10. The words of Christ prove this seventh: (Matth. v. 22): _But I say unto you, that whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause, shall be in danger of the judgment; and whosoever shall say unto his brother_ Racha, _shall be in danger of the council; but whosoever shall say, thou fool, shall be in danger of hell-fire_. Prov. x. 18: _He that uttereth a slander, is a fool._ Prov. xiv. 21: _He that despiseth his neighbour, sinneth._ Prov. xv. 1: _Grievous words stir up anger_. Prov. xxii. 10: _Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out, and reproach shall cease._ [Sidenote: Also of the eighth, against pride.] 11. The eighth law of acknowledging equality of nature, that is, of humility, is established by these places: Matth. v. iii: _Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven._ Prov. vi. 16-19: _These six things doth the Lord hate, yea, seven are an abomination unto him. A proud look_, &c. Prov. xvi. 5: _Every one that is proud, is an abomination unto the Lord; though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished._ Prov. xi. 2: _When pride cometh, then cometh shame; but with the lowly is wisdom._ Thus Isaiah xl. 3: (where the coming of the Messias is shewed forth, for preparation towards his kingdom): _The voice of him that cried in the wilderness, was this: Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low_: which doubtless is spoken to men, and not to mountains. [Sidenote: Also of the ninth, of equity.] 12. But that same equity, which we proved in the ninth place to be a law of nature, which commands every man to allow the same rights to others they would be allowed themselves, and which contains in it all the other laws besides, is the same which Moses sets down (Levit. xix. 18): _Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself._ And our Saviour calls it _the sum of the moral law_: Matth. xxii. 36-40: _Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind; this is the first and great commandment; and the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets._ But to love our neighbour as ourselves, is nothing else but to grant him all we desire to have granted to ourselves. [Sidenote: Also the tenth, against respect of persons.]