Sinne excused by Godly and wicked

TO excuse sinne is to derive and translate a sinne committed by us, to another; thereby to ease ourselves wholly, or at the least, by having a partner, that it may be th• more lighter upon our shoulders.

So did

Cast the fault of sinning upon
• Adam
• Hevah
• Aaron
• Ahab
• David
• Iehoram
• Israel
• Lots daughter
• The man
• Patriarchs
• Pilate
• High Priests
• Saul
• Simeon
• The Adulterer
• The Swearer
• R•otous
• Usurer
• Patron
• Minister
• The wicked
• Hevah,
• the Serpent,
• the People,
• Elias,
• the Sword,
• God,
• Moses,
• Mankinde,
• his Master,
• the wild beasts
• the People,
• Iudas,
• Samuel and the people,
• Shechem,
• Nature,
• Buyer,
• his Consorts,
• Borrowe•,
• the Minister,
• the Patron,
• the Lord,

Saying,

• The woman gave me, and I did eate.*
• The Serpent beguiled me, and I did eat. the Serpent cast the fault on man∣kind: So that we have sin from our father, excuse from our mother, ly∣ing from the Devill.
• Thou knowest the people are set on mis∣chiefe.*
• Art thou he that troubleth Israel?*
• The sword devoureth one as well as another.
• Behold, this evill is of the Lord, why, &c.*
• We wot not what is become of this man.
• There is not a man to come in unto us.
• I know that thou art a hard man, &c.
• Some evil beast hath devoured him: (to wit) Ioseph.
• I am innocent, &c. see ye to it.*
• What is that to us? See thou to that.
• Because thou camest not within the dayes appointed: they have spared the best of the sheep to sacrifice.
• Should he deale with our sister, as with*an harlot?

So doth

• That she encourageth and directeth him by affection.
• He cannot else be beleeved, when he speaketh.
• Company drew him, without which he had not.
• He was importuned to lend, and therefore took use.
• It was his continuall suiting made him take money.
• It was his hardnesse, that would not give freely.
• Who hath resisted the will of the Lord?*

And they will in the day of judgement excuse their sinne, saying, Lord, when* saw we thee an hungry, or thirstie? &c.

The wicked man when he sinneth, he giveth full consent in heart to the sinne that he committeth: The Godly man not; he hath no purpose before he come* to doe the sinne, •o doe it: In the act, or doing, his heart riseth against it, yet by force of Temptation he is pulled on: After he hath sinned, he is displeased: and** repenteth.