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If you are not located in the United States, you +will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before +using this eBook. + + +Title: The Life and Death of Mr Badman + +Author: John Bunyan + +Release Date: February 9, 2013 [eBook #1986] +[This file was first posted on April 10, 1999] +[Last Updated: March 17, 2022] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: UTF-8 + +Produced by: David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org from the 1905 +Cambridge University Press edition + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG THE LIFE AND DEATH OF MR BADMAN *** + + + + +[Picture: Facsimile of the Frontispiece to the first edition of the +Holy War, engraved by Robert White. The portrait of Bunyan drawn on +vellum by the same artist, and preserved in the Cracherode Collection, +furnished the basis of the full-length portrait, and also of the +sleeping likeness prefixed to the third edition of the Pilgrim’s +Progress, 1679] + + _JOHN BUNYAN_ + + + + + + LIFE AND DEATH OF + MR BADMAN + _AND_ + THE HOLY WAR {1a} + + + * * * * * + + THE TEXT EDITED BY + JOHN BROWN, D.D. + + [Picture: Decorative graphic] + + CAMBRIDGE: + at the University Press + 1905 + + * * * * * + + CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS WAREHOUSE, + + C. F. CLAY, MANAGER. + + London: FETTER LANE, E.C. + + Glasgow: 50, WELLINGTON STREET. + + [Picture: Decorative graphic] + + Leipzig: F. A. BROCKHAUS. + + New York: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. + + Bombay and Calcutta: MACMILLAN AND CO., LTD. + + * * * * * + + [_All Rights reserved_] + + + + +NOTE + + +_The Life and Death of Mr Badman_ was published by John Bunyan in +1680, two years after the First Edition of the First Part of _The +Pilgrim’s Progress_. In the opening sentence of his preface he tells +us it was intended by him as the counterpart or companion picture +to the Allegory. But whatever his own intentions may have been, the +Public of his own time seem to have declined to accept the book in this +capacity. Indeed, another writer, who signs himself T. S., undertook +to complete Bunyan’s Allegory for him, in a book in size and type +closely resembling it, and entitled _The Second Part of the Pilgrim’s +Progress . . . exactly Described under the Similitude of a Dream_. It +was printed for Jho. Malthus at the Sun in the Poultry, and published +in 1683. So far as is known, only one copy of this book is now in +existence, the copy which was formerly in the library of the poet +Southey and now in that of the Baptist Union. Upon this Bunyan seems to +have changed his purpose, so far as _The Life and Death of Mr Badman_ +was concerned, and on the first of January, 1685, published the story +of Christiana and her Children as his own Second Part of _The Pilgrim’s +Progress_. + +The work before us, therefore, now stands apart by itself. In its +composition Bunyan seems to have been greatly influenced, so far as +form is concerned, by a book which his wife brought with her on her +marriage, and which, as he tells us in his _Grace Abounding_, they read +together. It was entitled _The Plaine Man’s Pathway to Heaven_: By +Arthur Dent, Preacher of the Word of God at South Shoobury in Essex. +The eleventh impression, the earliest now known, is dated 1609. Both +books are in dialogue form, and in each case the dialogue is supposed +to be carried on through one long day. Bunyan’s _Mr Wiseman_, like +Dent’s _Theologus_, holds forth instructive discourse, while the _Mr +Attentive_ of the former, like the _Philagathus_ of the latter, listens +and draws on his teacher by friendly questionings. There is not in +Bunyan’s conference, as there is in Dent’s, an _Asunetus_, who plays +the part of an ignorant man to come out enlightened and convinced at +last, or an _Antilegon_, who carps and cavils all the way; and there is +not in Dent’s book what there is in Bunyan’s, a biographical narrative +connecting the various parts of the dialogue; but the groundwork of +each is the same—a searching manifestation and exposure of the nature +and evils of various forms of immorality. + +Bunyan’s book came out in 1680, and was published by Nathaniel Ponder, +who was also the publisher of _The Pilgrim’s Progress_. A third edition +appeared in 1696, but as no copy of the second edition is known to +exist, no date can be assigned to it. In 1684 Johannes Boekholt, a +publisher in Amsterdam, obtained leave of the State to issue a Dutch +translation, with the title _Het Leven en Sterben van Mr Quaat_. This +edition was illustrated by five copper-plate engravings, executed by +Jan Luiken, the eminent Dutch engraver, who also illustrated _The +Pilgrim’s Progress_ the following year. In 1782 a Welsh version, +translated by T. Lewys, was published at Liverpool with the title: +_Bywyd a