A practical exposition of the X. Commandments with a resolution of several momentous questions…A practical exposition of the X. Commandements with a resolution of several momentous questions…

Thus we have hinted the first distribution of inordinateness in inquiring into rapine, theft, and unlawful or filthy gain. Consider it again, 1. As it wrongeth others only, or as it profiteth us also: 2. As being direct theft, or as being under pretext of Law: 3. As by acquiring donations, or by mutual contracts or bargains: 4. When it is in respect of our selves, or others: 5. When it is in attaining, and then it is called avaritia, avarice; when in retaining, then it is tenacitas, tenacity, niggardliness, and sordid parsimony, in not spending with such a suitable proportionableness as is requisite, or not giving back what is unjustly purchased, or taken from any man, by false accusation or otherwise, called restitution, whereof Zacheus speaketh, Luke 19.8. 6. When it is by an ill employment, as playing, gaming, &c. or by the abuse of a lawful calling: 7. As it profusely wasteth what we have, and spoileth others of what we should bestow on them, or as it holdeth in more then is meet, and so spoileth our selves of that comfort we might have in our estates, the one is by prodigality, the other by sordid parsimony, as we have said; see Prov. 11.24. 8. As the wrong may be done at first through ignorance, or continued in after folks come to the knowledge of it, in which case the thing is to be restored, and the amends is to be made, as is clear Lev. 5.15, 16. And in Abimelechs dealing with Abraham's wife, whom, after he knew to be his wife, he did restore again untouched.

Thus we have hinted the first distribution of inordinateness in inquiring into rapine, theft, and unlawful or filthy gain. Consider it again, 1. As it wrongeth others only, or as it profiteth us also: 2. As being direct theft, or as being under pretext of Law: 3. As by acquiring donations, or by mutual contracts or bargains: 4. When it is in respect of our selves, or others: 5. When it is in attaining, and then it is called avaritia, avarice; when in retaining, then it is tenacitas, tenacity, niggardliness, and sordid parcimony, in not spending with such a sutable proportionableness as is requisite, or not giving back what is unjustly purchased, or taken from any man, by false accusation or otherwayes, called restitution, whereof Zacheus speaketh,