John Trapp on Matthew 19:8

Verse 8. Moses, because of the hardnesse of your hearts] Ob duricordiam [illegible: 1 word], saith [illegible: 1 word]. For the reliefe of the [illegible: 1 word], questionlesse, was this permitted by Moses, not as a Prophet, but as a Law-giver; so he suffered them to exercise usury upon strangers. And, at this day, they are by the States where they live S. [illegible: 1 word]. [illegible: 1 word] Spec. Eur permitted, to strain up their usury to 18. in the hundred upon the Christians: And so they are used, as the Friers, to suck from the meanest, and to be sucked by the greatest. But what saith our Statut [illegible: 1 word] [illegible: 2 words] 8. Statute? [illegible: 1 word] as all usury, being forbidden by the Law of God, is a sin and [illegible: 1 word], &c. And what [illegible: 2 words] Homilybook? Verily so many as increase themselves by usury— they have [illegible: 1 word]. l. [illegible: 1 word]. [illegible: 1 word]. their goods of the devils gift, &c. And what saith blinde Nature? [illegible: 1 word] 17. [illegible: 1 word] 2. Aristotle in one page [illegible: 1 word] both [non-Latin text not transcribed] and [non-Latin text not transcribed], the [illegible: 1 word]. in [illegible: 1 word]. [illegible: 1 word] and the Dicer. And Agis the Athenian Generall, set fire upon all the usurers books and bonds in the market-place: then which fire Agesilaus was wont to say, he never saw a fairer. But to return to the [illegible: 1 word]: Moses noteth the hatred of a mans wife to be the cause of much mischief, [illegible: 1 word]. 22. 13, 14. Hence a divorce [illegible: 2 words] in that case, Chapt. 24. 3. lest the husbands hatred, should work the wives ruth or ruin, in case he should be [illegible: 1 word] to [illegible: 1 word] her. He might put her away therefore, but not without a double [illegible: 1 word] to himself. 1. By his writing of divorce, he should give [illegible: 1 word] to her honesty, and that she was put away meetly [illegible: 1 word] his hard-heartednesse toward her. 2. If she were again [illegible: 2 words] by a second husband, the first might not take her to wife [illegible: 1 word], as having once sor ever judg'd himself [illegible: 1 word] of her surther fellowship. Husbands should be gentle to their wives, because of their weaknesse: glasses are not hardly handled; a small knock soon breaks them. But here are a number of Nabals, a brood of Caldeans, a bitter and furious nation that have little [illegible: 1 word] in their [illegible: 1 word] but wormwood; they have a true gall of bitternesse in them, Col. 3. 20. whereas the very heathens at their weddings, pulled the gall out of all their good chear, and cast [non-Latin text not transcribed]. [illegible: 1 word]. it away; teaching thereby the married couples what to doe. And God Almighty professeth that he hates putting away: threatning [illegible: 1 word] cut off such unkinde husbands, as by their harshnesse caused [illegible: 1 word] wives when they should have been chearfull in Gods services,Malach. 2. 13. [illegible: 1 word] cover the Altar of the Lord with tears, with weeping and with crying out, so that he regarded not the offering any more. Picus [illegible: 3 words] mariti, saith Melancthon. The Pyanit is an emblem of an unkinde husband: for in autumn he casts off his [illegible: 1 word], lest he should be forced to keep her in winter: afterwards, in the spring, he allures her to him again, and makes much of her.