By the Crojs of Chrifi. 5. F you are Crucified to the world , take heed that you :oft I no unlawful means for the procurement of worldly things. Stretch not your confciences for the compaffing of fuch ends. LayRill before you the Ruleof Equity ; Do as you would be done by. Put your brother withwhom you deal , in your own cafe, and your felves in his ; and fo drive on your bargains in that mind. .I If you did thus , you would not fell toodear, nor . buy too cheap ; you would not make fo many words to get his goodsfor lefs then the worth, norto fell your own for more then the worth : Nay youwould not take more then the worth if by ignorance or neceflity your brother fhould offer it you ; nor give lefsthen the worth, though through ignorance or neceliry he would take it. The love of moneybath fo blindedmany, that in felling they think it to beno fin to take as much for a com- modity as they can get ; and in buying they think it no fin to get the commodity as cheapas they can have it ; never once asking . their ownhearts, Howwould I defire to be dealt withmy felf, if it weremy owncafe ? Nay Covetoufnefs is thecommon caufe that maketh mold of the world cry out againft Covetoufnefs. When men are like ravenous greedy beafts that grudge at every bit that goes betides their own mouths they will reproach all that crofs their covetousdelires. If they cannot by words perfwade a tradefman to fell his ware at fuch rates as he cannot live by , they will defame him asa covetousgriping man : and all becaufe he fittech not their covetous delires : and all that will efcape their cenfure of being covetous, mull Phut up their(hops ere long, to the defraudingof their creditors. If a Phyfitian that bathbeen a means to fave their lives do demandbut half his due, it being the calling which he liveth on, they will defame him as Covetous, becaufe he contradið their covetous delires : andwouldhave any thing from them which is fo near to their hearts. Let a Mi- nifter but demand his own, which was never theirs but is hisby the Lawof the Land, and theywill reproach him like Quakers , as a covetous hireling ; and if he will not fuller every worldly miter to rob him, they will defame him asif he were fickof their difeafe : So far are they from the Primitive pra&ife of felling all, and laying downat the feet ofthe Apo files, that they would fled Bb from
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