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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.
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.
1. How a man may be said to partake of other mens sins: To this I answer, There are many ways whereby we contract the guilt of others sins: Lord, says David, who knows how oft he offends? I will name some of them.
1. How a man may be said to partake of other mens sins: To this I answer, There are many wayes whereby we contract the guilt of others sins: Lord, sayes David, who knowes how oft he offends? I will name some of them.
There are eight ways especially noted in Scripture, by all which a man is made partaker, and becomes guilty of the sins of others.
There are eight wayes especially noted in Scripture, by all which a man is made partaker, and becomes guilty of the sins of others.
1. By contrivance, by plotting and contriving of sin, by provoking and soliciting others to sin; and this is in an high degree to be guilty of other mens sins. Thus Jonadab was guilty of Amnons Incest by his subtle contriving of that wickedness, by being a Pander to that Villainy, 2 Sam. 13.5.
1. By contrivance, by plotting and contriving of sin, by provoking and soliciting others to sin; and this is in an high degree to be guilty of other mens sins. Thus Jonadab was guilty of Amnons Incest by his subtill contriving of that wickedness, by being a Pander to that Villany, 2 Sam. 13.5.
When a man shall wittingly and willingly spread a snare in his brothers way, and either drive him in by provocation, or decoy him in by allurement, he makes himself a partaker of his sin. E g. to provoke a man to Passion, to tempt a person to Drunkenness and uncleanness, to put a man upon Murder and blood-shed, to draw souls into Error, Heresy, Blasphemy, &c. this is to espouse and adopt the sin, and to make it a mans own.
When a man shall wittingly and willingly spread a snare in his brothers way, and either drive him in by provocation, or decoy him in by allurement, hee makes himselfe a partaker of his sin. E g. to provoke a man to Passion, to tempt a person to Drunkennesse and uncleanness, to put a man upon Murder and blood-shed, to draw souls into Errour, Heresie, Blasphemy, &c. this is to espouse and adopt the sin, and to make it a mans own.
You know the Story there, 2 Sam 11. Uriah was slain with the edge of the sword, David was many miles off when Uriah was slain, he died in the battle, Joab put him in the front, and the Ammonites slew him: but now because David plotted and contrived all this, the Scripture tells us that David was the Murderer. 2 Sam. 12.9. Thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, thou hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon. Though the blade was the Ammonites, and the hilt might be said to be Joabs: yet the hand was Davids, and the deed was Davids. The Ammonites slew him, but David murdered him. S. Paul tells us, he was a blasphemer and a persecutor, and injurious, 1 Tim. 1.13. Why Beloved, we do not read of any blasphemy that S. Paul uttered in all the Bible: Oh but, says he, I compelled the Saints to blaspheme, Act. 26.11. There was his blasphemy in compelling others to blaspheme.
You know the Story there, 2 Sam 11. Ʋriah was slaine with the edge of the sword, David was many miles off when Uriah was slain, he died in the battel, Joab put him in the front, and the Ammonites slew him: but now because David plotted and contrived all this, the Scripture tells us that David was the Murderer. 2 Sam. 12.9. Thou hast killed Ʋriah the Hittite with the sword, thou hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon. Though the blade was the Ammonites, and the hilt might be said to be Joabs: yet the hand was Davids, and the deed was Davids. The Ammonites slew him, but David murdered him. S. Paul tells us, he was a blasphemer and a persecutor, and injurious, 1 Tim. 1.13. Why Beloved, we doe not read of any blasphemy that S. Paul uttered in all the Bible: Oh but, sayes he, I compelled the Saints to blaspheme, Act. 26.11. There was his blasphemy in compelling others to blaspheme.