Marwolaeth yr annuwiol dan enw Mr Drygddyn_. A Gaelic version +also was published at Inverness in 1824, entitled _Beath agus Bas Mhr +Droch-duine_. + +The present edition has been reprinted from a copy of the first issue, +lent by the Trustees of the Bunyan Church at Bedford, and the proofs +read with a second copy of the same issue, in the library of the +British Museum. For convenience of reading, as in other issues of this +series of CAMBRIDGE ENGLISH CLASSICS, the old type forms of _j_, _s_, +_u_, etc. have been made uniform with those in general modern use; but +neither the spelling (including the use of capitals and italics {1b}) +nor the punctuation has been altered, save as specified. Effect has +been given to the errata noted by Bunyan himself, and printed on page +15 of this issue. + + * * * * * + +The text of this edition of Bunyan’s _Holy War_ {1a} is a careful +reproduction of the First Edition of 1682. It is not certain that there +was any further authentic reprint in Bunyan’s life-time. For though +both in the Bodleian and the British Museum there is a copy purporting +to be a second edition, and bearing date 1684, it is difficult to +resist the impression that they are pirated copies, similar to those +of which Nathaniel Ponder complained so bitterly in the case of _The +Pilgrim’s Progress_. For both paper and typography are greatly inferior +to those of the first edition; some of Bunyan’s most characteristic +marginalia are carelessly omitted; Bunyan’s own title—‘The Holy War +made by Shaddai upon Diabolus for the regaining of the Metropolis of +the World’—is altered to the feebler and more commonplace form—‘The +Holy War made by Christ upon the Devil for the Regaining of Man’; and, +further, when a new edition was issued in 1696, the alterations and +omissions of 168 4 were ignored, and a simple reprint made of the first +edition of 1682. + + J. B. + +9 _October_, 1905. + +[Picture: Facsimile of title page of first (1680) edition of The Life and + Death of Mr. Badman] + + + + +THE AUTHOR TO THE READER + + +Courteous Reader, + +As I was considering with my self, what I had written concerning the +Progress of the Pilgrim from this World to Glory; and how it had been +acceptable to many in this Nation: It came again into my mind to write, +as then, of him that was going to Heaven, so now, of the Life and Death +of the Ungodly, and of their travel from this world to Hell. The which +in this I have done, and have put it, as thou seest, under the Name and +Title of Mr. Badman, a Name very proper for such a Subject: I have also +put it into the form of a Dialogue, that I might with more ease to my +self, and pleasure to the Reader, perform the work. + +And although, as I said, I have put it forth in this method, yet have +I as little as may be, gone out of the road of mine own observation +of things. Yea, I think I may truly say, that to the best of my +remembrance, all the things that here I discourse of, I mean as to +matter of fact, have been acted upon the stage of this World, even many +times before mine eyes. + +Here therefore, courteous Reader, I present thee with the Life and +Death of Mr. Badman indeed: Yea, I do trace him in his Life, from his +Childhood to his Death; that thou mayest, as in a Glass, behold with +thine own eyes, the steps that take hold of Hell; and also discern, +while thou art reading of Mr. Badmans Death, whether thou thy self art +treading in his path thereto. + +And let me entreat thee to forbear Quirking and Mocking, for that I +say Mr. Badman is dead; but rather gravely enquire concerning thy self +by the Word, whether thou art one of his Linage or no: For Mr. Badman +has left many of his Relations behind him; yea, the very World is +overspread with his Kindred. True, some of his Relations, as he, are +gone to their place, and long home, but thousands of thousands are left +behind; as Brothers, Sisters, Cousens, Nephews, besides innumerable of +his Friends and Associates. + +I may say, and yet speak nothing but too much truth in so saying, that +there is scarce a Fellowship, a Community, or Fraternity of men in the +World, but some of Mr. Badmans Relations are there: yea rarely can we +find a Family or Houshold in a Town, where he has not left behind him +either Brother, Nephew or Friend. + +The Butt therefore, that at this time I shoot at, is wide; and ’twill +be as impossible for this Book to go into several Families, and not to +arrest some, as for the Kings Messenger to rush into an house full of +Traitors, and find none but honest men there. + +I cannot but think that this shot will light upon many, since our +fields are so full of this Game; but how many it will kill to Mr. +Badmans course, and make alive to the Pilgrims Progress, that is not +in me to determine; this secret is with the Lord our God only, and he +alone knows to whom he will bless it