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

If by stranger, we understand stranger at large: I answer thus: As that permission which gave leave to the Jews to put away their innocent wives with a Bill of divorcement, doth not disprove the Law forbidding Adultery to be moral, but proveth it self to be judicial: so permission of Usury towards strangers doth not prove the Law forbidding Usury to be Moral; but it self is evidently proved to be Judicial.

If by stranger, wee understand stranger at large: I answer thus: As that permission which gave leave to the Jewes to put away their innocent wives with a Bill of divorcement, doth not disprove the Law forbidding Adultery to bee morrall, but prooveth it selfe to be judiciall: so permission of Vsury towards strangers doth not proove the Law forbidding Vsury to be Morrall; but it selfe is evidently prooved to bee Judiciall.

And there may be reasons also of this toleration.

And there may bee reasons also of this tolleration.

1. The hard-heartednesse, and covetousness of the Jews might be such, that if they were not permitted to practise Usury towards strangers, they would exercise it against their Brethren.

1. The hard-heartednesse, and covetousnesse of the Jewes might be such, that if they were not permitted to practise Vsury towards strangers, they would exercise it against their Brethren.