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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.
Bear patiently with me, if I be long. My desire is, you should understand this whole matter, and be able to know one thing from an other. That so no man may accuse his Usury by name of interest: and others be not offended, nor reckon all men to be Usurers, which lend earth their money, or any ways dispose of their stock.
Beare patiently with me, if I be long. My desire is, you shoulde vnderstande this whole matter, and be able to knowe one thing from an other. That so no man maie accuse his Vsurie by name of interest: and others be not offended, nor reckon all men to be Vsurers, which lende •rth their money, or anie waies dispose of their stocke.
A poor Orphan left in his Cradle hath a hundred pounds stock. This stock may be put out to Usury. And the Usury is allowed. This is a deed of charity, it is no Usury, as shall appear. For, if the hundred pounds should lie still without increase, and be bestowed from year to year to the v•e of the child, the whole stock would be spent, before the child should come to years. But if the stock be put to occupying, and into an honest mans hands, something will grow to the relief of the Orphan, and yet his stock remain whole. This is charity to relieve the infant, that can not relieve himself. The like is, in •ing the stock of a man that hath not his wits, and is not able to dispose of his guides. Or if a Merchant by sickness, or maim, or any other hinderance, be not able to follow his business, he desireth an other to use, and ⟨p. 237⟩occupy for him, and to do with his stock, as it were his own, only to maintain him with the increase thereof. This is not Usury. Why? because he that taketh the stock of the Orphan, or of the mad man, or of the diseased merchant, is not bound to answer all adventures, and casualties that happen. As, if to like use I take a stock in cattle, & they die without my default: or a stock in money or wares, and the wares be burnt by fire, or the money stolen without my default, I am not bound to answer the principal: therefore it is no Usury.