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to his own master he standeth or falleth. therefore judge one another any more.

Let us not

ROM. xiv. 4, 13.

Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault; ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.1-GAL. vi. 1.

Go to your bosom ;

Knock there; and ask your heart, what it doth know, That's like thy brother's fault: if it confess

A natural guiltiness, such as his is,

Let it not sound a thought upon your tongue
Against thy brother.*

MEASURE FOR MEASURE. Act II. Scene 2.

We cannot weigh our brother with ourself.

MEASURE FOR MEASURE.

Act II. Scene 2.

Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all.

KING HENRY VI. (2d part). Act III. Scene 3.

Shame to him, whose cruel striking,

Kills for faults of his own liking.

MEASURE FOR MEASURE. Act III. Scene 2.

1 1 Cor. x. 12.

* He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.

JOHN viii. 7.

VIII.

ALL EVIL RECOILS UPON THE EVILDOER.

Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein; and he that rolleth a stone, it shall return upon him.

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PROV. XXVI. 27.

They that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same. By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.

JOB iv. 8, 9.

He that pursueth evil, pursueth it to his own death.-PROV. xi. 19.

Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him; for the reward of his hands shall be given him.3

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Is. iii. 11.

He that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul.4-PROV. viii. 36.

Their sword shall enter into their own heart.

Ps. xxxvii. 15.

In the net which they hid is their own foot taken. The wicked is snared in the work of his hands.

Ps. ix. 15, 16.

1 Ps. vii. 15, 16.

2 Gal. vi. 7, 8. 3 Rom. ii. 9.

4 Is. iii. 9.

Sith thou hast not hated blood, even blood shall pursue thee.-Ezek. xxxv. 6.

Evil pursueth sinners.-PROV. xiii. 21.

They have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.-Hos. viii. 7.

Whereas men have lived dissolutely and unrighteously, thou hast tormented them with their own abominations.-WISDOM xii. 23.

He that followeth corruption shall have enough thereof.1-ECCLUS. xxxi. 5.

All iniquity is a two-edged sword.-ECCLUS. xxi. 3.

Wherewithal a man sinneth, by the same also shall he be punished.-WISDOM xi. 16.

What mischief work the wicked ones;
Heaping confusion on their own heads thereby.
KING HENRY VI. (2d part). Act II. Scene 1.

The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
Make instruments to scourge us.

KING LEAR. Act v. Scene 3.

1 Job xx. 11-14.

Thus doth he force the swords of wicked men

To turn their own points on their masters' bosoms.
KING RICHARD III. Act v. Scene 1.

This even-handed justice

Commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice To our own lips.-MACBETH. Act I. Scene 7.

O error, soon conceived,

Thou never com'st unto a happy birth,

But kill'st the mother that engender'd thee.

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By bad courses may be understood,

That their events can never turn out good.

RICHARD II. Act II. Scene 1.

Unnatural deeds breed unnatural troubles.

MACBETH. Act v. Scene 1.

Our natures do pursue

(Like rats that ravin down their proper bane), A thirsty evil; and, when we drink, we die.

MEASURE FOR MEASURE. Act 1. Scene 3.

Sin, gathering head,

Shall break into corruption.

KING HENRY IV. (2d part). Act III. Scene 1.

Wrong hath but wrong, and blame the due of blame. Act v. Scene 1.

KING RICHARD III.

IX.

GOVERNMENT UNDER A CHILD.

Woe unto thee, O land, when thy king is a child.

ECCLES. X. 16.

Woe to the land that 's govern'd by a child.
KING RICHARD III,

Act II. Scene 3.

X.

CHRISTIAN CHARITY.

Love is the fulfilling of the law.1-ROM. xiii. 10.

Charity itself fulfils the law.

LOVE'S LABOUR LOST. Act IV. Scene 3.

1 1 Cor. xiii. 4-7.

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