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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A73521	The English vsurer; or Vsury condemned, by the most learned and famous diuines of the Church of England and dedicated to all his Maiesties subiects, for the stay of further increase of the same. Collected by Iohn Blaxton, preacher of Gods VVord at Osmington, in Dorcet-shire.	Blaxton, John.	1634 (1634)	STC 3129.5; ESTC S124641	64,041	104

theft hee transcends all other kind of Theeues whatsoeuer for as there is not a more effectuall plague to hurt a man then a familiar enemy so the Vsurers being domesticall foes they doe impouerish and disinherit more men then any other Theeues can doe because other Theeues steale secretly and in the night time but the Vsurers follow their trade manifestly though cunningly day and night and therefore when the Romanes enioyned other Theeues to make double restitution for their theft they compelled the Vsurers to restore fourefold for their transgression Fourthly The punishment of vsurers how fearefull is the punishment of such theft because as they haue spoiled others so they shall be spoyled themseues and their spoyle will bee the greater because that as the Dog snatching the Bread out of the Childrens hands 1 In this world snatcheth the hand withall so Vsurers seeking the wealth of the poore Idem p. 439. are thereby become the vtter ruinne of the poore and therefore their wealth shall be soone taken from them 2 As they haue punished the poore on Earth more then many others 2 In Hell so their punishment in Hell shall be greater then most sinners And in this there infernall punishment How the vsurers and their children doe curse one another euerlastingly in hell it is obserued that the vsurers and their children shall perpetually curse each other the father saying cursed art thou O sonne because that for thy sake I am tormented in this flame for I became an vsurer lest I should leaue thee a begger I gathered wealth that thou shouldest not be poore and I was contented to be poore in grace that thou mightest be rich in goods and therefore I am now poore in all things but in torments And the sonne on the other side saying vnto his father nay rather cursed art thou O father Quia nisi malè congregasses mihi diuitias non malè congregatas conseruassem because thou gatherest thy wealth with iniquity and leftest them vnto me with a curse which hath consumed them and destroyed my soule That Seraphicall Doctor Antoninus Arch-bishop of Florence after he had heard the confession of a wretched Vsurer The forme of an absolution which Antoninus vsed to an vsurer gaue him no other absolution than Deus misereatur tui si vult et condonet tibi peccata tua quod non credo et perducat te in vitam aeternam quod est impossibile God be mercifull vnto thee if he please and forgiue thee thy sinnes which I doe not beleeue and bring thee to eternall life which is vnpossible that is Rebus sic stantibus if God doth not wonderfully worke a strange conuersion in his heart and the Lord himselfe threatneth that he which robbeth or giueth to vsury and receiueth the increase into his bags he shall dye the death and his blood shall be vpon him The fourth Testimony Dr. Sutton THere is no sinne be it neuer so prodigious and foule but his master hath some plea for it Lectures vpon Rom. 11. p. 296 vsurers excuse their sinnes p. 476. and some reason to vphold it Some haue Scripture as couetousnesse hath 1 Tim. 5.8 Vsury hath Deut. 23.20 Vnto a stranger thou mayst lend thy money vpon vsury though not to thy brother Many perswade themselues that they haue lawfull callings when they haue none such as liue by vsury carding dicing playing these haue neyther the Author God nor the end the common good No calling is lawfull Idem p. 477 when the action pleaseth not God as 1 Cor. 10.31 Vsurers haue no lawfull calling By this I hope some will learne at last to giue ouer their calling whereby they bring not honour but dishonour vnto God those that liue vpon vsury by dicing-Houses by penning and acting of Playes let them all remember this mine heart trembles to thinke what calling these men haue my Soule wonders how they glorifie God in them I maruell how these make for a publicke good How God is honoured a kingdome bettered the common good promoted by them I know not I beleeue not The fifth Testimony Mr. Wilkinson LEt those who plead this cause consider Debt booke p. 61. 62. All vsury forbidden Vsurers do not as they would be don vnto that God dispenceth with no vsury when Nesheh the bitting and Tarbith which they call the toothlesse vsury are both condemned Ezek. 18.8.13 That the lender for eight or fiue in the hundred deales not as he would be dealt withall for he himselfe would neyther giue eight nor fiue nor two if hee could borrow freely and the rule of loue is to doe to all men as we would they should do to vs Mat. 7.12 Let them consider how vsury is cried downe among other oppressions Neh. 5. Ps 15.5 How it is condemned by the Councell of Nice in Clergy men as a matter of filthy lucre if filthy lucre in Ministers then no righteous dealing in others Vsury the ruine of thousands how it hath beene the vtter ruine of many thousands in our Nation how in the Church of Rome at this day all Vsurers are excommunicated monthly how no man of note in all antiquity Iewes and Manichees excepted none I say of honesty and learning No honest learned men defended vsury for fifteene hundred yeeres after Christ for fifteene hundred yeeres after Christ hath euer vndertaken the defence thereof wherefore as Ioash sometimes sayd to the men of Hophra when they stood for Baal against Gideon Will you contend for Baal let him plead his owne cause so say I to the patrons of vsury will you contend for Mammon let him plead his owne cause The sixt Testimony Mr. Smith VSury is vnlawfull for Vsury is against charity Sermon vsury First It is against the law of charity because charity biddeth vs to giue euery man his owne and to equire no more then our owne but vsury requireth more then her owne and giues not to other their owne Charity reioyceth to communicate her goods to other and vsury reioyceth to gather other mens goods to her selfe Against the law of nations Secondly it is against the law of nations for euery nation hath some law against vsury and some restraint against vsurers Against the law of nature and of God Thirdly it is against the law of nature that is the naturall compassion which should be among men the rich should distribute and doe good Fourthly it is against the Law of God Exod. 22. Leu. 25.36 Gaine makes vsury lawfull Deut. 23.19 Some thinke that vsury is lawfull because it is gainefull as Saul thought that the idolaters beasts should not be killed Note ☞ because they were fat But as he was commanded to kill the fat beasts as well as the leane so we are commanded to kill fat sins as well as leane sins gainefull sins as well as prodigall sinnes The 7. Testimony Mr. Wheatly Caueat for the couetous p. 71. Vsury a