A25470:936
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.
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.
3. The more Particular Rules are these.
1. Impose upon no mans ignorance or unskilfulness. Thou mayest set a just value upon thine own commodity, but not a price upon another mans head; I mean, thou mayest not tate a mans want of understanding, or set a tax upon his ignorance; therefore take no advantage of children, or any other incompetent persons, and do not only use them with justice, but with ingenuity, as those that repose a trust in you, and cast themselves upon your equity. And here are some questions to be resolved.