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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62638	Several discourses of repentance by John Tillotson ; being the eighth volume published from the originals by Ralph Barker.	Tillotson, John, 1630-1694.; Barker, Ralph, 1648-1708.	1700 (1700)	Wing T1267; ESTC R26972	169,818	480

shew afterwards 2. If the Injury was done by more who did all equally concur to the doing of it they are all equally bound to make Satisfaction and they are bound to concur together to that Purpose and in Case of such concurrence every one is not bound to satisfie for the whole but pro ratâ parte for his share provided they do among them make full Satisfaction 3. If all will not concur those that are willing are bound among them to make Reparation for the Injury nay if all the rest refuse to joyn with thee in it thou art bound in solidum to make full Reparation so far as thou art able because every one was guilty of the whole Injury For instance if four men conspire together to cheat a Man or to rob him any one of these if the rest refuse is bound to make entire Satisfaction yea tho' he was only partaker in the Benefit because as I said before he is guilty of the whole Injury 4. If the Injury be done by more who do unequally concur to the doing of it he that is Principal is chiefly and principally bound to make Satisfaction and here I do not take Principal strictly in the Sense of the Law but in the Sense of Equity not for him always who is the more immediate cause of the Injury but for him who was the greatest cause and by whose influence chiefly it was procured and done but if the principal will not the Accessories and Instruments are bound at least for their share and according to the proportion of the Hand they had in it But if the Principal do satisfie in the name and upon the account of the rest then the Accessories are free from any Obligation to Restitution and are only bound to Repentance 5. If the Injury devolve upon another by descending as a burden upon the Estate he who enjoys the Estate is bound to make Satisfaction And when Injuries do thus descend as Burdens and Incumbrances upon Estates and when not the Civil Laws of the place where we live must determine but then where my Case falls within the compass of the Law I am bound voluntarily to satisfie without the Compulsion of the Law For instance If an Estate fall to me charged with a debt which hath been unjustly detained I am bound voluntarily to discharge the debt so soon as it appears to me before I am compell'd thereto by the Law 6. As for Personal Injuries which do not lie as Burdens upon the Estate nor do by the Law descend upon the Son or Heir tho' in strict Justice a Man be not bound to make Compensation for them for that would be endless infinitum in lege repudiatur No Law can take notice of that which is infinite and endless for quae exitum non habent habentur pro impossibilibus Those things which have no end to which no bounds can be set are esteemed among things impossible to which no Man can be obliged but tho' in strict Justice the Heir be not bound to make Reparation for the Personal injuries of him whom he succeeds in the Estate yet in many Cases it is equitable and generous and christian for such Persons to make some kind of Reparation for palpable and notorious Injuries For instance If I be Heir to an Estate part of which I know certainly was injuriously gotten it is not only Christian but Prudent to make Satisfaction in the Case to the party injur'd if certainly known if not to give it to the Poor for by this means I may take out the Moth which was bred by injustice in the Estate and rub off the Rust that sticks to the Gold and Silver which was got by oppression or fraud and so free the remaining part of the Estate from that secret and Divine Nemesis which attends it and follows it And for the same Reason it is very Noble and Christian for the Son and Heir of an unjust Father to make some Reparation for his Father's injuries by Restitution if the thing be capable of it if not by doing all good Offices to the injured Persons which is some kind of Compensation And in this Case the Obligation is greater because by this means a Man does not only do what in him lies to cut off the curse which by his Father's oppression and injustice is intail'd upon the Family and Estate but likewise because a Son ought much more to be concern'd for his Father than any other Person and to consult the Honour and Reputation both of him and his own Family and the Reparation which the Son makes is in some sort the Father's Act because he succeeds him and comes into his stead Secondly As to the Persons to whom Satisfaction is is to be made For the Resolution of those Cases which may fall under this Head I shall lay down these Propositions 1. If the injured Person be certainly known and be alive and extant the Satisfaction is to be made to him 2. If he be not alive or which is all one not to be found or come at Satisfaction is to be made to his nearest Relations his Wife or Children or Brothers or other nearest Kindred The Reason is because Satisfaction being due and I having no right to keep that which I have injuriously gotten if I cannot restore it to the Party himself I ought in all Reason to place it there where I may most reasonably presume the Party injur'd would have bestowed his Estate and this part of it among the rest had he been possessor of it And by the same Reason that I am bound thus to restore the part of his Estate which I have injuriously taken or detained from him I am likewise obliged to give Satisfaction to the same Person for any other injury for to whomsoever I would pay a debt due to one that is deceased to the same Person I ought to give Satisfaction for other injuries by which a debt is tho' not formally yet virtually contracted 3. If the Party injured be not certainly known or have no near Relations known to me in that Case I think it very adviseable to give so much to the Poor or to some Charitable use or if the Party injured be not capable of proper Satisfaction as sometimes it is a Community and Body of men that we have injured in this Case it is proper to repair the injuries to Communities or Bodies of men by equivalent good Offices or by some publick good Work which may be of common Benefit and Advantage This is the Fifth thing I proposed to speak to the Persons concern'd in Restitution both the Persons who are bound to make Restitution and the Persons to whom it is to be made Of the rest hereafter SERMON XIII Ser. 13. The Nature and Necessity of Restitution The Second Sermon on this Text. LUKE XIX 8 9. And if I have taken any thing from any Man by false accusation I restore him fourfold And Jesus said unto him This day is

