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Oneness
Mar 1, 2012 15:39:22 GMT -6
Post by TheFirebrand on Mar 1, 2012 15:39:22 GMT -6
There are those that are not only vicious themselves, but spiteful and mischievous to others, and they are the worst of men. Such as envy a man the honor of his good name, and do all they can to blast that by calumnies and misrepresentations: They dig up evil, they take a great deal of pains to find out something or other on which to ground a slander, or which may give some color to it. If none appear above ground, rather than want it they will dig for it, by diving into what is secret, or looking a great way back, or by evil suspicions and surmises, and forced innuendos. In the lips of a slanderer and backbiter there is as a fire, not only to brand his neighbors reputation, to smoke and sully it, but as a burning fire to consume it. And how great a matter does a little of this fire kindle, and how hardly is it extinguished!? A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends Proverbs 16:28 James. 3:5, 6 Attachments:
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