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Author: Jelinger, Christopher.
Title: 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 value than the whole world, upon nice discourses, and subtil distinctions. Thus this holy man.
Print source: 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 value than the whole world, upon nice discourses, and subtil distinctions. Thus this holy man.
Jelinger, Christopher.
London: printed for J. Wright, at the Crown on Ludgate-Hill, and J. Sampson, next the Wonder-Tavern in Ludgate-Street, [1679?]
Alternate titles: Usury stated overthrown Usuries champions with their auxiliaries, shamefully disarmed and beaten.
Notes:
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.
Publication date conjectured by Wing.
Last leaf blank.
With an index, pp. 277-283.
Lacking signatures S-Z; text apparently complete.
Copy cataloged mis-printed: p. 283 between pp. 281-282.
Reproduction of the original in the Goldsmith's Company Library, University of London.
Subject terms:
T. P. -- Usury stated.
Jelinger, Christopher. -- Three treatises.
Usury -- Controversial literature -- Early works to 1800.
Interest rates -- England -- Early works to 1800.
URL: https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A46740.0001.001
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dedication
dedication
To the Right Honourable Lord, John Roberts, Earl of Radnor, Lord President of His Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council, Mer∣cy and Peace from Jesus Christ the Prince of Peace.
To the Most Noble Charles Pawlet, Lord Marquess of Winchester, Grace and Mercy be multiplied.
A FEW WORDS To the Courteous READER.
A POSTSCRIPT, ABOUT Two things left out in the Writing of this Book, viz.
A Letter sent by a Godly Minister to the Au∣thor about this Treatise.
THE CHIEF CONTENTS Of things added to this ANSWER. Viz.
USURIES CHAMPIONS AND AUXILIARIES SHAMEFULLY DISARMED, AND LAMENTABLY BEATEN.
PRELIMINARIES.
NUMBER I.
NUM. II.
NUM. III.
NUM. IV.
NUM. V.
NUM. VI.
THE FIRST PART.
NUMBER I.
NUM. II.
NUM. III.
NUM. IV.
NUM. V.
NUM. VI.
NUM. VII.
NUM. VIII.
NUM. IX.
NUM. X.
NUM. XI.
NUM. XII.
NUM. XIII.
NUM. XIV.
NUM. XV.
NUM. XVI.
NUM. XVII.
NUM. XVIII.
NUM. XIX.
NUM. XX.
NUM. XXI.
NUM. XXII.
NUM. XXIII,
NUM. XXIV.
NUM. XXV.
NVM. XXVI.
NVM. XXVII.
NVM. XXVIII.
NVM. XXIX.
NVM. XXX.
NUM. XXXI.
NUM. XXXII.
NUM. XXXIII.
NUM. XXXIV.
NUM. XXXV.
NUM. XXXVI.
NUM. XXXVII.
NUM. XXXVIII.
NUM. XXXIX.
NUM. XL.
NUM. XLI.
NUM. XLII.
NUM. XLIII.
NUM. XLIV.
NUM. XLV.
NVM. XLVI.
NVM. XLVII.
NUM. XLVIII.
NVM. XLIX.
NUM. L.
NUM. LI.
NUM. LII.
THE SECOND PART. Taking in the Third, Fourth and Fifth CHAPTERS.
NUMBER. I.
NUM. II.
NVM. III.
NUM. IV.
NUM. V.
NUM. VI.
NUM. VII.
NUM. VIII.
NUM. IX.
NUM. X.
NUM. XI.
NUM. XII.
NUM. XIII.
NUM. XIV.
NUM. XV.
NUM. XVI.
NUM. XVII.
NVM. XVIII.
NUM. XIX.
NVM. XX.
NUM. XXI.
NVM. XXII.
NUM. XXIII.
NUM. XXIV.
NUM. XXV.
NUM. XXVI.
NUM. XXVII.
NUM. XXVIII.
NUM. XXIX.
NUM. XXX.
NUM. XXXI.
NUM. XXXII.
NUM. XXXIII.
NUM. XXXIV.
NUM. XXXV.
NUM. XXXVI.
NUM. XXXVII.
NVM. XXXVIII.
NUM. XXXIX.
NUM. XL.
NUM. XLI.
NUM. XLII.
NUM. XLIII.
NVM. XLIV.
My Fourth Description opposed, and my first answer to it.
My Second Answer.
A Reply to my fifth Description.
My Answer.
The second Contradiction.
THE THIRD PART OF THIS BOOK now followeth.
THE FOURTH PART OF THIS TREATISE, CONTAINING
Num: 16. A Citation annexed.
TRANSCRIPTS Annexed a∣gainst USURY: Stated, 1. Out of the Institutions of the Canon Law reviewed by John Paul, Lancelot the Perusine. The 4. Book. The 7. Title of Usury.
GODLINESS Epitomizd IN TWO TABLES, VIZ. FIRST, THE RESOLUTION-TABLE: EXHIBITED BY CHRISTOPHER JELINGER, M.A. WHICH May be fixed on Mens Chamber-Doors for a Memorial.
SECONDLY, THE EXAMINATION-TABLE, OR Examen Conscientiae, OR, SELF-EXAMINATION, Con∣taining Twelve IN QUIRIES.
Ʋnto which twelve Resolutions and twelve Examinations are now added twelve Holy Ex∣perimented Instructions, which this Author together with the foresaid two Tables Humbly Dedicates to the highly Hon∣oured HENERY CORNISH one of the Sherifs of Lon∣don and the Worshipful JOHN UPTON Esq Whom both God bless and Preserve.
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The names of those Writers which this Author desired to Inspect for his own and other fuller satisfaction a∣bout Ʋsury, besides the Holy Scrip∣tures and has cited in this Book, are these following.
The TITLES, of the seve∣ral BOOKS, which this Author has in English and Latin.