A37046:1320
The law unsealed
The law unsealed: or, A practical exposition of the Ten Commandments With a resolution of several momentous questions and cases of conscience. By the learned, laborious, faithful servant of Jesus Christ, Mr. James Durham, late minister of the Gospel at Glasgow.
Glasgow: printed by Robert Sanders, 1676
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.
It is not contrary to the rules of equity, that when one is so much benefited by the estate of another, that the person whose the estate is, should proportionably share of that benefit, which without him and his money, the other h•d not reaped: Not is it contrary to the rules of charity, for although Charity command •s to lend for our neighbours necessity, yet not for hi•••m and the i•••ching of him; and it would seem strange that a man▪ having nothing but money, should be obliged to lend it freely to rich men, who making conqueish thereby, should […] the benefit, and yet he get nothing. The law of equity, That […] should do to others, a• we would have them do to us, will not infer▪ but that if a man, by possessing another mans money, did either make conqueish of so much rent by it, or did ••tain so much, which otherwayes he could not do he is obliged to make the lender proportionable sharer with him of the gain; for it is hard to say, that a man •igh•huy such a piece of land with my money from another▪ and in buying of it gain so much, and yet by letting him keep hoth my money and the land, I he warranted to ask nothing at all. Sure, were I the borrower and b••er, I should think otherwayes, and judge it equitable, that the lender should be a p•••••er of the profits arising, in some respect▪ from his own money.
It is not contrary to the rules of equity, that when one is so much benefited by the estate of another, that the person whose the estate is, should proportionably share of that benefit, which without him and his money, the other h•d not reaped: Not is it contrary to the rules of charity, for although Charity command •s to lend for our neighbours necessity, yet not for him and the iching of him; and it would seem strange that aman having nothing but money, should be obliged to lend it freely to rich men, who making conqueish thereby, should the benefit, and yet he get nothing. The law of equity, That should do to others, a we would have them do to us, will not infer but that if a man, by possessing another mans money, did either make conqueish of so much rent by it, or did tain so much, which otherwayes he could not do he is obliged to make the lender proportionable sharer with him of the gain; for it is hard to say, that a man ighhuy such a piece of land with my money from another and in buying of it gain so much, and yet by letting him keep hoth my money and the land, I he warranted to ask nothing at all. Sure, were I the borrower and ber, I should think otherwayes, and judge it equitable, that the lender should be a per of the profits arising, in some respect from his own money.