A10945:584
Seven treatises containing such direction as is gathered out of the Holy Scriptures, leading…Seuen treatises containing such direction as is gathered out of the Holie Scriptures, leading…
Seven treatises containing such direction as is gathered out of the Holy Scriptures, leading and guiding to true happiness, both in this life, and in the life to come: and may be called the practise of Christianity. Profitable for all such as heartily desire the same: in the which, more particularly true Christians may learn how to lead a godly and comfortable life every day. Penned by Richard Rogers, preacher of the word of God at Wethersfield in Essex.Seuen treatises containing such direction as is gathered out of the Holie Scriptures, leading and guiding to true happines, both in this life, and in the life to come: and may be called the practise of Christianitie. Profitable for all such as heartily desire the same: in the which, more particularly true Christians may learne how to leade a godly and comfortable life euery day. Penned by Richard Rogers, preacher of the word of God at Wethersfield in Essex.
London: printed by Felix Kyngston for Thomas Man, 1603
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.
1The lender is bound to help his neighbour, such an one (I mean) as I have described the borrower to be: if he be able to forgo it, and for the appointed time that he hath lent it, not to require it again: and to receive it at the due time without any commodity; much less to compound or agree with him for any: for whiles he pretendeth to seek his poor neighbours commodity, and yet thereby laboureth to seek his own §Iadvantage, with the others hurt, that were intolerable. But yet it is lawful for him to take a pledge of him, if he doubt of his credit, so that it be not his bed,2 or such a necessary thing as he cannot well spare: And yet if he see that it cannot be repaid without hazard of his undoing, he must bear with him, and show compassion either for a time, or forgiving it wholly unto him.3
1The lender is bound to helpe his neighbour, such an one (I meane) as I haue described the borrower to bee: if hee bee able to forgoe it, and for the appointed time that he hath lent it, not to require it againe: and to receiue it at the due time without any commoditie; much lesse to compound or agree with him for any: for whiles he pretendeth to seeke his poore neighbours commoditie, and yet thereby laboureth to seeke his owne §Iaduantage, with the others hurt, that were intolerable. But yet it is lawfull for him to take a pledge of him, if he doubt of his credit, so that it bee not his bed,2 or such a necessarie thing as he cannot well spare: And yet if he see that it cannot be repayed without hazard of his vndoing, he must beare with him, and shew compassion either for a time, or forgiuing it wholy vnto him.3
- 1The duty of the lender.The dutie of the lender.