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

The general Current, and consent of the Church for above this fifteen hundred years without Opposition, hath condemned it: what a weak hold then is your Handful M. S.?

The generall Current, and consent of the Church for above this fifteene hundred yeares without Opposition, hath condemned it: what a weake hold then is your Handfull M. S.?

2. Divines pretended for Usury deal with it, as the Apothecary doth with poison, working and tempering it with so many cautions, and limitations, that in the end, they make it no Usury at all. See in this point, Dow. posit. of Usury pag. 53. Dow. pag. 273. &c. Fent. pag. 62.

2. Divines pretended for Usury deale with it, as the Apothecary doth with poyson, working and tempering it with so many cautions, and limitations, that in the end, they make it no Vsury at all. See in this point, Dow. posit. of Usury pag. 53. Dow. pag. 273. &c. Fent. pag. 62.

After they have examined the point, and answered the reasons, as they think, which are usually brought against Usury by the School; yet in conclusion put all their limitations together, they agree upon no Usury at all, as it shall be defined by and by. Single them out one from an another; there is not any one of them, who dares defend any such ordinary Usury, as is amongst us practised with greatest moderation. Fent. pag. 144. And therefore in the third place, I say:

After they have examined the point, and answered the reasons, as they think, which are usually brought against Usury by the Schoole; yet in conclusion put all their limitations together, they agree upon no Usury at all, as it shall be defined by and by. Single them out one from an another; there is not any one of them, who dares defend any such ordinary Usury, as is amongst us practised with greatest moderation. Fent. pag. 144. And therefore in the third place, I say: