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1. Commissions; which are usually called Tran• gressions. When the man doth something tha• ought not to be done: and this properly respect the Negative Precepts which do prohibit the doing of them. The Law saith, thou shalt not Kill, Stea• &c. when men do such things, these are Sins […] Commission: these ought not to be done; the doing of them therefore is sinful.

1. Commissions; which are usally called Tran• gressions. When the man doth something tha• ought not to be done: and this properly respect the Negative Precepts which do prohibit the doing of them. The Law saith, thou shalt not Kill, Stea• &c. when men do such things, these are Sins 〈…〉 Commission: these ought not to be done; the doing of them therefore is sinful.

2. Omissions; which are comings short in duty And are against the Affirmative Precepts, which require us to do this or that: when we do it no• it is an Omission. Now though these in common account are rather a not acting than actings, ye• in Divinity they come under actual sins, because there is the action of the will in them, which God hath a regard to, and is indeed the principal power in man which the Command hath to do withal: and so God chargeth these Omissions ⟨p. 193⟩on wilfulness, Psal. 81. 12. Jer. 6. 17. Mat. •3. 37.