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THE
Moderate Intelligencer:
Impartially communicating Martiall
Affairs to the KINGDOM of
ENGLAND.
From Thursday, July 12, to Thursday, July 19, 1649.
THe end of Magistracie is, that one wrongs not another, thence
Laws are made with a penalty, according to the nature of the
offence, or the disposition of the people, to such or such ancvill,
which some people and Nations are more then others,
much discourse and debates have been for freeing men out of
prison that have not where with to pay their debts, and also
to make men pay that are able, and will not, These two
grievances the Parliament are zealous to redreffe, some much
for making men pay that are able, other to have them at liberty
that are not, and it's said, the one cannot be born, or brought forth into the World
without the other, to give them both a more case birth, consider the pulse of the City
of London, by which you may guesse at the whose Nations and first they say, God forbid
that any who have where with should not be made to pay, and that that saying of the
wise man is full to it, with-bold not good from the owner thereof, when it lies in the power
of thy band to doe it, much more should not the Law, that which a man hath is not his
own, but his to whom he ows it, the remainder is only his, it's the mercie of the Creditor,
not the judge, if any thing he abated that's due, owe nothing to any men but love,
that is so to owe it as not to make payment of it when rationally demanded, which is
comprehended in time: it's true, contingent contracts, if they admit of addition, they may
of abatement; If the Tenant be to give more in a good yeare, it's reason he abate in a
had, if absolute, there's no reason for any.