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Fair dealing between debtor and creditor. A very brief essay upon the caution to…
Fair dealing between debtor and creditor. A very brief essay upon the caution to be used, about coming in to debt, and getting out of it. Offered at Boston-lecture; 5. d. XI. m. 1715/16. / By Cotton Mather, D.D. & F.R.S. ; [Two lines of quotation]
Boston: printed by B. Green for Samuel Gerrish, 1716
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Did Men Love one another, they would be loth to be Debtors, be slow to Owe, and swift to Pay; They would have a mighty Horror of Owing more than they can make Payment of; They would resolve, I will undergo any thing, rather than damnify my Neighbour, that lives peaceably & securely by me, & is ready to let me have, what I ask him for,
Did Men Love one another, they would not seek to make others become their Servants, which you know, Debtors are. And where they are so, they would not be Cruel in Exactions and Extortions upon them. No; They would sometimes Remit unto the extremely Necessitous, what they might have Exacted & Extorted from them.
Did Men Love one anotber, they would not seck to make others become their Servants, which you know, Debtors are. And where they are so, they would not be Cruel in Exactions and Extortions upon them. No; They would sometimes Remit unto the extremely Necessitous, what they might have Exacted & Extorted from them.
I will particularly say, Tho' Usury be Lawful in a Country where Lands may be Mortgaged and forever Alienated; as they might not in the Land of Israel; yet there are some Hard Usages in the Usury, between the Creditor and the Debtor among our selves, which the Law of Love will never justify.