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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.
Ambrose hereof saith, Usur as solvit, qui victu 1indiget, an quicquam gravius? &c. He that lacketh wherewith to keep life, payeth you Usury. What heavier case may there be? he seeketh to be healed, and you poison him: he asketh you bread, and you give him a knife: he desireth you to set him at liberty, and you bring him to further bondage. And again, Thou Usurer growest wealthy by other mens 2heaviness: thou makest gains of their tears and weeping: thou art fed with their hunger: thou coinest thy money of the skins of those men whom thou destroyest: how thinkest thou thy self to be rich, and yet beggest an alms of him that is poor? And the same Father saith further, Ab hoc Usuram exige, quem non sit crimen occidere. Whomsoever it is lawful to kill, thou mayest lend him thy money to Usury. For he that taketh usury, killeth without a sword. These be holy Fathers, and worthy of credit: they show us, that Usury is as bad as to kill and murder a ⟨p. 124⟩man wilfully.
Ambrose hereof saith, Vsur as solvit, qui victu 1indiget, an quicquam grauius? &c. Hee that lacketh wherewith to keepe life, payeth you Vsurie. What heauier case may there be? hee seeketh to be healed, and you poison him: he asketh you bread, and you giue him a knife: hee desireth you to set him at libertie, and you bring him to further bondage. And againe, Thou Vsurer growest wealthy by other mens 2heauinesse: thou makest gaines of their teares and weeping: thou art fed with their hunger: thou coinest thy money of the skinnes of those men whome thou destroyest: howe thinkest thou thy selfe to be rich, and yet beggest an almes of hym that is poore? And the same Father saith further, Ab hoc Vsuram exige, quem non sit crimen occidere. Whomsoeuer it is lawful to kill, thou maist lend him thy mony to Vsurie. For he that taketh vsurie, killeth without a sword. These be holy Fathers, and worthie of credite: they shewe vs, that Vsurie is as badde as to kill and murther a ⟨p. 124⟩