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A Mans good name is like a piece of white paper, which if once blotted, will very hardly be got out again,* 1.1 so as to leave no print of it behind; It is like a Merchants estate, long a getting, but lost in a moment, and when it is lost in the bot∣tom of the Sea, how shall it ever be recovered again? What care? how circum∣spect,
then ought men to be in what they say of their brother? not to steal and mur∣der his good name,* 1.2 which is as precious as life it selfe; And so to do, is a sin that God will not pardon, unless the Party that is guilty make restitution, which is a work not easie to be done, yet God will accept of endeavours, if faithful and in∣dustrious.
E. Calamy Serm. at St. Pauls, Lond.
Curam habe de bon•• nomine, &c. Eccl. 41.