The young man's guide through the wilderness of this world to the heavenly Canaan…

6. Without restitution of goods ill got, there can be no true repentance, nor hope of pardon. Restitution is an hard work, as necessary as it is: the meat that goeth pleasantly down, costs some deadly pangs in the vomiting up. Whatever unrighteous gains thou swallowest up, it must be restored, or 'twill cost thee thy life. Lay not up such an unrighteous Treasure, which will certainly put thee to the pain of restitution, or damnation. If thou be able, thou must restore or die: if thou be not able to restore, thou must repent or die; and the pangs of thy repentance may be much more bitter, than thy unrighteous gains were ever pleasant to thee.

Be wise, O young man, and consider, if it be so hard for thee to hold thy hands from unlawful gettings, how much harder will it be to shake thy hands of them, when thou hast them. The few instances that ever we hear of, of restitution made (in an age of so much unrighteousness) do abundantly evidence, that 'tis hard work to restore.

O take heed, lay not up such a temptation for thee against the time to come, which if it prove too strong for thee, will be thine everlasting undoing. Provide thee ⟨p. 70⟩better work for the time of thine age, than to unravel the wickedness of thy Youth. Since thou art like to be so hard to vomit, drink not down that which must come up, or will be thy death.