Debts Discharge, Title page – Errata
Debts Diſcharge, OR SOME CONSIDERATIONS ON ROM. 13.8. the former Part.
Owe nothing to any man, but to love one another.
Being an Endeavour to ſtate that Caſe of Conſcience, and deſigned to perſwade all men to get and keep out of Debt as much as may be.
By C. M.
The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again, Pſal. 37.21.
The borrower is ſervant to the lender, Pro. 22.7.
Poſt Tringita Dies a Judice Conſtitutos, Debitor non ſolvens, vinctus compedibus, at que in nervo, tradebatur creditori, qui eum domi ceu Jumentum cogebat operari, quoad ſibi ſatisfactum eſſet.
In Legib. 12. Tab. ut refert Aulus Gellius.
LONDON, Printed for Tho Cockerill, at the Three Legs in the Poultry, over againſt the Stocks Market. 1684.
The CONTENTS.
THe Context opened, of dues to Magiſtrates Page 1
Of Debts, the Diſtribution into
proper Lawful 4
proper Unlawful 4
Metaphorical 4
Lawful, ſhewed from
The nature of the Contract 5
Neceſſity and Expedience 8
Scripture
Commanding to lend 10
Commending the Lender 12
Allowing Uſury 13
Pauls, and other good mens Debts 16
Mutual borrowing, is Brotherly kindneſs 17
Unlawful, its Debtors Careleſs, their Cauſes
Not conſidering Eſtates 19
Suretiſhip, lawful, and unlawful 19
Creditors rebuked 24
Treacherous 26
Proud 27
Preſumptuous, and Covetous 28
Concomitants
Sin, and the cauſe of Sin 29
Sorrow, from Diſgrace, and Diſturbance 30
Advice to men
In debt
General to all 35
Special to ſome
Sureties 38
Heirs and Executors 39
Corporations 45
Out of Debt, to avoid
Sodomiticals
Pride 48
Idelneſs 50
Fulneſs of Bread 52
Covetouſneſs 54
Vain confidence 56
Metaphorical Debts, eſpecially of Law 57
ERRATA.
PAge 19 line 22. for compound, read become bound. page 45 line 27. for oblatum, read ablatum. Page 48 line 10 for Halter, read Halſer. Page 49 line 8. for houſes, read horſes. Page 59 line 7. for rendes, read renders.