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A fourth volume containing one hundred and fifty sermons on several texts of Scripture…
A fourth volume containing one hundred and fifty sermons on several texts of Scripture in two parts : part the first containing LXXIV sermons : part the second containing LXXVI sermons : with an alphabetical table to the whole / by ... Thomas Manton ...
London: printed by J. D., 1693
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.
(2.) There is a Due that ariseth by way of Bargain and Contract: Rom. 13.8. Owe no Man any thing, but to love one another. If Money be borrowed, but not restored, it is Theft and Injustice. If you bargain with another, the full Bargain is due to him. 1 Thess. 4.6. Let no Man go beyond, or defraud his Brother in any Matter, because that the Lord is the Avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified. He is to enjoy his full Bargain. The Apostle saw a need of enforcing this Doctrine in the Church, to prevent the Iniquity of Traffic. The Seller is not to work upon the Simplicity of the Buyer, nor the Buyer upon the Necessity of the Seller; but all things must be done equally, else God will be offended. But chiefly is this Iniquity committed, (and that it is in an high degree) when the Reward you are to give, is not bought with Money, but earned with Labour. Defrauding the Hireling and Servants of their Wages, is a very crying Sin, the greatest height of Iniquity; it cries in the Ears of the Lord of Hosts; James 5.4. Behold the Hire of the Labourers which have reaped down your Fields, which is of you kept back by Fraud, crieth: and the Cries of them which have reaped, are entered into the Ears of the Lord of Sabaoth. God is their Patron. This is a grievous Sin, because it is their Life, and their Support and Solace: Deut. 24.14, 15. Thou shalt not oppress an hired Servant, that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy Brethren, or of the Strangers that are in thy Land within thy Gates. At his Day thou shalt give him his Hire; neither shall the Sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his Heart upon it: lest he cry against thee unto the Lord, and it be Sin unto thee. It is often spoken of in Scripture: There is a greater and more pressing Inconvenience to defraud the Labourer, than to defraud others.
(2.) There is a Due that ariseth by way of Bargain and Contract: Rom. 13.8. Owe no Man any thing, but to love one another. If Mony be borrowed, but not restored, it is Theft and Injustice. If you bargain with another, the full Bargain is due to him.