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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
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.
What a man must restore.
Things in their property and kind, as also damages, are to be restored.
Thinges in their property and kind, as also damages, are to be restored.
If the thing it self be to be had, let it be restored, unless the fear of scandal or other danger should ensue:1 then may the worth thereof be restored, at the discretion of some honest person. If the thing it self cannot be had, or be made worse, the like may be restored.
If the thing it selfe be to be had, let it be restored, vnlesse the feare of scandall or other danger should ensue:1 then may the worth thereof be restored, at the discretion of some honest person. If the thing it selfe cānot be had, or bee made worse, the like may bee restored.
- 1In this case men must beware, that they become not Felons of their own goods; especially, if after his goods be taken he have made any pursuit, by raising hue & cry: otherwise, the matter being secret betwixt the taker and the owner; a man may without danger receive his own again, as some think. Lamb.In this case men must beware, that they become not Fellons of their own goods; especially, if after his goods bee taken hee haue made any pursuit, by raising hue & cry: otherwise, the matter being secret betwixt the taker and the owner; a man may without danger receiue his own againe, as some think. Lamb.