Scripture rules to be observed in buying and selling. By Mr. Christopher Love, late…

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.

3. Do not sell thy Commodities by false weights nor by false measures; do not keep a deceitful balance, or a deceitful measure; this is condemned in Amos. 8.5. They make the Ephah small, and the Shekel great, and falsify the ••••ances by deceit: and so in the 20. of Prov. 10. Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike an abomination unto the Lord. Now, this is spoken, not that the weights and measures in themselves are an abomination to the Lord, but only those men that do use, and keep, and sell by those weights and measures; and therefore the Lord gave a special law for this, to all that did follow trades in Israel, in Deut. 25.14, 15. saith God there, Thou shalt not have in thy house diverse measures, a great and a small, that is, a great measure to buy by and a small one to sell by; Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small, but thou shalt have a perfect and a just weight, and a perfect and a just measure shalt thou have, that thy days may be long in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee; and so in Micah. 6.10. Is there yet, saith God, the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure, which is an abomination unto the Lord.

3. Do not sell thy Commodities by false weights nor by false measures; do not keep a deceitful ballance, or a deceitful measure; this is condemned in