A Body of Practical Divinity

(6.) The Usurer, who takes of others even to Extortion: He seems to help another by letting him have Money in his Necessity, but gets him into Bonds, and sucks out his very Blood and Marrow. I read of a Woman whom Satan had Bound, Luke 13.16. And truly, he is almost in as bad a Condition whom the Usurer hath bound. The oppressing Usurer is a Robber. An Usurer once asked a Prodigal, When he would leave spending? Saith the Prodigal, Then I will leave spending what is my own, when thou leavest off stealing from others. Zacheus was an Extortioner, and after his Conversion, he made Restitution, Luke 19.8. He thought all he got by Extortion was Theft.

(6.) The Vsurer, who takes of others even to Extortion: He seems to help another by letting him have Mony in his Necessity, but gets him into Bonds, and sucks out his very Blood and Marrow. I read of a Woman whom Satan had Bound, Luke 13.16. And truly, he is almost in as bad a Condition whom the Usurer hath bound. The oppressing Usurer is a Robber. An Usurer once asked a Prodigal, When he would leave spending? Saith the Prodigal, Then I will leave spending what is my own, when thou leavest off stealing from others. Zacheus was an Extortioner, and after his Conversion, he made Restitution, Luke 19.8. He thought all he got by Extortion was Theft.

(7.) The Feoffee in Trust, who hath the Orphans Estate committed to him: He is deputed to be his Guardian, and manage his Estate for him; and he curtails the Estate, and gets a Fleece out of it for himself, and wrongs the Orphan. This is a Thief. This is worse than taking a Purse, because he betrays his Trust, which is the highest piece of Treachery and Injustice.