A25470:541
The Morning exercise [at] Cri[ppleg]ate, or, Several cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers, September 1661.
London: printed for Joshua Kirton and Nathaniel Webb, 1661
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2. Not of their sins after Ordination, Confirmando, by confirming them in them. For, sayes the Apostle in the next verse but one, Some mens sins are open before-hand, going before to judgement, i. e. the Crisis, or Test, or Censure, or Judgement of the Church: and some follow after. This is the Grammaticall sense and Logical Analysis of the words.
But beloved, I must take leave to handle the words in a greater latitude and extent: For certainly this Caution is not intended to Ministers only, neither is it to be confined to the Case of Ordination; but as Christ said upon another occasion, What I say unto you, I say unto all. So here, what Saint Paul writes to Timothy, he speaks to all; a private Christian as well as a Minister, a Church-Member as well as a Church-Elder must be sure to take heed, that he be not partaker of other mens sins. The Case of Conscience to be discussed this morning is this;
But beloved, I must take leave to handle the words in a greater latitude and extent: For certainly this Caution is not intended to Ministers onely, neither is it to be confined to the Case of Ordination; but as Christ said upon another occasion, What I say unto you, I say unto all. So here, what Saint Paul writes to Timothy, he speaks to all; a private Christian as well as a Minister, a Church-Member as well as a Church-Elder must be sure to take heed, that he be not partaker of other mens sins. The Case of Conscience to be discussed this morning is this;
How must we reprove, and not partake of other mens sins?
1. About Participation of other mens sins. 2. About Reproving of other mens sins.
I must beg leave to project and manage my discourse Sermon-wise, and so commend to your Christian meditation this Truth and Doctrine. In the explication whereof I shall handle the former Case, and in the application the latter.
Doctr. It ought to be every mans care, not to partake of any mans sin.
Neither be partaker—
In the handling of which I shall endeavour to show you,
In the handling of which I shall endeavour to shew you,
1. How a man may be guilty of other mens sins, or how many ways a man may be said to partake of other mens sins.
1. How a man may be guilty of other mens sins, or how many wayes a man may be said to partake of other mens sins.
2. Why a Christian must be careful not to partake of other mens sins.
2. Why a Christian must be carefull not to partake of other mens sins.
3. To apply it.
