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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.
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.
Much less may you deceitfully thrust in a baser Stuff or Metal instead of a better; hereby cheating you Customer in the Price, tho he should never come to know it, yea, tho it should do him equal Service: for this is to impose upon his Ignorance, and to extort from him a Price above the true value of the Commodity. Say not, that the common Price will not allow, that you should bestow any more Care or Pains about your Work: For it is the Slightness of the Work which in many cases hath abated the Price; which if you would generally reform, you might and would in a short time raise up the Price to the just value of your Work; and this Tract is designed to rectify not only one or two Tradesmen, but the Generality; and particularly all such as desire to walk honestly, and to procure the Blessing of God.
Much less may you deceitfully thrust in a baser Stuff or Metal instead of a better; hereby cheating you Customer in the Price, tho he should never come to know it, yea, tho it should do him equal Service: for this is to impose upon his Ignorance, and to extort from him a Price above the true value of the Commodity. Say not, that the common Price will not allow, that you should bestow any more Care or Pains about your Work: For it is the Slightness of the Work which in many cases hath abated the Price; which if you would generally reform, you might and would in a short time raise up the Price to the just value of your Work; and this Tract is design'd to rectify not only one or two Tradesmen, but the Generality; and particularly all such as desire to walk honestly, and to procure the Blessing of God.
5. This Justice consists in making conscionable Bargains. And herein lies all the Employment of divers Tradesmen, to wit, in Buying and Selling. Now Justice doth incline a Man neither to buy too cheap, nor to sell too dear: but to deal with ⟨p. 107⟩others, as he would desire to be dealt with. So that here;
5. This Justice consists in making conscionable Bargains. And herein lies all the Imployment of divers Tradesmen, to wit, in Buying and Selling. Now Justice doth incline a Man neither to buy too cheap, nor to sell too dear: but to deal with