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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07223	A mirrour for merchants With an exact table to discouer the excessiue taking of vsurie, against the lawes manifested in this treatise of Reasons academy. Set forth by R. Mason of Lincolnes Inne gent.; Reasons academie	Mason, Robert, 1571-1635.; Davies, John, Sir, 1569-1626. Reasons moane.	1609 (1609)	STC 17620; ESTC S119107	40,335	117

A MIRROVR FOR MERCHANTS WITH ●N EXACT TABLE To discouer the excessiue taking of Vsurie against the Lawes manifested in this Treatise of REASONS ACADEMY Set forth by R. MASON of Lincolnes Inne Gent. Vitet censura furorem LONDON Printed for Iohn Browne and are to be sold at his Shop in Saint Dunstanes Church-yard in Fleetestreete 1609. To the Reader VNderstand mee louing Reader as well for my purpose as my paines In the one I meane not to confront great Schoole men but leaue both themselues and their worthy Sciences to happy successe and the other I freely bestow on such as shall bee content to giue the same perusall As in the whole I presume there is nothing hurtfull so in some parts I hope there may be some thing auaileable Herein one principal Marke I ayme at is to discouer the abuse of Vse or rather the abused vse of Vsurie so entertained in this Kingdom that according to Seneca his speech Caepit licitum esse quia publicum est In late ages Diuines haue defied it vnmasked her foule visage and brought her to arraignement and conuiction for her vncleane vnhallowed and vnlawfull products the Lawes of this Kingdome euer este●med and adiudged it damnable and the holy ●ooke of God set an eternall Curse there●n The Iewes in this Kingdome caried then markes of separation from ciuill and honest company and the Vsurers generall● forbidden Christian Buriall and d●sabled to dispose by their Wil● of thing so wickedly gotten Sed tempore mutantur but observe the mutation of time In this our Age when God is most taught and should be most obeyed the old Serpent hath not onely perswaded the tasting but surfetting on this forbidden fruit The Takers haue lost their estates and broken their hearts with penurie and the Lenders filled their bagges and through cruelty brought their soules to perdition This viperous poyson hath infected the Court and the Country the Laity and Ciuilians the Church and the Chancell the Priests and the people in so much that Vsurie is set vp as an vniuersall Trade This is the cause that Charitie groweth cold louing affection betweene friends and alies turned into hatred hospitalitie decayed and the seruice of God despised Hinc illae lachrymae This is the cause that the almes to the poore are neglected the dish of neighbourly hospitalitie not prouided the ordinary and necessary seruants turned off and the gate of pitie and compassion fast locked and sealed vp One thing I must explaine in this place concerning the foure first Sections and the Table herein placed The Sections I haue wri●ten to expresse the care power and prouidence of God who hath left nothing vnmade needfull for the vse of man and for the preseruation and increase of all things hath ordained and appointed a certaine number of things to bee ingendered a time when and a place where they should be produced and hath limitted each of these to their certaine bounds quas vltra citraque nequit consist●re rectum but the policie of man hath past the limits of them all by inuenting a new kind of production that money being taken out of the bowels of the earth her natural place in a certaine time limitted at their pleasure should produce the increase of money by deliuering the same vpon Vsurie and so abuse both number time and place against the Law of God Nature and Nations The Table discouereth that the generall taking of money being for lesse time then a whole yeere is within the compasse both of the prohibiting and Penall law of this Kingdom because it exceedeth the rate often for an hundreth for one whole yeere and for the vnderstanding thereof I haue explayned in what sort the ignorant Arithmeticians haue abused their Art by mistaking the Divident and Diuisor Vse taken according to the rate of the first Table is subiect to the penall Law Vse taken according to the second Table is free from such punishment though the taking it selfe bee not approued by any Law of God or man All which I leaue to thy considerate perusall and thy selfe to the fauour of God Robert Mason REASONS Academie Of Nomber AS I purpose not to discourse of al the deepe points therof for that wold require a large treatise yet because it is a needefull part to be known in the vnderstanding of Reasons exercise I will make bold briefly to touch the same Nomber doth cōsist of diuerse things either of one or seuerall denominations and without nomber there can bee no true definition demonstration manifestation nor vnderstanding of any thing for if all things were but one then were there no nomber or order wherefore one is said to be no nomber Sed scala de vni●●te the beginning of nomber In the God-head being before all time the maker of time and all things that increase in time there is number The Trinity of persons and vnity of God-head do declare as much For although god be a most singular Diuine essence in himselfe yet hath he proportioned number in himselfe vnseperably vnited in his God-head which the diuines call the Father Son and holy Ghost And the ancient Philosophers cal three inbeings The Father the actiue or inworking vertue power nature The Son they cal the word speech or reason The holy Ghost Loue. These Philosophers haue striued wonderfully in this labor wherin they haue waded exceding deep Amelius the disciple of Plotin is said to name the trinity three things or three vnderstandings The Beer the Hauer and the Seer The Trinity is expressed in these words Power vnderstanding wil which Trinity maketh a full number of things belonging to a mind which the Philosophers esteeme to be the Godhead But to leaue off this kind of descriptiō I cōclude with Plotinus There are saith he three chiefe Inbeings The one or the God 2. The vnderstāding or wit 3. The soule of the world And of these three saith he it is not for any man to speake without praying vnto god And without setling his mind afore vnto quietnes And if it be demanded saith he how one of them begetteth an other it is to be considered that we speak of euerlasting things therefore we must not imagine any temporall begetting for this begetting which we speake of saith he betokeneth but onely cause and order This Trinitie and first and euerlasting number hath proportioned appointed other numbers in them a miraculous order If any aske a reason hereof I answere It was the power the wisdome vnderstanding wil of God to expresse himselfe in this compleat number of persōs in one vnity of godhead By this nūber three was the whole world created al things innumerable whose mouers are only known to the creator himself In that number three is expressed the wōder of the world the taking vp of Henock Elias the Ascention of our Lord Iesus Christ Ionas three dayes in the Whales belly and Christ three dayes in the graue So that in the nomber