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The hand-maid of repentance. Or, A short treatise of restitution. Written by Arth
The hand-maid of repentance. Or, A short treatise of restitution. Written by Arth: Dent, Minister of Gods word at Southshoobery in Essex. As a necessary appendix to his Sermon of Repentance
London: printed by G. Eld for Thomas Thorp, 1614
A TREATISE OF RESTITUTION. › Circumstances.A TREATISE OF RESTITVTION. › Circumstances.
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.
Consider well:
this will thee teach
A Lesson good,
for rich and poor.
for rich and poore.
Manner.
Touching the first part of matter taken, we must understand, That things be taken from the owner two ways: viz. either violently, or voluntarily: as by rapine, theft, &c. voluntarily, as when a man borrowing any thing, receiveth it at the owners hands. As the taking the one, is injurious: so the detaining of the other, is malicious.