A25470:619
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.
3. Consider, If you partake of other mens sins, you shall certainly partake of other mens plagues, Rev. 18.4. Come out of her my people, says God, namely, from Babylon, that you be not partakers of her sins, that so ye receive not of her plagues. See Prov. 13.20. A companion of fools shall be destroyed not only fools shall be destroyed, but a companion of fools shall be destroyed: if you sin with them, you shall suffer with them, and you shall suffer more because of them. Read that, Luke 16.27, 28. And the rich man said, I pray thee Father Abraham, that thou wouldest send Lazarus to my Fathers house, for I have five Brethren, that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment. Why would not he have his Brethren to come to Hell to him? Divines determine, not out of any love to their souls, there is not that charity to be supposed in Hell. Oh but because the sight of them, and company of them would increase his torment. This will be the shrieking and howling in Hell among damned souls one to another; oh woe worth the day that ever I saw thy face, or that ever I saw thy face, thou hast brought me hither, and thou hast brought me hither; and so they will torment one another to all eternity.
3. Consider, If you partake of other mens sins, you shall certainly partake of other mens plagues, Rev. 18.4. Come out of her my people, saies God, namely, from Babylon, that you be not partakers of her sins, that so yee receive not of her plagues. See Prov. 13.20. A companion of fools shall be destroyed not only fools shall be destroyed, but a companion of fools shall be destroyed: if you sin with them, you shall suffer with them, and you shall suffer more because of them. Read that, Luke 16.27, 28. And the rich man said, I pray thee Father Abraham, that thou wouldest send Lazarus to my Fathers house, for I have five Brethren, that hee may testifie unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment. Why would not hee have his Brethren to come to Hell to him? Divines determine, not out of any love to their souls, there is not that charity to bee supposed in Hell. Oh but because the sight of them, and company of them would increase his torment. This will bee the schreeking and howling in Hell among damned souls one to another; oh woe worth the day that ever I saw thy face, or that ever I saw thy face, thou hast brought mee hither, and thou hast brought mee hither; and so they will torment one another to all eternity.