A01975:1438
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.
2. It restraineth all revenge in exacting due debts. Whatsoever wrong we conceive to be done us by not paying the ⟨p. 189⟩debt must so far be forborne, as we take no revenge thereof. We may not hate, revile, or evilly entreat our debtors for not paying their debts.
2. It restraineth all reuenge in exacting due debts. Whatsoeuer wrong wee conceiue to be done vs by not paying the ⟨p. 189⟩debt must so farre be forborne, as we take no reuenge thereof. We may not hate, reuile, or euilly entreat our debters for not paying their debts.
3. It keepeth our exacting of debts within the compass of mercy. Which is, that in case the debtor be no way able to pay the debt, we rather forgive it, then by hard and cruel means utterly undo him, as by laying executions upon all he hath, or keeping him under perpetual imprisonment.
3. It keepeth our exacting of debts within the compasse of mercie. Which is, that in case the debter be no way able to pay the debt, we rather forgiue it, then by hard and cruell meanes vtterly vndoe him, as by laying executions vpon all he hath, or keeping him vnder perpetuall imprisonment.
Object. 1It is Christs express charge to lend hoping for nothing again. How then may a debt be required, if it may not be looked for again?
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