Serro. to. is regalredbetween ManandMan P =a9 dent he is in the right, CO impofe upon thee, do not thou impfe up- on another for ali'chyconfidence. We ihculd rather be model, and fayevery one to oar felves ; How came Ito be fo much roller then other men,whichway came the fpirit ofthe Lord, from fo many wife awl pious men, to fpeakunto me ? Is it apecrsliar privilcdgegranted tome , that I cannot be miffaken, or are not they moll ofall miff aken, ho think,they can- iaot miflake? If then I be but liIEj other men, why fhould I take fo much up- on me, as ifmy underfla.ndingwere to be a rule , and my apprehenfions fandard tothe whole world ? Asifwhen another man differs fromme, 1 didnot differ as much from him : why may not another manunderfland the thingbetter than 1 do, or what crime is it ifhe underfland them not fo well? Wereall mens underfiandingscafl in the fame Mould ? If it prefumption for any man to ,know more then I do, or a fin to know left ? 7ob dot h well reprove this felt-conceit, 7ob 12. z, 3. His friends would needs bear him down, and were very angry with him that he was not of their mind, and wouldnot acknowledge all co be true of himfelfwhich they faid again(+ him, he takes themup fharply ; No doubt ye are the peo- ple, andwifdom (hall dye with you , but I have underflan ding as well as you , aiod 1 am not inferiour toyou, whoFtnowcth not fuch things as theft ? Let nor any man think that hehach ingr oiled all the knowledgeof the world to himfelf,but others know the fame things which he doch, and many things better than he. 9. In matters of Commerce and ContraEls, which arife from thence: Now acontraEi is a mutual transferringof right : when I buy any thing of another,he makes over the right of fuch a Commodity to me for fo much money, or other valuable thing, the right whereof I make over to him. Now in this kind of intercourfe , we are to be governed by this great Rule. In makingof contra&s we mull agave boni fide, deal honealy and truly : in performingof conrrats we muff give libera- re fidem, fatisfie the ingagement we have made, for thus we our felves would be dealt withal. Now if any (hall defire to be more particularly fatisfied , what that exaEE Righteoufnefs is , which in matter of Contratis , ought to be obfervedbetwixt man and man ? I mull confefs this is a difficult quetli- on , and to be handled very modefily , by fuch as acknowledge themfelves unacquainted with the affairs of the world, and the necetlì- ties of things, and the particular and hidden reafons of fome kinde of dealings : For he that is ignorant of chele, may easily give Rules, which will not comply with the affairs of the world , he may com- plain of that which cannot be ocherwife , and blame Come kinde of dealings
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