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…

1. A man may covenant for as much as by a free bargain his money would otherwise yield him; as suppose one by bestowing that sum on land, would with as much certainty as can be in such matters, obtain so much land-rent, why may he not let his money for that, seeing it can be no filthy or dishonest gain; that being properly Usury, that by lending gaineth inordinately, or more then lawfully, otherwise it might or would, and that to another's prejudice.

1. A man may covenant for as much as by a free bargain his money would otherwise yield him; as suppose one by bestowing that sum on land, would with as much certainty as can be in such matters, obtain so much land-rent, why may he not let his money for that, seeing it can be no filthy or dishonest gain; that being properly Vsury, that by lending gaineth inordinately, or more then lawfully, otherwise it might or would, and that to anothers prejudice.

2. If the party borrower hath certain gain by it, for instance, if he do purchase so much more rent, or if he be enabled to retain so much unsold, which without that money he could not do; he looseth nothing.

2. If the party borrower hath certain gain by it, for instance, if he do purchase so much more rent, or if he be inabled to retain so much unsold, which without that money he could not do; he looseth nothing.

3. When a man may without extraordinary sagacity or pains by trading, compass and make more gain then the proportion he payeth for the loan amounteth to, so that to make it certain he hath the hazard of so much more: Thus the taking of five or six in the hundred por annum hath never been accounted Usury, because any thrifty and frugal man may increase it to more in a years space. As