A37049:1360
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…
A practical exposition of the X. Commandments with a resolution of several momentous questions and cases of conscience.A practical exposition of the X. Commandements with a resolution of several momentous questions and cases of conscience.
London: printed for Dorman Newman, 1675
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.
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 Exod. 21.19. there is a compensation to be given for time, which certainly must be so much as may be thought the loss of that time hath prejudged the other of, or what in reason it might be thought he would have advantaged himself if he had had that time; the one goeth upon the ground of lucrum cessans (which Schoolmen grant) the other of damnum emergens.
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 Vsury, because any thrifty and frugal man may increase it to more in a years space. As Exod. 21.19. there is a compensation to be given for time, which certainly must be so much as may be thought the loss of that time hath prejudged the other of, or what in reason it might be thought he would have advantaged himself if he had had that time; the one goeth upon the ground of lucrum cessans (which Schoolmen grant) the other of damnum emergens.