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The sermons of Master Henry Smith gathered into one volume. Printed according to his…The sermons of Maister Henrie Smith gathered into one volume. Printed according to his…
The sermons of Master Henry Smith gathered into one volume. Printed according to his corrected copies in his life time.The sermons of Maister Henrie Smith gathered into one volume. Printed according to his corrected copies in his life time.
London: printed by Richard Field for Thomas Man, 1593
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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 they will have the use of your pasture, or your land, or ⟨p. 174⟩your orchard, or your team, or your kine, until you pay the money again, which in that time will grow to a greater gain to the Usurer, and a greater loss to the borrower, than if he had paid more money than other Usurers are wont to take.
Some will not take Vsurie, but they will haue the vse of your pasture, or your land, or ⟨p. 174⟩your orchard, or your teame, or your kine, vntill you pay the money againe, which in that time wil grow to a greater gaine to the Vsurer, and a greater losse to the borrower, than if he had paide more money than other Vsurers are wont to take.
Some will not take usury, but they will take plate, and vessel, and tapestry, and bedding & other household stuff, to use & wear until their money come home, which will lose more in the wearing, than the interest of the money would come to. This usury is forbidden in the 2. of Amos, where God complaineth, saying; They lye down upon the clothes which are laid to pledge: showing, that we should not lye down upon such clothes, that is, we should not use or wear the thing which is laid to pledge.
Some will not take vsurie, but they will take plate, and vessell, and tapistrie, and bedding & other houshold stuffe, to vse & weare vntil their money come home, which wil lose more in the wearing, than the interest of the money would come to. This vsurie is forbidden in the 2. of Amos, where God complaineth, saying; They lye downe vpon the cloathes which are laide to pledge: shewing, that wee should not lye downe vpon such clothes, that is, we should not vse or wear the thing which is laide to pledge.