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III. Case Of Restitution.

Whether he that repents is to make restitution if he have taken any thing wrongfully from his neighbour. Answer. Yea: Zacheus, when he repented and received Christ, gave half of his goods to the poor, and if he had taken any thing by forged cavillation, he restored it four ¹fold. It is but a bad practise when a man on his death-bed will very devoutly bequeath his soul to God, and his goods evil gotten ⟨p. 62⟩(as his conscience will often cry in his ear) to his children and friends, without either restitution or amends making. Question. But what if a man be not able to restore. Answer. Let him acknowledge the fault, and God will accept the will for the deed. As Paul saith in the like case If there be a willing mind, it is accepted ²according to that which a man hath & not according to that he hath not. Question. When a man by restoring shall discredit him self: how shall he both restore and keep his credit. Answer. Let him (if the thing to be restored be of small moment) make choice of some faithful and honest friend: who may deliver the thing in the behalf of the party, concealing his name.

WHether he that repents is to make restitution if hee haue taken any thing wrongfully from his neighbour. Answere. Yea: Zacheus, when he repented and received Christ, gaue halfe of his goods to the poore, and if he had taken any thing by forged cavillation, he restored it foure ¹fold. It is but a badde practise when a man on his death-bedde will very devoutly bequeath his soule to God, and his goods euill gotten