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An answer to some cases of conscience respecting the country. By Solomon Stoddard, A.M.…
An answer to some cases of conscience respecting the country. By Solomon Stoddard, A.M. Pastor in Northampton.
printed by B. Green, 1722
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An ANSWER TO SOME Cases of Conscience Respecting the COUNTRY.
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.
An ANSWER TO SOME Cases of Conscience Respecting the COUNTRY.
By SOLOMON STODDARD, A. M. Pastor in Northampton.
Quest. I. WHEREIN doth the oppression of the Country principally consist?
Answ. THERE is an oppression of R•ers often spoken of in Scripture. But besides that, there is an oppression contrary to commutative Justice: this is committed principally in these three ways.
1. WHEN they make the advantage of the ignorance of others. Men that are otherwise, knowing Men, are ignorant of the worth of some Commodities; and Men take that opportunity to extort from them. Men that are ignorant of the worth of things, have a dependence on the Integrity of the Seller, who thereby hath an Advantage to gain more than is meet. Sometimes they get twice the value of it. Mens ignorance doth expose them to become a prey to greedy Men. The Seller knows that could sell it cheaper; but the Buyer is ignorant, and […]. Sometimes Men sell that which is th at the […] of that which is commendable. The Apothecary sells his Drugs that have lost their virtue through age, to ignorant Men. It is an easy thing for crafty Men to abuse those that are ignorant. And in Country Towns. Men sometimes give a shilling for that, which at the Market Town, might be had for six pence.