' I ·TbeSaine1 meanes to pare with his darling pleafure, and yet .Qe would· not in direct tearmes, and p~remptory · oppQtition, fiand againft: the certaine and revealed truth of- the Word ofLife: Whereupon he beats his braines.,~nd ft:raines hiswit 3 to find out.one ft:ar– ting hole orother ; bee·learnes~<)fhift and 1hield himfelfe by fome idledifHnfrion,vaine exception, falfc interpretation, carnall reafon, that hee may ·thereby finde feme eafe and contentment· inhis owne h~art, againil: the convicrionofhi_s ~onfcience., and ·fame plaulible pretext· to.·fatisfie the world for his continuance in fame finfull content– ment,,which the world doth condemne. ,:a.F.llf. For example; Ifhis finne be Ufi1ry,to which,by . Digreffionof reafon of the t1weetneffe ofgaine, his greedy hu– ilie unlawful· ne.fie<Jf Vfury• . mourisendeared,and he theruponbeprel:fed with ·. the15.Pfol.wherein the Holy Ghofr dothmake ic a - marke and note of afound Chriflian,ancl a·Cirizen > 'of Heav:en, not.togiveouc ·hi's-moneyto ufurie; .: and teacheth us_, that w~muft: wholly abllaine ancf-; defifr from theprat!ifethereof, as-ever we hope to " re!l: in.the .Mountaine ofGods .hoHneiTe·; he Ja..... bours prefentJy to f.atisfie the- world~ and to-fave himfelfe by one fuifr orother; perhaps bee will dr.: · fiinguifh of:uftuy, and fay~- that piting ufury in• ; deed he approves not, but he fe'es no-reafonw-ay , toothlelfe ufury may net,be.Jawfull. -~ · But wretched man,' he is·toknow-that-thi'S is-a covetousand carnaHdifiincHon; there is·florte lOCh' · tobefound-in the Scr-ipture. Thewords are plaine andperemptory in that ·I) · PjJme,.;and Euchiel · .without dillinetion orlimitati'onJ fpe&ks- thus; He- . - tklt
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