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

Or will you stand to the judgement of those Worthy Men, (for so you call them at the bottom of your first page) which Saint Austin produced against Julian? Hear them also. Saint Basil: in Psal. 14. An ignoras, inquit, quòd major tibi peccatorum exurgat acervus, quam sit accessus opum, quem ex usuris venaris? Knowest Thou not, that a greater heap of sins grows upon Thee, then is the accession ⟨p. 3⟩of riches, which thou hunts after by Usury. Saint Gregory Hom 4. in Ecclesiast. Aiatis, inquit, dixit Deus; Crescite & multiplicamini: Auri autem faetus, nempe faenus, ex quonam consistit matrimonio? &c.—Hic est ille partus, quem parturit qui dem avaritia, parit autem iniquitas, & obstetricatur inhumanitas. This is that young One (speaking of usury) with which covetousness travails; Iniquity brings forth; and Inhumanity plays the Mid-wife.

Or will you stand to the judgement of those Worthy Men, (for so you call them at the bottome of your first page) which Saint Austin produced against Iulian? Heare them also. Saint Basil: in Psal. 14. An ignoras, inquit, quòd major tibi peccatorum exurgat acervus, quam sit accessus opum, quem ex usuris venaris? Knowest Thou not, that a greater heape of sinnes growes upon Thee, then is the accession ⟨p. 3⟩of riches, which thou hunts after by Usury. Saint Gregory Hom 4. in Ecclesiast. Aiatis, inquit, dixit Deus; Crescite & multiplicamini: Auri autem faetus, nempe faenus, ex quonam consistit matrimonio? &c.—Hic est ille partus, quem parturit qui dem avaritia, parit autem iniquitas, & obstetricatur inhumanitas. This is that young One (speaking of usury) with which covetousnesse travailes; Iniquity brings forth; and Inhumanity playes the Mid-wife.

Saint Ambrose, an other of those Worthy Men, hath detested and discoursed against usury very excellently, and eloquently in a whole Book de Tobia: in the 9. Chap. whereof, He compares the Devil and an Usurer together. Chap. 14. Silicitum est: cur vocabulum refugis? cur velamen obteris? Si illicitum est: cur incrementum requiris? If usury be lawful, why doest Thou decline the name? Why puts Thou a veil over it? If it be unlawful, why receivest Thou any increase?