to so good and so blessed an end. +However, I have put fire to the Pan, and doubt not but the report will +quickly be heard. + +I told you before, that Mr. Badman had left many of his Friends and +Relations behind him, but if I survive them (as that’s a great question +to me) I may also write of their lives: However, whether my life be +longer or shorter, this is my Prayer at present, that God will stir up +Witnesses against them, that may either convert or confound them; for +wherever they live, and roll in their wickedness, they are the Pest and +Plague of that Countrey. + +England shakes and totters already, by reason of the burden that Mr. +Badman and his Friends have wickedly laid upon it: Yea, our Earth reels +and staggereth to and fro like a Drunkard, the transgression thereof is +heavy upon it. + +Courteous Reader, I will treat thee now, even at the Door and Threshold +of this house, but only with this Intelligence, that Mr. Badman lies +dead within. Be pleased therefore (if thy leisure will serve thee) +to enter in, and behold the state in which he is laid, betwixt his +Death-bed and the Grave. He is not buried as yet, nor doth he stink, as +is designed he shall, before he lies down in oblivion. + +Now as others have had their Funerals solemnized, according to their +Greatness and Grandure in the world, so likewise Mr. Badman, (forasmuch +as he deserveth not to go down to his grave with silence) has his +Funeral state according to his deserts. + +Four things are usual at great mens Funerals, which we will take leave, +and I hope without offence, to allude to, in the Funeral of Mr. Badman. + +First, They are sometimes, when dead, presented to their Friends, by +their compleatly wrought Images, as lively as by cunning mens hands +they can be; that the remembrance of them may be renewed to their +survivors, the remembrance of them and their deeds: And this I have +endeavoured to answer in my discourse of Mr. Badman; and therefore I +have drawn him forth in his featours and actions from his Childhood +to his Gray hairs. Here therefore thou hast him lively set forth as +in Cutts; both as to the minority, flower, and seniority of his Age, +together with those actions of his life, that he was most capable +of doing, in, and under those present circumstances of time, place, +strength; and the opportunities that did attend him in these. + +Secondly, There is also usual at great mens Funerals, those Badges +and Scutcheons of their honour, that they have received from their +Ancestors, or have been thought worthy of for the deeds and exploits +they have done in their life: And here Mr. Badman has his, but such +as vary from all men of worth, but so much the more agreeing with the +merit of his doings: They all have descended in state, he only as an +abominable branch. His deserts are the deserts of sin, and therefore +the Scutcheons of honour that he has, are only that he died without +Honour, and at his end became a fool. Thou shalt not be joyned with +them in burial.—The seed of evil doers shall never be renowned. + +The Funeral pomp therefore of Mr. Badman, is to wear upon his Hearse +the Badges of a dishonourable and wicked life; since his bones are full +of the sins of his Youth, which shall lye down, as Job sayes, in the +dust with him: nor is it fit that any should be his Attendants, now at +his death, but such as with him conspired against their own souls in +their life; persons whose transgressions have made them infamous to all +that have or shall know what they have done. + +Some notice therefore I have also here in this little discourse +given the Reader, of them who were his Confederates in his life, and +Attendants at his death; with a hint, either of some high Villany +committed by them, as also of those Judgments that have overtaken and +fallen upon them from the just and revenging hand of God. All which are +things either fully known by me, as being eye and ear-witness thereto, +or that I have received from such hands, whose relation as to this, +I am bound to believe. And that the Reader may know them from other +things and passages herein contained, I have pointed at them in the +Margent, as with a finger thus: [Picture: Graphic of hand with finger +printing right] + +Thirdly, The Funerals of persons of Quality have been solemnized with +some suitable Sermon at the time and place of their Burial; but that +I am not come to as yet, having got no further than to Mr. Badmans +death: but for as much as he must be buried, after he hath stunk out +his time before his beholders, I doubt not but some such that we read +are appointed to be at the burial of Gog, will do this work in my +stead; such as shall leave him neither skin nor bone above ground, but +shall set a sign by it till the buriers have buried it in the Valley of +Hamon-gog, Ezek. 39. + +Fourthly, At Funerals there does