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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.
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.
A. 1. That, as other like precepts in Christs Sermon on the Mount, is not simply, but comparatiuely to be taken: that we shold be so farre from the cruell Vsurers mind, who is resolued to haue both principall and interest, or, rather then faile of either, to do what he can in strictest rigour of Law against principall and suretie, we should I say be so farre from such a mind, as not to looke for any thing, no not for the principall againe.
2. That precept is laid down as a rule of love: and according to the rule of love to be taken. Now love requireth mercy to be showed to him that needeth. The rule of love is, on the one side, my brothers necessity, and on the other, mine own ability: