The trades-man's calling being a discourse concerning the nature, necessity, choice, &c. of a…

(2.) In your Bargains, Justice forbids your taking advantage of another's Necessity. A Man's Necessity may be twofold, Respective or Conditional: as when, for instance, your Fellow-Tradesman needs some Commodity of yours to serve his Customer withal; in such cases you must do to others as you would be done unto. But there is also an Absolute or Extreme Necessity. A poor Workman or Work-woman must needs sell now to buy their Family Bread. A poor Man must needs buy such a Commodity needful for Back or Belly; now to beat down the Price with the former of these, or to screw up the latter, one jot beyond that which you could and would afford it to them, in case you knew of no such Necessity, is manifest Injustice; and Oppression is added to it. And I restrain it not to these cases alone, but exhort you in no case to lie on the catch, to make your Markets of others Straits; for no Man would willingly be so dealt with; and Estates so gotten will be like Gravel between your Teeth. Nay, your Compassion should incline you rather to deal better with those, whose wants bring them to you, than you would with those that ⟨p. 110⟩stand in no need of your Consideration, and the righteous God will recompense you.

(2.) In your Bargains, Justice forbids your taking advantage of anothers Necessity. A Man's Necessity may be twofold, Respective or Conditional: as when, for instance, your Fellow-Tradesman needs some Commodity of yours to serve his Customer withal; in such cases you must do to others as you would be done unto. But there is also an Absolute or Extream Necessity. A poor Workman or Work-woman must needs sell now to buy their Family Bread. A poor Man must needs buy such a Commodity needful for Back or Belly; now to beat down the Price with the former of these, or to screw up the latter, one jot beyond that which you could and would afford it to them, in case you knew of no such Necessity, is manifest Injustice; and Oppression is added to it. And I restrain it not to these cases alone, but exhort you in no case to lie on the catch, to make your Markets of others Straits; for no Man would willingly be so dealt with; and Estates so gotten will be like Gravel between your Teeth. Nay, your Compassion should incline you rather to deal better with those, whose wants bring them to you, than you would with those that ⟨p. 110⟩stand in no need of your Consideration, and the righteous God will recompence you.