Christian ethics -- Fiction; Christian fiction; Conduct of life -- Fiction
First, If it be lawful for me alway to sell my commodity as dear,
or for as much as I can, then ’tis lawful for me to lay aside in my
dealing with others, good conscience, to them, and to God: but it
is not lawful for me, in my dealing with others, to lay aside good
conscience, &c. Therefore it is not lawful for me always to sell my
commodity as dear, or for as much as I can.
That {118b} it is not lawful to lay aside good conscience in our
dealings, has already been proved in the former part of our discourse:
but that a man must lay it aside that will sell his commodity always as
dear or for as much as he can, is plainly manifest thus.
1. He that will (as is mentioned afore) sell his commodity as dear as
he can, must sometimes make a prey of the ignorance of his chapman:
{118c} but that he cannot doe with a good conscience (for that is to
overreach, and to goe beyond my chapman, and is forbidden, 1 Thess. 4.
6.) Therefore he that will sell his commodity, as afore, as dear, or
for as much as he can, must of necessity lay aside good conscience.
2. He that will sell his commodity always as dear as he can, must
needs, sometimes make a prey of his neighbours necessity; {118d} but
that he cannot doe with a good conscience, (for that is to goe beyond
and defraud his neighbour, contrary to 1 Thess. 4. 6.) Therefore he
that will sell his commodity, as afore, as dear, or for as much as he
can, must needs cast off and lay aside a good conscience.
3. He that will (as afore) sell his commodity as dear, or for as much
as he can, must, if need be, make a prey of his neighbours fondness;
but that a man cannot doe with a good conscience, {119a} (for that is
still a going beyond him, contrary to 1 Thess. 4. 6.) Therefore, he
that will sell his commodity as dear, or for as much as he can, must
needs cast off, and lay aside good conscience.
The same also may be said for buying; no man may always buy as cheap as
he can, but must also use good conscience in buying; {119b} The which
he can by no means use and keep, if he buyes always as cheap as he can,
and that for the reasons urged before. For such will make a prey of the
ignorance, necessity, and fondness of their chapman, the which they
cannot doe with a good consceince.
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