-°`* 1 Z82 C Expofition v/on the f rf# V RL 6. VERS. 6. That no mangoe beyond and defraud his brother in any mat- ter, becaufe that the Lord is the auenger of all fetch, as wee alto haueforewarnedyou and te ftifsed, Second particular of fanf}ification, belon- ging to the eighth precept,i; here fpecifi- ed; prefcribing vs abflinence from brea- ches and violations of iufbce commuta. tine. Wherein confderable are; Firfl, the fins to be auoided, Ouer- reaching atsdfraud.Secondly, Reafons pulling care to auoid them, Fith, of the fumes; which wee will conceiue to bee meant of ouer.reaching, and fraud exercifed in matters of contrae. A common place, necefiary to bee handled in refpef} of the times;vyherein is place for the Prophets caution : Let no man tree(' his 'friend or his brother. Necefíary; yet exa.`fly to prefcnbe in ir, is not fo ca- fie; the Cafes depending for moll part vpon circum- flances,'and thofe, many of them, nice, and not eafily obierued. The generali rule of dire lion, is this : There mafit bee equality betwixt the thing, and the price; f® that, what oddes foeuer there is in the excelfe or defc El,betwixt the price and the value, that is all to be imputed to iniuflice. Alt the queflion is,how this equality mull be fudged. The generali obferuation is ; that the value of things, palling in exchange, cannot ordinarily be found our, o- therwife then by probabilities : Nor punfìually deter. mined, but by common eflimarion. Howbeit generali diref}ions are on this manner. The value or worth of things is of two forts. Firft, naturall: secondly, vfitall: thus for better vnderflan- ding. The value or worth 4things is attended, either according to excellency.giuen chew in Creation ; or ac- cording to their fitneire, and auaile for vfe. In matter of con-
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