Credit me, that the Puritans who object to us the follies and the frailties incident to human nature, have themselves the vices of absolute devils, privy malice and backbiting hypocrisy, and spiritual pride in all its presumption.
Hence it is that others hear oftener of men's faults, than they do themselves; and that backbiting is grown the common fashion, because proud sinners drive away reprovers, by their impatience and displeasure.
Another sin is, backbiting and venting ill reports behind men's backs, without any warrant.
Sir 28:14 A backbiting tongue hath disquieted many, and driven them from nation to nation: strong cities hath it pulled down, and overthrown the houses of great men.
Sir 28:15 A backbiting tongue hath cast out virtuous women, and deprived them of their labours.
That seeker should also regard backbiting as grievous error, and keep himself aloof from its dominion, inasmuch as backbiting quencheth the light of the heart, and extinguisheth the life of the soul.
Admonitions and Warnings Pride Selfishness Covetousness Debts Respect Of Persons Backsliding Unbelief Judging Gossiping And Backbiting Envy, Jealousy, And Hatred Hypocrisy Danger In Rejecting Light The Just Recompense Part XVI.
She spent the whole evening talking to an ill-natured and quarrelsome old lady, whom nobody liked owing to her spying and backbiting habits, but of whom every one was afraid, and consequently every one felt obliged to be polite to her.
Of course backbiting and slander ran their course, as without them the world could not get on, and millions of persons would perish of boredom, like flies.
Backbiting among the well-bred murmurs there was of course.
Her mother wheeled on her, struck afresh in her dearest possession, namely: her pride in the prestige of the name of Heth in an envious and backbiting world.
Backbiting consists in saying evil of others, either deservedly or undeservedly; but when undeservedly, and especially when one knows it to be so, backbiting becomes slander.
Backbiting may arise from ill-will or thoughtlessness, and slander is the work of baseness and perfidy.
Violation of the honor of others--Backbiting and slander.
Backbiting which consists in saying evil of others deservedly, is not in itself an injustice: there is to be recognized the right and jurisdiction of public opinion.
Nevertheless, backbiting becomes an injustice through the abuse that is made of it.
But every one hath not Paul's spirit in complaining: for often, in us, complaining is but an humble backbiting and traducing of Christ's new work in the soul.
He exhorts to Assurance as being the way to be humbled very low before God: "Complaining is but a humble backbiting and traducing of Christ's new work in the soul.
It encourageth ungodly men to the odious sin of backbiting and slandering the most religious, righteous person.
The north wind driveth away rain, so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue.
Cases of Conscience about Backbiting and Evil-speaking.
And backbitingprofessors of religion encourage men to this; for with what measure they mete, it shall be measured to them again.
Ye have been forbidden to commit murder or adultery, or to engage in backbiting or calumny; shun ye, then, what hath been prohibited in the holy Books and Tablets.
The Scriptures condemn backbitingand evil speaking in the most pointed terms.
That seeker should, also, regard backbiting as grievous error, and keep himself aloof from its dominion, inasmuch as backbiting quencheth the light of the heart, and extinguisheth the life of the soul.
But he is always backbiting and sneering; he admires nothing and nobody.
The passengers improved, and were a very good specimen lot, with no drunkard, no gambling that I saw, and less grumbling and backbiting than one would have asked of poor human nature.
Now backbiting by its very nature aims at blackening a man's good name.
Whether Backbiting Is a Graver Sin Than Tale-bearing?
Now backbiting is seemingly a graver sin than adultery, because adultery unites two persons in one flesh, whereas reviling severs utterly those who were united.
Therefore backbiting is absolutely the gravest of all.
Whether Backbiting Is Suitably Defined As the Blackening of Another's Character by Secret Words?
This is not backbiting strictly and formally speaking, but only materially and accidentally as it were.
Further, reviling arises from anger, while backbiting arises from envy, according to Gregory (Moral.
Therefore it does not belong to the essence of backbiting that it should be done by secret words.
Therefore backbiting is a graver sin than tale-bearing.
Derision considered in itself is less grievous than backbiting or reviling, because it does not imply contempt, but jest.
Therefore backbiting is more grievous than adultery: and yet of all other sins a man commits against his neighbor, adultery is most grave.
