B04194:8
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 Buying 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.
3. Do not give counterfeit, money for those Commodities you buy; this you have an example of in Abraham, when he was to buy the field in Machpelah of Ephron the Hittite, for a burying Place, in Gen. 23.16. saith Abraham, I will give thee four hundred shekels of silver, currant money with the merchant; And therefore you transgress Scripture rules, if you know you have brass money, or counterfeit gold about you, and yet pay it away for commodities, you sin in doing so, though you your self took it for Commodities.
3. Do not give counterfeit, money for those Commodities you buy; this you have an example of in Abraham, when he was to buy the field in Machpelah of Ephron the Hittite, for a burying Place, in Gen. 23.16. saith Abraham, I will give thee four hundred shekels of silver, currant money with the merchand; And therefore you transgress Scripture rules, if you know you have brass money, or counterfeit gold about you, and yet pay it away for commodities, you sin in doing so, though you your self took it for Commodities.
4. Do not give for a commodity less than in your conscience you think it is worth; It is an open oppression in buying, when you seek to bring a Commodity under its due value and worth. Abraham when he was to buy the Cave in Machpelah of Ephron, saith he, I will give thee the worth of it in money: And so David when he was to buy the threshing-floor of Araunah the Jebusite, 2. Sam. 24.24. saith he I will buy it of thee at the full value of it.
4. Do not give for a commoditie less than in your conscience you think it is worth; It is an open oppression in buying, when you seek to bring a Commodity under its due value and worth. Abraham when he was to buy the Cave in Machpelah of Ephron, saith he, I will give thee the worth of it in money: And so David when he was to buy the threshing-floor of Araunah the Jebusite,