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

IT seems M. S. Saint Austin is in some request with you; for you place Him in the Front of your Treatise, which you might easily have contrived into a few lines, telling us: so saith Jewell, Perkins, &c. in such a Book, such a page: But will you stand to that Ancient Fathers Authority in your Point of Usury? Hear Him I pray you: In Psal. 36. Nolo sit is faeneratores, & ideò nolo, quia ⟨p. 2⟩Deus non vult. I would not have you to be Usurers, and therefore I would not have you to be so, because GOD would not have you to be so. A little after: Unde apparet Deum hoc nolle? Dictum est alio loco. Qui pecuniam suam non dedit ad Usuram. Et quam detestabile sit, & quam odiosum, quam execrandum, puto quia & ipsi faeneratores noverunt. How appears it, that GOD would not have you to be Usurers? It is said in another place. He that putteth not His money to Usury. How detestable a thing it is, to give money upon Usury, how odious, how execrable, I suppose, the Usurers themselves are not ignorant. And upon Psal. 128. Audent etiam faeneratores dicere non habeo aliud unde vivam. Hoc mihi & latro diceret, deprehensus in fa•ce, &c.—Hoc mihi & leno diceret emens puellas ad prostitutionem, &c. The Usurers also, saith Saint Austin, dare say, they have not whereupon else to live: so (saith He) may the Robbers say, taken in the Thieves Haunt, &c.—So may the Bawd say, who buyeth young Women for prostitution, &c.

IT seemes M. S. Saint Austin is in some request with you; for you place Him in the Front of your Treatise, which you might easily have contrived into a few lines, telling us: so saith Iewell, Perkins, &c. in such a Booke, such a page: But will you stand to that Ancient Fathers Authority in your Point of Usury? Heare Him I pray you: In Psal. 36. Nolo sit is faeneratores, & ideò nolo, quia ⟨p. 2⟩Deus non vult. I would not have you to bee Usurers, and therefore I would not have you to be so, because GOD would not have you to be so. A little after: Vnde apparet Deum hoc nolle? Dictum est alio loco. Qui pecuniam suam non dedit ad Vsuram. Et quam detestabile sit, & quam odiosum, quam execrandum, puto quia & ipsi faeneratores noverunt. How appeares it, that GOD would not have you to be Usurers? It is said in another place. Hee that putteth not His money to Vsury. How detestable a thing it is, to give money upon Usury, how odious, how execrable, I suppose, the Usurers themselves are not ignorant. And upon