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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eleventh, twelfth, & thirteenth chapters of…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eleventh, twelfth, & thirteenth chapters of the prophesy of Hosea being first delivered in several lectures at Michaels Cornhill, London / by Jeremiah Burroughs ; being the seventh book published by Thomas Goodwin ... [et al.]An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eleventh, twelfth, & thirteenth chapters of the prophesy of Hosea being first delivered in several lectures at Michaels Cornhil, London / by Jeremiah Burroughs ; being the seventh book published by Thomas Goodwin ... [et al.]
London: printed by Peter Cole, 1651
Title page typeset from the transcription.
AN EXPOSITION Of the PROPHESY of HOSEA. › Chapter 12 › Verse 7: VER. 7.
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.
What oppression is there in Trading? If I buy a commodity and sell it again, what oppression can there be? 1There may be oppression in Trading, As thus:
- 1Oppression in Trading.
1. Oppression in Monopolizing of Commodities, that 1poor men that have been brought up to such a Trade, and that have no other livelihood at all but that, that a few men get into their own hand, and make such use of it themselves that poor men are not able to live by them, this is oppression; Certainly this monopolizing in Trading is a great oppression, the Lord hath in great measure delivered us, but not wholly delivered us from that, there is a great cry in many parts of the Land still of that.
- 11. Monopolizing Commodities.
And then Secondly, Oppression in Trading; when as 1men take the advantages of mens weaknesses that they deal withal in their Trading: but especially when they take advantages of mens necessities, that is, If I know that such a man must sell his Commodity, now for men to take advantage of his necessity and therefore beat it down, so as even almost to undo a man because he is necessitated for the selling of it. I verily believe you know the meaning of such things as these are.