Two things are here intimated to be the causes of the mal-administration of princes:—1. The love of money, that root of all evil ; for hating covetousness here stands opposed to oppression , according to Moses’s character of good magistrates, men fearing God and hating covetousness (Exod. 18:21), not only not being covetous, but hating it, and shaking the hands from the holding of bribes. A ruler ...