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To defend Usury, they distinguish upon it, as they distinguish of lying: as they say, there is a pernicious lye, and an officious lye, and a merry lye, and a godly lye: so they say, there is the Merchants Usury, and the Strangers Usury, and the Widows Usury, and the Orphans Usury, and the poor man's Usury, and the biting Usury, and the charitable Usury, and the necessary Usury. ⟨image 149⟩As God said, ye shall die, & the woman ¹said, peradventure ye shall dye, and the Serpent said, ye shall not dye; so there be three opinions of Usury: ²some say like God, thou shalt dye, they think that Usury is utterly unlawful, because God hath utterly forbid it: some say like the woman, peradventure thou shalt dye, they doubt whether Usury be utterly unlawful or no, because it is so much tolerated: some say like the Serpent, thou ³shalt not dye, they think that Usury is lawful, because it is gainful, as Saul thought that the Idolaters ⁴beasts should not be killed because they were fat. But as he was commanded to kill the fat beasts, as well as the lean, so we are commanded to kill fat sins as well as lean sins; gainful sins as well as prodigal sins.

To defend Vsurie, they distinguish vppon it, as they distinguish of lying: as they say, there is a pernicious lye, and an officious lye, and a merrie lye, and a godly lye: so they say, there is the Merchants Vsurie, and the Strangers Vsurie, and the Widdowes Vsurie, and the Orphanes Vsurie, and the pooremans Vsurie, and the biting Vsurie, and the charitable Vsurie, and the necessarie Vsurie. ⟨image 149⟩As God said, ye shall die, & the woman ¹sayd, peraduenture ye shall dye, and the Serpent said, ye shall not dye; so there be three opinions of Vsurie: ²