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

Hence it is that God is said to visit the iniquity of the Fathers upon the children, because they make themselves guilty by imitation; and this may be a key to unlock that place of the Apostle, 2 Tim. 3.13. Evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived. Deceivers are worse, but the deceived are worse; if they see a bad example, and will not avoid it, but copy it, they are worse than worse The deceiver is guilty of the deceived's sin by Instigation, and the deceived is guilty of the deceivers sin by imitation.

Hence it is that God is said to visite the iniquity of the Fathers upon the children, because they make themselves guilty by imitation; and this may bee a key to unlock that place of the Apostle, 2 Tim. 3.13. Evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived. Deceivers are worse, but the deceived are worse; if they see a bad example, and will not avoid it, but copy it, they are worse than worse The deceiver is guilty of the deceived's sin by Instigation, and the deceived is guilty of the deceivers sin by imitation.

And this is the woeful, intricate, perplexed Labyrinth, into which sin doth precipitate careless and ungodly Sinners. If thou committest that sin, which none before committed but thee, thou art guilty of all the sins of future Generations by thy Example, as Adam was in the World, and Jeroboam in Israel. And if thou committest any sin, because others have committed it before thee, thou art guilty of all the sins of former ⟨p. 171⟩Generations, by thy imitation; and so sin never goes alone; a single sin is as great a solecism in Divinity, as a single thank is in Grammar and Morality; and that you may know Christians, I do not speak without Book in so saying, witness that dreadful place, Mat. 23.34, 35, 36