The English vsvrer; or Vsvry condemned, by the most learned and famous diuines of the Church of England, and dedicated to all his Maiesties subiects, for the stay of further increase of the same . ff4mly be defined: Vfury is mutuation, or in pf. i j,lending for eaine# This briefe defini- P^^i*^tion doth fully ret forth the true nature , ,„,^.. of Vfury ,and fufficiently diftinguilhcth it from all other contrav^ts whatfoeucr. FIrft I fay it Is mutuation or lending^ which is alfo SuhieBumprcfuppofed in the Scripture, Exod»ti. 25. and the vftera mfi<^fame if need were , mi
The English vsvrer; or Vsvry condemned, by the most learned and famous diuines of the Church of England, and dedicated to all his Maiesties subiects, for the stay of further increase of the same . ff4mly be defined: Vfury is mutuation, or in pf. i j,lending for eaine# This briefe defini- P^^i*^tion doth fully ret forth the true nature , ,„,^.. of Vfury ,and fufficiently diftinguilhcth it from all other contrav^ts whatfoeucr. FIrft I fay it Is mutuation or lending^ which is alfo SuhieBumprcfuppofed in the Scripture, Exod»ti. 25. and the vftera mfi<^fame if need were , might be proued by the other tuum^relatiue, which is borrowing : for lending andborrowing are relatiues: And if he which takcth vp mo-ney vpon vfury, be a borrower; then he that giucth orpirttcth it forth vnto vfury, is a lender. The corttradl: therefore of Vfury is a contrail of len- j^^ p^ \^^^^<1ing: now in the c©ntra(^ of mutuation or lending,diuers B things. ^Ihe ^ngiijh Pfurer^ things concurre,which alfo belong to the nature of Vfury. 2. That it isof fuch things as are fpentin the vfe, andconfift in quantitie, that is to fay in number j weight,or meafure, as Money,and Viilnals, Corne,Wine,Oyle,&c. which are particularly mentioned, BeHt*2i,]* 2» And therefore is alienation not onely of the vfe^ butalfo of the propertie, from which thevfe (^of fuch-- things as are Ipent in the vfe) cannot be feuered. ; y» As the property is transferred to the borrower , fothe borrower ftandcth to the hazzard of the tiling boi*rowed # 4. That it is not a perpetuall alienation of that which Islentjbut for a time,which time being expired, the bor-rower is bound to reftore the; |)i:in€ipalU 5» Becaufe thethingborrowedistobe fpentinthe vfe,therefore the borrower is bound, not t© rel^ore thefelfefame particular which he borrowed, but fo muchin the fame kind,or the fame valew. ( belongeth to the nature of lending ^ that it be freeandlib
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