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none
of
us
guilty
Of
some.lesser injuries rising
from
`the
same principle
?
Are
there none
of
us
that
indulge
Our
tongues
to
backbite and slander,
to make
our
neighbours
look odious, or
to make ourselves easy or
merry?
This
is
to
play the
madman,
who
casts
abroad fire-brands,
arrows
and
death,
-and
saith,
Am
I
not
in
-sport?
?
Prov.
xxvi.
18, 19.
Are
there none
of
us
that
delight
to teaze,
and
vex,
and
torture our
neighbour
by
disa-
greeable speeches and
sly
reproach
?
Do
we
never envy
and provoke one another,
contrary
to
the apostle's ex-
press
prohibition
?
Gal.
v.
26..
Do
we
not
take plea-
sure
to
repeat
the things
that
make each
other
uneasy,
in
order
to
vent
the gall within
us,
and scatter
the venom
upon
our neighbour's
good
name
?
This
is
malice
and
unrihteousness
together;
a
complicated
crime, which
one would
think should
be
abhorred
by
every Christian,
if
one did
not,
frequently
see
and
feel
the practice
of
it
among
the professors
of
the name
of
Christ.
I
might
well
compare
such
creatures
to
a
wasp
or
hornet,
who
first
teaze
and disquiet
us with
their
endless humming,
and
ere
we
can get, rid
of
them, they
fix
their painful
sting
in our
flesh;
though .neither the pain nor
theteaz-
ing
vexation
they
give
us,
can
procure
any
conveniency
to
those peevish
insects,
those
noisy
animals
of
a
.little
angry
soul..
If
we
are
poor,
this
evil
humour
tempts
us
to envy
the
riches
of our
neighbour,
and
we
magnify
and exalt
them
beyond the
truth,
that
we
may give some
colour
to
our
splenetic
and
uneasy carriage.
If
we
are
afflicted,
or in
pain,
we envy the
welfare
and
the
ease
of
others,
We
enlarge
our
paraphrases upon their
blessings,
and
blacken
their character,
that
they
may
appear
unworthy
of such favours, and worthy
of
our
indignation
and
envy.
"
When
shall the time
come, O
Lord Jesus, thou
king
of
righteousness,
and
king
of
peace,
when
shall
that
day,
appear,
that
Ephraim
shall
not
envy
Judah, nor
Judah
molest
Ephraim
?.
When
shall
it
be
that
no
ra-
venous
beast
shall come
near
Zion,
and there
shall be
nothing
to
hurt.
or destroy
in
all
thy holy
mountain
?"
The last spring
of
injustice
that
I
shall
mention,
is
unbelief,
and distrust
áf
the providence
of
God. When
persons
are
in low
circumstances, they
are
sometimes
hurried
by
the power
of
this
temptation
to use
.
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