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Scripture rules to be observed in buying and selling. By Mr. Christopher Love, late…
Scripture rules to be observed in buying and selling. By Mr. Christopher Love, late minister at Lawrence-Jewry, London.
London, : s.n., 1652
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SCRIPTURE-RULES to be observed in Buying and Selling. › Rules Concerning Selling Commodities.
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.
1. IF you would not transgress Scripture rules in selling Commodities; then in the first place do not multiply words in selling; the Scripture affords many examples for this, as in Gen. 23.15. Abraham, as I told you before, when he was to buy the cave of Machpelah, of Ephron, he told him that it was worth four hundred shekels of silver, and Abraham presently gave him so much currant money with the merchant: And so God Himself takes upon Him to be a seller, in Zech. 11.12. if you think good, saith God, Give me my price; if not, forbear; multiplicity of words is needless; In a multitude of words (saith Solomon) there is sin: Men should not lavish and frolic in a shop.
1. IF you would not transgress Scripture rules in selling Commodities; then in the first place do not multiply words in selling; the Scripture affords many examples for this, as in Gen. 23.15. Abraham, as I told you before, when he was to buy the cave of Machpelah, of Ephron, he told him that it was worth four hundred shekels of silver, and Abraham presently gave him so much currant monie with the merchant: And so God Himself takes upon Him to be a seller, in Zech. 11.12. if you think good, saith God, Give me my price; if not, forbear; multiplicity of words is needless; In a multitude of words (saith Solomon) there is sin: Men should not lavish and frolick in a shop.
2. Do not commend and over-praise a commodity, when you know in your conscience. that there is a fault in it! this is a vicious carriage in the seller, when he shall use abundance of fine words to set out a Commodity when it is not good. As the buyer should not discommend a Commodity when it is good; so should not the seller over-praise and commend a Commodity, when it is naught.