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 these, you will say, are Humane authorities. And so are yours. Yet mark the odds. I oppose to your few supposed Patrons of Usury of late times, the general judgement of the Church for this fifteen hundred years. For the covetousness of these times hath made a controversy, which in former ages was never doubted of. ^*Nay, (I imagine you know who hath made it good) Authority of all sorts, divine, and humane; Ecclesiastical, and profane; natural, and moral: Of all Ages, old, new, middling: Of all Churches, Primitive, Roman, Reformed: Of all Common-Weals, Jewish, Christian, Heathenish: Of all Laws, Foreign and Domesticall.

But these, you will say, are Humane authorities. And so are yours. Yet mark the odds. I oppose to your few supposed Patrons of Usury of late times, the generall judgement of the Church for this fifteene hundred yeares. For the covetousnesse of these times hath made a controversie, which in former ages was never doubted of. ^*Nay, (I imagine you know who hath made it good) Authority of all sorts, divine, and humane; Ecclesiasticall, and prophane; naturall, and morall: Of all Ages, old, new, midling: Of all Churches, Primitive, Romane, Reformed: Of all Common-Weales, Jewish, Christian, Heathenish: Of all Lawes, Forraine and Domesticall.

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Nay M. S. Will you hear the words of one of your own Men, whom you muster up in your Catalogue as One of yours: I mean B. Jewell. These are his words: upon 1 Thess. Chap. 3. ver. 6. pag. 80. But what speak I, saith He, of the ancient Fathers of the Church? (having produced many against Usury) There was never any ⟨p. 6⟩