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

But you have, as you suppose, some late Divines on your side. And I will also suppose so for the present: And oppose against them three hundred and eighteen, the learnedest and greatest Divines in the whole Christian world, congregated at Nicaea in the more ^*pure and primitive times, ^*In the year of our Lord 325. or thereabouts condemning usury, from those words Psal. 15. Qui pecuniam suam non dedit ad usuram: Hee that putteth not His money out to usury. Can. 18. I could name them every ⟨p. 5⟩One unto you, and so make a far larger Catalogue then yours. For here are 300. odds. Yours being but 18. Nay in a word; for any thing I can learn, or know, I may oppose in this Point all other Councils, that ever mentioned it, Fathers, all the Learned of former Ages, the whole Current of the Christian World from CHRIST unto our age. None of which have stood for Usury, for the space of fifteen hundred years after CHRIST.

But you have, as you suppose, some late Divines on your side. And I will also suppose so for the present: And oppose against them three hundred and eighteene, the learnedest and greatest Divines in the whole Christian world, congregated at Nicaea in the more ^*pure and primitive times, ^*In the yeare of our Lord 325. or thereabouts condemning usury, from those words Psal. 15. Qui pecuniam suam non dedit ad usuram: Hee that putteth not His money out to usury. Can. 18. I could name them every ⟨p. 5⟩One unto you, and so make a farre larger Catalogue then yours. For here are 300. odds. Yours being but 18. Nay in a word; for any thing I can learne, or know, I may oppose in this Point all other Councells, that ever mentioned it, Fathers, all the Learned of former Ages, the whole Current of the Christian World from CHRIST unto our age. None of which have stood for Usury, for the space of fifteene hundred yeares after CHRIST.