we would but enter into the serious Consideration of them we should soon be resolved in our Minds about them Do but consider a little what Sin is It is the shame and blemish of thy Nature the reproach and disgrace of thy Understanding and Reason the great deformity and disease of thy Soul and the eternal Enemy of thy Rest and Peace It is thy Shackles and thy Fetters the Tyrant that oppresses thee and restrains thee of thy Liberty and Condemns thee to the basest Slavery and the vilest Drudgery It is the unnatural and violent state of thy Soul the Worm that perpetually gnaws thy Conscience the cause of all thy Fears and Troubles and of all the Evils and Miseries all the Mischiefs and Disorders that are in the World it is the Foundation and Fewel of Hell it is that which puts thee out of the Possession and Enjoyment of thy self which doth alienate and separate thee from God the Fountain of Bliss and Happiness which provokes him to be thine Enemy and lays thee open every moment to the fierce revenge of his Justice and if thou dost persist and continue in it will finally sink and oppress thee under the insupportable weight of his wrath and make thee so weary of thy self that thou shalt wish a thousand times that thou hadst never been and will render thee so perfectly miserable that thou wouldest esteem it a great Happiness to exchange thy Condition with the most wretched and forlorn Person that ever lived upon Earth to be perpetually upon a Rack and to lie down for ever under the rage of all the most violent Diseases and Pains that ever afflicted Mankind Sin is all this which I have described and will certainly bring upon thee all those Evils and Mischiefs which I have mentioned and make thee far more miserable than I am able to express or thou to conceive And art thou not yet resolved to leave it Shall I need to use any other Arguments to set thee against it and to take thee off from the Love and Practice of it than this Representation which I have now made of the horrible Nature and Consequences of it And then consider on the other Hand what it is that I am perswading thee to turn to to thy God and Duty And would not this be a blessed change indeed To leave the greatest Evil and to turn to the chief Good For this Resolution of returning to God is nothing else but a Resolution to be wise and happy and to put thy self into the Possession of that which is a greater good if it is possible than Sin is an Evil and will render thee more happy than Sin can make thee miserable Didst thou but think what God is and what he will be to thee if thou wilt return to him how kindly he will receive thee after all thy wandrings from him days without number thou wouldst soon take up the Resolution of the Prodigal and say I will arise and go to my Father And consider likewise what it is to return to thy Duty It is nothing else but to do what becomes thee and what is suitable to the Original Frame of thy Nature and to the truest dictates of thy Reason and Conscience and what is not more thy Duty than it is thy Interest and thy Happiness For that which God requires of us is to be righteous and holy and good that is to be like God himself who is the Pattern of all Perfection and Happiness It is to have our Lives conformed to his Will which is always perfect holiness and goodness a state of Peace and Tranquillity and the very temper and disposition of Happiness It is that which is a principal and most essential Ingredient into the Felicity of the Divine Nature and without which God would not be what he is but a deformed and imperfect and miserable Being And if this be a true Representation which I have made to you of Sin and Vice on the one Hand and of God and Goodness on the other what can be more powerful than the serious Consideration of it to engage us to a speedy Resolution of leaving our Sins and of turning and cleaving to the Lord with full purpose of heart After this we cannot but conclude with the Penitent in the Text Surely it is meet to be said unto God I will not offend any more That which I see not teach thou me and if I have done iniquity I will do no more 3. Consider how unreasonable it is to be unresolved in a Case of so great moment and concernment There is no greater Argument of a Man's weakness than Irresolution in matters of mighty consequence when both the Importance of the thing and Exigency of present circumstances require a speedy Resolution We should account it a strange folly for a Man to be unresolved in the clearest and plainest matters that concern his temporal welfare and safety If a Man could not determine himself whether he should eat or starve if he were dangerously sick and could not determine whether he should take Physick or Die or if one that were in Prison could not resolve himself whether he should accept of Liberty and be contented to be released or if a fair Estate were offer'd to him he should desire seven years time to consider whether he should take it or not this would be so absurd in the common affairs of Life that a Man would be thought infatuated that should be doubtful and unresolved in cases so plain and of such pressing concernment If a Man were under the Sentence and Condemnation of the Law and liable to be executed upon the least intimation of the Prince's Pleasure and a Pardon were graciously offer'd to him with this intimation that this would probably be the last offer of Mercy that ever would be made to him one would think that in this Case a Man should soon be determined what to do or rather that he should not need to deliberate at all about it because there is no danger of rashness in making haste to save his Life And yet the Case of a sinner is of far greater importance and much more depends upon it infinitely more than any temporal Concernment whatsoever can amount to even our Happiness or Misery to all Eternity And can there be any difficulty for a Man to be resolved what is to be done in such a Case No Case surely in the World can be plainer than this Whether a Man should leave his Sins and return to God and his Duty or not that is whether a Man should chuse to be happy or miserable unspeakably and everlastingly happy or extremely and eternally miserable And the circumstances and exigences of our Case do call for a speedy and peremptory Resolution in this matter The Sentence of the Law is already past and God may execute it upon thee every moment and it is great Mercy and Forbearance not to do it Thy Life is uncertain and thou art liable every