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Certainly there is scarcely a worse Sin than the Sin of Back-biting; he that hates his Brother (Robbing him of his good Name out of Malice and Envy) is a Murderer, and no Murderer hath eternal Life abiding in him, 1 John 3. 17. such who are destitute of Christian Love and Charity, or hate their Brethren, clearly show they act contrary to the divine Principle of Grace, nay of Morality, and so are void of that sacred Life, Nature, and Image of God. For as love to the Brethren is an Evidence of our being the Children of God, so he that is possessed with Wrath, Envy, Malice, and Hatred, shows he is one of the Children of the wicked one, who is called the Accuser of the Brethren. Clear it is that this is a Diabolical Sin, and renders such in whom it is found, like to the Devil. In this the Children of God are manifest, and the Children of the ⟨p. 8⟩Devil; Whosoever doth not Righteousness, is not of God, neither he that loveth not his Brother.¹

Certainly there is sarcely a worse Sin than the Sin of Back-biting; he that hates his Brother (Robbing him of his good Name out of Malice and Envy) is a Murtherer, and no Murtherer hath eternal Life abiding in him, 1 John 3. 17. such who are destitute of Christian Love and Charity, or hate their Brethren, clearly shew they act contrary to the divine Principle of Grace, nay of Morality, and so are void of that sacred Life, Nature, and Image of God. For as love to the Bretheren is an Evidence of our being the Children of God, so he that is possessed with Wrath, Envy, Malice, and Hatred, shews he is one of the Children of the wicked one, who is called the Accuser of the Brethren. Clear it is that this is a Diabolical Sin, and renders such in whom it is found, like to the Devil. In this the Children of God are manifest, and the Children of the ⟨p. 8⟩Devil; Whosoever doth not Righteousness, is not of God, neither he that loveth not his Brother.¹

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