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The trades-man's calling being a discourse concerning the nature, necessity, choice, &c. of a…
The trades-man's calling being a discourse concerning the nature, necessity, choice, &c. of a calling in general : and directions for the right managing of the tradesman's calling in particular / by Richard Steele ...
London: printed by J.D. for Samuel Sprint, 1684
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THE Tradesman's Calling. › Chapter 5 › Section 3: Of Justice in a Trade.
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2. This Justice is every Man's Interest. It is the sound and safe way to Prosperity: In that Deut. 16. 20. That which is altogether just thou shalt follow, that thou mayst live, and inherit the Land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. Other ways possibly may be speedier to Riches, but this is the safe way. Psal. 5. 12. For the Lord will bless the Righteous, with Favour wilt thou compass him as with a Shield. Tho it please God to suffer some right honest Men to be poor and distressed in this Life, ⟨p. 99⟩to evince that there is a Judgment to come; yet he doth manifestly favour others with temporal Blessings, to show that there is a Providence at the present. And on the contrary, the most certain way to Crosses, Poverty, Misery, and Hell after all, is Injustice. Endless Instances hereof are in every place: Every Assizes bears witness hereunto. And if there were a Collection of all the Injuries, and the shameful Issue of them, adjudged in these Judicatories year by year, you would see a famous Commentary upon the just Threatenings of God against Sins of this kind. Besides, those secret Executions done by divine Vengeance, sometimes on the Persons themselves, and on their Estates; sometimes on their Posterity, in theirs; which secretly moulder away, none imagining the cause, but only God. A Fire not blown shall consume him, it shall go ill with him that is left in his Tabernacles: Job 20. 26. Upon all which accounts, it is highly necessary, that the Tradesman be exact and just in all his ways.
2. This Justice is every Man's Interest. It is the sound and safe way to Prosperity: In that Deut. 16. 20. That which is altogether just thou shalt follow, that thou mayst live, and inherit the Land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. Other ways possibly may be speedier to Riches, but this is the safe way. Psal. 5. 12. For the Lord will bless the Righteous, with Favour wilt thou compass him as with a Shield. Tho it please God to suffer some right honest Men to be poor and distressed in this Life,