Grant
Puritan Board Graduate
Brothers & Sisters, I hope your Lord’s Day had been blessed so far and that you and those under your care do well in the keeping of this day unto the Lord. May we fight against the temptations of this day. As I am at home and keeping my sick toddler and newborn while Ms. G attends services without 2 of my wild ones, I am reading through James Durham in his Practical Exposition of the Ten Commandments (RHB & Naphtali Press, pg. 244-245). I am in the chapter dealing with the 5th commandment,
Below is a very brief part dealing with how we can break this command through Detraction. This is a section I had to say “Amen” AND “Woe is me”.
Below is a very brief part dealing with how we can break this command through Detraction. This is a section I had to say “Amen” AND “Woe is me”.
Detraction, a vice whereby men under-handedly whisper what may be to the dishonor of another, even though it be a truth; using insinuations and such a manner of seeming respect to the detracted, as may make the blot and infamy to stick. As when many commendations are given a man, not out of respect to him, but to make some reproach cast upon him go down the better and be the more easily believed, as coming from such a one who respects and loves the man; as, ‘he is discreet’, ‘of great parts’, etc., ‘But’;by which ‘But’ all is overturned.
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