Tom
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Some good ol' Jonathan Edwards:
(From “Charity and Its Fruits”- the chapeter titled THE SPIRIT OF CHARITY THE OPPOSITE OF A CENSORIOUS SPIRIT. - I highly recommend the full chapter) "Particular persons, in their private judgments of others, are not obliged to divest themselves of reason, that they may thus judge well of all. This would be plainly against reason ; for Christian charity is not a thing founded on the ruins of reason, but there is the most sweet harmony between reason and charity. And therefore we are not forbidden to judge all persons when there is plain and clear evidence that they are justly chargeable with evil. We are not to blame, when we judge those to be wicked men, and poor Christless wretches, who give flagrant proof that they are so by a course of wicked action. " Some men's sins," says the apostle, " are open beforehand, going before to judgment ; and some men they follow after." That is, some men's sins are such plain testimony against them, that they are sufficient to condemn them as wicked men in full sight of the world, even before the coming of that final day of judgment that shall disclose the secrets of the heart to all. And so some men's actions give such clear evidence of the evil of their intentions, that it is no judging the secrets of the heart, to judge that their designs and ends are wicked. And therefore it is plain, that all judging as to others' state, or qualifications, or actions, is not an uncharitable censoriousness."
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