Serm. CXV II. of Reftitutioll. 97 fcience, but did freely forgive him the rat, the contrary whereof is ufually done ; I fay, unlefs it were thus expreft, there's no reafon why the Creditor's favour in making a Compoliition should be abufed to his prejudice, and why a legal difcharge, given him on purpofe for this Reafon among others, to put him into a capacity of recovering himfelf and giving full Satisfaaion, fhould be fo interpreted, as to extinguifh the equitable right of the Creditor to the remainder of his Debt. The Second Life of this Do&riveof Reflitution should be by way of prevention, that Men would take heed of being injurious, and fo take away the occafonof Reftitution, and free themfelves from the Temptation of not performing fo diffi- cult and fo unwelcomea Duty. It is much eafier of the two, not to cozen or op- prefs thyNeighbour, thanafter thou haft done it, it will be to bring thy felf to make Reflitution : thereforewe fhould be very careful, not to be injurious to any one in any kind; neither immediately by our felves, nor by aiding and aflifling others, by our power and intereít, or skill in the Law, orby any other way, to do Injuflice. SERMON C;XVIII- The Ufefulnefs of Confideration, in order to Repentance. D E U T. XXXII. 29. 0 that they were wife, that they underflood this, that they would con- fider their latter end ! THIS Chapter is call'dMofes his Song, in which he briefly recounts the va- rious Providences of God toward the People of Ifrael, and the froward Carriage of that People towards him. Fitt(, He puts them in mind how God had chofen them for his peculiar Peoples and had by a fignal Care and Providence concluded them all that tedious Jour- ney, for the fpace Of forty years in the Wildernefs, till he had brought them to the promifed Land, which they had now begun to take Polteflïon of. And then he foretels, how they would behave themfelves after all this mercy and kindnefs God had (hewn to them, ver. 15. Jefìrrun waxed fat, and kicked, and forfook God which made him, and lightly efleemed the Rock of his Salvation, Upon this he tells them, Gòd would be extrremely difpleafed with them, and would multiply hisJudgments upon them, ver. 59, 20. When the Lord taw it, he abhorred them, becaufe of the provoking ofhis Sons and ofhis Daughters; And hefaid, I will hide my facefrom them, I will fee what their end fhall be : for they are á very froward generation, children in whom is no Faith. And ver. 23. I will heap mil- chief them, Iwillfpend mine arrows upon them. And then he enumerates the particular Judgments which he would fend upon them : nay, he declares he would" have ,utterly confumed them, but that he was loth to give occa,fion of fo much Tritimplf to his"and their Enemies, ver. 26, 27. Ifaid, I wouldflatter them into corners, Imould make the remembranceof them to ceafe from among men : ttera it not, that I, feáred thewrath of the enemy, left their adverfary fhould behave thernfclves flrangeiy, ,and left they fhould fay, Our hand is high, and the Land hath not done all this,, 'And he adds the Reafonof all this feverity ; becaufe they were fo very cr flopM
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