,* 1.2 Ps. 103: 6. and therefore willing, to punish them.