The Debt Book: Printed Contents and Epigraph (1625)

Artifact Summary
Artifact type	Treatise section
Creator/author	Henry Wilkinson
Date	1625
Period	Stuart
City and country of origin	London, England
Abstract

Entry

• Imprint/call number: STC (2nd. ed.) / 25646. London: Printed by R. B[adger] and G. M[iller] for Robert Bird, 1625.
• Keywords: Book; Religious treatise; Debt; Credit; Charity; Poor relief; Christian love; Moral economy
• Latitude: 51.5074
• Longitude: -0.1278
• Current location: Bodleian Library
• Economic theme: Debt; Credit; Charity; Poor relief; Clerical maintenance
• Practice/technology: Printed biblical exegesis; moral instruction; sermon-treatise
• Capitalism status:
• Religious context: Protestant moral theology of debt, charity, and Christian love
• Legal/political context: Printed religious and moral treatment of debt, obligation, and social duty
• Labor context:
• Related artifacts: The Debt Book (1625)

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THE Contents of the Chap t ers in this Treatise, vpon R om. 13. 8. Owe nothing to any ma n, b ut t his, th a t y e lo u e o n e another; for he that loue th a not h er h ath ful f ill e d t h e L a w e. CHAP. I. THe words opened, and a discourse touching Debts in generall, with reasons why we should not continue in them. page 1. CHAP. II. That we should owe no man any thing so much as lieth in vs. pag. 7. CHAP. III. The diuision of Debts, and of the first kinde of ciuill Debts imposed by others namely Hereditary. pag. 10.

CHAP. IV. Of legall Debts, and first to the Magistrate. pag. 17.

CHAP. V. Of Debts to the Minister of the Gospell. pag. 24. CHAP. VI. Of Debts to the poore. pag. 43. CHAP. VII. Of Debts procured by our selues, and first of necessary Debts. pag. 55. CHAP. VIII. Of voluntary Debts transient and permanent. pag. 57. CHAP. IX. A confutation of such Apologies as men pleade for their continuing in Debt. p. 67. CHAP. X. Directions for auoiding Debt that it breake not vpon our estate. pag. 79.

CHAP. XI. Directions how to get out of Debt, if wee be already intangled. pag. 100. CHAP. XII. Of the sacred Debt of Loue, that we ought to loue one another, and why. pag. 114. CHAP. XIII. Of the diuersities of loue: and of the nature of Christian religious loue towards one another. pag. 119. CHAP. XIV. The qualities of religious loue. pag. 120. CHAP. XV. The effects of loue, with rules to dispense the fruits thereof. pag. 124. CHAP. XVI. That loue is a fulfilling of the Law according to the measure of it, and that yet hence it doth not follow: that either the perfect fulfilling of the Law is possible in this life: or that any can be iustified by the workes of the Law, in this state of corruption. pag. 134.

THE DEBT BOOKE. Epigraph: ROM. 13. 8.

Owe nothing to any man but this, that ye loue one another; for hee that loueth another, hath fulfilled the Lawe.

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