Alexander Nowell on the eighth commandment

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Ma. Go on to the rest.

Sch. The eighth commandment is: Thou shalt not steal.

Ma. What is forbidden by this Commandment?

Sch. Not only those thefts which are punished by man’s law, are forbidden: but also we are charged that we deceive no man in buying or selling, by untrue and uneven measures or weights, or with deceitful or naughty wares: or by perverting of judgment with Bribes or gifts, or by any deceitful means. Further, all withdrawing of other men’s duties, as withholding of the labourer’s hire, refusing by covetousness to relieve the poor, to succour widows, fatherless children, and strangers, to leave the ignorant untaught, the simple uncounselled, the wandering and erring undirected, the sorrowful uncomforted, and such like, are by this law condemned.

Ma. Is any more contained in this Commandment?

Sch. Yea forsooth. For all purpose and desire, to make our gain of others loss, is forbidden by this law.  For that which is wrong before man to do, the same is evil before God once to will, or desire.

For the reference, see Alexander Nowell on the eighth commandment.
 
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