A12367:269
A preparative to marriage The sum whereof was spoken at a contract, and enlarged…A preparatiue to mariage The summe whereof was spoken at a contract, and inlarged…
A preparative to marriage The sum whereof was spoken at a contract, and enlarged after. Whereunto is annexed a treatise of the Lords Supper, and another of usury. By Henry Smith.A preparatiue to mariage The summe whereof was spoken at a contract, and inlarged after. Whereunto is annexed a treatise of the Lords Supper, and another of vsurie. By Henrie Smith.
London: printed by Thomas Orwin for Thomas Man, 1591
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.
Some will not take Usury, but ⟨image 146⟩1they will buy some thing at a small price, and then covenant with the borrower that he buy the same again of the same price at such a day, which day the Usurer knoweth that the borrower is not able to keep, and so he getteth for a little that which the other might have sold for much more. This Usury is condemned in the 1. Thess. 4. where it is said, Let no man defraud or circumvent his brother in any thing.
Some will not take Vsurie, but ⟨image 146⟩1they will buy some thing at a smal price, and then couenant with the borrower that he buy the same againe of the same price at such a day, which day the Vsurer knoweth that the borrower is not able to keepe, and so hee getteth for a little that which the other might haue solde for much more. This Vsurie is condēned in the 1. Thess. 4. where it is said, Let no man defraude or circumuent his brother in any thing.
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Some will not take Usury, but they will lend out their money to 1occupiers, upon condition to be partakers in their gains, but not in their losses: so one takes all the pains and abideth all the venture, & the other which takes no pains, reapeth half the profit. This Usury is forbidden in 2. Thessa. 3. 10. where it is said, He which will ⟨image 146⟩