use to be Mourning and lamentation, +but here also Mr. Badman differs from others; his Familiars cannot +lament his departure, for they have not sence of his damnable state; +they rather ring him, and sing him to Hell in the sleep of death, in +which he goes thither. Good men count him no loss to the world, his +place can well be without him, his loss is only his own, and ’tis +too late for him to recover that dammage or loss by a Sea of bloody +tears, could he shed them. Yea, God has said, he will laugh at his +destruction, who then shall lament for him, saying, Ah! my brother. He +was but a stinking Weed in his life; nor was he better at all in his +death: such may well be thrown over the wall without sorrow, when once +God has plucked them up by the roots in his wrath. + +Reader, If thou art of the race, linage, stock or fraternity of Mr. +Badman, I tell thee before thou readest this Book, thou wilt neither +brook the Author nor it, because he hath writ of Mr. Badman as he +has. For he that condemneth the wicked that die so, passeth also the +sentence upon the wicked that live. I therefore expect neither credit +of, nor countenance from thee, for this Narration of thy kinsmans life. + +For thy old love to thy Friend, his wayes, doings, &c. will stir up in +thee enmity rather, in thy very heart, against me. I shall therefore +incline to think of thee, that thou wilt rent, burn, or throw it away +in contempt: yea and wish also, that for writing so notorious a truth, +some mischief may befall me. I look also to be loaded by thee with +disdain, scorn and contempt; yea that thou shouldest railingly and +vilifyingly say, I lye, and am a bespatterer of honest mens lives and +deaths. For Mr. Badman, when himself was alive, could not abide to be +counted a Knave (though his actions told all that went by, that indeed +he was such an one:) How then should his brethren, that survive him, +and that tread in his very steps, approve of the sentence that by this +Book is pronounced against him? Will they not rather imitate Corah, +Dathan, and Abiram’s friends, even rail at me for condemning him, as +they did at Moses for doing execution? + +I know ’tis ill pudling in the Cockatrices den, and that they run +hazards that hunt the Wild-Boar. The man also that writeth Mr. Badmans +life, had need to be fenced with a Coat of Mail, and with the Staffe +of a Spear, for that his surviving friends will know what he doth: but +I have adventured to do it, and to play, at this time, at the hole of +these Asps; if they bite, they bite; if they sting, they sting. Christ +sends his Lambs in the midst of Wolves, not to do like them, but to +suffer by them for bearing plain testimony against their bad deeds: But +had one not need to walk with a Guard, and to have a Sentinel stand at +ones door for this? Verily, the flesh would be glad of such help; yea, +a spiritual man, could he tell how to get it. Acts 23. But I am stript +naked of these, and yet am commanded to be faithful in my servi[c]e for +Christ. Well then, I have spoken what I have spoken, and now come on +me what will, Job 13. 13. True, the Text sayes, Rebuke a scorner, and +he will hate thee; and that, He that reproveth a wicked man, getteth +himself a Blot and Shame; but what then? Open rebuke is better than +secret love; and he that receives it, shall find it so afterwards. + +So then, whether Mr. Badmans friends shall rage or laugh at what I have +writ, I know that the better end of the staffe is mine. My endeavour +is to stop an hellish Course of Life, and to save a soul from death, +(Jam. 5.) and if for so doing, I meet with envy from them, from whom in +reason I should have thanks, I must remember the man in the dream, that +cut his way through his armed enemies, and so got into the beauteous +Palace; I must, I say, remember him, and do my self likewise. + +Yet four things I will propound to the consideration of Mr. Badmans +friends, before I turn my back upon them. + +1. Suppose that there be an Hell in very deed, not that I do question +it, any more than I do whether there be a Sun to shine; but I suppose +it for argument sake, with Mr. Badmans friends; I say, suppose there be +an Hell, and that too, such an one as the Scripture speaks of, one at +the remotest distance from God and Life eternall, one where the Worm of +a guilty Conscience never dyes, and where the fire of the Wrath of God +is not quenched. + +Suppose, I say, that there is such an Hell, prepared of God (as there +is indeed) for the body and soul of the ungodly World after this life, +to be tormented in: I say, do but with thy self suppose it, and then +tell me, Is it not prepared for thee, thou being a wicked man? Let thy +conscience speak, I say, is it not prepared for thee, thou being an +ungodly man? And dost thou think, wast thou there now, that thou art +able to wrestle with the Judgment of God? Why then do the fallen Angers +tremble there? thy hands cannot be strong, nor can thy heart endure, in +that day when God shall deal with thee: Ezek. 22. 