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

5. In selling a Commodity, do not work upon the ignorance or simplicity of the man that comes to buy the Commodity; but if you discern him to be unskilful, rather use him the better, than the worse; in Zepha. 1.9. says God there, In the same day also will I punish all those young men, that leap on the threshold, which fill their masters houses with violence and deceit? and so in 1 Thes. 4.6. Let no man (saves the Apostle) go beyond or defraud his brother in any matter, for the Lord is the avenger of all such; and so in 2 Pet. 2, 3. And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you, whose judgement lingereth not. When men shall work upon the ignorance of the buyer, and so advance the price of the Commodity; this is a great sin.

5. In selling a Commodity, do not work upon the ignorance or simplicity of the man that comes to buy the Commodity; but if you discern him to be unskilful, rather use him the better, than the worse; in Zepha. 1.9. sayes God there, In the same day also will I punish all those young men, that leap on the threshold, which fill their maisters houses with violence and deceit? and so in 1 Thes. 4.6. Let no man (saves the Apostle) go beyond or defraud his brother in any matter, for the Lord is the avenger of all such; and so in 2 Pet. 2, 3. And through covetousnesse shall they with fained words make merchandise of you, whose judgement lingereth not. When men shall work upon the ignorance of the buyer, and so advance the price of the Commodity; this is a great sin.

6. Do not embase a Commodity from its primitive worth and goodness, and yet sell it at the full price, as if it were good, thereby to get the more by it: this the Scripture condemns in