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An expositio[n] upon the two epistles of the apostle S. Paul to the Thessalonians…An expositio[n] vpon the two epistles of the apostle S. Paul to the Thessalonians…
An expositio[n] upon the two epistles of the apostle S. Paul to the Thessalonians by the reverend Father John Jewel ... ; whereunto is adjoined a very necessary table of the principal matters contained in this exposition.An expositio[n] vpon the two epistles of the apostle S. Paul to the Thessalonians by the reuerend Father Iohn Ievvel ... ; vvhereunto is adioined a very necessarie table of the principal matters contained in this exposition.
London: printed by Ralfe Newberie, 1584
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.
When David layeth out the wickedness of the country where he was persecuted, he saith 1of them, Non defecit Usura & dolus in plateis eorum, Usurie & deceit departeth not from their streets, one seeketh to spoil and eat up an other. These are the commodities and the fruits of Usury. Such is Usury in the middest of a City, and such good it worketh, as fire doth, when it is set to the roof of a ⟨p. 117⟩house, or as the plague doth, when it is taken to the middest of the body and toucheth the hart.
When Dauid laieth out the wickednesse of the country where he was persecuted, he saith 1of them, Non defecit Vsura & dolus in plateis eorum, Vsurie & deceit departeth not from their streetes, one séeketh to spoile and eate vp an other. These are the commodities and the fruits of Vsurie. Such is Vsurie in the middest of a Citie, and such good it worketh, as fire doth, when it is set to the roofe of a ⟨p. 117⟩house, or as the plague doth, when it is taken to the middest of the body and toucheth the hart.
- 1Psal. 54.
We have heard whence Usury springeth, and what hurt it doth. Which, whosoever considereth, may find cause enough to loath it, and forsake it. One asked of Cato, What it was to commit Usury. What is it (sayeth he again) to kill a man? He that is an Usurer is a murderer. The same Cato saith, Our fathers punished a thief, with payment of the double of that he had taken, but the Usurer was always condemned to pay four times the value. They were wise men. They thought that an usurer was much worse than a thief.