Chap. 2o. An Expo/ition upon the Book ofJ O B. Ver'. Is. 52,9 Levis. 17. I o. 23. Some give the fence thus ; He (hall be as Moore as ever he was rich, HMM change(hall be according to his fub- f ancs. Our trarflation fuppolèth Zophar giving the rule ofre Iiitution, According to hisfubffanceihall his reftitution be. Hence obferve ; If that which is illgotten be not reflored, it ¡hall. Ifmen will not reftore willingly, God will make them reftore Whether they will or no ; though man bath no minde to it, yet he mutt. It is a duty to reftore what we borrow, much more what any man bath violently taken away. owe nothing to au] man, but to love one another ( Rom. 13. 8. ) Love is a debt which is alwayes owing, and fhould be alwayes paying; There can be no difeharge of that bond. When we have payd much love, we hill owe more. But other debts mull not onely be payd, but may difcharged, If a man mull not alwayes owe what he bath borrowed, then much leffe where he bath de . frauded. Oppreffion whether fecret or open is a crying finne; And untill reftitution be offered or really made where the party offending is able, or really defired where he is unable, the mo.,th of it cannot be flopped. This being fo neceffary aduty, I (hall for the clearing of it briefly touch thefe five things, And thew Firtl, What reftitution is; Secondly, what mull be reftored ; Thirdly,whomull reftore ; Fourthly, to whomwe mull reflore; Fifthly, the portionof it. To-the ftrft queftion, what is this reftitution ; I anfwer, It is an ac`I of communicative joeflice, whereby the wrong which we have done to another is recompenced, and he againe reefiatedin his own. To give to the poore is a duty, yet an a& ofcharity. But to reftore (though to the rich) is not only a duty, but an a& of Juf ice. Secondly, What mull be reflored? That which hath been unjuftly gotten ; yet the meaning is not that a man mutt at_ waycs reftore what he bath taken away in fpecie, or the thing it felfe inkinde. If the value and worthof it be reftored, that fuf- flceth ; yet it doth not faffice to reftore the barevalue of that which bath been taken away. For (as Cafuifts fpeake) there are two things to be confidered in reffitution. Y y y Firfl: Tantum refluo' et, quor.otn ex alieno diti neo eff q (l. joua rrenju,am -pum quat. rapuitvice reruwja.n rzte tata ref :uer. Merc.
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