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

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.