On Vindicating Good Names
The mandatory part of the commandment implied is that we
stand up for others and vindicate them when they are injured by
lying lips. This is the sense of the commandment, not only that we
should not slander falsely or accuse others; but that we should
witness for them, and stand up in their defence, when we know them
to be traduced. A man may wrong another as well by silence as by
slander, when he knows him to be wrongfully accused, yet does not
speak in his behalf. If others cast false aspersions on any, we
should wipe them off. When the apostles were filled with the wine of
the Spirit, and were charged with drunkenness, Peter openly
maintained their innocence. ‘These are not drunken, as ye suppose.’
Acts 2: 15. Jonathan knowing David to be a worthy man, and all those
things Saul said of him to be slanders, vindicated him. ‘David has
not sinned against thee; his works have been to thee-ward very good.
Wherefore then wilt thou sin against innocent blood, to slay David
without a cause?’ I Sam 19: 4, 5. When the primitive Christians were
falsely accused for incest, and killing their children, Tertullian
wrote a famous apology in their vindication. This is to act the part
both of a friend and of a Christian, to be an advocate for another,
when he is wronged in his good name. [Thomas Watson]
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Nothing much to tell. I’m walking a single solitary pilgrims walk, in England, that is not an easy one. I am a Calvinistic Covenanter Christian, My Autonomic Nervous system is failing slowly, which has led to severe disability, with an ultra rare disease than medics don’t even understand, often misdiagnose.and will no doubt kill me at some point. But, I trust the Lord to get me where I’m going. All glory to HIM.
The symptomology listed on the link, most porphyrics will only have most of those symptoms if in an acute attack. A few of us, with the ongoing, smouldering symptoms, that never go away, have most if not all of the symptom list, even when not in an acute attack, and are persistent and constant. Anyone who has ever been in the psychiactric system, diagnosed as this or that, even if physically well, should consider this illness could be responsible. King George III, the most famous porphyric, his sole symptom was “insanity.” Its so rare in part, because it’s massively under-diagnosed. But in making this illness known, when it struck me physically a few years ago, God vindicated me from every mis-diagnoses and bersmirchment upon me medically that has ever been made, and has made them all null and void.
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