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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12345	[The examination of vsury in two sermons.]	Smith, Henry, 1550?-1591.	1591 (1591)	STC 22660; ESTC S107786	20,249	52

To the Reader HEre thou hast the Sermons which haue bene often desired because of the matter fit for this Citie One saith that he would neuer speake to Vsurers and Bribemongers but when they be vpon their death-beds for he which liueth by sinne resolueth to sin that he may liue But when he goeth to hanging Iudas himselfe will say I haue sinned If I speake not to Vsurers vpon their death-bed yet I speak to Vsurers which shal lie vpon their death-bed Three things do giue me hope One is that all hearts are in the hands of God to call them at what houre he list and therefore Saul may become an Apostle The next is that the third crow doth waken mo then the former and therefore after the crowing of other this crow may happily be heard The last is that there is no sinne but some men haue bene reclaimed from it and so may Vsurers from their sinne Therefore go my booke like Dauid against Goliah and fight the Lords battels against Vsurers The Lord giue that successe to his doctrine in these leaues that it may consume Vsurers as Ioshuah droue out the Chananites before him If I could take but this one weed out of the Londoners Gardē I were answered for my health and my strength spent amongst them Reade with thy best mind thou shall profit more Thine H. S. The Examination of Vsurie in two Sermons The first Sermon Psal. 15. vers 1. 5. Lord who shall dwell in thy Tabernacle Who shall rest in thine holy mountaine He that giueth not his money to Vsurie THese two verses must be considered togither because one is the question and the other is the aunswere Dauid demaunds who shall come to heauen and God tels him that vsurers shal not come thither as if he should say they go to hell Therefore as Paul taught Timothie to warne them which are rich as though they had more need to be warned than other so this sentence seemeth to be penned for a warning to the rich because it strikes vpon the rich mans vice I haue spoken of Bribery and symonie and now I must speake of their sister Vsury Many times haue I thought to speake of this Theame but the arguments which are alleaged for it haue made me doubtful what to say in it because it hath gone as it were vnder protection At last you see it falleth into my text and therefore now I cannot bauke it any longer Therefore if any here haue fauoured this occupation before let him now submit his thoughts vnto Gods thoughts for I will alledge nothing against it but that which is built vpon the rocke Vsurie is the sinne which God will trie now whether you loue better than his word that is whether you wil leaue it if he forbid it for if he flatly forbid it and yet you wilfully retain it then you loue Vsurie better than Gods word Therefore one saith wel that our Vsurers are Heretikes because after manie admonitions yet they maintaine their errour persist in it obstinatly as Papists do in Poperie For this cause I am glad that I haue any occasion to griple with this sinne where it hath made so many spoiles and where it hath so many patrōs for it is said that there be mo of this profession in this Citie than there be in all the land beside There be certain sinnes which are like an vnreasonable enimie which will not be reconciled to death this is one of those euerlasting sinnes which liue and die with a man For when he hath resigned his pride and his enuie and his lust yet Vsurie remaineth with him he saith as Naaman said Let the Lord be mercifull vnto me in this let me haue a dispensation for this as though this were a necessarie sin he could not liue without it There be three sinnes which are coūted no sins and yet they do more hurt than all their fellowes and those are Bribery Nonresidencie Vsury these three because they are gainfull are turned from sinnes to occupations How many of this citie for all that they are Vsurers yet would be counted honest men would faine haue Vsury esteemed as a trade whereas if it were not so gainfull it would be counted as great a sinne as any other so it is counted of all but thē which liue by it This is the nature of pleasure and profite to make sins seeme no sins if we gaine any thing by thē but the more gainfull a sin is the more dāgerous it is the more gainful vsurie is the more dangerous it is I will speake the more of it because happely you shall not heare of this matter again First I will define what vsurie is Secondly I will shewe you what vsurie doth signifie Thirdly I will shew the vnlawfulnes of it Fourthly I will shew the kinds of it Fiftly I will shew the argumēts which are alledged for it Sixtly I will shew the punishment of it Seuēthly I will shew you what opiniō we should hold of thē which do not lend vpō vsurie but borrow vpō vsury Lastly I will shew you what they should do which haue got their riches by vsurie Touching the first Vsurie is that gaine which is gottē by lending for the vse of the thing which a man lendeth couenanting before with the borrower to receaue more than was borrowed therefore one calls the vsurer a legall theefe because before he steale he tells the partie how much he will steale as though he stole by law This word more comes in like a sixt finger which makes a monster because it is more thā should be Another defining vsurie calleth it the Contrarie to charitie for Paul saith Loue seeketh not her owne but vsurie seeketh anothers which is not her owne therfore vsurie is farre from loue but God is loue saith Iohn therefore vsurie is farre from God to Now all the Commaundements of God are fulfilled by loue which Christ noteth when he draweth all the Commaundements to one Cōmaundement which is Loue God aboue all things and thy neighbour as thy selfe as if he should say he which loueth God wil keepe all the Commaundements which respect God he which loueth his neighbour wil keepe all the cōmādemēts which respect his neighbour therfore to maintaine loue God forbiddeth all things which hinder this loue and among the rest here he forbiddeth Vsurie as one of her deadliest enemies for a mā cānot loue and be an Vsurer because Vsurie is a kinde of crueltie and a kind of extortion and a kind of persecution therfore the want of loue doth make Vsurers for if there were loue there would be no Vsurie no deceit no extortiō no slaundering no reuenging no oppression but we should liue in peace ioy and contentment like the Angels whereby you see that all our sinnes are against our selues for if there were no deceit then we should not be