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Ephefians,
Chap.4.
VIE
R..28f.
by
abufe
of
lawful!
meanes, thus
our common
banquerupts,
out
Players
,
our
gamefters,
our trades
to
no
good
purpole,
God
faith
not
in
wandring
idle,
in
playing,
in
gaming,
in:
doing that
Gen.
;.to,
which
is
fìnfull,
but
in the fweate
of
thy
brow
thou:'Bolt
eate thy
,bread;
worke
that
which
ìs
goad,
that
thou mayfl rate
thy ownebready
fo
that what
ever
they
have
not
:
working
in
fome good calling,
is
not their owne. z.
If
having
a
good trade,
I abufe
ir, ufc
deceite
in
it,
I
am
a
theefe before God;
if
one
of
%falfe
weights,
ineafures, fal-
fifie
wares,i
fonely
to fetch offhis neighbour,it
is
thcfr.Looke
z
King.
5.25.
that Gebql got with
telling
a
lye,
he fiole, and was puni(hed
accordingly: Levis.
19.11.
Thou
'halt
not
fleale,
faith
Mofes;
bee
ex
poundeth
it in
the
next
words,
thou
_Malt
not
deale'filfely,neither
lye
ene
to
another
to
gaine
by
:
And
Zeph.
3.1.
God
calleth
ierufalem a
robbing
City,as
if
one fhould
call
London,
a
City
of
robbers,
becaufe
they
ufed
rfai.37.
:1.
deceitfulneffe
in
their
dealings, and
fo
robbed one another. Thus bor-
rowing
is
lawfull,tiutto
get my neighbours
goods, that
I
may have
to
fpend on
my lofts, or with
a
meaning
to
breake and make him take
what
I
pleafe,
it
is
groffe ftealth
:
many more innocent thceves
are
hanged,and
according
to
law juftly:
fo
when
One
by
pretence of dam-
mages
getteth
more then
is
his due, he
ftealeth
ir.
Many
make
finch
falleeftimates,that they
will aske
a
Noble
for
nine
pence; they
might
!
as
well
fteale it
by the high
way
:
fo
in way
of reckoning, when
ano-
ther doth
beare
mycharge,to
demand more thenmy
confcience know-'
eth
is
due,
is
theft.
z;
The
fecond.
way
of
ftealth
is
by with-holding that
our
neigh
-
By
with
-hot-
bout
fhould have,
as
to with-hold
dues from
the
Common
-
wealth,
ding
that
from
the Church,
from the poore;
to
with-hold
wages from the
which is
an-
thers.
fervant, if it be but the
leaf}
fpace of
time
to
h6tIoffe. Lev it.
r9,
13..
The
wages
of
him that
is
hired
_ball not abide
wà
thee all
.night,tant
:11
the morning. But
efpecially this detaining
is in
things
we finde;
in
things lent;
in
things committed to our
truft,when
he purloines
this
or
that,
which
he
hath
in
troll
for
the good
of
another,
and
fo
handles the
thing that
he
goeth
away with
the tweet of
it;
in
not reftoring that
we
have unjuftly
gotten
of
our neighbours.
He
that
maketh
not
meanes
that
a
thing
he
hath found may come backe
to
the owner,
is
a
theefe.
He
that
retornes
not
a
thing he hath borrowed
is
a
thcefe, yea it
is
Whatnot
ea-
notable wickedneffe, Pfàl. 37.
zr.
You will
fay,Whatrevety
one
t
{coring
of
a
t..infw.
No;
for underftanding
the truth
it
ftandcth thus
:
he that re-
á`
s
fh°{;ii,'-
ftoreth not the thing
he
hath borrowed,
doth
it
either becaufe
he
can-
andwhac
nor
not, or
he will not, or heedeth it not: now the
two latter
is
never
with-
out
theft, the
former
may
be, which if
it be, we
mutt
confider, whe-
ther the
perfon when he did
borrow this
or that
firm
me,
might law-
fully
borrow
it,
thatis,wherher
heborrowed
no more then
bee
law
howhe might be able to
relbre.
z. Whether
his
inability
be
cau-
fed
by Gods hand humbling him, or by
his
owne riot;
if
neither
of
chele
be found
in
him, then he
is
free, and
his
debt goeth
into
a
gift;
if
,otherwife,
he
is a
theefe
in
not repaying.
So
not to
husband a thing
commit-