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REHM.
XXV.]
CHRISTIAN'
MORALITY, VIZ. JUSTICE,
&C.
41$
him,
according
to
his.
own
eternal
covenant.
God
re-
warded
him,
as
a magistrate, distributing
justice
to
a
person
who
had
done the
greatest
things for
the
honour
of
his
sovereign:
He exalted
him
at
his own
right-hand,
and
gave him
.a
name above every name,
that at
the
name
of
Jesus
every
knee should
bow
;
for
he
deserved
it
at
the hands
of
his
Father,
and
his
Father
distributed
re-
wards equal
to his
desert.
Rewarding
justice
again
appears
glorious, in
that God
the Father communicates unto
us
the rewards
of
the suf-
ferings
of
his own Son.
God
is
faithful and
just
to for-
give us
our
sins,
because the blood
of
Jesus
Christ,
his
Son, has
paid for
all
our
follies
and unrighteousness;
1
John
i.
9.
Faithful
and
just
to his
Son,
that
he may
not
go
without
the rewards
of
his:sufferings
:
Faithful and
just
to us,
because
it
was in
our
name
and stead that the
Son suffered.
But
not
to
insist upon
this
longer, commutative
justice
is
abundantly
enforced
also by
many
considerations drawn
from,
the books
of
the Old
Testament,
as
well as
from
the
gospel
of Christ,
If
we
consult the moral statutes
of
God, which
were
given to the
Jews,
we
shall
find
them
full
of righteous-
ness.
These statutes are
of
everlasting
force,
and their
divine
solemnity should impress
our
consç.iençes.
"That
which
is
altogether
just
shalt thou
follow,
that
thou
may-
est
live
and
inherit
the land
:
And the
judges and
ofr
lcers
shall
judge
the people
with
righteous judgment,
and
shall
shew
no
respect
to persons,
nor
take a
gift to
pervert
justice,
Deut.
xvi.
18, 19,
20.
Ye
shall
not
steal,
nor
deal
falsely,
nor
lie to one
another. Thou
shalt
not
defraud
thy neighbour,
nor
rob
him.
The
wages
of
him
that
is
hired
shall
not
abide
with
thee
all
night
until the morning.
Ye
shall do no
unrighteousness
in judgment, in weight, or
in
measure.
Just
balancee.
and
just
weights shall ye
have;
I
am
the Lord your
God,
Lev.
xix.
12,
&c.
A
false
balance is
an abomination
to
Vie
Lord;
but
a
just
weight
is his
delight, Prov.
xi.
1.
To
do
justice and judgment
is
more
acceptable
to
the
Lord than
sacrifice,
'Prov.
xx. 3.
Woe
to him
that
buildeth
his house by unrighteousness,
and
his
chambers
by wrong, who uses
his
neighbour's
service
without
wages,
and
giveth
him.
not
for
hie
work,
Ter.
xxii.
13.
Retrieve.