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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.
§. 19. Quest. 18. If the thing bought and sold prove afterward of much more worth than was by either1 party understood (as in buying of Amber-chryse, and Jewels, it oft falleth out) is the buyer bound to give the seller more than was bargained for?
§. 19. Quest. 18. If the thing bought and sold prove afterward of much more worth than was by either1 party understood (as in buying of Amber-chryse, and Iewels, it oft falleth out) is the buyer bound to give the seller more than was bargained for?
- 1Quest. 18.
Answ. Yes, if it was the sellers mere ignorance and insufficiency in that business, which caused him so to undersell it: (As if an ignorant Country-man sell a Jewel or Amber-chryse, who knoweth not what it is, a moderate satisfaction should be made him). But if it was the sellers trade, in which he is to be supposed sufficient, and if it be taken for granted before hand, that both buyer and seller will stand to the bargain what ever it prove, and that the seller would have abated nothing if it had proved less worth than the price, then the buyer may enjoy his gain: Much more if he run any notable hazard for it, as Merchants use to do.
Answ. Yes, if it was the sellers meer ignorance and insufficiency in that business, which caused him so to undersell it: (As if an ignorant Countrey-man sell a Jewel or Amber-chryse, who knoweth not what it is, a moderate satisfaction should be made him). But if it was the sellers trade, in which he is to be supposed sufficient, and if it be taken for granted before hand, that both buyer and seller will stand to the bargain what ever it prove, and that the seller would have abated nothing if it had proved less worth than the price, then the buyer may enjoy his gain: Much more if he run any notable hazard for it, as Merchants use to do.