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The young man's guide through the wilderness of this world to the heavenly Canaan…
The young man's guide through the wilderness of this world to the heavenly Canaan showing him how to carry himself Christian-like in the whole course of his life / by Tho. Gouge ...The young man's guide through the wilderness of this world to the heavenly Canaan shewing him how to carry himself Christian-like in the whole course of his life / by Tho. Gouge ...
London: printed by S. and B.G. for Nevil Simmons, 1676
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.
CHAP. XI. Setteth forth several frauds and deceits too frequently acted in matters of Commerce and Trading between Neighbour and Neighbour, with some general Rules for the preventing of them.
1. How many do use all the art they can to make their Wares look better and fairer than indeed they are, that so they may get more for their commodities than in truth they deserve? which is one kind of deceit
1. HOw many do use all the art they can to make their Wares look better and fairer than indeed they are, that so they may get more for their commodities than in truth they deserve? which is one kind of deceit
2. How many by lying, and equivocating do put off their •ad wares at the highest prices! commending that for the best of the kind, which they know to be stark naught; and so sell their Consciences with their commodities for a very inconsiderable advantage. Surely those are sad gains, that make a man lose peace of Conscience, and Heaven at last.
3. How many are apt to work upon the unskilfulness, and ignorance, or the necessity of the buyer? If they find him unskilful in the commodity he is buying, how are they apt to work upon it? and to demand an unreasonable price of him, far above the worth of it? Or if the buyer hath more than ordinary need of such a commodity, how apt is the seller to take advantage of his urgent necessity? making him to pay more for the same, than it is really worth, which is cruel injustice.