The last words refer not only to this promise but to all that goes before: This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord. The day is coming when God will reckon with the wicked men for all their hard speeches which they have spoken against him, Jude 15. Thou shalt condemn them as Noah condemned the old world that reproached him, by building the ark, and so saving his house, in contempt of their contempt.’’

He shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, Psalm 37:6. Thou shalt condemn them, that is, God shall condemn them for thee.

Thou shalt do it by well-doing ( 1 Peter 2:15 ), by doing that which will make thee manifest in the consciences even of thy adversaries, that thou art not what thou art represented to be. 'But these insulting threatening tongues thou shalt condemn thou shalt have wherewith to answer their insolent demands, and to put to silence their malicious reflections. This the enemies of the Jews did, to incense the kings of Persia against them, Ezra 4:12 Esther. The tongues that rise in judgment against the church are such as either demand dominion over it, as if God’s children were their lawful captives, pretending an authority to oppress their consciences, or they are such as misrepresent them, and falsely accuse them, and by slanders and calumnies endeavor to make them odious to the people and obnoxious to the government.

Both are included in the gates of hell, that seek to destroy the church for they had their courts of justice, as well as their magazines and military stores, in their gates. When the weapons of war do not prosper there are tongues that rise in judgment. Secondly, From their law adversaries, they think to run them down under the color of right and justice. It is the happiness of the church that no weapons formed against it shall prosper long, and therefore the folly of its enemies will at length be made manifest to all, for they are but preparing instruments of ruin for themselves.

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