item: #1 of 8
          id: A16337
      author: Bagshaw, Edward, d. 1662.
       title: A short and priuate discourse betweene Mr. Bolton and one M.S. concerning vsury. Published by E.B. by Mr. Boltons owne coppy
        date: 1637
       words: 20911
      flesch: 78
     summary: LOve ( saith the Wisest of men ) is as strong as death , the importuning whereof hath made me breake open those bars and once more awaken the spirit of M. Bolton , by exposing to publicke view these papers of his , written with his owne hand , for the convincing of the world of that profitable and wealthy sinne of Vsury ; wherein though he and others have bestowed much paines : Had this Author lived , it was his purpose to have made this little Tract of Vsury a compleate Treatise , by stating the Question , by distinguishing it from other contracts and bargaines that are common amongst men ( which though they equall that other contract by Vsury in point of gaine , yet doe not participate with it in point of Crime ) by handling the many cases of conscience touching the point of restitution , wherein I know hee was acquainted with many rare experimen●s .
    keywords: bee; borrower; case; charity; covenant; doe; doth; gaine; god; gods; good; hath; hee; law; lending; losse; man; men; money; non; owne; pag; principall; saith; selfe; sinne; thing; thou; time; use; usurer; vsury
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        item: #2 of 8
          id: A17936
      author: Capel, Richard, 1586-1656.
       title: Tentations their nature, danger, cure. By Richard Capel. Sometimes fellow of Magdalen Colledge in Oxford. To which is added a briefe dispute, as touching restitution in the case of usury.
        date: 1633
       words: 82678
      flesch: 70
     summary: I rather say that there is some sudden inchoate imperfect consent given to all motions that arise : that an actuall sin should bee without all consent I cannot conceive ; Paul did sin against his Iudgement I confesse ; for so he meanes when hee saith , he did that hee would not : but to speake in proper tearmes , he neither did , no , nor could sinne , either without or against all motion , or any inclination of his will : Paul did sin this sinne with his will , for else hee would not do it , it was an act of his will , and it is impossible to coact and force the will of man ; though the consent makes it not properly a sin , but rather our sin to be imputed to us , yet I thinke ther is no motiō , no first thought that riseth out of our Lust , but as the thought is , so the consent is sudden , short , quicke , and almost insensible : a consent such as it is then , ever goes with our desires , and motions ; but say that they were unconsented to , yet being against the Law of God , sins they are , and for sins they must goe . Feare an oath , and of all such oathes , wherein wee doe wrong and hurt to men , for though there be sometimes some corruption in it , as tasting of selfe-love to our selves , yet for certaine , sins wherein wee wrong men whom we see doe so much the more torment and racke the conscience of man ; and many men have mightily miscarried for this offence and sin of perjury ; wherefore beware ; and now to provide for the worst , we must tell the man who hath done this sin , that there is hope in Israel concerning this sinne also .
    keywords: againe; away; bee; case; christ; come; conscience; divell; doe; doth; fall; finde; god; god doth; gods; goe; good; grace; hath; heart; hee; hee doth; himselfe; hold; keepe; know; law; let; lord; love; lust; man; man doth; matter; meanes; men; nature; originall sin; owne; paul; power; reason; repentance; saith; satan; selfe; selves; set; sin; sinne; sins; tentation; thing; thinke; time; use; way; wee; word
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        item: #3 of 8
          id: A35404
      author: Culpeper, Thomas, Sir, 1626-1697.
       title: The advantages which will manifestly accrue to this kingdom by abatement of interest from six to four per. cent
        date: 1668
       words: 1198
      flesch: 67
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        item: #4 of 8
          id: A35411
      author: Culpeper, Thomas, Sir, 1626-1697.
       title: A short appendix to a late treatise concerning abatement of usury by the same author.
        date: 1668
       words: 1869
      flesch: 64
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        item: #5 of 8
          id: A41301
      author: Filmer, Robert, Sir, d. 1653.
       title: A discourse whether it may be lawful to take use for money written by Sir Robert Filmer ; and published by Sir Roger Twisden, with his preface to it.
