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A Golden Chain
A golden chain: or The description of theology containing the order of the causes of salvation and damnation, according to Gods word. A view whereof is to be seen in the table annexed. Hereunto is adjoined the order which M. Theodore Beza used in comforting afflicted consciences.A golden chaine: or The description of theologie containing the order of the causes of saluation and damnation, according to Gods word. A view whereof is to be seene in the table annexed. Hereunto is adioyned the order which M. Theodore Beza vsed in comforting afflicted consciences.
Cambridge: printed by John Legat, 1600Cambridge: printed by Iohn Legat, 1600
Chapter 27 › The affirmative part.Chapter 27 › The affirmatiue part.
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bury therefore thy dead. 16. So Abraham hearkened to Ephron, and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the Hittites, even four hundred shekels of currant money among merchants, &c. IV. Just dealing. 1. Thess. 4.6. Of this there are many kinds: I. In buying and selling, in setting and hiring of Farms, tenements, lands: in merchandise, and all manner of commodities, men must rack nothing, ⟨p. 93⟩but keep a just price. A just price is then observed, when as the things prized, and the price given for them, are made equal, as near as may be. For the observation of this equality, these four rules are to be considered: for by them all bargains must be ordered. I. There must be a proportion and equality in all contracts: the which will then be, when as the seller doth not value the thing, only according to his own pains, and cost bestowed upon it, but also seeth what profit it may be to the buyer, and in what need he standeth of it. Levit. 25.14. When thou sellest ought to thy neighbour, or buyest ought at his hands, ye shall not oppress one another: 15. But according to the number of the years after the Jubilee, thou shalt buy of thy neighbour. Also according to the number of years of thy revenues, he shall sell unto thee. •6. According to the number of years thou shalt increase the price thereof: and according to the fewness of years, thou shalt abate the price of it: for the number of fruits doth he sell unto thee. II. They must be squared according to the law of nature, the sum whereof Christ propoundeth in these words: Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do the same unto them. III. The bond of nature must be kept, which bindeth him that receiveth a benefit, and maketh a lawful gain of another mans goods, that he being once enriched, shall make a proportionable and natural recompense, even above the principal. IV. Men must communicate and make use of their goods, with that cavent which Paul giveth. 2. Cor. 8.13. not so to bestow them, as that others may be eased, and they grieved: or contrariwise. II. Men must make •ale of such things, as are in their kind substantial, and profitable. III. They must use just weights and measures