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<p>See here, 1. The nature of injustice. Getting money by lying (<a class="bibleref" title="Prov.21.6" href="/passage/?search=Prov.21.6">Prov. 21:6</a>) is no better than downright robbery. Cheating is stealing; you might as well pick a man’s pocket as impose upon him by a lie in making a bargain, which he had no fence against but by not believing you; and it will be no excuse from the guilt of robbery to say that he might choose whether he would believe you, for that is a debt we should owe to all men. 2. The cause of injustice. Men <i>refuse to do judgment</i>; they will not render to all their due, but withhold it, and omissions make way for commissions; they come at length to robbery itself. Those that refuse to do justice will choose to do wrong. 3. The effects of injustice; it will return upon the sinner’s own head. The robbery of the wicked will <i>terrify them</i> (so some); their consciences will be filled with horror and amazement, will cut them, will <i>saw them asunder</i> (so others); it will <i>destroy them</i> here and for ever, therefore he had said (<a class="bibleref" title="Prov.21.6" href="/passage/?search=Prov.21.6">Prov. 21:6</a>), <i>They seek death</i>.</p>
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