fmart for it; and he that hateth furetyship is sure.

x Lev. xxv. 35. And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a fojourner; that he may live with thee. Deut. xxii. 1. Thou shalt not fee thy brother's ox, or his sheep go astray, and hide thyself from them; thou shalt in any cafe bring them again unto thy brother. v. 2. and if thy brother be not nigh unto thee, or if thou know him not, then thou shalt bring it unto thine own house, and it shall be with thee until thy brother seek after it, and thou shalt restore it to him again. v. 3. In like manner shalt thou do with his ass, and so shalt thou do with his raiment, and with all loft things of thy brother's, which he hath loft, and thou hast found, shalt thou do likewise: thou mayest not hide thyself. v. 4 Thou shalt not fee thy brother's ass or his ox fall down by the way, and hide thy self from him: thou shalt surely help him to lift them up again. Exod. xxiii. 4. If thou meet thine enemy's ox or ass going aftray, thou shalt furely bring it back to him again. v. 5. If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee, lying under his burden, and wouldst forbear to help him; thou shalt surely help

with him. Gen. xlvii. 14. And Joseph gathered upall the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the corn which they bought: and Joseph brought the money to Pharaoh's house. v. 20. And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians fold every man his field, because the famine prevailed over them: so the land became Pharaoh's. Phil. ii. 4. Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others. Mat. xxii. 39. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

b1 Tim. i. 10, (The law was made for whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for men-stealers, for perjured perfons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to found doctrine.

c Prov. xxix. 24. Whoso is part ner with a thief, hateth his own foul: he heareth cursing, and be wrayeth it not. Pfal. 1. 17. When thou sawest a thief, then thou confentedst with him.

d 1 Theff. iv. 6. That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all fuch, as we also have forewarned you, and teftified.

c Prov. xi. 1. A false balance is abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is his delight. Prov. xx. 10. Diverse weights, and diverse meafures, both of them are alike abomination to the Lord.

Deut. xix. 14. Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's land-mark, which they of old time have fet in thine inheritance. - Prov. xxiii. 10. Remove not the old land-mark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless.

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ful in that which is least, is faithful also in much; and he that is unjult in the least, is unjust also in much. v. 11. If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your truft the true riches? v. 12. and if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man's, who shall give you that which is your own?

i Ezek. xxii. 29. The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed' the poor and needy; yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully. Lev. xxv. 17. Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God: for I am the Lord your God.

k Mat. xxiii, 25. Wo unto you, scribes and Pharifees, hypocrites; for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess. Ezek. xxii. 12. In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood: thou haft taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, and hatt forgotten me, faith the Lord God.

/ Pfal. xv. 5. He that putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent,一

because ye go to law one with another: why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather fuffer yourselves to be defrauded ? v. 8. Yea, you do wrong and defraud, and that your brethren. Prov. iii. 29. Devise not evil against thy neighbour, feeing he dwelleth se curely by thee. v. 30. Strive not with a man without a cause, if he have done thee no harm

o Ifa. iv. 8. Wo unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field; till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth. Micah ii. 2. And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away; so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

p Prov. xi. 26. He that with holdeth corn, the people shall curse him; but blefling shall be upon the head of him that felleth it.

q Acts xix. 19. Many also of them who used curious arts, brought their books together, and burned them before all men; and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of filver. v. 24. For a certain man named Demetrius, a silver-smith, who made filver shrines for Diana, brought no small gain unto the craftsmen. v. 25. Whom he called together with the workmen of like occupation and faid, Sirs, ye know that by this craft we have our wealth.

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pressed, and forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not. James v. 4. Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth; and the cries of them who have reaped, are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth. Prov. xxi 6. The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.

f Luke xii. 15. And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.

t1 Tim. vi. 5. Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself. Col. iii. 2. Set your affections on things above, not on things on the earth. Prov. xxiii. 5. Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not ? for riches certainly make themselves wings, they fly away as an eagle towards heaven. Pfal. Ixii. to. - If riches increase, set not your heart upon them.

Mat vi. 25. Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on: is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? v. 31. Therefore take no thought, faying, What shall we eat? -ver. 34. Take therefore no thought

thought for the morrow; for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself; iufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. Eccl. v. 12. The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not fuffer him to sleep.

w Pfal. lxxiii. 3. For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the profperity of the wicked. Pf. xxxvii. 1. Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity. v.7. Reft in the Lord, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who profpereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.

x 1 Theff. iii. 11. For we hear that there are some who walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are bufy bodies. Prov. xviii. 9. He also that is slothful in his work, is brother to him that is a great walter.

y Prov xx. 17. He that loveth pleasures shall be a poor man he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich. Prov. xxiii. 20. Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh. v. 21. For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty:

and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags. Prov. xxvii. 19. He that tilleth his land, shall have plenty of bread: but he that followeth after vain persons, shall have poverty enough.

z Eccl. iv. 8. There is one alone, and there is not a second: yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour, neither is his eye fatisfied with riches, neither faith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my foul of good? This is also vanity: yea, it is a fore travel. Eccl. vi. 2. A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his foul of all that he defireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it; this is vanity, and it is an evil disease. I Tim. v. 8. But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

143. a Exod. xx. 16.

144. b Zech. viii. 16 These are the things that ye shall do, Speak ye every man the truth unto his neighbour: execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates.

c 3 John 3 John xii. Demetrius hath good report of all men, and of the truth itself: yea, and we also bear record, and ye know that our record is true.

d Prov. xxxi. 8. Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all fuch as are appointed to destruction. v. 9. Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.

e Pfal. xv. 2. He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteoufnefs, and speaketh the truth from his heart.

f2 Chron. xix. 9. And he charged them, faying, Thus shall ye do in the fear of the Lord, faithfully, and with a perfect heart.

g 1 Sam. xix. 4. And Jonathan spake good of David unto Saul his father, and faid unto him, Let not the king fin against his servant, againft David: because he hath not Anned against thee, and because his works have been to thee-ward very good. v.5. For he did put his life in his hand, and flew the Philistine, and the Lord wrought a great falvation for all Ifrael: thou sawest it, and didst rejoice: wherefore then wilt thou fin against innocent blood, to flay David without a cause ?

b Josh. vii. 19. And Joshua faid unto Achan, My son, give, I pray thee, glory to the Lord God of Ifrael, and make confession unto him: and tell me now what thou hast done, hide it not from me.

12 Sam. xiv. 18. Then the king answered and faid unto the woman, Hide not from me, I pray thee, the

thing that I shall ask thee. And the woman said, Let my lord the king now fpeak. v. 19. and the king faid, is not the hand of Joab with thee in all this? and the woman answered and said, As thy foul liveth, my lord the king, none can turn to the right-hand or the left from ought that my lord the king hath spoken : for thy fervant Joab he bade me, and he put all these words in the mouth of thine hand maid. To fetch about this form of speech hath thy fervant Joab done this thing: and my lord is wife,

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k Lev. xix 15. Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty, but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour. Prov. xiv. 5. A faithful witness will not lie but a false witness will utter lies. v. 25. A true witness delivereth fouls, but a deceitful witness speaketh lies. Cot. i. 17. When I therefore was thus minded, did I use lightness? or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be yea, yea, and nay, nay? v. 18. But as God is true, our word toward you was not yea and nay. Eph.iv. 25. Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.

m Heb. vi. 9. But, beloved, we are perfuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvat on, though we thus fpeak. 1 Cur.