:88;z S ·1 .N METAPHOR. ·. divers mannerofWays. (1.) A Man may rob his Neighbor of his good .Name, defame and wickedlywrong him that Way, and thereby make himfelf guiltv, and become a Sin– .ner againfl: him, and is as much bound to make him Satisfaction, as if he had been his Debtor, by get– .ring·away much of his Goods, &c. A D E B T. .Book IV.. PARALL EL. and rather hearkened to the Devil, than to God, and what a Reproach was this, as I may fo fay., to his Maker! Satan !hall be believed when God !hall not : When a Man will not believe, tru£1:, nor give credit to what his Neighbor faith , though never fo jull: and upright; what a Reproach, and Contempt, doth he ca£1: upon him ? So what greater wrong could Man do to God, the moft jufi: and holy One-of Heaven and Earrh, as not to re– gard his \'lord, believe, nor give credit to him; but rather fide with, and yield whis cruel Enemy, that O:udied Revenge, and to bring .him into Reproach. And thus Man bec.:mc a Sinner, and mc.de himfdf guilry, being .a Debtor to God, and bound to make Satisfacrion, or fuffer for Si-n, if this wrong cannot be made up, or the Debt paid. I!. Man break a holy and righJL Sinners have broke the holy and righteous ·-teous Law, and thereby made himL aw of God, and by this means are become mi– felf nororiouOy guilty, and ob- .fer"b!y guilty, and palpable Debrors, both to the noxious to the Penalty annexed; Law, and Jull:ice; the Law is broke, and JuO:ice and Guilt that lies upon him, . is •reqciireth SatisfaCl:ion ; the Penalty is Death. A ·-commonly called ·a Debt., he is a heavy Debt, fi.1ch a Debt is Sin ; he hath violated .Debtor to the Law,. as well .as.a a jufl Law, and how will he make a CompenfaCriminal. . cion ? IlL Some Debts, in a common IlL Sin is a very great Debt, e¥ery ungodly Acceptation, are agreat Sum, many Man may be faid to owe many Thoufands, though -l'ounds,.thoufands of. Pounds. :n.,ver fo rich and mighty in the .'\.ccount of Men. So Matt. xviii. 24. where our Sins are not only •compared to a.Debt, but to .a Debt of a vaft Sum, ten thoufand Talents, which ac– cording to Computation amounts to I, soo,oool. and according to others, 1,87s,oool. IV. Some Debts are fo groat in lV. Sin is fo great a Debt, that a Man of him- ·,Value,. and the Debtors fo poor, ,feJf is -not able to make Satisfaction to the Law, -that they are nor able to_pay them. and J uftice of God for it; he owes ten thoufand 'Talents, and h"th .nothing· to pay; fo our Savior .himfelf plainly intimates, ~Matt. xviii. 24. '1. ADebt·e~p~feth a Man oft– times to an Ar-reft,. and fills lois .Mind full of Trouble; efpecially, ..if it be an Action upon Execution, .that admits of no Bail. VI. A .-Debt doth not on! ex– pofe a M an to the Danger an Arreft, bur, in cafe he cannot pay the.Debt, or procme Bail o a .Prifon alfo. V. Sin expofeth a Man to an Arreft, by Death, ·a Serjeant, that will, when he bath -Tecei-ved .his VVarrant, take no Bail, and this fills wicked Men, efpecially, fu ll of Fe.m; Who throttgh fear p( Death, .are faid, -to be all their Life-time fubjec? .to Bondage, Heb. ii. VI. So Sin expofeth a Man, not only to an Arrell:, by Death, but alfc> to the Priton of eter– . nal Darknefs, om of which there is no Redemp– .tion; Veri6•, Veri6•, ! Jay uuto )'OU, he jball i!W come out from thence, until he bath paid the utmoft ..Farthing, ]\fall, v. 26. VII. Some Mens Debts have VII. So this .grear.Debt, .viz. Jefus Chri£1:, the been paid by the Hands of others, Sinners Friend, out of infinite Bowels, by one who out of rneer Compalflon, have fingle Payment on the Crofs, or bv his active and undertaken to (Jtisfy for all they .pailive Obedience, hath fatisfied ior, or mc.de a have owed, and thereby have ·kept full Compenfation to the L aw, and J uO:ice of God, the poor Debtors from perifhing. · in the behalf of Sinners ; that fo he might thereby ME T A PHO R: 1. A Debt among Men, only ex– pofeth the Body, or Bodies of M <n to external Danger, Suf– fering~, or Sorrow. .deliver them from-eternal Ruin. See Surety. ;o I S .P A R I T Y. I. BUT Sin, this fpiritual ·Debt, expofeth no.t the Body only, but the Soul; it brings not ·the ' oul, by Guilt, to Sorrow and Mifery here; but·both the Soul and Body to Sufferings eternal'¥ htreafter. I!. God
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