2. There are private ways of retaliation, whereby the injured party may receive what is sent to him, in a way of restitution, and not know from whom it comes; or, good turns may be done to him, in a way of compensation for the damages he has received, and he not know, that they are done with this design; and, by this means, we disburden our consciences, perform a necessary duty, and, at the same time, prevent the supposed ill-consequences that might attend it. _Obj._ 2. It is farther objected, that sometimes the making restitution is impracticable; as when the person injured is dead, and we know of none that has a right to receive it. And sometimes we may have been guilty of so many instances of fraud and oppression, and, that to such a great number of persons, that it is next to impossible, to make restitution. _Answ._ To this it may be replied; that when it is impossible for us to make restitution to those whom we have injured; or, when we know of none that survive them, who have a right to receive it, the best expedient, I apprehend, we can make use of, is, to give it to the poor; for, since it is not, in justice, our own, we do, as it were, hereby give it to the Lord, who is the original proprietor of all things. Footnote 3: _The Hebrew word_ שאל _which is here used, does not only signify_ commodavit, _or_ usui dedit, _or_ accepit, _but_ petiit, _or_ postulavit; _in the last of which senses it is to be understood, in_ Deut. x. 12. What doth the Lord require or demand of thee, &c. _And in_ Judges v. 25. _where the same word is used, it is said, that_ Sisera asked water of Jael; _not as one that was borrowing it of her, but as a gratuity for former kindness which he had shewn to her_. Footnote 4: _From נשך, momordit._ Footnote 5: _See 3 vol. p. 422._ Quest. CXLIII., CXLIV., CXLV. QUEST. CXLIII. _What is the ninth Commandment?_ ANSW. The ninth Commandment is, [_Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour_.] QUEST. CXLIV. _What are the duties required in the ninth Commandment?_