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

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.

4. If it were so; the Argument proves no more then this; That Usury is a necessary Evil: And this necessity argueth not the lawfulness of Usury, but the wretchedness of the world, which as Saint John saith, lieth in Evil.

4. If it were so; the Argument prooves no more then this; That Usury is a necessary Evill: And this necessity argueth not the lawfullnesse of Usury, but the wretchednesse of the world, which as Saint Iohn saith, lieth in Evill.

A Drunkard hath brought His Body into such an Habit, that unless He drink abundantly, even to the turning of His brain, He is sick again. Is not drunkenness in that Person sinful, because so necessary?