The whole treatise of the cases of conscience distinguished into three bookes: the first whereof is revised and corrected in sundrie places, and the other two annexed. Taught and deliuered by M. W. Perkins in his holy-day lectures, carefully examined by his owne briefes, and now published together for the common good, by T. Pickering Bachelour of Diuinitie. Whereunto is adioyned a twofold table: one of the heads and number of the questions propounded and resolued; another of the principall texts of Scripture vvhich are either explaned, or vindicated from corrupt interpretation.

Sect. 8.

The eight distinction of sinnes is grounded vpon Pauls exhortation to Timothie: Com∣municate not with other mens sinnes. Sinnes are either Other mens sinnes, or Communicatiō * 1.1 with other mens sins. This distinction is the rather to be knowne and remembred, be∣cause it serues to extenuate or aggrauate sins committed.

Communication with sinne is done sundry waies. First, by counsell: thus Ca••phas sinned when he gaue counsel to put Christ to death. Secondly, by commandement: so Dauid sin∣ned in the murther of Vrias. Thirdly, by con∣sent, or assistance, Rom. 1. 31. thus Saul sin∣ned in keeping the garments of them that ••••oned Steuen, Act. 22. 20. & 7. 58. Fourthly, by prouocation: thus they sinne that pro∣uok•• others to sinne, and hereof Paul spea∣keth when he saith, Fathers must not prouoke their children to wrath, Eph. 6. 4. Fiftly, by neg∣ligence, or silence. This is the sinne of the Minister, when men are called to reprooue sinne and doe not. Sixtly, by flatterie, when men sooth vp others in sinne. Seauenthly, by winking at sinnes, or passing them ouer by slight reproofe, Eph. 5. 11. Thus Eli sinned in rebuking his sonnes, and thereby brought a temporall iudgement vpon himselfe, and his familie, 1. Sam. 2. chap. and 4. Eightly, by participation, Eph. 5. 7. & thus they doe sinne,

that are receiuers of the eues. Ninthely, by defending another man in his sinne: for he * 1.2 that iustifieth the wicked, and condemneth the iust, euen they both are an abomination to the Lord.

Notes

• * 1.1

  1. Tim. 〈◊〉〈◊〉. 2••.
• * 1.2

  Prov. 17. ••5.