6. [This command may be violated] by vexatious lawsuits. Doubtless civil laws are good and necessary; and men are sometimes forced to recover their own by law, or else they would wrong themselves and [their] families. And this arises from the iniquity of mankind, whereas if all men were honest, it might be prevented. This forwardness to bring every thing to civil courts, which might be ended in a more charitable way, is what the Apostle sharply reproves in them, I Cor. 6, beginning [of the chapter.] For men to take the advantage of their neighbours, when their [the neighbour's] cause in honesty and conscience is just and good, is oppression and robbery under a pretext of justice. For men to draw out suits, by unreasonable non-suits [nonsense?] and any other tricks of a like nature, to impoverish their neighbours, is of the same stamp. For attorneys to use tricks to persuade their clients to contention, and protract and blind, or entangle causes for their own advantage, is a scandal, which such as so do, can never wipe off. For persons, by bribes and friends, to draw such as are concerned in judgement, to have respect of persons, so to favour their cause...