Fair dealing between debtor and creditor. A very brief essay upon the caution to…

One Point of Morality, wherein we are told, that many People are defective, is, The Caution with which Peoples Running into Debt, and Lying in it when they have run into it, ought for ever to be regulated. People there ⟨p. 3⟩are, too many, who do bring Debts upon themselves, in such a manner, and in such a measure, that a Folly nothing short of Criminal, is to be charged upon them. And when they have brought such Debts upon themselves, their Delay to get from under them, is what also amounts unto a Crime, for which they are to be Indicted, as not having the Fear of God before their Eyes. There are some Circumstances of the Day, which may render a Discourse on this Point of Morality, singularly Seasonable. But indeed it were never out of Season. And, I would humbly hope, that not only the Creditors, but even the Debtors too, will anon be Thankful, for the Advice which is now Faithfully to be dispensed unto them.

To check the Errors too often committed by Contracting of Debts, and by Continuing in them, I now read unto you a Sentence of the Sacred Oracles, before which we ought all to tremble as before the Vibrations of a Thunderbolt. It is the Voice of the ETERNAL, that is now conveyed unto us, by the Pen of an Inspired Apostle. The God of Glory Thunders in it; May His Voice be so Powerful, as to produce an universal Compliance among us, an universal Obedience unto it.

To check the Errors too often committed by Contracting of Debts, and by Continuing in them, I now read unto you a Sentence of the Sacred Oracles, before which we ought all to tremble as before the Vibrations of a Thunderbolt. It is the Voice of the ETERNAL, that is now convey'd unto us, by the Pen of an Inspired Apostle. The God of Glory Thunders in it; May His Voice be so Powerful, as to produce an universal Compliance among us, an universal Obedience unto it.