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The works of George Swinnock, M.A
The works of George Swinnock, M.A. containing these several treatises ...
London: printed by J.B. for Tho. Parkhurst, 1665
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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.
Be righteous in buying. Take heed lest thou layest out thy money to purchase endless misery. Some have bought places to bury their bodies in, but more have bought those commodities which have swallowed up their souls. Injustice in buying, is a Canker which will eat up, and waste the most durable wares. An unjust Chapman, like Phocion, payeth for that poison which kills him, and buyeth his own bane. A true Christian, will in buying as well as selling use a conscience. Austin relates a story of an Histrionical Mountebank, who to gain spectators, promised ⟨p. 18⟩if they would come the next day, he would tell them what every ones heart desired. When they all flocked about him at the time appointed, expecting the performance of his word, he told them, This is the desire of every of your hearts, to sell dear and buy cheap; but its a sign he was an Empiric by the falseness of his bill; for a good man would buy as dear as he selleth. His buying and selling are like two scales, that hang in an equal poise.
Be righteous in buying. Take heed lest thou layest out thy money to purchase endless misery. Some have bought places to bury their bodies in, but more have bought those commodities which have swallowed up their souls. Injustice in buying, is a Canker which will eat up, and waste the most durable wares. An unjust Chapman, like Phocion, payeth for that poison which kills him, and buyeth his own bane. A true Christian, will in buying as well as selling use a conscience. Austin relates a story of an Histrionical Mountebank, who to gain spectatours, promised ⟨p. 18⟩if they would come the next day, he would tell them what every ones heart desired. When they all flocked about him at the time appointed, expecting the performance of his word, he told them, This is the desire of every of your hearts, to sell dear and buy cheap; but its a sign he was an Emperick by the falseness of his bill; for a good man would buy as dear as he selleth. His buying and selling are like two scales, that hang in an equal poize.