strait-handedness

Especially to see them live in love, and unity, and mutual good affection, no jars or quarrels among them, no strangeness, no shyness one of another, no strait-handedness, but, though every one knew his own, they lived with as much freedom as if they had had all in common.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721

The profuseness of idolaters in the service of their false gods may shame our strait-handedness in the service of the true and living God.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721

See how fond they were of their idols, that they would part with that which was given them for the necessary subsistence of themselves and their families to honour them with, which may shame our niggardliness and strait-handedness in the service of the true and living God.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721