Here is, 1. The happiness of a people under a good government. The care
and business of a prince should be to establish the land, to maintain
its fundamental laws, to settle the minds of his subjects and make them
easy, to secure their liberties and properties from hostilities and for
posterity, and to set in order the things that are wanting; this he
must do by judgment, by wise counsels, and by the steady administration
of justice, without respect of persons, which will have these good
effects. 2. The misery of a people under a bad government: A man of
oblations (so it is in the margin) overthrows the land; a man that is
either sacrilegious or superstitious, or that invades the priest's
office, as Saul and Uzziah--or a man that aims at nothing but getting
money, and will, for a good bribe, connive at the most guilty, and, in
hope of one, persecute the innocent--such governors as these will ruin
a country.