A26892:8892
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.
§. 11. Quest. 10. May I buy as cheap as I can get it, or give less than the thing is worth?1
- 1Quest. 10.
Answ. If it be worth more to you than the Market price (through your necessity) you are not bound to give above the market price: If it be worth less to you than the market price, you are not bound to give more than it is worth to you, as suited to your use: But you must not desire nor seek to get another's goods or labour for less than it is worth in both these respects (in common estimate, and to you).
Answ. If it be worth more to you than the Market price (through your necessity) you are not bound to give above the market price: If it be worth less to you than the market price, you are not bound to give more than it is worth to you, as suited to your use: But you must not desire nor seek to get anothers goods or labour for less than it is worth in both these respects (in common estimate, and to you).
§. 12. Quest. 11. May I take advantage of another's Necessity to buy for less than the worth, or sell1 for more: As e. g. a poor man must needs have money suddenly for his goods though he sell them but for half the worth: and I have no need of them: Am I bound to give him the worth when I have no need? and when it is a great kindness to him to give him any thing in that straight? So also when I have no desire to sell my Horse, and another's necessity maketh him willing to give more than he is worth, may I not take it?