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The young man's guide through the wilderness of this world to the heavenly Canaan…
The young man's guide through the wilderness of this world to the heavenly Canaan showing him how to carry himself Christian-like in the whole course of his life / by Tho. Gouge ...The young man's guide through the wilderness of this world to the heavenly Canaan shewing him how to carry himself Christian-like in the whole course of his life / by Tho. Gouge ...
London: printed by S. and B.G. for Nevil Simmons, 1676
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.
CHAP. XXIX. Showeth the necessity of restoring ill-gotten Goods.
CHAP. XXIX. Sheweth the necessity of restoring ill-gotten Goods.
VI. Carefully restore what thou hast stolen, or unjustly got. It is very sinful to get things wrongfully, and no less to keep what is wrongfully gotten; therefore the Law requireth restitution of stolen and ill-gotten goods; as Exod. 22. 1. Lev. 6. 2, 3. &c. Restitution is not an arbitrary thing, left to our will to do, or not to do, but an act of Justice, to the performance whereof we are bound by the express letter of the Law. Whosoever he be that hath wronged another, either by detaining what he hath borrowed, or by getting by fraud or oppression; ought to make satisfaction, by restoring either the thing it self, or the value and worth of it: yea, not only the bare value, but likewise the damage done to the person wronged by detaining his goods.
VI. CArefully restore what thou hast stoln, or unjustly got. It is very sinful to get things wrongfully, and no less to keep what is wrongfully gotten; therefore the Law requireth restitution of stoln and ill-gotten goods; as Exod. 22. 1. Lev. 6. 2, 3. &c. Restitution is not an arbitrary thing, left to our will to do, or not to do, but an act of Justice, to the performance whereof we are bound by the express letter of the Law. Whosoever he be that hath wronged another, either by detaining what he hath borrowed, or by getting by fraud or oppression; ought to make satisfaction, by restoring either the thing it self, or the value and worth of it: yea, not only the bare value, but likewise the damage done to the person wronged by detaining his goods.