The sacrifice of thankfulness A sermon preached at Pauls Cross, the third of December,…The sacrifice of thankefulnesse A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse, the third of December,…

3. There is the bloody Wolfe; the profest cutthroat ⟨p. 79⟩the Usurer. Hunt him, seize on his Den; it is full of poor men's Goods. What a Golden Law would that be, which were called a Statute of Restitution: Such a one as Nehemiah enacted. Neh. 5. that Lands and Vineyards,¹ Houses and Goods, mortgaged into Usurers hands, should be restored. When he sealed it with a sacramental Oath, and made them swear consent to it. And he shook his Lap, and said. So God shake out every man from his house, and from his labour,² that performeth not this Promise; even thus be he shaken out, and emptied. And all the Congregation said, Amen. But if they will not restore by themselves, they shall by their posterity. For, as Pliny writes of the Wolfe, that it brings forth blind Whelps: so the Usurer lightly begets blind Children, that cannot see to keep what their Father left them. But when the Father is gone to Hell for gathering, the Son often follows for scattering. But God is just. A good man leaveth his Inheritance to his Children Children:³ and the Wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.

3. There is the bloody Wolfe; the profest cutthroat ⟨p. 79⟩the Vsurer. Hunt him, sease on his Denne; it is full of pooremens Goods. What a Golden Law would that bee, which were called a Statute of Restitution: Such a one as Nehemiah enacted. Neh. 5. that Lands and Vineyards,¹ Houses and Goods, morgag'd into Vsurers hands, should be restored. When hee sealed it with a sacramentall Oath, and made them sweare consent to it. And hee shooke his Lappe, and sayd. So God shake out euery man from his house, and from his labour,²