Religion our true interest, or, Practical notes upon the third chapter of Malachi the…Religion our true interest, or, Practical notes upon the third chapter of Malachy the…

3. They are like to go to Hell, who by giving bad Example cause others to Sin. Bad example like the Plague is catching. Great men are Glasses which the common people dress themselves by^†. Such as give bad example ⟨p. 76⟩have not only their own sins, but the sins of others to answer for: and that doubtless was the reason why Dives entreated Abraham that one might go from the Dead to Preach to his Brethren, Luk. 16.27. Not that Dives had love to their Souls, but it was because while he was alive he had occasioned his Brethren's sins by his Wicked example, and he knew that their coming to Hell would increase his Torment.

3. They are like to go to Hell, who by giving bad Example cause others to Sin. Bad example like the Plague is catching. Great men are Glasses which the common people dress themselves by^†. Such as give bad example ⟨p. 76⟩have not only their own sins, but the sins of others to answer for: and that doubtless was the reason why Dives intreated Abraham that one might go from the Dead to Preach to his Brethren, Luk. 16.27. Not that Dives had love to their Souls, but it was because while he was alive he had occasioned his Brethrens sins by his Wicked example, and he knew that their coming to Hell would encrease his Torment.

1. †Magis intuentur quid fecerit Jupiter, quam quid docuit, Plato, Aug.