The works of the Rev. William Thom, late minister ... - waughfamily.ca

SERMON VI.THE TASK-MASTERS..Preached to a Congregation of Farruera, 177c.jindths Lordfaidy I'have ftirely feen ths ajfllclionof mypeople nvh'ich are in Egyptj and have heard their cry by rea^fen of their tajh-majiers : for I hnono their forro-xus. AndJ am come doivjt to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians^ and to bring them -up out cfihat land unto a good land'and a large^ unto a landflowing with milk and honeyExoD. ill. 7. 8.qnHE affliction of the Ifraelites in Egypt is an emblemof the mifery of mankind, whiill they were in aftate of darknefs, and under the bondage of corruption; and the deUverance of that people is a type ofthe redemption of the world by om- bleiTed Lord andSaviour. You have already heard feveral difcourfesfrom the text, confidered in that view. At prefent,as I know fomething of the (late of this country, Ithink I hear the voice of humanity calling upon mcto confider the text in a literal fenfe, and as defcriptiveof your worldly condition. For a courfe of yearsyou have been complaining, that, by the high rate ofland, you have, like the Ifraelites, been compelled to*' make brick without ftrav/ •," tliat exorbitant rentshave been rigoroufly exa6led ; that your labour is conftantand fevere ; that though you have toiled hard,and put up with the coarfell fare, you were not ableto fatisfy the demands of thofe whom you look uponas tafk-mafters ;fo that many of you here, as well asin other places^ have been iirlt itripped of any thinrjo 2