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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 149: §. 149. Of requiring proper Debts.
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.
3. God did extraordinarily provide for a poor widow wherewithal she might pay her debt.1 Had it been unlawful for a Creditor to require his debt, God would rather have provided means to restrain him from exacting the debt, then for her to pay the debt.
3. God did extraordinarily prouide for a poore widdow wherewithall she might pay her debt.1 Had it beene vnlawfull for a Creditor to require his debt, God would rather haue prouided meanes to restraine him from exacting the debt, then for her to pay the debt.
Q. How can requiring debts, and forgiving debtors stand together?
Q. How can requiring debts, and forgiuing debters stand together?
A. 1. Forgiveness here professed hath respect rather to wrongs done, then to commodities due. The word, Debtors, is metaphorically by way of resemblance used. For he that doth wrong, maketh himself, as a debtor, bound to some penalty for the wrong he hath done. Saint Matthew in his exposition of this condition useth a word which in relation to man,1 signifieth offences, wrongs, or injuries.