berm,i o. is repairedbetween ManandMan t 233 oufnefs and EgMity,as the conditionofhumane affairs will admit. We fhould bend all our endeavours to the betteringof the World, and not onely avoid all unrighteoufnefs, but draw backas much as in us lies from the indireé pradtifes of the world, and from all appearanceof unrighre- oufnefs. 3. The more Particular Rules are there. I. Impofe ap,n no mans ignorance or unskilfulnefs. Thou maye(1 fer a jua value upon thineown Commodity, but not a price upon another mans head. J mean, thou mayc(t not rate a mans want of underaand- ing, or fec a tax upon his ignorance ; therefore take no advantage of Children,or any other t acornperenrr perfons,and do not oncly ufe them with juflice,but with ingenuity, asthofe that repofe a tru(I in you, and call themfelves upon your equity. And here are fome queflions to be refolved. Qie(}. i. Ifa man be otherwife slilful in his calling, miry not I take aelvantaQeof his ignorance of aparticularcircumfiance wheretnthe contrail isconcerned? Anfw. I will tell you how rat 717 refolves this in a particularcafe : A De aecus t.3ó man (faith he) brings a Ship of Cornfrom Alexandria to Rhodes, in a time ofgreat Famine , he may have what price he will , he knows of a IMOmany more Ships that will be there next day , may he conceal this from the Rhodians ? He determines peremptorily he may nor. If we will be worfe than Heathens---- I fay no more. Quell. 2. Batt may wenot take advantage of the ignorance of the feller, thoughnot ofthebuyer ? The difference is, he that offers t,l fell any thing at fuch a price, is willing fo to part with ic; now there is no wrong done tohim that is willing. I anfwer , A man is fo far willing , as he is knowing; e4riffotle tellsus, That ignorance is a fort of unwillingnefs. If a man out of ford. getfulnefs, or want of confederation, or fufficient underfandingof his own callingmil-take himfelf, , I may not make a prize of this mans weaknefs ; for he is onely willing to fell it foupon fuppofition, he re- members right andunderfiands himfelf aright,but the thingbeing real- lyworth more,he is abfolurelyunwilling, and I am injurious ro him in taking advantage. Queff. 3. May Inotfell fecret finks andvices in a Commodity ? Anf. If the faults be fuck as men take for granted do ofea h tppen, and notwith(landing them, they donot account any man to have de- ceived them, then they are faults pardoned by common confent ; but if they be fich as I am grieved at, and think my fell not fairly dealt wirhall
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