A practical exposition of the Lord's-Prayer

1. Who are Debtors. 2. What respect our forgiving of others, hath to God's forgiving of us. 3. In what manner we must forgive others.

First; Who are our Debtors. It is not meant in a vulgar Sense, of those only which stand engaged for a Sum of Money due to us; but of all such as have offended us in Word or Deed. There is a Duty we owe to one another, which ⟨p. 371⟩when we omit, or act contrary unto it, we are not only Debtors to God, but to one another: and the Doers of the Injury are bound to repair the Wrong, and to make Restitution. In this large sense is the word Debtors here taken, with respect to the Person that hath done the Injury: He becomes a Debtor, is to make Satisfaction, and suffer the Punishment which the Wrong deserves.

First; Who are our Debtors. It is not meant in a vulgar Sence, of those only which stand ingaged for a Sum of Mony due to us; but of all such as have offended us in Word or Deed. There is a Duty we owe to one another, which ⟨p. 371⟩when we omit, or act contrary unto it, we are not only Debtors to God, but to one another: and the Doers of the Injury are bound to repair the Wrong, and to make Restitution. In this large sence is the word Debtors here taken, with respect to the Person that hath done the Injury: He becomes a Debtor, is to make Satisfaction, and suffer the Punishment which the Wrong deserves.

Secondly; What Respect hath our forgiving of others to God's forgiving us.