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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88589	Scripture rules to be observed in buying and selling. By Mr Christopher Love, late minister at Laurence Jury, London.	Love, Christopher, 1618-1651.	1653 (1653)	Wing L3173; Thomason 669.f.16[84]; ESTC R211638	6,003	1

SCRIPTURE RULES to be Observed in Buying and Selling. By Mr CHRISTOPHER LOVE late Minister at Laurence Jury London Rules concerning Buying Commodities 1. IF you would not transgress Scripture rules in buying then first take heed that you do not discommend those Commodities that are very good which you are about to buy that so you may bring down the price of the Commodity and get it for less then it is worth there is a known place of Scripture for this in Prov. 20. 14. It is naught it is naught saith the buyer but when he is gone his way then he boasteth People in Solomons time they were so wicked that when they came to market to buy any thing the buyer he would discommend the Commodity say it was naught though it were very good and saleable but when the seller was gone then he would boast of what a good penyworth he had bought and the like 2. Do not make vows and protestations that you will give no more for a Commodity then what you have first offered when afterwards you will give more This is a very common thing with Trades-men you shall have a man come to a shop and cheapen a Commodity and the buyer he will say he will not give a farthing more and the seller will say he will not take a farthing less and yet both the buyer gives more and the seller takes less now this is no other then a palpable and downright lye 3. Do not give counterfeit mony for those Commodities you buy this you have an example of in Abraham when he was to buy the field in Mackpelah of Ephron the Hittite for a burying place in Gen. 23. 16. saith Abraham I will give thee four hundred shekles of silver currant money with the Merchant And therefore you transgress Scriptures rules if you know you have brass mony or counterfeit gold about you and yet pay it away for Cōmodities you sin in doing so though you your self took it for Cōmodities 4. Do not give for a commodity less then in your conscience you think it is worth it is an oppression in buying when you seek to bring a Commodity under its due value and worth Abraham when he was to buy the Cave in Mackpelah of Ephron saith he I will give thee the worth of it in mony and so David when he was to buy the threshing-floor of Araunah the Iebusite 2 Sam. 24. 24. saith he I will buy it of thee at the full value of it 5. Do not long deferre the paying for those Cōmodities which you have bought when thou hast by thee wherewithall to pay it there is an excellent place for this in Prov. 3. 27 28. Withhold not good from them to whom it is due when it is in the power of thy hand to do it say not unto thy neighbour go and come again and to morrow I will give when thou hast it by thee This Text is referred to works of mercy but it hath relation to buying and selling and trading in the world if you owe a man mony for a Commodity you ought to pay him and not to let him come day after day for it and go without it when you have it by you 2 Kings 4. 7. it is the badge of a wicked man in Scripture not to pay his debts in Psalm 37. 21. The wicked borroweth and payeth not again 6 Do not engross a Cōmodity that is do not buy all of a Commodity into your own hands alone that by that means you may sell the commodity at your own price this is a meer oppression destructive to a Commonwealth and to all trading the Scripture condemns this in Prov. 11. 6. it is spoken there of Corn mungers saith the ●ext He that with-holdeth corn the people shall ●urse him but blessing shall be upon the head of him that selleth it In Solomons time there were cornmungers that when corn was cheap would go buy up all the corn in the countrey and would keep it up and sell none till corn was very dear now saith the Text He that doth thus the people shall curse him for it but blessing shall be upon the head of him that selleth it Now it is no sin in its self to engross a commodity thereby to sell it the cheaper but for a man to engross a commodity meerly thereby to advance the price of it this is such an oppression that the people shall curse him for it 7. Do not in your buying a commodity take any advantage of the mistake or oversight of the seller as suppose you should come to a shop and buy so many yards of cloth or the like and he should give thee more then is thy due or take less mony of thee then is his due you should take no advantage of him in such a case but restore it again for if you take any thing more from him then you bought of him it is theft or if you give any lesse for the commodity then you bargained for it is theft there is an excellent place for this in Gen. 43. 12. Iacob when there was a famine in the Land he sent his sons down into Aegypt to buy corne and Ioseph he knowing his brethren filled their sacks with corn and put the mony which they brought for the corne in the mouth of the sack againe and when they came home and found their mony in the mouth of their sacks they told their father Jacob of it then saith he to them Goe back againe and take double money in your hand and the money that was brought againe in the mouth of your sacks carry it againe in your hands for peradventure it was an oversight here was a conscienciousnesse in Iacob 8. Do not buy any commodities on the Lords day it is true upon urgent occasions to maintaine life either in man or beast this is lawfull but to buy any thing that you may well be without till monday in this case you sin if you buy any thing on the Lords day in Neh. 10. 31. and Nehemiah entred into an oath and the people with him that if any of the people of the land brought wares or any victuals to sell on the Sabboth day that they would not buy it of them and as the law did not give them leave to breake the Jewish Sabboth so neither doth the Gospell give us leave to break the Christian Sabboth and therefore I cannot see but that it is a sin for men to buy either wine or beer or pepper or mustard or any other trivial things which they may well be without on the Sabboth day 9. Do not in buying a commodity work upon the necessity of a poor man that hath need of money this is a great sin in Tradesmen they know that a poor man wants money and he must sell off his ware orelse he cannot buy bread for his familie and therefore he will worke upon his necessity and will not buy the commodity of him unlesse they will sell