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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
No title page in the transcription: set from the catalogue record.
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.
Q. III. IS not the depreciating the Bills of Public Credit matter of Provocation?
Q. III. IS not the depreciating the Bills of Publick Credit matter of Provocation?
Answ. IT must needs be; for great wrong is done to many Persons who have received them according to their denomination; and have been forced to put them off as if they were of less Value. Some Men are able to help themselves, by getting greater wages for their Work, and advancing the price of what they bring to the Market; but others have been great Sufferers by this practice; and if ever the Bills are called in; such as are in debt, either to the Public, or to particular Persons, will be great losers. It may be, some of them will be undone thereby. The temptation to the Merchants was to get the Money into their own hands, that thereby they might make Returns to England. They would give thirty shillings in Eills, for twenty […] Silver. And they may afford it, that have Sold, and do sell, their Goods at excessive Rates. They are under no necessity to do thus: for they have the command of the Market, and might buy the ⟨p. 4⟩produce of the Country at such prices, that they might make as profitable Returns, as now they do.
Answ. IT must needs be; for great wrong is done to many Persons who have received them according to their denomination; and have been forced to put them off as if they were of less Value. Some Men are able to help themselves, by getting greater wages for their Work, and advancing the price of what they bring to the Market; but others have been great Sufferers by this practice; and if ever the Bills are called in; such as are in debt, either to the Publick, or to particular Persons, will be great loosers. It may be, some of them will be undone thereby. The temptation to the Merchants was to get the Money into their own hands, that thereby they might make Returns to England. They would give thirty shillings in Eills, for twenty 〈…〉 Silver. And they may afford it, that have Sold, and do sell, their Goods at execessive Rates. They are under no necessity to do thus: for they have the command of the Market, and might buy the