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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 edition. Excerpt: ... person, is innocent, because it is just; j and he needs not thy mercy and remission. 9. Let no man, for his own poverty, become more op!pressing and cruel in his barlgain, but quietly, modestly, diligently, and patiently reIcommend his estate to God, and follow its interest, and leave the success to Him: for such courses will more probably advance his trade; they will certainly procure him a blessing and a recompence; and, if they cure not his poverty, they will take away the evil of it: and there is nothing else in it that can trouble him. 10. Detain not the wages of the hireling; for every degree of detention of it beyond the time is injustice and uncharitableness, and grinds j his face, till tears and blood come out: but pay him exactly according to covenant, or according to his needs. 11. Religiously keep all promises and covenants, though made to your disadvantage, though afterwards you perceive you might have been better: and let not any precedent act of yours be altered by any after-accident. Let nothing make you break your promise, unless it be unlawful, or impossible: that is, either out of your natural, or out of your civil power, yourself being under the power of another; or that it be intolerably inconvenient to yourself, and of no advantage to another; or that you have leave expressed, or reasonably presumed. 12. Let no man take wages or fees for a work that Ire cannot do, or cannot with probability undertake, or in some sense profitably, and with ease, or with advantage manage. Physicians must not meddle with desperate diseases, and known to be incurable, without declaring their sense beforehand; that if the patient please, he may entertain him at adventure, or to do him some little ease. Advocates must deal plainly with...
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- PublisherRarebooksclub.com
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 113044662X
- ISBN 13 9781130446623
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages104
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