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The works of the reverend and faithful servant of Jesus Christ M. Richard Greenham,…The workes of the reuerend and faithfull seruant af Iesus Christ M. Richard Greenham,…
The works of the reverend and faithful servant of Jesus Christ M. Richard Greenham, minister and preacher of the Word of God collected into one volume: revised, corrected, and published, for the further building of all such as love the truth, and desire to know the power of godliness. By H.H.The workes of the reuerend and faithfull seruant af Iesus Christ M. Richard Greenham, minister and preacher of the Word of God collected into one volume: reuised, corrected, and published, for the further building of all such as loue the truth, and desire to know the power of godlinesse. By H.H.
London: printed by Thomas Snodham and Thomas Creede for William Welby, 1612London: printed by Thomas Snodham and Thomas Creede for VVilliam VVelby, 1612
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Of Usury.
Of Vsurie.
1 Usury is the devils Alchymistrie to turn silver into gold; it is lucre by lending,1 and they that use it be a gracious kind of thieves; it is a sin that hath many advocates & patrons. But to whom may this be used? Men are either poor, mean, or rich: to the poor give freely, to the mean lend freely, of the rich take usury. The Lord was never the author of this division. Aristotle by the very light of reason, saw that it was a monstrous thing, for money to beget money, but Gods law goeth further, Levit. 25 36. Deu. 5. 19. Again, the Jew of a Jew might not take interest, but the link of a Christian is nearer than of a Country: their brother-hood was but by Country only, ours by redemption. Indeed recompense is to be made, where the thing is the worse for the using that is lent, Exod. 21. 14. but money for the lending is not worse, Ergo nothing to be taken for the lending of it. No member is permitted but that which directeth others in their callings, as the eye, or labours, being directed, as the hand: so is it, or ought to be in our vocations: then the Usurer doing neither, is not to be permitted.
1 VSurie is the diuels Alchymistrie to turne siluer into golde; it is lucre by lending,