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A76382 Vsura accommodata, or A ready vvay to rectifie usury, in a briefe declaration hovv that evill which is so often found and justly complained to be sometimes in lending for gaine, may find a safe and certaine remedy. / By I. Benbrigge· philopolitēs. Published according to order. Benbrigge, John. 1646 (1646) Wing B1867; Thomason E353_22; ESTC R201088 32,929 40

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packed up in this kind of men dealings For as it sins against God so 2. Secondly It is against our Neighbour The duty we owe him requires an open declaration of our Substance His due from us is Righteousnesse that is Jus distributivum d●stributive Justice which Suum cuique dat gives every man that which is his But he that wraps up his estate in secrecie keeps from men what he in conscience if he have any is obliged to give them yea and this defrauding of them is his meere intention in that his false dealing That I may rip up the very Entrailes of this iniquity it is expedient to shew the multitudes that suffer hereby They are ranged into Superiours Equalls and Inferiours 1. Our Superiours are either Civill or Ecclesiastick 1. Our Civill Superiours are the Head and Body of the Common-Wealth First The Head the Kings Majesty with his deputed and subordinate Magistrates are greatly injured by mens concealing of their estates Maintenance we owe the Publick Magistrate as a Part of that Honour which the fifth Commandement requires of us as his due Rom. 13.7 Hence the Apostle Tribute to whom you owe Tribute Custome to whom you owe Custome Feare to whom Feare Honour to whom Honour But the Question will be What Portion of Tribute each man must pay the Magistrate as his due The answer is That each mans tribute to the Publicke Magistrate must be proportioned onely by his estate so that as his estate is greater or lesser his Taxe riseth and falleth Thus it hath been anciently as I shall shew hereafter and ought to be still wherefore he that minceth his estate doth diminish the Magistrates Right and in so doing commits direct Theevery Secondly The Body of the State in generall suffers much with its Head herein For it is not replenished wi●h that Strength and Store of Ammunition which it ought and would be if all m●ns estates were knowne The wisedome of the State doth order every mans burden in all Publicke Taxes to be according to his strength Hence some men to be favoured in their Load feigne themselves much weaker then they are A traiterous generation and enemies to the State Secondly Our Ecclesiasticall Superiours are also double The Church and Church-men Matth. 12.4.21.13 Isai 37.1 1. The Church that is called Gods House the Building wherein his Publicke Worship is given him receives much damage by mens concealing of their estates For hereby it comes to passe that it is not so well repaired and maintained as it ought Happily this argument may seeme ridiculous to those fanatique persons who have throwne Gods House out of dores But it will not be so much slighted by them who have their wits about them and their hearts at their right hands These are the men I speake to for as they hate superstition so they love decency Hag. 1.4 and count it a Piaculum to live in seiled houses of their owne whilest the Lords house lies wast 2. The Church-man the Minister who breakes to his flock the Bread of Eternall life is cozened of his due maintenance True the Lawes give him Tithes the tenth of the Increase But no Parish can endure by their good wills to pay it truly and duly in kind Wherefore the Minister for quietnesse sake usually compounds with them and the Composition most commonly is by their rents which to beguile him in it is too common for Land-lords and Tenants to combine to curtaile yea and by swearing or solemne protesting to avouch the Prices of their Houses and Lands that is The summes of their Rents lesse then they are or to use some other indirect way of under-hand dealing herein as if it were no sinne to deceive a Minister Justly may God plague them with such as will proportion their worke according to their wages but he is mercifull Thus are our Superiours wronged 2. Our Equalls are no lesse damnified by this deceitfull covering of mens wealth from others sight For hereby he that is yoked with us in a Scot is forced to beare more of it then he should and so we crosse Saint Pauls meaning Gal. 6.2 though we seem to fulfill hi● charge in forcing our burdens on one anothers backe A Scot is then equally made when every man is taxed according to his estate If any be cased by their falshood in belying their estates others must pinch for it Mark Tully in his charge against Verres saith The Taxe was made after such a manner when you were Praetor as thereby the Common-weale of no City could be governed For the estates of rich men were extenuated and meane mens extended so that in requiring Tribute such a burden was laid on the Common-people that if the men should be silent yet even the matter it selfe would abandon such a Taxe And to say the truth even in these our times it is apparent like the Sunne at Noone that the middle sort of Persons whose estates are of no greater latitude then the Zenith of every mans knowledge doe beare away the greatest part of publicke burdens and so are most heavily and unjustly oppressed and the reason is because of mens concealing their estates Hence comes that heart-burning and envie amongst Neighbours which seemes to have set them on fire from hell such is their malice at one another in vieing at each others estates when they come together at making of Scots and Taxes and the reviling speeches with Vnchristian Behaviour that passeth between them This fire would be put out if men would out with their estates themselves 3. Lastly Our Inferiours are sufferers also hereby Those I meane who are not scotted or taxed such as have no Estates to maintaine themselves Deut. 15.7 8 9 10 11. 1 Cor. 16.1 2. much lesse others Their reliefe is a duty strictly enjoyned by our God The measure of that reliefe they must have from us as it respects us must be according to our State-ability this God and charity requires But covetous selfe-love hinders our obedience wherefore the civill Magistrate whose lawes most men regard more then Gods was necessitated for the fulfilling of the Lords injunction hereof to bring in Taxes and Scots for the support of the poore thereby to compell men to doe that which their very Religion cannot obtaine of them These Scots and Taxes Justice requires should be equally laid upon every man that is they should be proportioned to every mans estate which cannot be because men doe strive what they can to suppresse the true Notion of their Abilities and not paying according to the true worth of their estate it necessary followes that the Poore are wronged by them in not having their due from them Solomon adviseth such Nabals to the contrary saying With-hold not the Good from the Owners thereof Prov. 3.27 though there be power in thy hand to doe it And thus mens undervaluing of their estates appeares to be unrighteousnesse in a high degree And yet have you seene but two parts of