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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.
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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 Amos. 8.6. They sell the refuse of the wheat; the Corn-mongers, in those times they would pick out the best of their wheat, and yet sell the worst at the full price of the best: now, this the Lord condemns; and so in Isaiah, 1.22. They mingle wine with water, and dross with silver: the Scripture condemns this, to embase a Commodity from its primitive goodness, and yet to sell it at the full value of the best.
6. Do not imbase 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 Amos. 8.6. They sell the refuse of the wheat; the Corn-mongers, in those times they would pick out the best of their wheat, and yet sell the worst at the full price of the best: now, this the Lord condemns; and so in Esay, 1.22. They mingle wine with water, and dross with silver: the Scripture condemns this, to imbase a Commodity from its primitive goodness, and yet to sell it at the full value of the best.
7. Be not among the first that shall raise the price of a Commodity; this I hinted to you before, in Prov. 11.26. He that withholdeth corn the people shall curse him; but blessing shall be upon the head of him that selleth it.
7. Be not among the first that shall raise the price of a Commodity; this I hinted to you before, in Prov. 11.26. He that witholdeth corn the people shall curse him; but blessing shall be upon the head of him that selleth it.