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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 4: Of Truth or Veracity in a Trade.
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2. By the Light of Scripture. Which doth constantly command Sincerity and Truth, and forbid the contrary, Zech. 8. 16. These are the things that ye shall do, Speak ye every Man Truth to his Neighbour. It describes a good Man by his Veracity: Prov. 13. 5. A righteous Man hateth Lying: Urgeth it with most pregnant Reasons, Ephes. 4. 25. Wherefore putting away lying, speak every Man (no Man, no not the Tradesman excepted) Truth with his Neighbour: for we are Members one of another: Where the Apostle ushers in his Exhortation with one strong Reason, couched in the Illative [Wherefore] which shows that this is an Inference from the foregoing Verses. q. d. You have put off the old Man with his Deeds: All of ⟨p. 140⟩you professedly, all true Christians really. It is ridiculous and shameful for him that is invested with new Robes to retain any one foul Rag upon him: And ye have put on the new Man after the Image of Christ, who is Truth, and so it is fit that all his Members be in the same Livery. And then, he backs his Exhortation with another Reason; We are Members one of another. Now every Man will be true to himself, will never go about willingly to deceive himself: It were a monstrous thing for one Member of the Body to go about to impose upon another. Now we are all of us Members of one another.
2. By the Light of Scripture. Which doth constantly command Sincerity and Truth, and forbid the contrary, Zech. 8. 16. These are the things that ye shall do, Speak ye every Man Truth to his Neighbour. It describes a good Man by his Veracity: Prov. 13. 5. A righteous Man hateth Lying: Urgeth it with most pregnant Reasons, Ephes. 4. 25. Wherefore putting away lying, speak every Man (no Man, no not the Tradesman excepted) Truth with his Neighbour: for we are Members one of another: Where the Apostle ushers in his Exhortation with one strong Reason, couch'd in the Illative [Wherefore] which shews that this is an Inference from the foregoing Verses. q. d. You have put off the old Man with his Deeds: All of