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<p>Note, 1. A good tongue is healing, healing to wounded consciences by comforting them, to sin-sick souls by convincing them, to peace and love when it is broken by accommodating differences, compromising matters in variance, and reconciling parties at variance; this is the healing of the tongue, which <i>is a tree of life</i>, the leaves of which have a sanative virtue, <a class="bibleref" title="Rev.22.2" href="/passage/?search=Rev.22.2">Rev. 22:2</a>. He that knows how to discourse will make the place he lives in a paradise. 2. An evil tongue is wounding (<i>perverseness</i>, passion, falsehood, and filthiness <i>there, are a breach in the spirit</i>); it wounds the conscience of the evil speaker, and occasions either guilt or grief to the hearers, and both are to be reckoned <i>breaches in the spirit</i>. Hard words indeed break no bones, but many a heart has been broken by them.</p>
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