4- 4ueíl:iolis.and Anfweres 8.Command of, whòme we lone, and efpecïally which heliueth by, and maintaineth both himfelfe and othersby. And therefore as I thinke wecannot cake a better courfe to lay before our,gwne' eyes the wants of lire in vs towards the goods of our neighbours, and confcqucntly our breaches of this Commllundernent, than diligently to weigh foie particular duetics fpecificd in the word, wherein the Lord God would haue our lout to ihcwe it lelfe. As for open rapine and plaine health no man I thinkc wall xcufe it, or denyic,to be finne, and therefore I {land not vpon ir, your Device hath evident places quoted againíl it. I cone rather to thofe other ducties of borrowing and lending, of hyring and letting, of buying and Idling, and fuchlike. Luell., zirflthenwhátis the late of borrowing and lending in the word? Exo,22.rq. /Infw. If -a man (faichihe Lawe )borrow any thing, of his neighbour, andit bee bout, or elfe dye, the owner ofit not beeing Purelyme.1Ze it good. Iftt bee an hyred thing he fhall not m4e it good, for it came for his byre. In which Lawe If we well weigh it, we may firft fee, that if *chant that thing which our neighbour would borrowe, and we able without rurt well to fpare it him, we are bound to do it, or elfe we finne againfl this lawe.ofG GD, & we ruco [kale fromour brother, that which in right is his. For God would not euer haue made a Lawe for recom- pence of the', lender,. if his thing lent receive any harme, vnleffe it had beene a neceffary duety of loue to lend w hen wemay. Therefore this narrow 'wife ofheart, and vnkinde-difpòfitron to grudge veto any that good which by lending we can ?o11ble doe hini, it is hateful! in the eyes of God, and a plaine b reach of this Corn-. Vfurie tnaundement: Secondly in this laweas one very wellhath notcd,we may fee a great light giuen to that hard coettouerf a concerning vfury of mony, For marlce 1pray you how he faith io plaine tearmes, That if the thing r ere hyred,and though sr perJhed in vfe, yet (hoalú it not be madegood by him which hyred tt, fcr it came for hishyre. The mo- ney which v hirers giro otizishyredas you. know. Therefore if it were a thing that might behytëdyou' fee thefentence:of ëdthoughitperifhed, Sccondiy,,: marke againe .hów die4anvefaith, though a man lend ofmeere loue freely without any byre, yet (hall his recompence he nothing more than good will againe, vnle fe it dye, Or be hurt which he lendeth. Now money neither dyeth, ncyrher commonly is any whit hurtiçbukreturneth curry way as good as it came., Thirdly,. confider how the Lawe will-haue an apparant hurt of the thing lent, or elfe it alloweth no recompence, butvfnrets will baue confideration for likely Joffe. For fay they, if I had had my Moneyaieffibly l could hue gained thus much with it : Yet arc they not lure they could haue done it, for God could haue croffed their expeetation, and being dot lure thatitbtÿtcould have gained, it is not apparant that they haue berne hindred, but this 1:a»eof God prouldeth in equity onely for apparant 'latrine, and therefore nothing for them. Fourthly, the equity of this law isonely this,' that good will be no loofer, and therefore prouilion is made for recom- pence, if the thing lent received hurt : but Vfurers will haue their good will as they call it, certain and an exceffiue gainer, Fifrly, in this law of God the borrower is refpedled, th, t hefhould haue helpe of his neighbour and not pay for it, vnlcffe he hurt the thing which he borrowed, but vfury regardeth wholy the lender. 14 here fore it feetneth that if this law of our God had euer any equity, this vfury of money had ewer plain iniury, and that this kinde -of lendingis void of loue, and therefore apparantly a breach of this Commaundement . Thus therefore we fee what light the equity of this law oflendirig giucth to this queflion of vfury, which equity remain. eth and euer (hall. Qefl'. Tut pray yonwhat think!yostofgiteingvfuty,which many a goodMan iscon- ftramed to doe 11 frp. Trudy for mine owne part .I am fatiffird to thinke it alto mill, by the words of lereonie, who faith, he hatb neithergiuenvfury nor taken, and yet they bated him, Infinuating plainely, thatif he had done çitherthe could haue found lull cattle in him. feifewhy he fhould be euill:thought of i, (tu e(1 Yy'6iat
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