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<p>This is to the same purport with what we had, <a class="bibleref" title="Prov.28.12" href="/passage/?search=Prov.28.12">Prov. 28:12</a>. 1. When bad men are preferred, that which is good is clouded and run down. When power is put into the hands of <i>the wicked, men hide themselves</i>; wise men retire into privacy, and decline public business, not caring to be employed under them; rich men get out of the way, for fear of being squeezed for what they have; and, which is worst of all, good men abscond, despairing to do good and fearing to be persecuted and ill-treated. 2. When bad men are disgraced, degraded, and their power taken from them, then that which is good revives again, then <i>the righteous increase</i>; for, <i>when they perish</i>, good men will be put in their room, who will, by their example and interest, countenance religion and righteousness. It is well with a land when the number of good people increases in it; and it is therefore the policy of all princes, states, and potentates, to encourage them and to take special care of the good education of youth.</p>
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