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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59805	The charity of lending without vsury, and the true notion of vsury briefly stated in a sermon preach'd before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, at St. Bridget's Church, on Tuesday in Easter-week, 1692 / by William Sherlock ...	Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.	1692 (1692)	Wing S3278; ESTC R8222	11,444	34

the whole Interest may abate some part of it and where the running Cash may be lodged which Men expect no Interest for this might easily rise to a very vast Sum which with wise Improvement would make a sure and lasting Fund of Charity And could any thing in the World be more easie than this which no man could feel What would it be to a Rich Man who has many thousands employed in Trade or secured at Interest or if he knows when he has enough has no need to increase it to drop some thousands into such a free Bank to sanctifie and prosper his Trade and other ways of Gain and to secure a Blessing to his Posterity How many others are there who could spare a hundred or it may be some hundred pounds out of their Stock and not feel the want of Interest or at least if they could not spare the whole Interest might spare the half or third part of it How many are there who have some hundreds by them useless which they would not and could not with any reason grudge to lay up in a safe Bank How many are there who would easily be perswaded to lend were there such a safe Bank to receive it who are very unwilling to give And were there such a Bank of Charity once setled there would be very little need of giving For I know not any kind of Charity but might be provided for in this way were men but free and liberal in lending It would enlarge your Hospitals clear your Streets of Beggars the great Reproach of this City maintain those who can't work and employ those who can put poor Children to Apprentice provide Stocks for Ingenious and Industrious Young Men who want them redeem Prisoners and which Justice and Honour requires of you as far as possibly you can may in some measure provide a Fund for your Orphans This would advance the Glory of this great City it would perpetuate and consecrate the Memory of such worthy Persons as would begin and promote such a lasting and extensive Charity the Children which are unborn would rise up and call them blessed it would draw a great share of the Charitable Money of the Nation into your hands which would quicken Trade and increase your Riches and above all it would procure all the great Rewards which are promised to Charity both in this World and in the next But whatever becomes of this Proposal you must always remember that it is great Charity to lend as well as to give This is what our Saviour expects from us this is what he Commands To do good and lend hoping for nothing again and if out of a greedy desire of gain we will lend nothing freely to the Relief and Encouragement of the Industrious Poor this will make all our other Usury and Increase which is Lawful and Innocent in it self when it neither Oppresses the Poor nor stops our Charity to become sin FINIS Books Published by the Reverend Dr. Sherlock Dean of St. Pauls Master of the Temple and Chaplain in Ordinary to their Majesties AN Answer to a Discourse Entituled Papists Protesting against Protestant Popery Second Edition 4to An Answer to the Amicable Accomodation of the Differences between the Representer and the Answerer 4to A Sermon at the Funeral of the Reverend Benjamin Calamy D. D. 4to A Vindication of some Protestant Principles of Church-Unity and Catholick-Communion from the Charge of Agreement with the Church of Rome 4to A Preservative against Popery being some plain Directions to Unlearned Protestants how to dispute with Romish Priests In Two Parts with the Vindication in Answer to the Cavils of Lewis Sabran Jesuit 4to A Discourse concerning the Nature Unity and Communion of the Catholick Church First Part. 4to A Sermon Preach'd before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the City of London on Sunday November 4th 1688. 4to A Vindication of the Doctrine of the Holy and Ever Blessed Trinity and the Incarnation of the Son of God c. The Second Edition Quarto The Case of the Allegiance due to Soveraign Powers stated and resolved according to Scripture Reason and the Principles of the Church of England Sixth Edition Quarto A Vindication of the Case of Allegiance due to Soveraign Powers c. Quarto A Sermon Preached at Whitehall before the Queen on the 17th of June 1691. being the Fast-Day Quarto A Practical Discourse concerning Death The Fifth Edition Octavo A Practical Discourse concerning a Future Judgment Second Edition Octavo A Sermon Preached before the Honourable House of Commons at St. Margarets Westminster January 30th 1691 2. Quarto A Sermon Preached before the Queen at Whitehall Febr. 12. 1691 2. Quarto Printed for William Rogers