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<p>Note, 1. The administration of public justice by the magistrate is an ordinance of God; in it the scales are held, and ought to be held by a steady and impartial hand; and we ought to submit to it, for the Lords sake, and to see his authority in that of the magistrate, <a class="bibleref" title="Rom.13.1,1Pet.2.13" href="/passage/?search=Rom.13.1,1Pet.2.13"><span class="bibleref" title="Rom.13.1">Rom. 13:1</span>; <span class="bibleref" title="1Pet.2.13">1 Pet. 2:13</span></a>. 2. The observance of justice in commerce between man and man is likewise a divine appointment. He taught men discretion to make scales and weights for the adjusting of right exactly between buyer and seller, that neither may be wronged; and all other useful inventions for the preserving of right are from him. He has also appointed by his law that they be just. It is therefore a great affront to him, and to his government, to falsify, and so to do wrong under colour and pretence of doing right, which is <i>wickedness in the place of judgment</i>.</p>