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

3. By showing you how you may so manage the business, and order the matter, as not to be partakers of other mens sins. What are the Antidotes against this Infection?

3. By shewing you how you may so mannage the business, and order the matter, as not to bee partakers of other mens sins. What are the Antidotes against this Infection?

1. To lay down the Arguments.

1. Consider, you have sins enough of your own, you have no reason to partake of other mens; it is cruel to add affliction to your bonds. Jesus Christ had no sins of his own, and therefore he could and did bear ours; he did take all mens sins, though he did not partake of any mans sins, all were his by imputation, Isa. 53.6. He hath laid upon him the iniquities of us all, but none were his by perpetration and participation. ⟨p. 176⟩It is not so with us, alas! we have sins enough of our own; Man, Woman, thine own pride will damn thee, if thou dost not repent; and thine own hypocrisy, and formality, and worldliness, and hardness of heart; thou hast no need to take the sins of others, said the Daughter of Zelophehad, our Father died in his own sin, Numb. 27, 3. aye, that is enough to kill a man, and damn a man, his own sin.

1. Consider, you have sins enough of your own, you have no reason to partake of other mens; it is cruel to add affliction to your bonds. Jesus Christ had no sins of his own, and therefore hee could and did bear ours; hee did take all mens sins, though hee did not partake of any mans sins, all were his by imputation,