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The second is this, it calls for a trembling heart from those that shall rejoice at the reproaches of ¹Gods people: Perhaps thou art one that wilt not reproach thy self, yet thou mayest rejoice at the reproaches of Gods people: There is a great deal of evil in this: Surely thou hast no love to them, for love does not rejoice in iniquity, 1 Corinth. 13. 6. When the Devil does sow the seed, thou dost come with the harrows to cover the seed, when thou dost rejoice in their reproaches. Proverbs 18. 8. The words of a tale-bearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly: It may be translated, The words of a tale-bearer are as the words of them tbat are wounded: That is, The tale-bearers that come and tell you things, they come with expressions of a great deal of brokenness of heart, as if their spirits were grieved at that they hear, and they speak as if they spoke in ⟨p. 429⟩the defence of them, and then they are as wounds; not the wounds of them they speak of, but the wounds of the wounded: And if any come in this way to cast reproaches upon Gods people, they are taken down into the belly, and they go glib down: This is a slight of the Devil to make them pass without the least questioning; for those that reproach, seem to speak out of wounded troubled hearts.

The second is this, it calls for a trembling heart from those that shall rejoyce at the reproaches of ¹Gods people: Perhaps thou art one that wilt not reproach thy self, yet thou mayest rejoyce at the reproaches of Gods people: There is a great deal of evil in this: Surely thou hast no love to them, for love does not rejoyce in iniquity, 1 Corinth. 13. 6. When the Devil does sow the seed, thou dost come with the harrows to cover the seed, when thou dost rejoyce in their reproaches. Proverbs 18. 8. The words of a tale-bearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly: It may be translated, The words of a tale-bearer are as the words of them tbat are wounded: That is, The tale-bearers that come and tell you things, they come with expressions of a great deal of brokenness of heart, as if their spirits were grieved at that they hear, and they speak as if they spoke in