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. How then did the state of the Jews consist without it, which was of Gods own constituting? To say absolutely, that Commonweals cannot stand without it, is to derogate from GODS wisdom, in ordering His own ⟨p. 29⟩people, amongst whom He would suffer no Usury.

2. How then did the state of the Jewes consist without it, which was of Gods owne constituting? To say absolutely, that Commonweales cannot stand without it, is to derogate from GODS wisedome, in ordering His own ⟨p. 29⟩people, amongst whom He would suffer no Usury.

3. If the Jews had thus pleaded in those times of that toleration: that their Common-wealth could not stand without the Bill of divorce: yet notwithstanding, if any had put away His wife, save in the Case of Adultery, though He might have escaped in the external Court: yet was He not absolved in the Court of Conscience, and before GODS Tribunal. So though an Usurer were now able truly to say, (which He cannot) that the Common-weal could not stand without Usury: yet for all that, Woe unto them that put their hands unto that cursed and cruel Trade.

3. If the Jewes had thus pleaded in those times of that toleration: that their Common-wealth could not stand without the Bill of divorce: yet notwithstanding, if any had put away His wife, save in the Case of Adultery, though He might have escaped in the externall Court: yet was He not absolved in the Court of Conscience, and before GODS Tribunall. So though an Usurer were now able truly to say, (which He cannot) that the Common-weale could not stand without Usury: yet for all that, Woe unto them that put their hands unto that cursed and cruell Trade.