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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. 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.
A. 1. That, as other like precepts in Christs Sermon on the Mount, is not simply, but comparatively to be taken: that we should be so far from the cruel Usurers mind, who is resolved to have both principal and interest, or, rather then fail of either, to do what he can in strictest rigour of Law against principal and surety, we should I say be so far from such a mind, as not to look for any thing, no not for the principal again.