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ing ; it must be such as will abide the touchstone 

 of his Word, and the balance of his Sanctuary. 

 To make short, righteousness or justice, though 

 elsewhere a single virtue, yet here it is virtually 

 all: — IvXXriP^riv zrutr' d^ETv n, and, said the Prophet, 

 and the philosopher after him, 'On fxi^og dp£TYi;, dxx' 

 oXn ccpiT-n fViv, not a part, but all virtue : and so 

 often, both in Scripture and the Fathers, compre- 

 hensively all religion, the whole duty of man,* ^ 

 ruv hloXccu U-urXri^ooc-ig, saitli St. Chrysostom : Omnes 

 Virtutum species uno Justitice nomine, saith St. 

 Jerome. Not a particular star, nor a single con- 

 stellation, but a whole heaven of virtues, an en- 

 tire globe of moral and Christian perfections ; an 

 universal rectitude of the will, conforming us in 

 all points to God's righteous law, the t rule of our 

 righteousness, or if you will in two words, it is 

 Suiim cuiqne, to give every one his due ; Suum Deo 

 first, and then Suum proximo; give God his due, 

 and your neighbour too : these are the integral 

 parts of it. So that righteousness, as the great 

 rule of it, hath two tables, or, if you will, two 

 hemispheres, the upper and the nether : both so 

 vast, that we cannot measure them in a span (the 

 span of time allotted me ;) I shall therefore con- 

 tract them to the occasion, and give you only some 

 of those particular lessons of righteousness, which 

 this present judgment of God upon our land seems 

 most clearly to take us forth, both into relation 

 to God himself, and to our neighbours; and then 



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«* Theogn. Ethic v. f Horn. 12. in St.Mattli. 



