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<p>This is what was said before, <a class="bibleref" title="Prov.28.12,Prov.28.28" href="/passage/?search=Prov.28.12,Prov.28.28"><span class="bibleref" title="Prov.28.12">Prov. 28:12</span>, <span class="bibleref" title="Prov.28.28">28</span></a>. 1. <i>The people</i> will have cause to <i>rejoice</i> or <i>mourn</i> according as their rulers are <i>righteous</i> or <i>wicked</i>; for, if <i>the righteous</i> be in <i>authority</i>, sin will be punished and restrained, religion and virtue will be supported and kept in reputation; <i>but</i>, if <i>the wicked</i> get power in their hands, wickedness will abound, religion and religious people will be persecuted, and so the ends of government will be perverted. 2. <i>The people</i> will actually <i>rejoice</i> or <i>mourn</i> according as their rulers are <i>righteous</i> or <i>wicked</i>. Such a conviction are even the common people under of the excellency of virtue and religion that they will rejoice when they see them preferred and countenanced; and, on the contrary, let men have ever so much honour or power, if they be wicked and vicious, and use it ill, they <i>make themselves contemptible and base before all the people</i> (as those priests, <a class="bibleref" title="Mal.2.9" href="/passage/?search=Mal.2.9">Mal. 2:9</a>) and subjects will think themselves miserable under such a government.</p>
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