104. That we must not lie.
"Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord."
105. That they are frequently to be corrected who do wrong in domestic duty.
In Solomon: "He who spareth the rod, hateth his son." And again: "Do not cease from correcting the child."
106. That when a wrong is received, patience is to be maintained, and vengeance to be left to God.
Say not, I will avenge me of mine enemy; but wait for the Lord, that He may be thy help." Also elsewhere: "To me belongeth vengeance; I will repay, saith the Lord." Also in Zephaniah: "Wait on me, saith the Lord, in the day of my rising again to witness; because my judgment is to the congregations of the Gentiles, that I may take kings, and pour out upon them my anger."
107. That we must not use detraction.
In Solomon, in the Proverbs: "Love not to detract, lest thou be taken away." Also in the forty-ninth Psalm: "Thou sattest, and spakest against thy brother; and against the son of thy mother thou placedst a stumbling-block." Also in the Epistle of Paul to the Colossians: "To speak ill of no man, nor to be litigious."
108. That we must not lay snares against our neighbour.
In Solomon, in the Proverbs: "He who diggeth a pit for his neighbour, himself shall fall into it."
109. That the sick are to be visited.
In Solomon, in Ecclesiasticus: "Be not slack to visit the sick man; for from these things thou shall be strengthened in love." Also in the Gospel: "I was sick, and ye visited me; I was in prison, and ye came unto me."
110. That tale-bearers are accursed.
In Ecclesiasticus, in Solomon: "The talebearer and the double-tongued is accursed; for he will disturb many who have peace."
111. That the sacrifices of the wicked are not acceptable.
In the same: "The Highest approveth not the gifts of the unrighteous."
112. That those are more severely judged, who in this world have had more power.
In Solomon: "The hardest judgment shall be made on those who govern. For to a mean man mercy is granted; but the powerful shall suffer torments mightily." Also in the second Psalm "And now, ye kings, understand; be amended, ye who judge the earth."
113. That the widow and orphans ought to be protected.
In Solomon: "Be merciful to the orphans as a father, and as a husband to their mother; and thou shalt be the son of the Highest if thou shalt obey." Also in Exodus: "Ye shall not afflict any widow and orphan. But if ye afflict them, and they cry out and call unto me, I will hear their cryings, and will be angry in mind against you; and I will destroy you with the sword, and your wives shall be widows, and your children orphans." Also in Isaiah: "Judge for the fatherless, and justify the widow; and come let us reason, saith the Lord." Also in Job: "have preserved the poor man from the hand of the mighty, and I have helped the fatherless who had no helper: the mouth of the widow hath blessed me." Also in the sixty-seventh Psalm: "The Father of the orphans, and the Judge of the widows."
114. That one ought to make confession while he is in the flesh.
In the fifth Psalm: "But in the grave who will confess unto Thee? " Also in the twenty-ninth Psalm: "Shall the dust make confession to Thee? " Also elsewhere that confession is to be made: "I would rather have the repentance of the sinner than his death." Also in Jeremiah: "Thus saith the Lord, Shall not he that falleth arise? or shall not he that is turned away be converted? "
115. That flattery is pernicious.
In Isaiah: "They who call you blessed, lead you into error, and trouble the paths of your feet."
116. That God is more loved by him who has had many sins forgiven in baptism.