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7. The Tradesman's Justice must be showed in paying due Respects to the Laws and Orders of his Society. This Particular hath place only in those Places where such Societies are erected, and By-Laws and Orders made among themselves; to the observation whereof the Members of the same are usually obliged by a solemn Oath. Now supposing these said Laws to be consonant to God's Word, and to Right Reason, you are in Justice ⟨p. 116⟩and Conscience bound to give your Obedience to them; yea, tho it sometimes interfere with your particular Advantage. When thereby you are called to any Office of Charge or Trouble, you ought readily to discharge it; so that it be consistent with the Employments of your Calling, or other necessary Concernments: or else submit cheerfully to such Fines as are duly imposed.

7. The Tradesman's Justice must be shewed in paying due Respects to the Laws and Orders of his Society. This Particular hath place only in those Places where such Societies are erected, and By-Laws and Orders made among themselves; to the observation whereof the Members of the same are usually obliged by a solemn Oath. Now supposing these said Laws to be consonant to God's Word, and to Right Reason, you are in Justice ⟨p. 116⟩and Conscience bound to give your Obedience to them; yea, tho it sometimes interfere with your particular Advantage. When thereby you are called to any Office of Charge or Trouble, you ought readily to discharge it; so that it be consistent with the Imployments of your Calling, or other necessary Concernments: or else submit chearfully to such Fines as are duly imposed.

Again; Tho you might (for instance) import or export some Commodity to your great profit; yet if the same be prohibited by the Laws of your Society, you ought in Justice to forbear so doing. If there be Laws and Orders to which you are sworn, engaging you to employ no Foreigner in your Trade, lest those who served an Apprenticeship be discouraged, and left without Employment; you are bound in Justice to refuse all such Assistance, especially where in so doing you do really cross the End of those Constitutions. In a word, you ought in all things to consult the good of the Society as well as your own; yea, the future welfare thereof as well as the present, if you will be just unto your Obligations.