A26892:8597
A Christian Directory
A Christian directory, or, A sum of practical theology and cases of conscience directing Christians how to use their knowledge and faith, how to improve all helps and means, and to perform all duties, how to overcome temptations, and to escape or mortify every sin : in four parts ... / by Richard Baxter.A Christian directory, or, A summ of practical theologie and cases of conscience directing Christians how to use their knowledge and faith, how to improve all helps and means, and to perform all duties, how to overcome temptations, and to escape or mortifie every sin : in four parts ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by Robert White for Nevill Simmons, 1673
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Part 4 › Chapter 14: Directions against soul-murder, and partaking of other mens sins.
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.
§. 27. But here (on the Negative part) take notice of these things following.1
- 1How we are not guilty of other mens •in or ruin?How we are not guilty of other mens •in or ruine?
1. That properly no man doth partake of the same formal numerical sin, which is another's: Noxa caput sequitur. The sin is individuated and informed by the individual will of the offender. It is not possible that another mans sin should be properly and formally mine, unless I were individually and formally that same man and not another. If two men set their hands to the same evil deed, they are distinct causes and subjects of the distinct formal guilt; though Con-causes, and partial causes of the effect: So that it is only by multiplication, that we make the sin or guilt of another, to become the matter of sin to us, the form resulting from our selves.
1. That properly no man doth partake of the same formal numerical sin, which is anothers: Noxa caput sequitur. The sin is individuated and informed by the individual will of the offender. It is not possible that another mans sin should be properly and formally mine, unless I were individually and formally that same man and not another. If two men set their hands to the same evil deed, they are distinct causes and subjects of the distinct formal guilt; though Con-causes, and partial causes of the effect: So that it is only by multiplication, that we make the sin or guilt of another, to become the matter of sin to us, the form resulting from our selves.