A practical exposition of the X. Commandments with a resolution of several momentous questions…A practical exposition of the X. Commandements with a resolution of several momentous questions…

Men become guilty of this not only 1. By commanding, as Saul did Doeg to kill the Lords Priests, and David did Joab to cause Uriah to be slain, 2. By counselling and advising, as Jonadab did Amnon in reference to his sister Tamar, 3. By alluring and downright tempting, as Tamar did Judah; 4. By consenting to the sin of others, or any wise assisting, countenancing or encouraging them in it, as Saul was consenting to the death of Stephen, and was standing by keeping the clothes of them that stoned him, and as men may be in reference to false Teachers 2 Epist. of John 10, 11. 5. By giving high Provocations to others, and thereby stirring them up to sin such ⟨p. 345⟩as are reproaches, opprobrious speeches, chartallings and challenges to fight, &c. but also 6. By evil example, as David was accessary to the sin of the Adversaries blasphemous reproaching, by what he did, and the Apostle often insinuateth Christians may be thus guilty by their insutable deportment in the several relations they sustain and stand under, this may also be by doing what hath the appearance of evil, yea even by doing of things in themselves lawful but inexpedient, because unseasonable and with offence. Thus one Christian may be accessory to another's stumbling, and may sinfully hazard the destroying of these for whom Christ dyed, as the Apostle discourseth concerning offences even in things not sinful in themselves: 7. By not warning faithfully before sin be committed, as is clear, Ezek. 3.18. 8. By not reproving after the sin is committed, but suffering it to lye on our brother Lev 19.6. 9. By not suiting and proportioning the reproof to the greatness of the sin, but making it too soft and gentle, not showing just indignation against it, which was Eli his guilt, who though he did not altogether neglect or omit to reprove the profanity and gross wickedness of his Sons, yet did not reprove at that rate of holy severity, called for, and answerable to, their atrocious and villainous wickedness, he frowned not on them and dealt not roughly with them, as he should have done, as is clear by comparing 1 Sam. 2.22, 23, 24, 25: with 1 Sam. 3.13. 10. By rash putting men in Offices for which they are not at all, or not competently qualified, and so cannot but in all probability sin much in them, especially in the Office of the Ministry,