A practical and polemical commentary or exposition on the whole fifteenth Psalm wherein the text is learnedly and fruitfully explained, some controversies discussed, sundry cases of conscience are cleared, more especially that of usurie : many common places succinctly handled ... / by Christopher Cartwright ... ; the life of the reverend and learned author is prefixed.
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- A practical and polemical commentary or exposition on the whole fifteenth Psalm wherein the text is learnedly and fruitfully explained, some controversies discussed, sundry cases of conscience are cleared, more especially that of usurie : many common places succinctly handled ... / by Christopher Cartwright ... ; the life of the reverend and learned author is prefixed.
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- Cartwright, Christopher, 1602-1658.
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- [London] :: Printed for Nath. Brook ...,
- 1658.
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- Cartwright, Christopher, 1602-1658.
- Bible. -- O.T. -- Psalms XV -- Commentaries.
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"A practical and polemical commentary or exposition on the whole fifteenth Psalm wherein the text is learnedly and fruitfully explained, some controversies discussed, sundry cases of conscience are cleared, more especially that of usurie : many common places succinctly handled ... / by Christopher Cartwright ... ; the life of the reverend and learned author is prefixed." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A34992.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 3, 2024.
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To the Right honourable ROBERT HORNER Lord Major of the City of York; And the Right VVorshipful the ALDERMEN.
Right Honourable, Right Worshipful;
I Really blush to ap∣pear in a work of this Nature, lest some put the gloss of Arro∣gancy upon my En∣deavour: but the Spunge where∣with I shall wipe off this Staine,
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is, by letting such know, That I was obliged in duty to the Au∣thor; a piece of which will be, to perform what I know would have been his will, even bequeath this his VVork to you, upon whom he never thought his Labour ill be∣stowed. Besides, the Book being Motherless, it pitied me it should be Fatherless too; and therefore I thought it better to run the hazard of a harsh censure, then that this poor Orphane should be exposed to the wide World, without either Fa∣ther or Mother to fawn upon it. I should not have presumed to have troubled you with the Tuition of this Child, but that I know you did Reverence and Respect the Au∣thors Person; and therefore I hope
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will smile upon this his VVork. Besides, as you are Magistrates, you are Defenders of the Faith, and therefore (I hope) will not re∣fuse to defend this, so agreeable to the Faith once delivered to the Saints. I need not say any thing in the behalf of this Treatise: though it be but young, newly come into the World, I doubt not but it's sufficient to speak for it self. One Paradox (Indeed) I find in it: The Author writes against Usury; and none improved his Talent more then he; yet no contradicti∣on: his Usury was not biting: the improvement of this Talent was not to the detriment, but advantage of others: the Church of God, I hope, will be improved by that
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improvement he hath made. And that your Honour and your Wor∣ships may reap some benefit to your Souls by this his Labour, shall be the real Prayers of him,
Who wishes all happiness to you and your City, JO. TYREMAN.
July 12. 1658.