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V
E
R.
II.
Epbe¡aans,
Chap.S.
1.
By
provoking
to
fin,
as
many will ftir
up luft
in
others,
pro
voke
them to
drunkcnneffe,
blow the
coales
of
their
cho-
ler,though that
they themfelves
will
not be overtaken
thefe
wayes
:
Now
this
that
we
caufe
another doe
is
our
fin, and
maketh
us
finners
in
worfe degree then
chore
that do com-
mit
it;
as
the Devil'tecíipting
our
ñrft Parent
, was deeper
in
the
fin and
judgement
then
them ,
for ringleaders
in fin
muff be
ring
-
leaders
in
judgement.
2. By
commanding
,
for
he
that doth
command this
or
that,
though another do
it,
he
is
the
chiefe offender,
thus
David
murdered
vriah.
3.
By counfeiling,
as in
the
a Sam
13.5.
Ammons
friend
iota-
dab
: for
the Deviil hath Novices
and
DoCors
in his
fchoole,
fuch arc
they
that
can
reade LeCures
of
wicked.
neffe.
d..
By
confenting,
as Achab
i
Kings
21.19. ¡lafi
thou killed
and
taken poffißion ?
Though
hehad no
killed, but
becaufe
he contented,
and could fee lezabel doe
the deed,
it was his
finne.
5. By carelefneffe
to
prevent fin,for
we
are
not
to
fay
as
Cain,
Who
hath
made
m
our
brothers
keepers ?
but
we
are
to
watch
one
over another,
to
confider one
another,
to
exhort,
to
provoke;
for
negkâ,
when
..4ehan finned,
all
Iliad
is
laid
to
Lin,
loth.
7.1.
and
were the whole body
of
them
punifhed.
6.
By
not
rc
preffcng fin
when it
is
encred, thus
Eh
es
childrens
fin,
is
mmde
Eller
fin,
I
Sam. 3.13.
7. By applauding
fin,
Rom.
1.32.
this abetting
of
finne
doth
wrap
us in
the
guilt
of
it,and maketh
us
fubjeét to
that woe,
Woe
tothofe
that
call
mill
good,
that
firengthen thearmesofthe
wicked.
8.
By not
teflifying againft
fin,
Levìt.5.
i.
3.
Nor to
have
fel
lowfhip
with
fin
bindeth
us
to
avoid
the
4ppea-
ranee of
evil,
1
Thef.5.z2.
ç.
It
doth
binde
us
not
only
to
abftaine
from
it, but
toturne
from
it with
deteftation; for
he
that
is
not
againft fin
,
fo
farre forth
as
he
is
not
againft it, is
with
it, and
the
foule
hath
no feet
but the
affeCions,
'fit
will come
to
a
thing,
it
will
joy
in
it,
love
it, hope,
&c.
If
it
goe
from a thing,
it
will feare,
hate,
as
thefe
Epheftans
did, who hated the
Arks
of
the Nicolaitans, which
it may be
well,the
Apoftle biddeth
them
here have no
fel
lowfhip with:
thus
David
wept rivers
of
teares;
Hetekiah
rent
his cloathes
at
Rabfhekaes
rayling,
and
Lot
vexed his
foule.
Now
the
ufe
of this, that
we
that
are
enlightened,
'and
fanCti-
fied muff
have no fellowfhip,
&c.
It doth
convince fuch
to
be no children
of
light
that
walke in
the
works of
darkneffe
as
many
do,the bottomleffe
pit
cannot
àfford
more
prophane perfons then many among
us
;
but it
doth
principally check
the belt
of
us,
who
when
we
confider
how muchthis doth infold,not
Gg3
to
life
r.