A short and private discourse between Mr. Bolton and one M.S. concerning usury. PublishedA short and priuate discourse betweene Mr. Bolton and one M.S. concerning vsury. Published

Let no man bless Himself in the willing practise of lesser sins: Any lien in willingly and delightfully will ruin the soul eternally. A Pen-knife thrust unto the heart will dispatch a man as well, as all the daggers that stabbed Caesar in the Senate House.

Let no man blesse Himselfe in the willing practise of lesser sins: Any lien in willingly and delightfully will ruine the soule eternally. A Pen-knife thrust unto the heart will dispatch a man as well, as all the daggers that stab'd Caesar in the Senate House.

Modica sunt, saith one, quae perdunt nos. They be those little Ones, that undo us. A moat in the eye, if it be not got out in time, may grow to a pin and web. A mans conscience may suffer shipwreck as well upon a sand, as upon a Rock. A Rock is a great One, a sand is a heap of little Ones. See my Exposition upon the Creed, pag. 134.

Modica sunt, saith one, quae perdunt nos. They be those little Ones, that undoe us. A moate in the eye, if it be not got out in time, may grow to a pin and web. A mans conscience may suffer shipwrack as well upon a sand, as upon a Rock. A Rock is a great One, a sand is a heape of little Ones. See my Exposition upon the Creed, pag. 134.

3. When men make question of moderate¹ Usury, whether that be lawful or not: They might as well make question, saith Chemnitius, whether moderate adultery, or moderate lying, or moderate theft is lawful: For as Adultery, as lying, as theft are things in themselves and unlawful, so is Usury.

3. When men make question of moderate¹