        date: 1678
       words: 27944
      flesch: 68
     summary: It is Dr. Fentons own confession p. 34. that Vsury is a Question of that nature , as is not only determinable by the law of God in Scripture , but also by the law of Nature , those Maximes and Principles of Common equity , which are written in the hearts of men by the finger of God ; which point had need be well considered , because as Mr. Hooker saith , a number there are who think they cannot admire as they ought the Power and Authority of the word of God , if in things divine they should attribute any force to mans reason , for which Cause they never use reason so willingly as to disgrace reason . And that of Carthage did not approve it them ; and Leo the first , who went farthest , did grieve c condolere the exercise of it did cadere in Laicos qui Christianos se dici cupiunt , intimating it had been a greater perfection of Charity , had they abstained from it ; but none extended to a command , or to determine it a thing they ought not to do , before this Decree of the Emperor ; which no doubt wanted not Pens to defend it ; for about two hundred years after , certain learned men collecting out of Councils and Fathers , such Rules as were most apt for the Government of the Church , and direction of a Christian , called therefore Canonists , as those who were the beginners of the Canon-Law , such were Burchardus Bishop of Wormes , Ivo of Chartres , and Gratian a Benedictine Monk , who writ the last of them , yet began his Work 1151 , d and finished it ten years after ; neither of them omitted sundry e Chapters in condemnation of Vsury , and were therein followed by Canonists , Casuists , and Schoolmen , insomuch as there is hardly any collection of the f Canon-Law since , without one title de usuris , it turning infinitely to the advantage of the Ecclesiastick , who by that was made judge of almost all Agreements between man and man , as who shall read the Title in the Canon-Law , and what the Doctors have writ of Vsury , restitution upon it , and participation with the Vsurer , &c. may plainly discern .
    keywords: charity; contracts; doth; fenton; gain; general; god; hath; increase; land; law; laws; lending; letting; man; men; mony; nature; pag; reason; saith; scripture; self; sin; text; things; thou; use; vsury; words
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        item: #6 of 8
          id: A47041
      author: Jones, D. (David), fl. 1676-1720.
       title: Mr. David Jones's vindication against the Athenian Mercury concerning usury
        date: 1692
       words: 4010
      flesch: 75
     summary: And therefore we find in the 21 of King James the First , That no Words contained in the Law about Usury , should be Construed or Expounded to allow the practice of Vsury in point of Religion or Conscience . Namely , you would have told them in plain terms , that whatever you writ in your Mercury , was not at all designed to Justifie their making Vsury their Calling . Which , even those few Modern Writers that are falsly esteemed Patrons of Usury , have always Condemned .
    keywords: god; jones; man; tcp; text; usury
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        item: #7 of 8
          id: A59805
      author: Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.
       title: The charity of lending without vsury, and the true notion of vsury briefly stated in a sermon preach'd before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, at St. Bridget's Church, on Tuesday in Easter-week, 1692 / by William Sherlock ...
        date: 1692
       words: 6673
      flesch: 65
     summary: 1. To lend freely , without Usury ; for our Saviour commands this , as an Act of Charity , Do good , and lend : And tho to lend , even upon Usury , may in many cases prove a great kindness to the Borrower , yet Charity is not the motive of the Lender , it is not Charity , but Traffick and Merchandize of Money : And tho the Jews were expresly forbid to lend their Brethren upon Usury , yet our Saviour intimates there was something like this , and equivalent to it , which spoiled the Charity of lending , even without Usury ; that they would not lend to the poor ; who though they should repay them what they borrowed , yet were never likely to be in a condition to lend to them again ; but they would lend to the Rich , from whom they expected the like returns of kindness ; as you may see in the Verses before my Text ; 33 , 34. And if ye lend to them , of whom ye hope to receive , ( not only your own , but the like kindness of lending to you when your occasions require it ) , what thank have ye ? for sinners also lend to sinners , to receive as much again ; 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , equal returns of kindness ; which if it be not Usury of Money , is Usury of Kindnesses , but is not Charity ; like inviting our Rich Friends and Neighbours to a Feast , who can invite us again ; which tho it be no fault , is no Charity ; for that consists in entertaining the poor , who can make us no return , 14.
    keywords: charity; increase; law; lending; men; money; text; thou; usury
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        item: #8 of 8
          id: A64066
      author: Filmer, Robert, Sir, d. 1653.
       title: Quæstio quodlibetica, or, A discourse whether it may bee lawfull to take use for money
        date: 1653
       words: 26826
      flesch: 67
     summary: Also when the law was given , the People of God ( saith D. Fenton p. 10. ) were travelling in the desert , and afterwards being troubled with wars in the Land of Canaan , there was little borrowing of mony , but only by the Poor for the Supply of their want , and of them to take Vsury was more sensible biting , & oppression , in that they borrowed not to lay out for Commodities , but to spen● for necessity . joynes Neshee and tarbi●● , and so doth Solomon ; but it is false that they apply them both indifferently evermore to one and the same thing , for they apply them not at all , they neither name mony nor victualls ; I can find them but once applied in the whole Scripture , and that is by Moses in Levit. 25.36 , there Dr. Fenton might have found them both named together , and then applied , Neshee to mony , and tarbith to victu●lls , so that the law of God no where in plain termes forbids the increase of Mony : which point is carefully observed by the translators of our Bible ; for they all consent and agree to translate Neshee onely for Vsury : the words tarbith or marbith they have never translated by the name of Vsury .
    keywords: bee; charity; contracts; covenant; doth; fenton; gain; god; hath; increase; land; law; lawes; lending; letting; man; men; mony; nature; non; pag; reason; saith; scripture; self; sin; text; things; thou; use; vsury; words; yeares; ● ●
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