Christ's certain and sudden appearance to judgment

13. Come forth all ye slanderers and backbiters; who have walked about with slanders, and carried about tales unto the reproach and injury of your neighbours good name; Did you not know it was your duty to endeavour the preservation of your neighbours reputation as carefully as your own? were you not commanded to speak evil of none? could you s••tter others before their faces, and alter your speech so much when their backs were turned? did not your own self-contradicting words condemn you? did you find good in back-biting, and speaking evil of others? did you gain reputation, by wounding others reputation, or rather did not you give occasion to others to speak as reproachfully of you? Did you not alienate affection, and separate near friends by your standers? did you not know many things to be false, which you spake to others disparagement? could you with confidence have averred the same things to the persons themselves? would not they easily have disproved you, and put you to shame? and if you were privy to some real faults of others, should you not have concealed them? if you had had real love, would you not have covered them? did you do as you would ⟨p. 105⟩be done by? had you not as great faults of your own? and could you be content to have them blazed abroad? you have accused others falsely, and now you are accused truly, and you shall be punished justly. Take them Devils, bind them hand and foot.

13. Come forth all ye slanderers and backbiters; who have walked about with slanders, and carried about tales unto the reproach and injury of your neighbours good name; Did you not know it was your duty to endeavour the preservation of your neighbours reputation as carefully as your own? were you not commanded to speak evil of none? could you s••tter others before their faces, and alter your speech so much when their backs were turned? did not your own self-contradicting words condemn you? did you finde good in back-biting, and speaking evil of others? did you gain reputation, by wounding others reputation, or rather did not you give occasion to others to speak as reproachfully of you? Did you not alienate affection, and separate neer friends by your standers? did you not know many things to be false, which you spake to others disparagement? could you with confidence have averred the same things to the persons themselves? would not they easily have disproved you, and put you to shame? and if you were privy to some real faults of others, should you not have concealed them? if you had had real love, would you not have covered them? did you do as you would