14. + +2. Suppose that some one that is now a soul in Hell for sin, was +permitted to come hither again to dwell; and that they had a grant +also, that upon amendment of life, next time the dye, to change that +place for Heaven ant Glory; what sayest thou, O wicked man? would +such an one (thinkest thou) run again into the same course of life as +before, and venture the damnation that for sin he had already been in? +Would he choose again to lead that cursed life that afresh would kindle +the flames of Hell upon him, and that would bind him up under the heavy +wrath of God? O! he would not, he would not; the sixteenth of Luke +insinuates it: yea Reason it self, awake, would abhorr it, and tremble +at such a thought. + +3. Suppose again, that thou that livest and rollest in thy sin, and +that as yet hast known nothing but the pleasure thereof, shouldst be +by an angel conveyed to some place where with convenience, from thence +thou mightest have a view of Heaven and Hell; of the Joyes of the +one, and the torments of the other; I say, suppose that from thence +thou mightest have such a view thereof, as would convince thy reason, +that both Heaven and Hell, are such realities as by the Word they are +declared to be; wouldest thou (thinkest thou) when brought to thy home +again, chuse to thy self thy former life, to wit, to return to thy +folly again? No; if belief of what thou sawest, remained with thee, +thou wouldest eat Fire and Brimstone first. + +4. I will propound again. Suppose that there was amongst us such a Law, +(and such a Magistrate to inflict the penalty,) That for every open +wickedness committed by thee, so much of thy flesh should with burning +Pincers be plucked from thy Bones: Wouldest thou then go on in thy open +way of Lying, Swearing, Drinking and Whoring, as thou with delight +doest now? Surely, surely, No: The fear of the punishment would make +thee forbear; yea, would make thee tremble, even then when thy lusts +were powerfull, to think what a punishment thou wast sure to sustain, +so soon as the pleasure was over. But Oh! the folly, the madness, the +desperate madness that is in the hearts of Mr. Badmans friends, who in +despite of the threatnings of an holy and sin revenging God, and of the +outcries and warnings of all good men; yea, that will in despite of the +groans and torments of those that are now in Hell for sin, (Luk. 16. +24. 28.) go on in a sinfull course of life; yea, though every sin is +also a step of descent, down to that infernal Cave. O how true is that +saying of Solomon, The heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and +madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to +the dead, Eccles. 9. 3. To the dead! that is, to the dead in Hell, to +the damned dead; the place to which those that have dyed Bad men are +gone, and that those that live Bad men are like to go to, when a little +more sin, like stollen waters, hath been imbibed by their sinful souls. + +That which has made me publish this Book is, + +1. For that wickedness like a flood is like to drown our English +world: it begins already to be above the tops of mountains; it has +almost swallowed up all; our Youth, our Middle age, Old age, and all, +are almost carried away of this flood. O Debauchery, Debauchery, what +hast thou done in England! Thou hast corrupted our Young men, and hast +made our Old men beasts; thou hast deflowered our Virgins, and hast +made Matrons Bawds. Thou hast made our earth to reel to and fro like +a drunkard; ’tis in danger to be removed like a Cottage, yea, it is, +because transgression is so heavy upon it, like to fall and rise no +more. Isa. 24. 20. + +O! that I could mourn for England, and for the sins that are committed +therein, even while I see that without repentance, the men of Gods +wrath are about to deal with us, each having his slaughtering weapon in +his hand: (Ezek. 9. 1, 2.) Well, I have written, and by Gods assistance +shall pray, that this flood may abate in England: and could I but see +the tops of the Mountains above it, I should think that these waters +were abating. + +2. It is the duty of those that can, to cry out against this deadly +plague, yea, to lift up their voice as with a Trumpet against it; that +men may he awakened about it, flye from it, as from that which is the +greatest of evils. Sin pull’d Angels out of Heaven, pulls men down to +Hell, and overthroweth Kingdoms. Who, that sees an house on fire, will +not give the Allarum to them that dwell therein? who that sees the +Land invaded, will not set the Beacons on a fame? Who, that sees the +Devils, as roaring Lyons, continually devouring souls, will not make an +Out-cry? But above all, when we see sin, sinful