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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
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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.
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.
- 11.
- 2Oppression of under-trades-men.
Or otherwise, They love to oppress: Trades-men oppress 1their debtors, when they have gotten poor men into their debts then they will make them that they shall buy 2of them, and of none other, and so will put off any of their braided ware to them, and put it off at a deer rate. You will say, We sell it them, yea, but you force them to buy of you; for if they should go from you, then you fall upon them, and put them into prison, or evil entreat