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

£Eii:.ioNS. 193lon of my people wlio are in Egyp^, and liave heardtheir cry by reafon of their t.ifk-maflers ; for I knowtheir forrows."But wlien you cry to God in behalf of yourfelves,you ought alfo to pray for thofc who by rigorous demandsare the caufe of the hardfhips you fuffer : Yourliardihips, if you have faith in Chnli, v/ill at farthellend with your hve's j but their fufFerings, v/ithout repentanceand reftitution, v/ill but begin at death, andwill, alas ! have no end. Opprefhon is one of themoft heinous fins ; the dreaciful curfes of AlmightyGod are denounced againft it. So far from returningevil for evil, even in thought, pray for thofe Vv'homyou look upon as chargeable with it j they have nopity on you or on themfelves, and are really in a deplorableand pitiable ftate :Pray that God may alarmtheir confclences, and open their eyes to fee the hortibleguilt of inhumanity, avarice, and cruelty."Wliateverthey" have done, or are doing towards you, aiunot only juflly, but like Chi-iftians towards them.The command of him, by whole atonement you hopeto be faved in the great day of God, is, " Love yourenemies, blefs them that curfe you, do good to themthat hate you, and pray for them that defpitefully ufeyou and perfecute you, that ye may be the childrenof your Father which is in heaven j for he maketh hisfun to rife on the evil and en the good, and fendethrain on the juft and on the unjuit."I will only add on this head, that when you cry toGod for deliverance, you ought to pray to him, tJiatyou may be enabled to difcern the means of being delivered: The means of relief may be very perceivable,aiid yet not perceived by you. There are few peoplein flraitening circumftanccs who might net bettertheir condition, could they exert that activity, and exercifethat reafon which God hath given them. Indeed,when a people have been long enflaved andcontinually occupied in hard labour, it commonlyR