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 Lord's
sake, and to see his authority in that of the magistrate, Rom. xiii. 1;
1 Pet. ii. 13. 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 wickedness in the place of judgment.