Matthew Henry on Discernment Ministries and Keyboard Warriors

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In the age of seemingly endless "discernment ministries" and the ungoverned internet culture of correctors, the Reverend Matthew Henry gives us some good advice (Commentary, Ecclesiastes 7):

Make not thyself over-wise." Be not opinionative, and conceited of thy own abilities. Set not up for a dictator, nor pretend to give law to, and give judgment upon, all about thee. Set not up for a critic, to find fault with every thing that is said and done, nor busy thyself in other men’s matters, as if thou knewest every thing and couldst do any thing. Why shouldst thou destroy thyself, as fools often do by meddling with strife that belongs not to them? Why shouldst thou provoke authority, and run thyself into the briers, by needless contradictions, and by going out of thy sphere to correct what is amiss? "Be wise as serpents; beware of men.”​
 
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