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Fair dealing between debtor and creditor. A very brief essay upon the caution to…
Fair dealing between debtor and creditor. A very brief essay upon the caution to be used, about coming in to debt, and getting out of it. Offered at Boston-lecture; 5. d. XI. m. 1715/16. / By Cotton Mather, D.D. & F.R.S. ; [Two lines of quotation]
Boston: printed by B. Green for Samuel Gerrish, 1716
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It pleases me very much to find this prescribed in a famous Lexicon Juridicum; That before a Debtor be Sued, Adeundus est, et civiliter interpessandus, semel atque iterum, He should be civilly Addressed once again, by the Creditor, & then ⟨p. 26⟩by some of his Friends, and be Admonished of the Damage that he will bring upon himself, and especially the Wounds upon his Conscience, if he don't fairly pay what he owes. [According to, Matth. XVIII. 15, 16.] Calvin the Lawyer, observes, That this way of Admonishing a Debtor, before the Arresting of him, Certum crit, quod ex jure Divino et Humano omnibus modis sit Observanda. And that there are Places, in which a Plaintiff cannot have his Cause heard, if he can't prove that he has used the Urbanity, of these Preliminary Admonitions.
It pleases me very much to find this prescribed in a famous Lexicon Juridicum; That before a Debtor be Sued, Adeundus est, et civiliter interpessandus, semel atque iterum, He should be civilly Addiessed once again, by the Creditor, & then ⟨p. 26⟩by some of his Friends, and be Admonish'd of the Damage that he will bring upon himself, and especially the Wounds upon his Conscience, if he don't fairly pay what he owes. [According to, Matth. XVIII. 15, 16.] Calvin the Lawyer, observes, That this way of Admonishing a Debtor, before the Arresting of him, Certum crit, quod ex jure Divino et Humano omnibus modis sit Observanda. And that there are Places, in which a Plantiff cannot have his Cause heard, if he can't prove that he has used the Urbanity, of these Preliminary Admonitions.
Doubtless you Observe, That the Precept, Owe no Man any thing, has a Twin-Brother born with it; But to Love one another. Of this Debt, the Debt of Love, which we must always Pay, and yet always Owe, to one another, I cannot but make this Observation. This Debt well followed, would regulate the other wonderfully! If this MAXIM, To Love our Neighbours as our selves, were closely kept to, Things would be carried on between Creditors and their Debtors, with a most wondrous easiness.