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“What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted ? 
Thrice is he armed who hath his quarrel just, 
And he but naked, though lock’d up in steel, 
Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.” 
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— Shakespeare. 
<<TLET the balance be just, and the weights equal, the bushel just and, 
“ the sextary equal.”—Leviticus, xix., 36. 
As it is the property of justice to give to everyone his due, whether 
it be God, our neighbor, or ourself, so there are three sorts of virtue that 
compose it; one is particularly for the performance of the duty man owes 
to God; one, for the duty he owes his neighbor; and one, for the duty he 
owes to himself. 
This is all he has to do in order to satisfy the obligations of Christian 
justice; that is, for the making of himself truly just. 
“And if you would know,” says a spiritual writer, “how that is to be 
done and would have it made more plain by a few familiar comparisons, 
I should say: a man will comply exactly with these three duties, if he has 
but three things:—the heart of a son towards God, the heart of a man to¬ 
wards his neighbor, and the heart of a judge towards himself.” 
In these three points of justice, the prophet placed the very perfec¬ 
tion of our good, when he said, “I will shew thee, oh man, what is good, 
