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<p>Observe here, Malice is folly and wickedness. 1. It is so when it is concealed by flattery and dissimulation: He <i>is a fool</i>, though he may think himself a politician, <i>that hides hatred with lying lips</i>, lest, if it break out, he should be ashamed before men and should lose the opportunity of gratifying his malice. <i>Lying lips</i> are bad enough of themselves, but have a peculiar malignity in them when they are made <i>a cloak of maliciousness</i>. But he <i>is a fool</i> who thinks to hide any thing from God. 2. It is no better when it is vented in spiteful and mischievous language: <i>He that utters slander is a fool</i> too, for God will sooner or later bring forth that righteousness as the light which he endeavours to cloud, and will find an expedient to roll the reproach away.</p>
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