The Morning exercise [at] Cri[ppleg]ate, or, Several cases of conscience practically resolved

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.