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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.
Or now, Those that work upon the necessity in buying, as sometimes when men bring over Commodities, and must bring over such Commodities, you will let them lie to the last period, that so you may have them at any rate, and so when you come to know that men must needs have a Commodity of you, then to raise the price so as they cannot live upon it, this is even to drink their very blood, this is Oppression.
They love to oppress: (that is) The poor of their wages.1
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There are many poor men that are servants to you that are Merchants, and Trades-men, they live upon their 1labour, and they must come and fetch Commodities of 2you, that they must live by; now you knowing their necessity that they must have your work, therefore you beat down their wages, and not give unto them according as they may maintain their families: you will say, I do not wrong them, If he doth not, another will, I but that will not serve the turn.
There are many poor men that are servants to you that are Merchants, and Trades-men, they live upon their 1labor, and they must come and fetch Commodities of 2you, that they must live by; now you knowing their necessity that they must have your work, therfore you beat down their wages, and not give unto them according as they may maintain their families: you will say, I do not wrong them, If he doth not, another will, I but that will not serve the turn.