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Slight dislikes will do little in this ease, you rulers and judges must heartily
hate, and show that you hate, the evil, both ways, doings, contrivers, and abettors of the evil among the people and yourselves;
and love the good; commend, encourage, defend, and reward all good in others, and do it yourselves; let your heart be toward good things and good men.
Establish judgment in the gate: by this it is evident the prophet speaks to governors and judges among them: what the import of the phrase is see Amo_5:10,12. Set up honest and upright judges in every gate, where judges did sit in those days.
It may be that the Lord God of hosts will be gracious; possibly he will forgive, or abate or respite the evil days, possibly he may give you his gracious presence, and yet save
the remnant of Joseph; what the invasions of enemies, or the civil wars, have spared, and left in Samaria and Israel, the ten tribes: Amo_5:6.