Assertion: reproach | /r/CapableOf | render byword
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text: Sins are the snuffs that dim our candlestick, and threaten the removal of it; the leaven that defiles our passovers, and urges God to pass away and depart from us; the reproach that will render us a proverb and a byword, [Deuteronomy 28:37] an astonishment and a hissing, [Jeremiah 25:9] like Sodom and her sisters, a reproach and a taunt; [Ezekiel 5:15] which to prevent, Currat poenitentia, ne praecurrat sententia. {b} Mittamus preces et lachrymas cordis legatos.