Atten. Say! Why such Miscreants are the pest and Vermin of the
Common-Wealth, not fit for the society of men; but methinks by some
of those things you Discoursed before, you seem to import that it
is not lawful for a man to make the best of his own.

Wise. If by making the best, you mean, to sell for as much as by
hook or crook he can get for his comodity; then I say, it is not
lawful. And if I should say the contrary, I should justifie Mr.
Badman and all the rest of that Gang: but that I never shall doe,
for the Word of God condemns them. But that it is not lawful for a
man at all times, to sell his commodity for as much as he can, I
prove by these reasons. {118a}

First, If it be lawful for me alway to sell my commodity as dear,
or for as much as I can, then 'tis lawful for me to lay aside in my
dealing with others, good conscience, to them, and to God: but it
is not lawful for me, in my dealing with others, to lay aside good
conscience, &c. Therefore it is not lawful for me always to sell
my commodity as dear, or for as much as I can.

That {118b} it is not lawful to lay aside good conscience in our
dealings, has already been proved in the former part of our
discourse: but that a man must lay it aside that will sell his
commodity always as dear or for as much as he can, is plainly
manifest thus.

1. He that will (as is mentioned afore) sell his commodity as dear
as he can, must sometimes make a prey of the ignorance of his
chapman: {118c} but that he cannot doe with a good conscience (for
that is to overreach, and to goe beyond my chapman, and is