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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47041	Mr. David Jones's vindication against the Athenian Mercury concerning usury	Jones, D. (David), fl. 1676-1720.	1692 (1692)	Wing J943C; ESTC R217057	6,230	10

and dart such a lustre upon their Eyes that they are perfectly Blinded insomuch that they can scarce see and know themselves when they are told to their Faces Thou art the Man And God grant that Mr. Jones's Successor may deal with them as impartially as he has done To which purpose I would desire him to read the excellent Bishop Jewel upon 1 Thes p. 121. But what speak I of the ancient Fathers of the Church There was never any Religion nor Sect nor State nor Degree nor Profession of Men but they have disliked Usury Philosophers Greeks Latins Lawyers Divines Catholicks Hereticks all Tongues and Nations have ever thought an Vsurer as dangerous as a Thief The very Sense of Nature proves it to be so If the Stones could speak they would say as much And if we had as Zealous Clergy now-a-days Usury would be thought as Detestable a Sin now as it was in the 13 of Eliz. and in the Reign of King Edw. VI. Where all Vsury or Increase c. was punished not only with the Forfeiture of Principal and All but with Imprisonment and Ranson at the Kings Will and Pleasure Again Bishop Jewel Pag. 144. After a long Discourse against Usury he has these Words Thus much I thought expedient to speak of the loathsom and Foul Trade of Vsury I know not what Fruit will grow thereby and what it will work in your Hearts If it please God it may do that good I wish I have done my Duty I call God for a Record unto my Soul I have not deceived you I have spoken unto you the truth If I be deceived in this matter O God thou hast deceived me Thou sayst Thou shalt take no Usury Thou sayst He that taketh Increase shall not live What am I that I should hide the Words of my God or keep them back from the Hearing of his People The Learned Old Fathers have taught us It is no more Lawful to take Usury of our Brother than it is to Kill our Brother c. And again Pag. 145. I hear there are certain in this City which wallow wretchedly in this Filthiness to wit Usury without Repentance I give them warning in the Hearing of you all and in the Presence of God that they forsake this cruel and detestable Sin If otherwise they continue therein I will open their shame and DENOVNCE EXCOMMVNICATION against them and publish their NAMES in this place before you all that you may know them and abhor them as the PLAGVES and MONSTERS of the World That if they be past all Fear of God they may yet repent and amend for Worldly Shame And this I humbly offer to Mr. Jones's Successors Consideration If he does not Preach against this Sin in Lombard-Street he will be guilty of their Blood and their Blood will be required at his Hands Thirdly You state the Question thus Whether it be absolutely unlawful to Receive I suppose you mean by Contract not by way of Gratitude Any increase of Any for the use of their Monies To which you give this Answer In the true signification of the Word 't is certainly Damnable but in the Sense you now use it 't is very lawful and necessary That is Usury in its true signification according to God's Word is certainly Damnable but in its false signification according to Man's Invention it is very lawful and necessary And here I would fain know of any Man First of all Which is to take place its true or its false signification God's Word or Man's Invention Truth or a Lye Christ or Belial Secondly I would fain know whether if Usury be not absolutely Unlawful Yet its being of Bad Report and its having the Appearance of Evil is not enough to hinder it from being made a Calling Certainly no Man can deny but there are a great many things which though they be not absolutely unlawful are yet absolutely unlawful to be made a Calling No Man can deny but that Usury is of Bad Report for all Ages have decry'd it And all the Earth may lawfully Curse an Usurer Jer. 15. 10. And no Man can deny but that Usury has the Appearance of Evil if it be not Evil indeed for it always appears in Bad Company It appears with Lying Backbiting Deceit Wrong and Bribery Psal 15. It appears with Idolatry Oppression Adultery Cruelty Vnmercifulness to the Poor Blood-shed and Murther Ezek. 18. And it appears with the Profanation of Holy things the abomination of Vncleanness and the unnatural Sins of Incest Ezek. 22. And 't is St. Basil's Observation upon it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 It always appears in the midst of the greatest Evils And therefore certainly though it should not be absolutely unlawful yet it is so unlawful it is of such Bad Report and it has such Appearance of Evil that no Honest Man who avoids both upon pain of Damnation will ever adventure to make it a Calling Fourthly You affirm that the true Signification of Vsury in the Scripture is Extortion or grinding the Face of the Poor And you affirm also That it being allowed the Jews to take Vsury of Strangers Therefore it is not Morally Evil. From whence I make this Observation All Men allow that Extortion and grinding the Face of the poor are Morally Evil and Simply unlawful And consequently Scripture-Usury being Extortion according to you and Extortion or grinding the Face of the Poor being Morally Evil according to all It necessarily follows according to you that God never so much as allow'd the Jews to take Usury even from Strangers which has more truth in it as I shall shew hereafter than both your Propositions For say you He never allows that which is Morally Evil. And consequently either your First or Second or both your Propositions are all false And indeed so they are For the Proof of which I only premise thus much Extortion in our Land with relation to Usury in the Sense you say you now use it is the Exacting of more Usury than the Law allows That is It is the Exacting of more than Six in the Hundred And therefore your First Proposition which holds that Extortion or Grinding the Face of the Poor is only meant by Scripture-Usury is all false For Usury in the Scripture Language is not the exacting of more than Six in the Hundred But First of all The Exacting of One in the Hundred in Scripture-Usury Nehem. 5. 11. where Exacting the Hundredth part of the Mony lent is called Usury And v. 12. Requiring Nothing is opposed to it And consequently He that requires any thing tho never so little for the Use of Mony is a Scripture-Usurer Secondly The Law says Levit. 25. 36. Take thou No Vsury or Increase from thy poor Brother And the Prophet says Ezek. 18. 8. He that hath not given forth upon Vsury neither hath taken Any Increase From whence it is plain that whoever taketh any Increase tho never so little and not only he that taketh above Six in the