John Trapp on Proverbs 19:17

Verſ. 17. Hee that hath pitty upon the poor, lendeth, &c.] This is a ſecond fruit of ſhaking off ſloth, and working with the hands the thing that is good,Epheſ. 4.28. that one may have to give to him that needeth. Hee doth not give it, but lend it, God accepts it both as [non-Latin text not transcribed], as a gift, and a Loue, ſaith Baſil: Nay,Orat. de Eleemoſ. he lends it upon uſury, Faeneratur Domino; and that to the Lord, who both binds himſelf to repay, and gives us ſecurity for it under his own hand here. Hee will pay him again to bee ſure of it, [non-Latin text not transcribed] in Piel, hee will fully and abundantly repay him; moſtly in this world, but infallibly in the world to come. Evagrius in Cedrenus bequeathed three hundred pounds to the poor in his Will; but took a bond before-hand of Syneſius the Biſhop, for the repayment of it in another life; And the very next night, (ſaith the hiſtory) after his departure, appearing to him in his ſhape, delivered in the bond cancelled, and fully diſcharged.