6. They gather themselves together.
Firebrands burn the fiercer for being pushed together. They are afraid to meet
the good man till their numbers place terrible odds against him. There is
nothing brave about you. They hide themselves. He who dares not meet his
man on the king’s highway writes himself down a villain. Constantly are the
reputations of good men assailed with deep-laid schemes, and diabolical plots
in which the anonymous enemies stab in the dark. They mark my steps, as
hunters mark the trail of their game, and so track them. The malicious are
frequently very sharp-sighted to detect the failings, or supposed failings, of
the righteous. Spies are not all in the pay of earthly governments. When they wait for my soul. Nothing less than his life would content them; only
his present and eternal ruin could altogether glut them. The good man is no
fool; he sees that he has enemies, and that they are many and crafty; he sees
also his own danger, and then he shows his wisdom by spreading the whole case
before the Lord, and putting himself under divine protection.
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