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(3.) Make not your Advantage in your Bargains of others Unskilfulness. Every Man hath not the like Sagacity, and the weak may easily forget, mistake, and overshoot themselves: Now God hath not given to you greater Parts for the hurt, but for the help of your Neighbour; and for you to employ them to his Detriment is quite to pervert the use them. The Buyer perhaps knows not the true worth of what he is about; as for Example, the best Edition of the Book he would buy. The Seller sometimes knows not the true value of what you are buying of him. Now may you make a prize of his over-sight? No, here comes in that Royal Law, Thou shalt love thy Neighbour as thy self. No Man would over-reach or defraud himself, and why will you deal so with your Brother? Say not, Let every Man understand his own Business, and our Wit and Parts are Talents given us to improve to our own advantage, as well as our Estates. For tho every one should endeavour to be skilled in their own Affairs, yet certainly God hath not bestowed upon all the same natural Abilities or Opportunity, no more than the like portion of outward Estates; and whosoever hath a greater measure either of inward Qualifications, or outward Estate, hath an Obligation upon him with them, to relieve, and not to ruin those that are defective, according to that Rule in another case, Rom. 15. 1. We then that are strong, ought to bear the Infirmities of the weak, and not to please (or seek) our selves.

(3.) Make not your Advantage in your Bargains of others Ʋnskilfulness. Every Man hath not the like Sagacity, and the weak may easily forget, mistake, and overshoot themselves: Now God hath not given to you greater Parts for the hurt, but for the help of your Neighbour; and for you to imploy them to his Detriment is quite to pervert the use them. The Buyer perhaps knows not the true worth of what he is about; as for Example, the best Edition of the Book he would buy. The Seller sometimes knows not the true value of what you are buying of him. Now may you make a prize of his over-sight? No, here comes in that Royal Law, Thou shalt love thy Neighbour as thy self. No Man would over-reach or defraud himself, and why will you deal so with your Brother? Say not, Let every Man understand his own Business, and our Wit and Parts are Talents given us to improve to our own advantage, as well as our Estates. For tho every one should indeavour to be skill'd in their own Affairs, yet certainly God hath not bestow'd upon all the same natural Abilities or Opportunity, no more than the like portion of outward Estates; and whosoever hath a greater measure either of inward Qualifications, or outward Estate, hath an Obligation upon him with them, to relieve, and not to ruine those that are defective, according to that Rule in another case,