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Heavenly merchandiseHeavenly merchandize
Heavenly merchandise; or The purchasing of truth recommended and the selling of it dissuaded; as it was delivered in several sermons upon Prov. 23. 23. / By Samuel Willard, teacher of a church in Boston. ; [Three lines of Scripture text]Heavenly merchandize; or The purchasing of truth recommended and the selling of it disswaded; as it was delivered in several sermons upon Prov. 23. 23. / By Samuel Willard, teacher of a church in Boston. ; [Three lines of Scripture text]
printed by Samuel Green, 1686
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
4: What is the import of the phrase of Selling?
A. Buying and Selling are relates, and so they are contraries; the word (we have observed) firstly signifies the delivering of a thing up. Selling, according to the common use of the word, is properly the parting with a mans propriety in a thing, for some other thing which is given him in exchange for it: A man is both a buyer and seller at the same time, in divers respects: that which he purchaseth a right to, that he buys, and that which he parts with his right in for it, that he sells: but a little more particularly.
1. Selling implies an interest in a thing; a man must have a thing before he can sell it: he must be some way or other possest of it. Now men may two ways be said to be possest of the Truth; either,
1. Selling implies an intrest in a thing; a man must have a thing before he can sell it: he must be some way or other possest of it. Now men may two ways be said to be possest of the Truth; either,
1. When they have in an open profession owned and acknowledged the Truth of the Gospel; when they have attained unto a literal understanding of, and give an historical assent and credit to the Doctrines of life