5. Usury. Usury was
and is hateful both to God and man. That a lender should share with the
borrower in gains made by his money is most fitting and proper; but that the
man of property should eat up the poor wretch who unfortunately obtained a loan
of him is abominable. Those who grind poor tradesmen and needy widows by
charging them interest at intolerable rates, will find that their gold is
cankered. The man who ascends the hill of the Lord must shake off this sin as
Paul shook the viper into the fire. Nor taketh reward against the innocent.
Bribery is a sin both in the giver and the receiver. Under every shape it is
loathsome to the true man of God. He remembers that Jesus instead of taking
reward against the innocent died for the guilty. He that doeth these thingsshall never be moved. No storm shall tear him from his foundations, drag
him from his anchorage, or uproot him from his place. Like the Lord Jesus,
whose dominion is everlasting, the true Christian will never lose his crown. He
will not only be on Zion, but like Zion, fixed and firm. He will
dwell in the tabernacle of the Most High, and neither death nor judgment shall
remove him from his place of privilege and blessedness.
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