A practical exposition of the Lord's-Prayer

And 2ly, To the subject Matter, that which is forgiven, there is no Proportion. When we compare the Multitude or Magnitude, the Greatness and the Number of Offences forgiven of the one side and the other, we see there's a mighty Disproportion; we forgive Pence, and God Talents; we an hundred Pence, he ten thousand Talents; Mat. 18.

So 3dly, the manner of forgiving: on God's part, by discharging us freely, and exacting a full Satisfaction from Christ; therefore our forgiving can hold no Comparison with it, which is an Act of Duty, and Conformity to God's Law.

And 4thly, As to the Fruit and Issue of the Action; our Good and Evil doth not reach to God. Though our forgiving of others be an Action of Profit to our selves, yet no Fruit redounds to God. And therefore there being no Proportion ⟨p. 373⟩between finite and infinite, there can be no such proportion between our forgiving and God's forgiving, as that this Act may be meritorious before God. Thus it is not brought here as Merit, as that which doth oblige and bind God meritoriously to forgive us.