A Zsj. CHAP,s}, 1i3ExpUliltoYlvpoï2tbefiY VER..b e rrov. 20. r¢ Againa it offends fondry forts of men, hauing (rained to themfelues other rules, the very mines of lull:ice in this kinde. Amongft many this goes currant: Things they fay; are worth as they may haue for thcm,A rule too too fallacious and deceitful!. And many times thecu- ftome is, ro get Ibme partner in the fraud, to bid largely, and then, cquiuocaily they can fweare, to deceive the fimple,Thtu much they were effered.Chriftianity bath no fuck rules to walke by ; except they be cauteloully vn. derftood. What if fort e fimpler man, nor knowing the worth of the thing, or forced by necrífity, bath ouerbid the value ?chat is no rule to guide thy confcience;the rule of worth,is the 6cnelTh of the comtnoditie for vie, Cr ge- nerally common cflimation, or thofe other circumflan- ces of times and places. No letTe culpable of ouerreaching are the Buyer; ; many times working vpon the fimpiicitie, as oft, vpon the ucceflity of the Seller. C Its naught. its naught, faith the buyer,and when he is gone, he boafleth ofhispenswortb. SceetolainRutilitts, in price for a peece of ground,and hauing the price pitched by the Seller, Its more worth, faith Sc,'uola, and addes thoufands to the price deman- ded. How (hall that Heathen rife vp in iudgment again!{ our Huckfler s, and condemne them ? The courte in vfe apudThuriacos,is much commended by Stehens. Wherein it was ordered, that the Seller fhould make oath before the Magiftrace, that he fold for no more then the commodity was worth: And the buyer (wear alto that he paid a loft price, after the worth of the thing, at leaf!: by common eflimacion, Such !awes, wee may well fay,are necefThry for the rates. Qnellions pertinent to this place are, theft: Firft,whe- ther in no café it be lawful! , in feiliog to exceed the worth of the thing fold ? Put cafe Ai man in his need is indant with his neighbour to buy form thingoshich without his damage the Seller cannot want; yet ouer- come
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