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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.
'Tis an evil rule which some men propose to themselves, and take to be warrantable enough, To buy as cheap, and sell as dear as they can, that is, to wrong and over-reach if they be able; if they be honest, 'tis because they cannot help it. And 'tis a poor shift they allege to save themselves from blame, viz. Caveat emptor, let the buyer look to himself. Wherefore hath he his eyes and understanding? If he be deceived, he hath deceived himself. Is that all thou hast to say, Caveat Emptor? Why that's no more but this, Let him count me a knave that he hath to do with: let him trust his own eyes, and not my words, or Oaths, o• Conscience, for there's no trust to be given to them. Is not this it thou sayest, and dost thou not herein say well for thy self?
'Tis an evil rule which some men propose to themselves, and take to be warrantable enough, To buy as cheap, and sell as dear as they can, that is, to wrong and over-reach if they be able; if they be honest, 'tis because they cannot help it. And 'tis a poor shift they alledge to save themselves from blame, viz. Caveat emptor, let the buyer look to himself. Wherefore hath he his eyes and understanding? If he be deceived, he hath deceived himself. Is that all thou hast to say, Caveat Emptor? Why that's no more but this, Let him count me a knave that he hath to do with: let him trust his own eyes, and not my words, or Oaths, o• Conscience, for there's no trust to be given to them. Is not this it thou sayest, and dost thou not herein say well for thy self?
4. How many do deceive their neighbours in weights and measures, using false weights and false measures, and yet take the full price for their commodities? which is a plain cheat, that is abominable in the sight of God, as Prov. 20. 10. Divers weights, and divers measures both of them are alike abomination to the Lord. As if he had said, Though men may make light of this kind of deceit, and haply boast of it, yet God abhors it, and the rather, because it is a sin that tends to the overthrow of humane society.