A practical exposition of the X. Commandments with a resolution of several momentous questions…A practical exposition of the X. Commandements with a resolution of several momentous questions…

If we will consider this of Usury a little further, we will find 1. That all the Commands strike against the injury of exacting it from an object of mercy, such as the poor brother, or even a poor stranger, for in this case our money is to be lent freely, and sometimes we are obliged to give it freely, and neither to look for stock nor annual, as we may see Luke 6. 34, 35. &c. Moreover, as the Command is not to exact usury from the poor brother, so it come endeth also, not to exact just debts, Deut. 15.1, 2, 3. from him when he is poor, yet none I suppose, will argue from that, that no man might ask his own, even the principal sum from others, who are able to pay it.

If we will consider this of Vsury a little further, we will find 1. That all the Commands strike against the injury of exacting it from an object of mercy, such as the poor brother, or even a poor stranger, for in this case our money is to be lent freely, and sometimes we are obliged to give it freely, and neither to look for stock nor annual, as we may see Luke 6. 34, 35. &c. Moreover, as the Command is not to exact usury from the poor brother, so it comm •ndeth also, not to exact just debts, Deut. 15.1, 2, 3. from him when he is poor, yet none I suppose, will argue from that, that no man might ask his own, even the principal sum from others, who are able to pay it.

2. The Lord allowed gain of lent money to be taken from strangers, Deut. 23.20. and yet it cannot be said that he did allow them any thing towards strangers, which is in it self contrary to the Moral Law or light of Nature, or which is sinful in it self. It is true, as to poor strangers, God made one Law for his people and for them,