A26892:8882
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.
§. 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.
Answ. No: no more than you may cut anothers 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.
§. 7. Object. But it is taken for granted in the Market, that every man will get as much as he can have, and that Caveat emptor is the only security; and therefore every man trusteth to his own wit, and not to the sellers honesty, and so resolveth to run the hazard.