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A guide to go to GodA guide to goe to God
A guide to go to God: or, An explanation of the perfect pattern of prayer, the Lords prayer. By William Gouge, B. in D. and minister of Gods Word in Black-Friars LondonA guide to goe to God: or, An explanation of the perfect patterne of prayer, the Lords prayer. By William Gouge, B. in D. and minister of Gods Word in Black-Friers London
London: printed by G. Miller for Edward Brewster, 1626
Petition 5 › Section 119: §. 119. Of Gods free and full discharge of mans debt.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
§. 119. Of Gods free and full discharge of mans debt.
Q. What doth this word FOR GIVE import?
Q. VVHat doth this word FOR GIVE import?
A. Freely and fully to discharge a debt. Freely without any satisfaction on our part. Fully without any reservation of any part of the debt to be exacted of us: but rather such an acceptation, as if we never had been in any debt at all.
A. Freely and fully to discharge a debt. Freely without any satisfaction on our part. Fully without any reseruation of any part of the debt to be exacted of vs: but rather such an acceptation, as if we neuer had bene in any debt at all.
To forgive, is so to pass by an offence as neither to exact nor to expect any thing, either in way of recompense, or in way of punishment for it. Both recompense and punishment are counted a kind of satisfaction, which is directly contrary to remission. It is noted of the servant whose debt the Lord forgave, 1