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null,
but
to
Make
our
oWne
gaine
at)d
keepà backe
fomewhat,
is
theft, Att.
5. as
We
fee in
the
fad of
3
nañiás.
"And
fo
not
to
retort
that
we
havedefrauded,
with
zacchxroi; Lake
r
8.8.
If]
bave
taken
from
any
man
by
forged cavillation; ïreflore
it
foàrfold.
If
weendammageb
y giving heedelelfely occàí
oiof
our
neigh-
bours hurt,
or
bynot
preventing
his
hurt, when
We
are'
able, it
is
a-
gainfl
the commaíldemenr,ihou
¡halt not
fealc;as thofe
Lawes
of
kind-
ling
fire,ofnot
helping
our
neighbours
beat#
under
his
burthen,doe
te-
ftifie.
Now
we partake
with others when by
counfell,
concealment,
flaring with them,
gaining
wittingly by their ftealth,
as
broakers
that
buy this or that
for
nought which
a
theefe
hath floten,
are theeves
at the fecund hand
receiving..
Now
then
this thus
opened, how many Chrillians continue flea
-
linr
how many
over
reach
in
bargaining,úfe
deceite
in
weights?how
many by
lying,
falte
reckoning, by
wicked
borrowing? how many
theevifh Naballst
how
many
carelefle
what
fcare
they doe another
We
that
are
Chriftians
muff take
heede we
get
not
any
thing
unrigh-
teou(Iy;
Naboths
vineyard
did
Bate
out
all
that wretched
Kings
p
f
feifions.
A
little
got by
ftealth may wafte great fubflance, men thinke
iris
a
little
thing,
but be
the
gaine never
fo
fmall,
it
excufeth
"nor
theft-:
be
a
man
nought with
a
woman,
rich of
poore, noble
or
bale,
faire
or
foule,
his uncleanneffe
is
not excu
fed.
Againe, he
that for
a
little
Will
finne, will mend
his
fervice
if
the
devil!
"will
mend
his wages.
Above
all,over-reach
not poore ones, fay
it
be
but
a
penny
matter,
it
m4
be
that
penny
is
like
the widowes
mite,
all
they
have; God
is
AO
aténgër
of
all
there things.
z.
The
fecond thing to
be
Marked is,
that
every
man
mull
occupie'
himfelfein
labour
of
body
or
winde, orboth;
that wemull
have
fóm'epar-
ticular callings befide our generali.
This
fpcech
that,
he
fhould labour
with
his
hands,
is
a
Synecdoche,
and doch fignifie
"all
kinde
of
labour,
both bodily
and mental!
:
In innoccncie
Adam had
this injoyn'ed,tó
dreffe
the garden
:
fine
the
fall this
is
Gods
ordirtanee`
in
rho
frbeate
of
thy
foreheadthou'bale
catethy
bread
:
in
the fourth Commandeinent
the Lord commandeth
us
to
doe our workes
in
the 6.
dayes and we
fee
how
men and women, married and unmarried, married
Ones
in
wedlock; in
matrimonie,
all
have their labours lying
an
them, God
hath:given
us
example
:
Chrifl,
Math.
13.55.
Marke 6 3.
Luke
2.
it
gathered to
have ufed
a
handy-crafr.Agaitislt.is
neceifarythat
We
may
not be theeves
in
the things
weufe;for we
are
not
abfolilte:freeholdërS
but
hold
in
capite,and
ourtenure
doch
rune
with cóndit
-ion
of
fervice,
Let
a man labour
and
fo
este
his onne
bread; as if he fhoul'd'
fay,'thls'ma-
keth
us
have tithe
to the
things
We
ufe,
out
labouring
in
an
honed
vócarion.
Again, it
is neceffarie
for humbling
din;
for mental! and corporalt
bufìnéfl'es
doe takedown
the pride
of
our natures: Ecclef.
t.
13.T
his'
pare
travel/
lath
God
given
to
the
Tonnes
efinen to
be
exerci
fed tberewitha.
Prat. 73.
5, necaufethey
were not
in
she
trwvaile
of
men, nor
plagaed'.
a
otberi
3
By
endam-
I
magingonr
neighbour
r Their.
4.
6.
Doli.
Every man
muPì.emplYy'
himCelk4n'
Come
la!'ovrB'-
:The1L;.iz.