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

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, 2. Sam. 24.24. saith he I will buy it of thee at the full value of it.

5. Do not long defer the paying for those Commodities which you have bought, when thou hast by the where with all to pay it: there is an excellent place for this in Prov. 3, 27, 28. withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thy hand to do it: say not unto thy neighbour, Go and come again, and to morrow I will give, when thou hast it by thee, This text is referred to works of mercy, but it hath relation to buying and selling, and trading in the world: If you owe a man money for a Commodity, you ought to pay him, and not to let him come day after day for it: and go without it, when you have it by you, 2 Kings. 4.7. it is the badge of a wicked man in Scripture, not to pay his debts, in Psal. 37.21. The wicked borroweth and payeth not again.