Usury stated overthrown: or, usuries champions with their auxiliaries, shamefully disarmed and beaten: by an answer to its chief champion, which lately apeared in print to defend it. And Godliness epitomized by Christopher Jelinger, M.A. Beza upon Matth. May a man with a safe conscience lend upon usury? No surely. And holy Usher, Arch-Bishop of Armagh, in his Body of divinity, pag. 300. Q. What is that which we call usury? It is lending in expectation of certain gain. So he well stateth it against usury ill stated by T. P. Q. What do you think of it? If we speak of that properly, which the scripture condemneth, it is a most wicked and unlawful contract; which if we live and die in, without repentance, we are excluded out of the Kingdom of Heaven. Psal. 15.1,5. Ezek. 18.12,13. and chap. 22. But there is much questioning, which is that usury which the scripture condemneth. Therefore it will be our wisdom wholly to forbear it, and not to put our souls, which are of more valu....
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1. Verfasser: Jelinger, Christopher (VerfasserIn)
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Veröffentlicht: London printed for J. Wright, at the Crown on Ludgate-Hill, and J. Sampson, next the Wonder-Tavern in Ludgate-Street [1679?]
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Beschreibung:A reply to: T. P.'s "Usury stated" of 1679, which in turn was an attack on Jelinger's original treatise against usury, "Usury cast", published in 1676 as part of his "Three treatises". Cf. Wing P122 and Wing J547. - Copy cataloged mis-printed: p. 283 between pp. 281-282. - Lacking signatures S-Z; text apparently complete. - Last leaf blank. - Publication date conjectured by Wing. - Reproduction of the original in the Goldsmith's Company Library, University of London. - Wing (2nd ed.), J549. - With an index, pp. 277-283
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