20. Neither do we yield to them in _injustice_ any more than _uncleanness_. How frequent are open robberies among us? Is not _the act of violence_ even _in our streets_? And what laws are sufficient to prevent it? Does not _theft_ of various kinds abound in all parts of the land, even tho’ death be the punishment of it? And are there not among us, who _take usury and increase_, who _greedily gain of their neighbour by_ extortion? Yea, whole trades which subsist by such extortion, as was not named either among the _Jews_ or _Heathens? Is there not_ yet _the scant measure, the wicked balances, and the bag of deceitful weights?_ Beside the thousand nameless ways of over-reaching and defrauding, the _craft_ and _mystery_ of every trade and profession. It were an endless task to descend to particulars, to point out in every circumstance, how not only _sharpers_ and _gamesters_, (those public nusances, those scandals to the _English_ nation) but high and low, rich and poor, men of character and men of none, in every station of public or private life, _have corrupted themselves_, and generally applaud themselves and count it _policy_ and wisdom so to do: so that if _gain_ be at hand, they care not, though _justice stand afar off_: so that _he which departeth from evil_, which cometh not into their secret, still _maketh himself a prey_; and _the wicked_ still _devoureth the man that is more righteous than he_. And what redress? Suppose a great man to oppress the needy? Suppose the rich grinds the face of the poor: what remedy against such _oppression_ can he find in this _Christian_ country? If the one is rich and the other poor, doth not justice stand afar off? And is not the poor under the utmost improbability, (if not impossibility) of obtaining it? Perhaps the hazard is greater among us, than either among _Jews_, _Turks_, or _Heathens_.