532 Chap. 20. An Expofition upon the Bcoke of J Q B. Verf..i8. (hall go to make good the wrong which hebath done;yet more clearly to the rule ofreftitution,according to hisfubflance is this: Suppofe hebe not able to make full rifttution, yet according to his fitbílance, that is, fo faire as he is able, fo farre as his e- i-late will re: ch he íhá:1 reftòre ; 'Life a loafe is better then no bread, in reference both to the receiver-and the refforer. When- we cannot doe what wé fbould, yet. we mutt doe -what we cana Further, divers Scriptures refulve the proportion ofreflitution. TheLaw given the ?ewes Paid (Exrd. 22. z .) if a man fall Beale an exeor a fheepe and kill it orfèll it,he (hall reflore five (X. enfor an oxe, and fouie Iheepeforafheepe. The reafon of this dif- ference why the Law-made the propos don fivefold in oxen, acd but fourf: ld in fbeep, might be this ; becaufe the owner loft the labour of his oxe, and the profit of that was to be valued in re- ftitution,but (beepare not for labour. Slemon makes the pro, . portionhigher (Pro. 6. 34.) Ifhe (that is, the theife)be found, he bull reflorifeverf Id. But fuppofe- the man were not worth fo much as he had (lolne, how couldhe reflorefevexfold ? The next claufe anfvers that cafe ; He,/hallgive all the fubflanse of houfe; That is, ifhe be Poore, yet let him not be fpared, but take all. But íeeing the LawofMofes made the proportion five- fold, why is it there faydHe(hall reflorefevenfäld.To falve this, ¡unius tranflates ( Series )fevtn times. Aud gives the meaning thus ; let him reflore often, even as often as he is found (sealing or this phrafe of reftoring fevenfold, imports not any addition in thofe times to the penalty-oftheLaw, becaufeof the encreafe of . that fin, and the proneneffeof to it, as fome (I conceive unwarrantably) expound the place; but only that the theefe shouldmake full fatisfaction : So the word is ufed Pfal. 12,6, In the 22d of ex-3d5ta v. 4th ; It is Paid : Ifthe theft becertainly found in his handalive, whether it be oxeor aleor/heep, he Ad reflore double. At the firft verte the (tolne oxewas to be refto- red fivefold and the (beep fourfold; how doth this confift with the 4th verte, He !hall reftore the ox-and fheepe dotsble.The rea- fon is became the firfl verte fpeaksofthe oxe and fheepe either kildor fold; This 4.-1-1 verfc fpeaks of the theefe taken (aswe fay) in the manner, or prefently apprehended with thole goods i ;.hishand ;.1 he owner being by this fpeedy difcovery and re- spvery of.his goods,, put to lefíe dammage, the penalty of re- ftitutio
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