The works of George Swinnock, M.A

So unjust men, by their greediness to enrich, usually ruin themselves; such goods are like the Fox which Plutarch mentions the Lacedaemonian boy to have stolen, and rather then he would be discovered, put it into his breeches, but it quickly did tear out his bowels.

So unjust men, by their greediness to inrich, usually ruine themselves; such goods are like the Fox which Plutarch mentions the Lacedemonian boy to have stollen, and rather then he would be discovered, put it into his breeches, but it quickly did tear out his bowels.

¹Be righteous in the manner of thy selling. The Seller may not exact upon the Buyers necessity, but sell by the rule of equity. I am not bound to sell cheap, because I buy cheap, neither may I sell dear because I buy dear. Not my buying or selling, so much as the price of the Market should be my standard. Though I conceive a Market rate to be most righteous, yet its wicked by keeping in commodities to raise the Market. He that with-holdeth Corn, the people shall curse him, Prov. 11. 26. Such a man like a corrupt imposthumated member, would draw all the nourishment to himself, and cares not though the other parts of the body perish, but the people shall curse him. This Oak which will suffer no small trees to thrive near it, will in time fall with the breath of so many curses.

¹Be righteous in the manner of thy selling. The Seller may not exact upon the Buyers necessity, but sell by the rule of equity. I am not bound to sell cheap, because I buy cheap, neither may I sell dear because I buy dear. Not my buying or selling, so much as the price of the Market should be my standard. Though I conceive a Market rate to be most righteous, yet its wicked by keeping in commodities to raise the Market. He that with-holdeth Corn, the people shall curse him, Prov. 11. 26