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A17534	A general discourse against the damnable sect of vsurers grounded vppon the vvorde of God, and confirmed by the auctoritie of doctors both auncient, and newe; necessarie for all tymes, but most profitable for these later daies, in which, charitie being banished, couetousnes hath gotten the vpper hande. VVhereunto is annexed another godlie treatise concernyng the lawfull vse of ritches. Seene and allowed accordyng to her Maiesties iniunctions.; Doctrina de usura. English	Caesar, Philipp, d. 1585.; Hemmingsen, Neils, 1513-1600. Commentaria in omnes epistolas Apostolorum.; Rogers, Thomas, d. 1616.	1578 (1578)	STC 4342; ESTC S107129	86,650	150

no place For what agreemente hath the Idoll of couetousnesse with the temple of God Therefore I would haue the godlie to beare in mynde this precepte of sainct Paule Let your maners bee voide of couetousnesse and to praie with Dauid from the harte Incline my harte ô Lorde to thy testimonies and not to couetousnes whiche beyng dooen as it should bee I doubt not but lesse contention will arise about Vsurie The fourthe Paule would haue all Christians so to liue that the Gospell be not euill spoken of among the Gentiles But certaine it is that among the verie Turkes and all prophane people Vsurie is abhorred And therefore what will thei saie of Christians when thei shall heare that wee contende with the moste vngodlie nations vnder the sunne and surpasse them in al vnlawfull dealinges This vndoubtedlie should moue the godlie rather to liue poorely than to cause the name of God and the Gospell of Christ to be blasphemed of the vngodly It would rather become vs through al examples of well doing and godlines to winne them that together with vs they might glorifie God and be saued But alas what is don Vnder the outwarde shew of Christianitie we hide all Turkish yea and diuilish impietie The fifte Paule biddeth vs to auoide offence leste that the weake being offended at our dealinges do fall Neither is it his minde that wee abstaine from thinges euill of themselues but also from thinges lawfull It was lawfull for S. Paule through the libertie of à Christian to eate flesh but what saith hee Afore I will offende my brother I will neuer eate fleshe And therefore such is the duetie of the godly in deede that they will not only beware of defiling themselues by anie spot of sinne but also of geuing any occasion whereby the weake may fall and iudge sinisterly of vs. The sixte We should bring vnto our mindes the excellencie of our calling For certainly the name of à Christian is à glorious name For à man borne of à noble and famous house to go about seruile and base busines is shamefull for so he staineth his house and stock from whence he came muche more shamefull is it for the sonnes of God to defile themselues with thinges vnseemely for thereby they shame their brethren The seuenth we should feare lest our posteritie bee plaged for our couetousnes For whosoeuer heapeth vp ritches for his heires by vnlawfull meanes shall not escape punishment For God either doth take awaye their heires from them that they may see their wickednesse and repent or doth punishe the heires by casting them of suffering them to rushe into sondrie vices that sutch thinges as were vnlawfully gotten may vnthriftely bee consumed to the certaine destruction of the heires Finally Let this cogitation come into minde I see many tymes the children of poore and godly parentes to come to greate honour and that without the helpe of ritches for they had none through the benefite of learning wisedome and vertue Contrariewise I see diuers whiche haue had greate possessions left vnto them by their predecessors and yet are come to extreme pouertie through their owne faulte or as painted tables vnprofitable in à Commonweale like the wooers of Penelope and the Epicures hogs borne to consume the fruite of the earth This cogitation will make the vertuously disposed parentes to leaue their Children rather vertue and qualities than ritches without vertue whiche seldome commeth to good ¶ The. 13. Chapter Of Almes BEfore wee come too the other sortes of ciuile contractes I thinke it not amisse in this place hauyng alreadie spoken both of Godly and also of vnlawfull lendyng to speake somewhat of Almes or free geuing A thing necessarily required of euerie godly man For it pleaseth God as aboue in this booke cap. 2. and in other places we haue often saide to sende the poore among vs to trie whether we loue him like true children and make account of his commaundementes or no. And à nota le argument is it of vnfained pietie if wee take pittie of the poore the verie members of Christe the sonnes of God heires of the ioyes of heauen aswell as we But for that I see many causes as the loue of mony the ignorance of Gods prouidence hethenish mistrust abuse of the blessynges of God to vanitie vnprofirable expences and à lamentable want of naturall affection whereby the poore are not pittied I thinke it good in this place somewhat largely to entreate of Almes both to shewe that we are bounde thereunto and that the more willinglie we may discharge our dueties and see vnto the poore more cherefullie Wherefore I will firste of all shewe how we should begin to deale our almes and what are the kindes thereof Afterwarde I will recite the causes whiche may prouoke the godlie to bestowe their Almes Then I will signifie with what mind one should deale his almes and withall I will prescribe à manner of giuing almes Last of all I will shew what are the endes of true Almes and the commoditie redounding to the mercifull ¶ The 14. Chapter The kindes of Almes HE whiche would bee mercifull ought to deale his almes firste vpon hym-self secondlie vppon others He bestoweth his deuotion vpon him self that repenteth his olde and wicked life and turneth vnto god For no mercie so doeth the woorde almes signifie can bee extended of hym whiche is not as yet vnder the mercie of god Hetherto pertaineth that of Augustine If thou wilt giue thine almes begin with thy selfe For how can he be mercifull vnto others whiche is cruell to hymselfe The mercie or almes whiche we muste giue vnto others is of two sortes spirituall and ciuile The spirituall almes is to reclaime hym whiche wandreth from the flocke of Christe and reduce hym into the right waie to eternall happines No almes is more excellent more profitable or more necessarie than this For as the soule is better than the bodie so the almes whereby the soule is refreshed is fare more excellent than the almes whereby the body is nourished And as euerlastyng ritches are to bee preferred before all the commodities of this life whiche are but for à tyme so the Almes whiche serueth to the attainyng of eternall life is to be more esteemed than the almes seruing but while wee are in this world Sainct Iames doeth generally extoll this almes in these wordes Brethron if any among you haue erred from the truthe and is conuerted by some let hym knowe that whosoeuer hath conuerted à sinner from going astraie shall saue his soule from death and shall couer the multitude of sinnes The ciuile almes belongeth to the bodie or this present life to wit when we being touched with compassion do succour the necessitie of any poore man. To both kindes of mercifulnes Christe by the example of his father doth adhort vs when he saith Be ye mercifull as your heauenly father is