The young man's guide through the wilderness of this world to the heavenly Canaan…

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.

Or when poor people expose their Wares to sale which they have wrought up, to buy Bread for themselves and Family: How many are there who take advantage of their necessity, offering them little more for the same, than their goods cost them before they were wrought up! which is an high degree of oppression, forcing them to sell their tears, sighs, and groans with their wares, because they are necessitated to part with them at such low rates. Thus many sell their souls for the gaining a few pence, and then bless themselves in their good bargain.