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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
A short and private discourse between Mr. Bolton and one M.S. concerning usury. Published by E.B. by Mr. Bolton's own copyA short and priuate discourse betweene Mr. Bolton and one M.S. concerning vsury. Published by E.B. by Mr. Boltons owne coppy
London: printed by George Miller, 1637
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2. Biting Usury is not mentioned in the New Testament, and yet condemned, by the Usurers themselves.
2. Biting Vsury is not mentioned in the New Testament, and yet condemned, by the Vsurers themselves.
3. Neither are removing the Neighbours mark, Polygamy, jealousy, treason, tyranny, &c. by those very names censured in the New Testament, and yet are manifest and gross transgressions of the Moral Law.
3. Neither are remooving the Neighbours marke, Polygamie, jealousie, treason, tyranny, &c. by those very names censured in the New Testament, and yet are manifest and grosse transgressions of the Morrall Law.
4. Though Usury expressly and by name, be not censured in the New Testament: yet by necessary consequence it is, which is sufficient. 1. Sometimes under the affirmative, Mat. 5. 42. 2. Sometimes under the General, Ephes. 4. 28. 1 Thess. 4. 6. 3. Sometimes by an Argument drawn from the greater, Luke 6. 35. For if I must lend without respect of mine own profit, or without expectation of any benefit, or gain thereby; as they most expound that place, then much more must I lend without a Covenant, especially without an absolute covenant for gain. And if I must lend without expectation of the principal, as others understand it, then much more without expectation of an over-plus above the principal. 4. Sometimes by an Argument drawn from the less,