The Morning exercise [at] Cri[ppleg]ate, or, Several cases of conscience practically resolved

Is it presumption for any man to know more then I do, or a sin to know less. Job doth well reprove this self-conceit, Job 12.2, 3. His friends would needs bear him down, and were very angry with him that he was not of their mind, and would not acknowledge all to be true of himself which they said against him; he takes them up sharply; No doubt ye are the people, and wisdom shall dye with you, but I have understanding as well as you, and I am not inferior to you, who knoweth not such things as these? Let not any man think that he hath engrossed all the knowledge of the world to himself, but others know the same things which he doth, and many things better than he.

Is it presumption for any man to know more then I do, or a sin to know less. Job doth well reprove this self-conceit, Job 12.2, 3. His friends would needs bear him down, and were very angry with him that hee was not of their minde, and would not acknowledge all to bee true of himself which they said against him; hee takes them up sharply; No doubt yee are the people, and wisdome shall dye with you, but I have understanding as well as you, and I am not inferiour to you, who knoweth not such things as these? Let not any man think that hee hath engrossed all the knowledge of the world to himself, but others know the same things which hee doth, and many things better than hee.

9. In matters of Commerce and Contracts, which arise from thence; Now a contract is a mutual transferring of right; when I buy any thing of another, he makes over the right of such a Commodity to me for so much money, or other valuable thing, the right whereof I make over to him. Now in this kind of intercourse, we are to be governed by this great Rule. In making of Contracts we must agere bonâ fide, deal honestly and truly; in performing of contracts we must liberare fidem, satisfy the engagement we have made, for thus we our selves would be dealt withal.