Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Ver. 21. Theft shalt not vex a stranger.] The right of strangers is so holy, saith one, that there was never nation so barbarous that would violate the same. When Stephen Gardner had in his power the renowned divine Peter Martyr, then teaching at Oxford, he would not keep him to punish him; but when he should go his way, gave him wherewith to bear his charges. a
a Act. and Mon., fol. 1783.