And if the rich and great have so small regard to _truth_, as to _lie_ even for _lying-sake_, what wonder can it be that men of lower rank will do the same thing _for gain_? What wonder that it should obtain, as by common consent in all kinds of _buying and selling_? Is it not an adjudged case, that it is no harm to tell lies _in the way of trade_? To say, that is the _lowest price_ which is not the lowest; or that you _will not take_ what you _do take_ immediately? Insomuch that it is a proverb even among the _Turks_, when asked to abate of their price, “What! do you take me to be a Christian?” So that never was that caution more seasonable than it is at this day, _Take ye heed every one of his ♦neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and they will deceive every one his neighbour_. ♦ “neigbour” replaced with “neighbour” 25. And as for those few who abstain from outward sins, is their heart right with God? May he not say of us also (as of the _Jews_) _This people is uncircumcised in heart_? Are not _you_? Do you then _love the_ Lord _your_ God, _with all your heart, and with all your strength_? Is he _your_ God and your all? The desire of your eyes? The joy of your very heart? Rather, do you not _set up your idols in your heart_? Is not your _belly your God_? Or your diversion? Or your fair reputation? Or your friend? Or wife? Or child? That is plainly, do not you delight in some of these earthly goods, more than in the God of heaven? Nay, perhaps you are one of those grovelling souls that _pant after the dust of the earth_! Indeed who does not? Who does not get as much as he can? Who of those who are not _accounted_ covetous, yet does not gather all the money he can _fairly_, and perhaps much more? For are they those only whom _the world rank_ among misers, that use every art to increase their fortune? Toiling early and late, spending all their strength in _loading themselves with thick clay? How long?_ Until the very hour when God calleth them; when he saith unto each of them, _Thou fool! this night shall thy soul be required of thee! And whose shall those things be which thou hast prepared?_