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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.
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.
§. 20. Quest. 19. What if the title of the thing sold prove bad, which was before unknown?1
- 1Quest. 19.
Answ. If the seller either knew it was bad, or through his notable negligence was ignorant of it, or did not fully acquaint the buyer with so much of the uncertainty and danger as he knew; or if it was any way his fault that the buyer was deceived, and not the buyers fault, he is bound to make him proportionable satisfaction. As also in case that by Law or bargain he be bound to warrant the title to the buyer. But not in case that it be their explicit or implicit agreement that the buyer stand to the hazard, and the seller hath done his duty to make him know whats doubtful.