John Trapp on Isaiah 58:7

Ver. 7. Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry] Thine own bread it muſt be, and that eſpecially whereof thou haſt on the faſt-day abbridged thy ſelf: for what the rich spare on ſuch a day, the poor ſhould spend. Hereby 1. Mens prayers ſhall ſpeed the better, Acts 10.4. 2. They ſhall make God their debtor, Prov. 19.17.3. That is beſt and moſt pleaſing alms to God, that is given in Church aſſemblies: for 1. It is an Ordinance of God, and a Sabbath-duty, 1 Cor. 16.1, 2. 2. Chriſt there ſitteth, and ſeeth the gift and mind of every alms-giver, Luke 21.1, 2. ſetting it down in his book of remembrance, Mal. 3.16.

And that thou bring the poor that are caſt out] Scilicet tanquam rebelles, as thoſe poor Albigenſes were in France, and their poſterity lately in Piedmont: Scultet. Annal. the Proteſtant Lorainers proſcribed for religion by their Duke, and entertained by the State of Strasborough, at the earneſt ſuit of the Miniſters there, till they could be conveniently provided for elſewhere: there being ſome thouſands of them, which, till then, were forced to feed upon hips, haws, leaves of trees, and graſſe of the field.

That thou cover him] Duties of the ſecond Table only are here enjoyned, becauſe they are excellent evidences of true piety, and pure religion, Jam. 1. ult.

And that thou hide not thy ſelf from thine own fleſh] Thy poor brother, who is of the ſame nature with thee, and is as capable of grace and glory as thy ſelf. Learn to ſee Chriſt in thy poor P[illegible: 1 letter]titioner; and thou wilt the ſooner yield, Matth. 25. Conſider alſo what is ſaid of him that ſhutteth up his bowels of compaſſion from his neceſſitous brother, 1 Joh. 3.17.