Matthew Poole and continuators on Matthew 5:26
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Matthew5:26
26 Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, until thou hast paid the uttermost farthing.
Forasmuch, as the overt Acts, and Expressions of injust Wrath and Malice, are iniquities, punishable by the Judge, let it be the Care of those that will be my Disciples, if by their Passions they have provoked any, and made him their Adversary quickly to agree with them, for you know the ordinary Course of enraged Adversaries amongst Men, is to bring their Actions, and to bring Men before the Civil Judge, and when the Judge upon inquiry hath found them Guilty, he useth to deliver them to the Goaler to be carried to Prison, until they have fully paid their Fines for such offences: And forasmuch, as not only the overt Acts, but the Passions which cause such Acts are culpable before God, and make Men obnoxious to his righteous Judgment, and God by them is made, an Adversary to the Soul; as having violated his great Command: Thou shalt do no Murther. Let all my Disciples, who have been, or may be overtaken with such Faults, by Repentance and Faith in me, make their Peace with God in this Life, lest dying in impenitency they be put under the Eternal Displeasure and Wrath of God, from whence they shall never be delivered, Chap. 6.15. & 18.35.
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