A26879:1864
The catechizing of families a teacher of householders how to teach their householdsThe catechizing of families a teacher of housholders how to teach their housholds
The catechizing of families a teacher of householders how to teach their households : useful also to school-masters and tutors of youth : for those that are past the common small catechisms [sic], and would grow to a more rooted faith, and to the fuller understanding of all that is commonly needful to a safe, holy comfortable and profitable life / written by Richard Baxter ...The catechizing of families a teacher of housholders how to teach their housholds : useful also to school-masters and tutors of youth : for those that are past the common small chatechisms [sic], and would grow to a more rooted faith, and to the fuller understanding of all that is commonly needful to a safe, holy comfortable and profitable life / written by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed for T. Parkhurst, 1683
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.
16. Some Usury is an Act of great Charity: viz. A Landlord offereth to sell his Tenant his Land for ⟨p. 345⟩much less than the worth: The Tenant hath not Money to buy it: A Rich Neighbour told him [The Land is also offered to me; but if you will, I will lend you Money on use to buy it, and pay me when you can.] It was Wood▪ Land: The Tenant borrows the Money; and in two years sells the Wood which paid it all, and had the Land for almost nothing. Was not this charitable Usury.f
I knew a worthy Person that trading in Iron works, did partly for himself and partly in Charity, take to Use the Moneys of many honest mean people, that knew not else how to live or to use it; and from a small Estate he grew to purchase at least Seven thousand pound per Annum to himself and his Sons; was there any uncharitableness in this Usury?g
17. It is great uncharitableness in some, not to give use for Money, and Cruelty to set it out without use: As when poor Orphans are left with nothing but a little Money to maintain them, and abundance of Poor Widows that have a little Money, and no trade to use it in, and must beg if they presently spend the stock; If they lend it the Rich or those that gain by it in trading, the gainers are unmerciful if they pay not use for it, as well as unjust.