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A Christian Directory
A Christian directory, or, A sum of practical theology and cases of conscience directing Christians how to use their knowledge and faith, how to improve all helps and means, and to perform all duties, how to overcome temptations, and to escape or mortify every sin : in four parts ... / by Richard Baxter.A Christian directory, or, A summ of practical theologie and cases of conscience directing Christians how to use their knowledge and faith, how to improve all helps and means, and to perform all duties, how to overcome temptations, and to escape or mortifie every sin : in four parts ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by Robert White for Nevill Simmons, 1673
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Part 4 › Chapter 19 › Section 4: Tit. 4. Cases of Conscience about Lending and Borrowing.
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.
Quest. 12.
Answ. This Controversy hath so many full Treatises written on it, that I cannot expect that so few words as I must lay out upon it, should satisfy the studious Reader. All the disputes about the name of Usury I pass by: It being [The receiving of any additional gain as due for money lent] which is commonly meant by the word, and which we mean in the question. For the questions, Whether we may bargain for it, or tie the debtor to pay it? Whether we may take it only after his gain as partaking in it; or before? Whether we must partake also in the loss if the debtor be a loser? With other such like, are but subsequent to the main question, Whether any gain (called Use) may be taken by the lender as his due for the money lent? My judgement is as followeth.
Answ. This Controversie hath so many full Treatises written on it, that I cannot expect that so few words as I must lay out upon it, should satisfie the studious Reader. All the disputes about the name of Usury I pass by: It being [The receiving of any additional gain as due for money lent] which is commonly meant by the word, and which we mean in the question. For the questions, Whether we may bargain for it, or tye the debtor to pay it? Whether we may take it only after his gain as partaking in it; or before? Whether we must partake also in the loss if the debtor be a loser? With other such like, are but subsequent to the main question, Whether any gain (called Use) may be taken by the lender as his due for the money lent? My judgement is as followeth.
1. There is some such gain or Usury lawful and commendable. 2. There is some such gain or usury unlawful and a heinous sin. I shall first give my reasons of the first proposition.