12. For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them evenbe taken in their pride. Such dreadful language of
atheism and insolence deserves a fit return. As they hope to take their
victims, so let them be taken themselves, entangled in their own net, arrested
in the midst of their boastful security. Sins of the lips are real sins, and punishable
sins. Pride though it show not itself in clothes, but only in speech, is a sin;
and persecuting pride, though it pile no faggots at Smithfield, but only revile
with its lips, will have to answer for it among the unholy crew of inquisitors.
And for cursing and lying which they speak. Sins, like hounds, often
hunt in couples. Whoever is not ashamed to curse before God will be sure to lie
to people. Every swearer is a liar. Persecution leads on to perjury. This will
bring its recompense.
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