Here we have the description and doom of an uncharitable man. 1. His
description: He stops his ears at the cry of the poor, at the cry of
their wants and miseries (he resolves to take no cognizance of them),
at the cry of their requests and supplications--he resolves he will not
so much as give them the hearing, turns them away from his door, and
forbids them to come near him, or, if he cannot avoid hearing them, he
will not need them, nor be moved by their complaints, no be prevailed
with by their importunities; he shuts up the bowels of his compassion,
and that is equivalent to the stopping of his ears, Acts vii. 57. 2.
His doom. He shall himself be reduced to straits, which will make him
cry, and then he shall not be heard. Men will not hear him, but reward
him as he has rewarded others. God will not hear him; for he that
showed no mercy shall have judgment without mercy (Jam. ii. 13), and he
that on earth denied a crumb of bread in hell was denied a drop of
water. God will be deaf to the prayers of those who are deaf to the
cries of the poor, which, if they be not heard by us, will be heard
against us, Exod. xxii. 23.