Examples of restitution.
When Selymus the great Turke lay upon his [ 1] death-bed, being moved by Pyrrhus his great Bashaw to bestow that abundance of wealth which he had taken wrongfully from the Persian Merchants, upon some notable Hospitall for relief of the poore: he commanded it rather to be resto∣red to the right owners: which was forthwith ef∣fected. Turk. Hist. p. 561.
King Henry the third of England, who was a great [ 2] oppressor of his Subjects in their liberties, and estates, having upon a time sent a load of Freese to the Friars Minors to clothe them, they returned back the same with this message: That he ought not to give almes of that that he had rent from the poor, neither would they accept of that abominable gift. Dan. Chron.
Pliny an Heathen tells us, that the poore are not to [ 3] be fed like the Whelps of wilde beasts, with blood and murther, rapine and spoile: but that which is most acceptable to the receivers; they should know, that that which is given unto them is not taken from any body else. In Cant. Ser. 71.
Bernard saith, that God receives not any Almes [ 4] at the hands of an oppressor, or Usurer. In Ca. Ezek. 18.
Hierome saith, that no man should turne bread [ 5] gotten by oppression, and usury, into a work of mercy.
Augustine saith, that when God shall judge those that [ 6] live now by fraud, and give almes of the spoiles of the oppressed, he will say unto them: You tell me what you have given, but you tell me not what you have