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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07941	Of the lawful and vnlawful vsurie amo[n]gest Christians, added by Wolfgang Muscul vnto the ende of his booke vppon the Psalmes; De usuris ex verbo Dei. English	Musculus, Wolfgang, 1497-1563.; T. L., fl. 1556.	1556 (1556)	STC 18310; ESTC S105482	21,399	82

Of the communion gospel and the scriptures of god are vntrue God forbidde Priest Truly yonge man I am sorye for you I am affrayde that I shall bee fayne to put you vp to my Lorde then are ye vndone Prentyse Dooe as ye shall thynke beste Fare ye well master person God open youre hearte Be ashamed of your doings ye Papystes ✚ Of the lawful and vnlawful vsurie amōgest Christians added by Wolfgang Muscul vnto the ende of his booke vppon the Psalmes ¶ The Preface AMōgest other euils of this present tyme also pestilente vsurie is soo farre growen and towardes the vengeance of God that I maye thincke it altogether in vaine too speake any thinge agaynst it yea though it were spoken with much earnestnes and singular endeuer For we haue knowen by experience that this euill did then specially encrease whē as in our time it began to be openly blased reproued by the preachinges writinges of godly learned men that almoost euen as the disease of the Canker after cuttinge groweth spredeth more hurtfulli thā afore so after iuste and deserued reprouinge is thys becomen vncurable and moost noisome Wherefore I mighte well bee thought to loose my labor and as it is sayde by a prouerbe to wash tyle stones if I were not bonden by promes and forced by letters of my brethren Therefore that I maye in anye wyse kepe promes and please my brethren I will soo farre speake of vsurie as maye bee profitable vnto them that be godlye and as yet not so much infected with this pestilente disease as is paste all hope I know at what tymes and by what persons there hathe ben disputations concernynge vsurie not onely in Germany but also in the scholes of other contries but I will not meddel with scholerly shredinges that be as faste intangled one with an other as the nature of vsurie it self is inwrapped together but I will simply vtter those thinges whiche are mete to be spoken withoute anye cumberous contention Fyrste I wil tell what vsurie is And then that it may be sene if it can be lawful vntoo Christians I will cōferre it with the doctrine of Chryste and with the profession of Christen religion ¶ Of the lawefull and vnlawful vsurie Vvolfgang Musculus ☞ What is vsurie LEst that anye man might accuse me as a mainteiner of vsurie I wil bring a definition of vsury not now deuised of my felse but long ago setforth by them whose godlines in Christes church hath gottē such authorite as can not be roted out by vsurers or by theyr defenders Hierom vpō Ezechiel in his .6 boke doeth write thus Some mē thinke vsurie to be only in monei the which thinge godly scripture foreseing doth take awai the ouerplus of euery thīg so that thou maist not receiue more than thou hast geuen Also other for money put too vsury are wont to take littell giftes of diuers sortes of thinges they do not vnderstande that the scripture calleth vsurie and ouerplus whatsoeuer thing it be that they take more besides that whiche they did geue These be Hierōs saienges Ambrose of Nabuthe sayeth Many fleinge the preceptes of the law when thei haue deliuered their monei vnto marchātes do not exact vsurie in money but of their wares thei take in valure as of vsures Therfore let thē hear what the law saieth Thou shalt not take vsurie of meates nor of any other thinge Therefore meat is vsurie and apparell is vsurie and whatsoeuer cōmeth too the stocke is vsurie and what name soeuer thou wilt geue it vsurie it is So sayeth Amb. Augustine also vppon the .36 Psalme defineth vsurie after this sorte If thou commit vsurie to a man that is to say if thou lende thy monei of whome thou lokest too receyue any thyng more than thou haste geuen not onely money but anye thinge more than thou hast geuē if it be wheat if it be Wyne if it be Oyle if it be anye maner of other things if thou loke to receiue more than thou haste geuen thou arte an vsurer and in that too bee disalowed Thus sayeth he Therefore accordinge vnto these mennes sayinges Vsurie is not oneli to take but also to hope and loke for any thinge besides that which is called the stocke that is to saye besides that which is geuen vnder what name so euer it be cloked For the change of the name doeth not take awaye the wickednesse of the vice which abideth And it is euidente in the .18 of Ezechiel that that is vsurie what soeuer is taken besides the stock when as the Prophet sayeth He lendeth nothinge vpon vsurie he taketh nothinge ouer For as D. Kimhi doeth wel declare what it is to lende vpon vsurie it is expoūded by that whiche foloweth where it is added he hathe taken nothinge ouer And so is it redde in the .25 of Leuit. Thou shalt not take of him vsurie and anye thinge ouer but thou shalte feare thi God Thou shalt not geue him thy money vpon vsurie thou shalt not geue thy meat to receiue more ouer Also Cesars lawes in the boke of vsurie in like manner call vsurie whatsoeuer is taken besydes the stocke howbeit thei suffer the vse of it after a sorte of the which we shal speak afterwards It is called vsura in latin because for the vse of money a certain recōpense is receiued wherby there returneth some vantage vnto the vsurer The Grecians call it Tocon as a chylding or generatiō of the money stocke In Hebrue it is named Neschech of byting because at the last it biteth him which payeth vātage Thus much is now sayd to shewe what vsurye is ☞ Wether vsurie bee lawfull or not WE do seke here too knowe not of vsurie of vsuries whiche the Iewes dooe vse of the whyche noo man doubteth but that it is vnlawfull and abominable in no wise to be suffered but of symple vsurie by the whiche more is takē than geuen whether it be muche or littell whether it bee done in money or in other thinges For this vsurie some men suppose not to be vnlawfull of it selfe but excepte it too be made vnlawfull by vnlawful circūstāces I deny not that there may be fonde a kind of vsuri which is not vnlawful but profitable suche is that vsurie whiche is called earth vsurie by the which much more is receiued thā was bi sowīg to the earth cōmitted This vsurie doth he geue whiche geueth vnto all mē all things ● not wtstāding hath neuer the lesse That vsuri is so geuē that it hurteth nothinge the geuer muche profitteth the receyuer and is not to be cōdēned of couetousnes but rather by reasō of great good will and excellent well doinge is muche to be praysed Beholde here is a kinde of vsurie for the lawfull profitable and godly by the which Abrahā and Isaac became ryche By thys some tymes thirty folde some tymes sixty fold and some times an hundreth folde without sinne is bothe geuen of God