The Morning exercise [at] Cri[ppleg]ate, or, Several cases of conscience practically resolved

5. By influence of bad Example, by setting loose and bad Examples for others to imitate: So men are guilty of others sins, as namely, when Children sin by the Examples of their Parents, those very Parents are guilty of their Children's sin. So we have some Families that inherit the lusts, as well as the lands of their Ancestors; Parents swear and curse, and so do Children; Parents are Drunkards, and so are Children; Parents are unclean, and so are Children; as they make them rich by their Livings, so they make them wretched and debauched by their lives; this is to make themselves partakers of all their sins. So when people sin by the looseness and licentiousness of their Minister, that Minister is guilty of those very sins that the people so commit; ⟨p. 169⟩which made Austin, though a very holy man, so exceeding jealous of himself in this case, that that was his constant Prayer, Libera me Domine a pecca is meis alienis, Lord, saith he, deliver me from mine other mens sins; those sins that others have committed through my carelessness and incogitancy.

5. By influence of bad Example, by setting loose and bad Examples for others to imitate: So men are guilty of others sins, as namely, when Children sin by the Examples of their Parents, those very Parents are guilty of their Childrens sin. So wee have some Families that inherit the lusts, as well as the lands of their Ancestours; Parents swear and curse, and so do Children; Parents are Drunkards, and so are Children; Parents are unclean, and so are Children; as they make them rich by their Livings, so they make them wretched and debaucht by their lives; this is to make themselves partakers of all their sins. So when people sin by the looseness and licentiousness of their Minister, that Minister is guilty of those very sins that the people so commit; ⟨p. 169⟩which made Austin, though a very holy man, so exceeding jealous of himself in this case, that that was his constant Prayer, Libera me Domine a pecca is meis alienis, Lord, saith hee, deliver mee from mine other mens sins; those sins that others have committed through my carelesness and incogitancy.