A25470:608
The Morning exercise [at] Cri[ppleg]ate, or, Several cases of conscience practically resolved
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.
4. Here is matter of reproof and humiliation this day for our want of watchfulness in this kind. Oh which of us can say that we are free from the guilt of other mens sins. Every man may cast this bur of reproof and lamentation at his own conscience, and there let it stick. Parents every one, ah my children's sins; Masters, ah my servants sins; Ministers, ah my peoples sins; Rulers, ah my subjects sins. Oh let us deeply mourn for want of relative holiness, and more frequently and fervently pray that prayer. Lord forgive me my other mans sins.
4. Here is matter of reproof and humiliation this day for our want of watchfulness in this kinde. Oh which of us can say that wee are free from the guilt of other mens sins. Every man may cast this bur of reproof and lamentation at his own conscience, and there let it stick. Parents every one, ah my childrens sins; Masters, ah my servants sins; Ministers, ah my peoples sins; Rulers, ah my subjects sins. Oh let us deeply mourn for want of relative holiness, and more frequently and fervently pray that prayer. Lord forgive mee my other mans sins.
2. The second Use is of Exhortation and Caution together. Is it so, That it ought to be every mans care, not to partake of any mens sin.
2. The second Use is of Exhortation and Caution together. Is it so, That it ought to bee every mans care, not to partake of any mens sin.
Oh Christians! let me entreat you then to be very mindful of this duty; be persuaded, beloved, and the Lord persuade you to be tenderly careful and watchful, that you do not partake of other mens sins. These are infectious times and places that we live in, and multitudes there are that catch diseases and distempers from others; but let me tell you Christians, that bodily diseases are not half so catching as sin is; sin is an infectious, contagious, pestilential plague, that spreads mightily in the world. Oh take heed, take heed that the guilt of other mens sins do not one day lye upon your conscience, and be put upon your account.