II. Neg. 1. It is not lawful for any one to seek Riches or Trade abroad or at home, principally for the Love of Riches, to raise himself and family to fullness, prosperity or dignity; though all this may be desired when it is a Means to Gods service, and honour, and the public good, and is desired principally as such a Means.
2. It is not lawful to go abroad, especially into Infidel or Popish Countries, without such a justifiable business, whose Commodity will suffice to weigh down all the losses and dangers of the remove.
3. The dangers and losses of the soul are to be valued much above those of the body and estate, and cannot be weighed down by any mere corporal commodity.
4. It is more dangerous usually to go among Turks and Heathens (whose Religion hath no tempting power to seduce men) than among Socinians, or Papists, whose errors and sins are cunningly and learnedly promoted and defended.
5. It is not lawful for Merchants or others for Trade and love of wealth or money, to send poor raw unsettled youths into such Countries where their souls are like to be notably endangered, either by being deprived of such teaching and Church helps which they need, or by being exposed to the dangerous temptations of the place: Because their souls are of more worth than money.
6. It is not lawful therefore for Master or servant to venture his own soul in such a case as this last mentioned; that is, so far as he is free, and without necessity doth it only for commodity sake.
7. We may not go where we cannot publicly worship God, without necessity, or some inducement from a greater good.
8. The more of these hinderances concur, the greater is the sin: It is therefore a mere wilful casting away of their own souls, when unfurnished unsettled youths (or others like them) shall for mere humour, fancy, or covetousness leave such a Land as this, where they have both public and private helps for their salvation, and to go among Papists, Infidels or Heathens, where talk or ill example is like to endanger them, and no great good can be expected to countervail such a hazard, nor is there any true necessity to drive them, and where they cannot publicly worship God, no nor openly own the truth, and where they have not so much as any private company to converse with, that is fit to further their preservation and salvation, and all this of their own accord, &c.
II. Neg. 1. It is not lawful for any one to seek Riches or Trade abroad or at home, principally for the Love of Riches, to raise himself and family to fulness, prosperity or dignity; though all this may be desired when it is a Means to Gods service, and honour, and the publick good, and is desired principally as such a Means.
2. It is not lawful to go abroad, especially into Infidel or Popish Countreys, without such a justifiable business, whose Commodity will suffice to weigh down all the losses and dangers of the remove.
3. The dangers and losses of the soul are to be valued much above those of the body and estate, and cannot be weighed down by any meer corporal commodity.
4. It is more dangerous usually to go among Turks and Heathens (whose Religion hath no tempting power to seduce men) than among Socinians, or Papists, whose errors and sins are cunningly and learnedly promoted and defended.
5. It is not lawful for Merchants or others for Trade and love of wealth or money, to send poor raw unsetled youths into such Countreys where their souls are like to be notably endangered, either by being deprived of such teaching and Church helps which they need, or by being exposed to the dangerous temptations of the place: Because their souls are of more worth than money.
6. It is not lawful therefore for Master or servant to venture his own soul in such a case as this last mentioned; that is, so far as he is free, and without necessity doth it only for commodity sake.
7. We may not go where we cannot publickly worship God, without necessity, or some inducement from a greater good.
8. The more of these hinderances concurr, the greater is the sin: It is therefore a meer wilful casting away of their own souls, when unfurnished unsetled youths (or others like them) shall for meer humour, fancy, or covetousness leave such a Land as this, where they have both publick and private helps for their salvation, and to go among Papists, Infidels or Heathens, where talk or ill example is like to endanger them, and no great good can be expected to countervail such a hazard, nor is there any true necessity to drive them, and where they cannot publickly worship God, no nor openly own the truth, and where they have not so much as any private company to converse with, that is fit to further their preservation and salvation, and all this of their own accord, &c.
