A25470:935
The Morning exercise [at] Cri[ppleg]ate, or, Several cases of conscience practically resolved
The Morning exercise [at] Cri[ppleg]ate, or, Several cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers, September 1661.
London: printed for Joshua Kirton and Nathaniel Webb, 1661
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
8. It is to be feared, that something very like unrighteousness is woven into the mystery of most Trades. And like Phidias his image in Minerva's shield, cannon be defaced without the ruin of it. I think this is not a groundless jealousy, but the confession and complaint of the most knowing and understanding persons in humane affair. I shall instance only in the slightness of work, the embasing of commodities, and setting them off by indirect advantages. I can only bewail this, for unless the world could generally be convinced of this, it is not like to be amended. Perfection is not to be looked for in this imperfect state, we must be content if things are passable.
8. It is to bee feared, that something very like unrighteousness is woven into the mystery of most Trades. And like Phideas his image in Minerva's shield, cannon be defaced without the ruine of it. I think this is not a groundless jealousie, but the confession and complaint of the most knowing and understanding persons in humane affair. I shall instance only in the sleightness of work, the imbasing of commodities, and setting them off by indirect advantages. I can only bewail this, for unless the world could generally be convinced of this, it is not like to be amended. Perfection is not to be looked for in this imperfect state, wee must be content if things are passable.
9. Nevertheless we ought to aspire after as great a degree of Righteousness ⟨p. 263⟩and Equity, as the condition of humane affairs will admit. We should bend all our endeavours to the bettering of the world, and not only avoid all unrighteousness, but draw back as much as in us lies from the indirect practices of the world, and from all appearance of unrighteousness.
9. Nevertheless wee ought to aspire after as great a degree of Righteousness ⟨p. 263⟩and Equity, as the condition of humane affairs will admit. Wee should bend all our endeavours to the bettering of the world, and not only avoid all unrighteousness, but draw back as much as in us lyes from the indirect practices of the world, and from all appearance of unrighteousness.