...maid-servant, when they contended with me ; what then •hall I do when God riseth up ? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him ? Did not he that made me...make him ? and did not one fashion us in the womb ?' Every man is endued with that celestial faculty of reason, * inspired by the Almighty,' (for, '...

...lived under the darkest dispensation of the covenant of grace, could appeal thus to God and man : " If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or...alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof; (for from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's...

...not he that made me in the womb, make him ? and did not one fashion us in the womb ?' verse 15. And ' if I have withheld the poor from their desire, or...alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof; (for from my youth he was brought up with me as with a father, and I have guided her (to wit, the widow)...

...maid-servant, when they contended with me ; what then shall I do when God riseth up ? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him ? Did not He that made me...if I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering ; ... then let mine arm fall from my shoulder-blade, and mine arm be broken...

...wilt shew thyself merciful, aud with the upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright. 2 So. xxii. 26. self began to be about thirty years of age, being...23. And all baie him witness, and wondered at the (for from my youth he was brought up with me, u uith ж father, and I have guided " her " ('' the widow'")...

...maid-servant, when they contended with me ; What then shall I do when God riseth up ? and, when he visiteth, what shall I answer him ? Did not he that made me...make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb? Job xxxi. 13, 14, 15. But he that doeth wrong shall receive for the wrong which he hath done : and...

...should have any blessing from the Lord ? Hear what Job would have thought of such a state as yours : " If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or...eyes of the widow to fail ; or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless have not eaten thereof; if I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or...

...maidservant, when they contend with me, what shall I do when God riseth up ? and when he visifeth, what shall I answer him ? Did not he that made me...womb make him ? and did not one fashion us in the womb?9 I trust it will not appear that the duty of giving unto servants that which is just and equal,...

...which Job particularly commended himself, and which he had not failed to practise. Job xxxi. 16, 17, "If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or...alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof," &c. In the time of our Saviour it was evidently practised in the most open and frank manner. Luke x....

...render to them that which is just and equal for the world to come ! Is it just and equal to suffer shall I answer him ? Did not He that made me in the...make him ? And did not one fashion us in the womb ?" Our servants may justly have a controversy with us on the subject of their higher and better interests;...