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

2. In other places of Scripture, as Psal. 15. 5. Ezek. 18. 13, 17. And Chap. 22. 12. Prov. 28. 8. Which are as it were Commentaries, and Expositions of the Law, there is no mention of the poor, but Usury is absolutely forbidden without respect of Persons. Nay to prevent this shift, and to demonstrate this evasion to be very frivolous. In the very Text Deut. 2•. 19. there is no mention of the poor at all, but the Law is delivered in general terms: Thou shalt not lend upon Usury to thy Brother. Now He is your Brother whether He be rich or poor. The partition wall is now taken away, and both Jew and Gentile, rich and poor are ⟨p. 8⟩Brethren; and therefore we must exact Usury of none, except we would be worse then Jews. Our Saviour Christ Luke 6. 34. gives this testimony to the very sinners of His time amongst the Jews, that they would lend One unto an Other, that they might receive so much, as they lent. And therefore not so much, as the least Usury was lawful towards a Brother, whether He were poor or rich. If the Scriptures had put such a difference between the poor and the rich, as between the Israelite and Canaanite: To the rich thou mayest; but to the poor Thou shalt not lend upon Usury: Then the case were clear. But Deut. 23. 19, 20. GOD makes opposition, not between the poor and the rich: but between an Israelite and Canaanite. For by stranger in that Place, is meant the Hittites, the Gergashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perisites, the Hivites and Jebusites, and no other stranger as may be collected, Levit. 25. 35. So also doth Saint Ambrose De Tobia, cap. 15. Paulus Fagius Annot. in Called. Paraphras. in Deut. 23. 20.