cowfortanle `walkin?-with God. defperate ranke and reiòiution, might conclude, that it were lawthll for them tokill othermen, becaufe they werewilling to bekilled chemfelves. See Iuci$.9. 54. r Sam. 31.4. for they might fay, they did but as theywould be done by. It would alfa follow very abfurdly ; the Magiftrate being in thema- letäaorscafe, would gladlybe pardoned, therefore hee muff pardon the malefa&or : Some forme of Belial would be con- tent villanoufly to proftitutehis wife whom he cares not for himfelfe, to others ; therefore flee may abu re anothermans wife whom he loves better. There, and the like abominable and abfurd confequents, demonftrate the vanitieof the Llfu- rers inference, and that Chritts rule isnot fo generali, but re- flrainable to that will, which is orderly and honetilyguided by the light ofNature and Gods Law. 2. We mutt then haverecourfe to this generali Fountaine of the Íecond Table, and fetch light and dire&ion thence; when we haveno expreffe and fpeciall wordinGodsBooke ; but the Scriptureshave cleerely and direály determined anal refQived the point of Ll fury. 3. If the Llforer were in the borrowers cafe, hee would not willingly, ,ashee pretends, give tenne in thehundred. meanewith anabfolute and free will, but of force and con- ftraint, becaufe not paying after the fame rate, hee couldnot have it. If a man would borrow upon Ufury, to buy land, ingrofír, fort flail, or compaffe fomeunlawfull matter; that were a corrupt will, and no rule : But ifhis delire fo tobor- rowwerejuft and lawful], as in fome cafes it may be, then it is noentirewill, but mixedand forced by fomenecefiìtie, for . the avoydingofagreater evill;and therefore denied in the eye both oflaw and reafon, to be anywill at all Pie that would borrow, thould have neede to borrow, for a needeleffedefire isunlawfull; and an ingenious man who bath neede tobor- .row, wouldnot willingly borrow but for neede, much leffe wouldhe pay UCurie. Therefore the will of the borrower, in this cafe, is eithercorrupt, or nowill at all, and fo confe- quently without thecompaffe of Chrif}s rule. The will of theborrower in thiscafe, islike thewill ofan
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