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And deliuers him to the tormenters, till he pay the whole debt.
CONSIDER that when our B. Sa∣uiour finds that neither his precepts nor practice, are forcible enough to pre∣uayle with fierce man, to doe as he would be done to and pardon one another as we desire to be pardoned by him, he waxeth wroth, and deliuers that vnmercifull seruante to the Tormenters, vntill he repay all the debt. For howeuer what God remitts is truly
remitted, nor doth he iudge twice vpon the same thinge; yet the horrible ingrati∣tude and crueltie of the naughtie seruant, appeared, in the eyes of his iustice, so enormious that he looked vpon it as the whole debt of ten thousand talents: ad∣ding withall, that so also his heauenly father will deale with vs, if euery one of vs forgiue not his brother from his harte.
[Affection.] With what measure we mea∣sure our brethren, it shall be measured backe to vs. If we will needs vse iustice without mercy, iustice shall we finde with∣out mercy. Ah my soule, what a daunting reproche shall it be to vs, to heare from a Iudge from whom there is noe appeale thou vngracious seruant, I forgaue thee all the debt, because thou besoughtest me; oughtest not thou then too, to haue mercy vpon thy fellow-ser∣uant, euen as I had mercy on thee? But his mercy freely extended to multitudes of offences committed against a diuine ma∣iestie. Should not ours then and from our harte) reach at least to a fewe and light faults done against our miserie? What re∣plye, alas! shall we be able to returne to this demande?