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A Christian Directory
A Christian directory, or, A sum of practical theology and cases of conscience directing Christians how to use their knowledge and faith, how to improve all helps and means, and to perform all duties, how to overcome temptations, and to escape or mortify every sin : in four parts ... / by Richard Baxter.A Christian directory, or, A summ of practical theologie and cases of conscience directing Christians how to use their knowledge and faith, how to improve all helps and means, and to perform all duties, how to overcome temptations, and to escape or mortifie every sin : in four parts ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by Robert White for Nevill Simmons, 1673
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
2. And as for concealing the fault the case is the same: You ought not to deceive your neighbour, but to do as you would be done by: And therefore must not conceal any fault which he desireth, or is concerned to know: Except it be when you deal with one who maketh a far greater matter of that fault than there is cause, and would wrong you in the price if it were known: Yea, and that exception will not hold neither, except in a case when you must needs sell, and they must buy it: Because 1. You may not have another mans money against his will, though it be no more than the thing is worth. 2. Because it will be scandalous when the fault is known by him that buyeth it.
§. 6. Quest. 6. What if the fault was concealed from me when I bought it, or if I was deceived1 or over-reached by him that sold it me, and gave more than the worth, may I not repair my loss by doing as I was done by?
§. 6. Quest. 6. What if the fault was concealed from me when I bought it, or if I was deceived1 or over-reacht by him that sold it me, and gave more than the worth, may I not repair my loss by doing as I was done by?
- 1Quest. 6.
Answ. No: no more than you may cut another's purse, because yours was cut: You must do as you would be done by, and not as you are done by. What you may do with the same man that deceived you, is a harder question: But doubtless you may not wrong an honest man, because you were wronged by a knave.