Command. vpon the C ommandements. The Application. 97 O rv, now my beloued to the workeoffurtherfrstitein our fouler, let vs lay this rule to them and them. to it,endlet vs euen heartily I befeech you emery manfecret y betwixt God and vs fee howe we baneanfwcred in obedience this laweofour God and father mer- cifull and almightie. We are bound byitgenerallyrofhewallloue and careful! regard toourneighboursgood! that wepofftbly can, . and to doe him with our own goods what benefit we may. In parti- culars if we willfpeekwe are bound to lend. We fee both when er what wemay,nethurting ourfelues,profit our neighbours withal', ánd to take no recompence,vnles it bcknr: which we lend. Now, Tooke Ifay,ifyouhaueeuer ebferuedthis thing without any want. Haue you done it ?7yay, haueyou not refufedoffs metre pinching efr an v' neighbourly mind cuenfmalmatters,when you haue beene very ear- neftly inherited , adding often a lieto mend the matter withal, & fling that you eyther bad not that which indced you had, or occupied it your felfe , when indeedyou did. not..And hat*o you not often contrary to the law of God made in this 6eha fe ,taken reward , when the thing you lent receiued no berme ? Surelyyourmoney and many thing elfe doe wuneffeagain fE you. For the law of pledges andtaking ofpawnes,haucyou never paffed the bounds of losse,M. the li.: Pledges, mite; ofinercy in that ref eEt ?Hareeyonneuer gone into take whatyoucould,but /toed at the doore to receiuewhat be mightfpareyou ? Othat our bellybands & hard hearts deferued net the wrath which in trueth they doe in this onething. Many a time do Igrearly feare haue we little regarded the cafe ofthe party, whofe pawn we Cooke fo we might be fate our !elms from our feared Ioffe. And if it were fo, furely we wanted lone & we haue fnned. Againe, in the things comas: nded to our keeping, let vs Tooke alfo a little how we hauefatisfied the law of gad. we lhouldueyther deny for any feareofharme thereby to keepe for our neighbour ,which Cuflodie. wemay better than he de fend,reythercenceale,hurt, purloyne or conney away what ester any craft repofed in vs,hath brought into our cufloebe. But many a dogged nature denieth the for - nrer,and ma.ty a covetous heart of endeth the latter. What fayyots of things which you hauefound beiugló/i ? Humph! euer regarded euenat x oar ownetokeepcit,tocherifhit, and to find out tire ownerofit , the flrayingbeafofyour eighbor,andmen ofyonr very enemy? ¡lane you neuereither ofnegligence, or ofmalice and fpae, or by a pinching mind tranfgreffed herein? Confider it wel. And haue you neuer euen in tic trxe reflimony ofa good conference retayned any thing that eueryou found from the true tamer ifyouknew him , rteyt her euernegleEíed any means to find him out ,tfyou knew him not? ky:lrwere it rotthyo.e ifa prime witneffe wtthinyoudid not cry andfay , thata greedy evacuate heart bath made you often to offend on this duety. Alas we fee it not,we know it not,we feele it' not to be afeinetorerame whatwefrnd, cralma'?to find before itbe log and fo to conceale it. So gapeth each man after worldly gable , and fo feeke we to haue, how fo euerwe bane it, ¡fit bappen.into our hands, and wewell lrkeofit. But fsntie will be/innewhen fisch gotten goods will nowhere bee feene,arid the Lordpare vs feeling of it now betimes. Nosc,letvslookeof our buying andfelling, wherein alfaall loue Oro befhewed to our bre- thren,andanequalny kept foneereas we can ofcommoditygivau and taken. But how many efvs do this,cbere is a God that bnoweth , and aconf ience within vs, that ifit were wakened would cry ¡feareme lowde,we aregreeuonfyg,, illy. For where is that man orwoman of trade almofi to be found that taking vpa f1andtngiu Fayre orMarket dothonce thinke with them- Pines that there they Hand tofhew their lam to their brethren as to themfelues , andf,to interchaunoe their commodities with them, ae that in the tebtimony ofagood con fcience and teuen God being wit nib , foneereas they can they Iteepe an equalitygifting as geodes they take, and to i ire, no more than they gluevalue and worth. No alas it is toowell known and too much amine. vs daily faene, that wethinkewehaue our_tending there copra-y vpon all that come to ve fe much as we can,todeceiue rhem,ro f oyle and robbe them in afort,e/'togee for
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