A practical exposition of the Lord's-Prayer

Answer, Yes. For,

1. Certainly one Law doth not cross another. By the Law of Charity, the Law of Justice is not made void. A Magistrate (tho he be a Christian, and bound to forgive others) is not bound up from executing his Office against public Offenders. Nor yet are private Men tied from having recourse to the Magistrate for restoration to their Right, or reparation of their Wrong. For to demand ones Right, is not contrary to Love; nor to seek to amend and humble the Party Nocent by the Magistrates Authority, who is the Minister of God for Good, Rom. 13. 4. And that others may hear and fear, Deut. 19. 20. And the Party damnified may for the future live in Peace. Forgiving is an Act of private Jurisdiction. The Offence, as far as it is private to us, it may be forgiven; but there are many such Offences as are not only an Offence to us, but to the Public Order, and ⟨p. 387⟩that must be left to the Process of the Law.

1. Certainly one Law doth not cross another. By the Law of Charity, the Law of Iustice is not made void. A Magistrate (tho he be a Christian, and bound to forgive others) is not bound up from executing his Office against publick Offenders. Nor yet are private Men tyed from having recourse to the Magistrate for restoration to their Right, or reparation of their Wrong. For to demand ones Right, is not contrary to Love; nor to seek to amend and humble the Party Nocent by the Magistrates Authority, who is the Minister of God for Good, Rom. 13. 4. And that others may hear and fear, Deut. 19. 20. And the Party damnified may for the future live in Peace. Forgiving is an Act of private Jurisdiction. The Offence, as far as it is private to us, it may be forgiven; but there are many such Offences as are not only an Offence to us, but to the Publick Order, and