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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14043	The vsurers plea answered In a sermon preached at Southampton the 18. day of Iuly, being Thursday, and their lecture day, 1633. By Roger Turner Mr. of Arts, and minister of Gods Word neere Southampton.	Turner, Roger, b. 1603.	1634 (1634)	STC 24348; ESTC S109442	19,738	28

then during the time of loane whose is the principall thine or the borrowers it was thine before thou lentst it and shall be thine at the day of payment but during the time of loane it is the borrowers for thou hast by covenant passed over both use and property unto him so that during that time hee is the owner of it and if it perisheth it perisheth to the borrower as to the right owner for that time I aske then by what right canst thou covenant to receive hire for the use of that which is none of thine during the time it is not thine If a man let a house or land he may covenant to receive hire because he hath passed over the use onely reserving the property to himselfe therefore if a man make waste upon such land the owner may justly complaine because the property is still his but it is not so in money why then should a man covenant for hire for the use of that wherein he hath no right or property therefore 't is an unequall bargain the borrower hath the use onely of thy principall and payeth for the use which alone is his why then should he beare the perill of thy principall which is none of his This is a nice quiddity or Schoole-tricke Exod. 22.15 but the equity of Gods owne Law the borrower shall not make it good for if it be a hired thing it came for the hire it is added if the owner thereof stand by to wit that it appeare to perish or by hurt not by any default of the borower so admit that money could by Vsurers be made a hired thing yet the equity of Gods Law binds that if it appeare to miscarry without the fault of the owner the borrower shall not make it good because it came for hire So you see here is no equity the Vsurer receives great gaine without labour cleere gaine without cost certaine gaine without perill out of the industry the charges the meere uncertainties of the borrower a cleanely Alchymist that can extract much silver and wast nothing in smoake these are the Kine of Bashan that feede upon the Commons Amos 4.1 As Nature teacheth men to doe that which is seemly kind and naturall so Religion teacheth Christians in all their affaires to depend upon Gods providence and expect a blessing from heaven so it ought to be and so it is in all professions except Vsury Nullum de Deo hominum genus pejus sentiunt quam Danistarum of all sort of men the Vsurer thinkes worst of God and will least trust him bee it faire or foule hee will bee sure of his mony The Husbandman lookes up to the clouds and prayes for seasonable weather the Merchant observes the wind and prayes God to deliver him from tempest and wracke the Trades-man wisheth the people may have money that he may vent his wares at a reasonable rate and live in some good fashion the labouring man prayes for worke and health that hee may be able to get a poore living by the sweat of his browes onely the Mony-monger hath least need of all other men to say his prayers bee it wet or dry bee it tempest or calme let the wind blow East West North or South be he well or bee he sicke be hee gowty or lame or sound of body let him be what he will or doe what he list he shall bee sure of his mony for time onely workes for him all the dayes in the Almanacke are set aworke to worke out his gaine nay the Sabbath shall not be omitted the red letter is as good for his purpose as the blacke to helpe make up the number of daies of weekes of moneths so the time goes out and his money comes in and hee seemes not to stand in that need of Gods providence as other honest men doe and can wee thinke in conscience that God is pleased with such a life And thus you see in the first place that Vsury is absolutely condemned from the authority of sacred Scriptures and where this oracle vouchsafes to speake we need no farther authority for confirmation but unto this may be added a cloud of witnesses as first the consent of Churches East and West and if wee reverence the judgement of reverend men both for their learning and sanctimony of life they ought to be a great motive to sway our judgements herein all which were so farre from moderating or qualifying this practise of Vsury that whensoever they met with it they sharpned their pens as if their spirits were moved and stirred in them more than ordinarily So likewise the Church assembled in Counsells have flatly decreed against it Clergy-men for this sinne to be degraded the Laity to be excommunicated all this I suppose is enough to prove Vsury a sinne But yet if the light of nature bee able to discover the same 't will aggravate the matter much more there are Moats which are not discerned but in the Sun-shine Saint Paul faith * Rom. 7.7 that hee had not knowne that concupiscence had beene a sinne except the law had manifested the same and suppose that Vsury were but as a moat in the eye yet that were troublesome because the eye is tender as the conscience of every Christian ought to be but if the inhabitants of the Regions of darkenesse that never saw the sun-shine of revealed truth shall notwithstanding discerne Vsury to be inordinate and vitious doubtlesse then 't is no Moat beames may be discovered by the twi-light of nature and so hath Vsury ever beene held even amongst the heathens themselves for a grosse inormity Plato in his Lawes and his Scholer Aristotle in his Politicks have forbidden it as unlawfull 1 Lib. cap. 7. polit Cic. de Off. lib. 2. Seneca lib. 7. de Benef. and condemned it as unnaturall Cato makes it twice as bad as theft and equals it with murder● Quid foenerari quid hominem occidere Seneca in his 7. booke De Benef. Quid foenus Kalendarium Vsura nisi humanae cupiditates extra naturam quaesita nomina he findes a place for it in the Kallender but not in nature Plutarch 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Plutarch writes that Vsurers mocke the Philosophers for that old Principle Ex nihilo nihil fit because they can make something of nothing and hence happily it is that the Latines proper tearme for Vsury is Foenus quasi foetus pecuniae the brood of mony and in the same sense did the Greekes call it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifies to breed or bring forth though some would derive 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from the Hebrew word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifies deceit or oppression as if Vsury were not to be misliked for its owne sake unlesse it were convicted of some sensible oppression but the consent of the Grammarians fetcheth it neerer hand taking the Nowne from the Verbe and the primitive signification of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is birth