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

3. Let your conversation be very exemplary; so that, what you persuade, may be strongly confirmed by your own Example. Both vice and virtue are learned by Presidents. Alexander in his manners and gate did imitate his Master Leonides, as long as he lived.¹ [Nihil in te & in patre suo videat, quod si fecerit peccet] Let thy child behold nothing in thy walking, which if followed may prove sinful. Be an example to others of holiness,² that they may not offend by the authority of thy Name. Though thy precepts be short and concise, let thine actions, exemplifying those precepts, be constant and perpetual.³ Deny your selves sometimes in the enjoyment of lawful things, which may not be expedient before Carnal Relations, when you are upon this work. Let Wives, says the Apostle Peter, ⁴win their husbands by their holy conversation. Walk so meekly, so obediently, so winningly by an amiable deportment, that a wicked drunken husband may see the picture of grace in the life of a wife, and may be forced to confess, that grace of a truth dwelleth in her.⁵ Many times the unbelieving husband may be saved, even in this sense by the believing wife, & vice versâ. David profest that he would walk in his house with a perfect heart. ⁶As the water follows the finger in the Clay: so may thy example lead them on to the things of God. There is a secret reverence and awe upon the hearts of others; when any in the family do walk worthy of the Gospel unto all well pleasing.

3. Let your conversation be very exemplary; so that, what you perswade, may be strongly confirmed by your own Example. Both vice and vertue are learned by Presidents. Alexander in his manners and gate did imitate his Master Leonides, as long as he lived.¹ [Nihil in te & in patre suo videat, quod si fecerit peccet] Let thy childe behold nothing in thy walking, which if followed may prove sinful. Be an example to others of holiness,