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.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jelinger, Christopher.

Contributor:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

English Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

T. P. Usury stated being a reply to Mr. Jelinger's Usurer cast--Early works to 1800.

T. P.

Jelinger, Christopher. Three treatises--Early works to 1800.

Jelinger, Christopher.

Usury--Controversial literature--Early works to 1800.

Usury.

Interest rates--England--Early works to 1800.

Interest rates.

England.

Genre:

Controversial literature.

Penn Provenance:

Isbell, James (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)

University of Pennsylvania. Library (stamp) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

30 unnumbered pages, 242, 161-285 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 17 cm

Other Title:

Usury stated overthrown

Usuries champions with their auxiliaries, shamefully disarmed and beaten

Fingerprint:

ndis r.t, **** Wobe (3) 1679 (Q)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for J. Wright, at the Crown on Ludgate-Hill, and J. Sampson, next the Wonder-Tavern in Ludgate-Street, [1679?]

Notes:

Title within double-ruled border.

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.

Includes index.

P. 194 (2nd count) misnumbered 149.

Lacking signatures S-Z⁸; text apparently complete.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has autograph of James Isbell, November 20th, 1798.

Culture Class Collection copy has stamp of Library of the University of Pennsylvania.

Cited in:

Wing (2nd ed.) J549

ESTC, R216482

OCLC:

824174598