A12367:271
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 1if he be a Labourer, or a Mason, or a Carpenter, which borroweth of him, he will covenant with him for so many days work, he shall labour with him so many days, or so many weeks for no money, but the lone of money. This Usury is condemned in Luk. 10. 7. where it is said, The labourer is worthy of his hire.
Some will not take Vsurie, but 1if he bee a Labourer, or a Mason, or a Carpenter, which borroweth of him, he will couenant with him for so many daies worke, he shall labour with him so manie daies, or so many weekes for no money, but the lone of money. This Vsury is condemned in Luk. 10. 7. where it is said, The labourer is worthie of his hire.
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Some will not take Usury, but 1if you have not present money to pay for their wares, they will set a high price of them, for the forbearing of the time, and so they do not only sell their wares, but they sell time too: that is, they do not only sell their own, but they sell Gods own. Therefore one saith of these, When he selleth the day he selleth the light, and when he selleth ⟨image 147⟩the night he selleth rest: therefore when he would have the light of heaven, and the rest of Paradise, it shall be said unto him that he hath sold both already. For he sold light when he sold the day, and he sold rest when he sold the night: and therefore now he can have neither light nor rest.