Sermons on Deuteronomy (continued)
On Saturday, the 26th of
October 1555 The 94th Sermon, which is the second upon the fifteenth
Chapter
7. If a brother of thin become poor within any of the gates in the Land which the Lord your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart nor shut your hand from your brother that is poor.
8. But you shall open your hand bountifully, and lend him sufficiently for his need wherewith he is pinched.
9. Beware that there be no point of peevishness in your heart, that you say not, the seventh year which is the year of respiring is at hand, and thereupon you have a wicked eye against your poor brother, so as you give him nothing; and then he cry against you to the Lord your God, so as it become sin to you.
10. You shall give him freely, and let not your heart repine at your giving to him: for because of this the Lord your God will bless you in all your works, and in all that ever you put your hand to.