sin, a swallowing up a +Nation, sinking of a Nation, and bringing its Inhabitants to temporal, +spiritual, and eternal ruine, shall we not cry out, and cry, They are +drunk, but not with Wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink; +they are intoxicated with the deadly poyson of sin, which will, if its +malignity be not by wholsom means allayed, bring Soul and Body, and +Estate and Countrey, and all, to ruin and destruction? + +3. In and by this my Out-cry, I shall deliver my self from the ruins +of them that perish: for a man can do no more in this matter, I mean +a man in my capacity, than to detect and condemn the wickedness, warn +the evil doer of the Judgment, and fly therefrom my self. But Oh! that +I might not only deliver my self! Oh that many would hear, and turn +at this my cry, from sin! that they may be secured from the death and +Judgment that attend it. + +Why I have handled the matter in this method, is best known to my self: +and why I have concealed most of the Names of the persons whose sins or +punishments I here and there in this Book make relation of, is, + +1. For that neither the sins nor Judgments were all alike open; the +sins of some, were committed, and the Judgments executed for them only +in a corner. Not to say that I could not learn some of their names; for +could I, I should not have made them publick, for this reason. + +2. Because I would not provoke those of their Relations that survive +them; I would not justly provoke them, and yet, as I think, I should, +should I have intailed their punishment to their sins, and both to +their names, and so have turned them into the world. + +3. Nor would I lay them under disgrace and contempt, which would, as I +think, unavoidably have happened unto them had I withall inserted their +Names. + +As for those whose Names I mention, their crimes or Judgments were +manifest; publick almost as any thing of that nature that happeneth to +mortal men. Such therefore have published their own shame by their sin, +and God, his anger, by taking of open vengeance. + +As Job sayes, God has strook them as wicked men in the open sight of +others, Job 34. 26. So that I cannot conceive, since their sin and +Judgment was so conspicuous, that my admonishing the world thereof, +should turn to their detriment: For the publishing of these things, +are, so far as Relation is concerned, intended for remembrancers: That +they may also bethink themselves, repent and turn to God, lest the +Judgments for their sins should prove hereditary. For the God of Heaven +hath threatned to visit the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, +if they hate him, to the third and fourth generation, Exod. 20. 5. + +Nebuchadnezzars punishment for his pride being open, (for he was for +his sin, driven from his Kingly dignity, and from among men too, to eat +grass like an Ox, and to company with the beasts,) Daniel did not stick +to tell Belshazzar his son to his face thereof; nor to publish it that +it might be read and remembred by the generations to come. The same may +be said of Judas and Ananias, &c. for their sin and punishment were +known to all the dwellers at Jerusalem, Acts 1. Chap. 5. + +Nor is it a sign but of desperate impenitence and hardness of heart, +when the offspring or relations of those who have fallen by open, +fearfull and prodigious Judgments, for their sin, shall overlook, +forget, pass by, or take no notice of such high outgoings of God +against them and their house. Thus Daniel aggravates Belshazzars crime, +for that he hardened his heart in pride, though he knew that for that +very sin and transgression his father was brought down from his height, +and made to be a companion for Asses. And thou his son, O Belshazzar, +sayes he, hast not humbled thy heart, though thou knewest all this. +Dan. 5. A home reproof indeed, but home is most fit for an open and +continued-in transgression. + +Let those then that are the Offspring or relations of such, who by +their own sin, and the dreadfull Judgments of God, are made to become +a sign, (Deut. 16. 9, 10.) having been swept, as dung, from off the +face of the earth, beware, lest when Judgment knocks at their door, for +their sins, as it did before at the door of their Pregenitors, it falls +also with as heavy a stroak as on them that went before them: Lest, I +say, they in that day, instead of finding mercy, find for their high, +daring, and Judgment-affronting-sins, Judgment without mercy. + +To conclude, let those that would not dye Mr. Badmans death, take heed +of Mr. Badmans wayes: for his wayes bring to his end; Wickedness will +not deliver him that is given to it; though they should cloak all with +a Profession of Religion. + +If it was a transgression of Old, for a man to wear a Womans Apparel, +surely it is a transgression now for a sinner to wear a Christian +Profession for a Cloak. Wolves in Sheeps Cloathing swarm in England +this day: Wolves both as to Doctrine, and as to Practice too. Some men +make a Profession, I doubt, on purpose that they may twist themselves +into a Trade; and thence into an Estate; yea, and if need be, into an +Estate Knavishly, by the ruins of their Neighbour: let such take heed, +for those that do such things have the greater damnation. + +Christian, make thy Profession shine by a Conversation according to +the Gospel: Or else thou wilt damnifie Religion, bring scandal to thy +Brethren, and give offence to the Enemies; and ’twould be better that a +Millstone was hanged about thy neck, and that thou, as so adorned, wast +cast into the bottom of the Sea, than so to do. + +Christian, a Profession according to the Gospel, is, in these dayes, a +rare thing; seek then after it, put it on, and keep it without spot; +and (as becomes thee) white, and clean, and thou shalt be a rare +Christian. + +The Prophecy of the last times is, that professing men (for so I +understand the Text) s[h]all be, many of them, base; (2 Tim. 3.) but +continue thou in the things that thou hast learned, not of wanton men, +not of licentious times, but of the Word and Doctrine of God, that is +according to Godliness; and thou shalt walk with Christ in white. + +Now God Almighty give his people Grace, not to hate or malign Sinners +nor yet to choose any of their wayes, but to keep themselves pure from +the blood of all men, by speaking and doing according to that Name and +those Rules that they profess to know, and love; for Jesus Christs sake. + + John Bunyan. + + + + +Books lately Printed for and Sold by Nathaniel Ponder at the Peacock in +the Poultrey, neer the Church. + + +Biblia Sacra, sive Testamentum Vetus, ab Im. Tremellio & Fr. Junio ex +Hebræo Latinè redditum. Et Testamentum Novum à Theod. Beza è Græco +in Latinum versum. Argumentis Capitum additis versibúsque singulis +distinctis, & seorsum expressis. 12°. + +Χριστολογία, Or, A Declaration of the Glorious Mystery of the Person of +Christ, God and Man. With the Infinite Wisdom, Love and Power of God in +the contrivance and constitution thereof. As also of the Grounds and +Reasons of his Incarnation, the nature of his Ministry in Heaven, the +present State of the Church above thereon, and the Use of his Person +in Religion. With an Account and Vindication of the Honour, Worship, +Faith, Love, and Obedience due unto him, in and from the Church. By +John Owen, D.D. + +Divine Breathings: or a Manual of practical Contemplations, in one +Century: Tending to promote Gospel-Principles, and a good Conversation +in Christ. Comprizing in brief many of those great Truths that are to +be known and practised by a Christian. By T.S. + +Youth’s Comedy, or the Souls Tryals and Triumph: a Dramatick Poem. With +Divers Meditations intermixt upon several Subjects. Set forth to help +and encourage those that are seeking a Heavenly Country. By the Author +of Youth’s Tragedy. + +A Treatise of the Fear of God: shewing what it is, and how +distinguished from that which is not so. Also Whence it comes. Who has +it. What are the Effects. And What the Priviledges of those that have +it in their hearts. By John Bunyan. + +The Tragical History of Jetzer: Or, a Faithful Narrative of the +Feigned Visions, Counterfeit Revelations, and false Miracles of the +Dominican Fathers of the Covent of Bern in Switzerland, to Propagate +their Superstitions. For which Horrid Impieties, the Prior, Sub-Prior, +Lecturer, and Receiver of the said Covent were Burnt at a Stake, Anno +Dom. 1509. Collected From the Records of the said City by the Care +of Sir William Waller, Knight. Translated from his French Copy by an +Impartial Pen, and now made Publick for the Information of English +Protestants, who may hence learn, that Catholicks will stick at no +Villanies which may Advance their Designs, nor at any Perjuries that +may Conceal them. With an Epistle, wherein are some soft and gentle +Reflections upon the Lying, Dying Speeches of the Jesuites lately +Executed at Tyburn. The Second Edition. + +The Pilgrims Progress from this World to that which is to come: +Delivered in the Similitude of a Dream. By John Bunyan. This fourth +Impression hath the Authors Picture and many Additions. + +There is now in the Press, and will be suddenly published, An +Exposition on the 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10th Chapters on the Hebrews: Being a +Third Volume. By John Owen, D.D. + + + + +ERRATA. + + +Page 127. line 8. for amated read amazed, p. 149. l. 15. for herbaps r. +perhaps, p. 162. l. 3, & 4. for diababolical r. diabolical, p. 287. l. 9. +for, for r. so, p. 304. for reputation r. repentance. + + + + +THE LIFE AND DEATH OF MR. BADMAN + + +Presented to the World in a Familiar DIALOGUE Betwixt Mr. _WISEMAN_, +And, Mr. _ATTENTIVE_. + +_Wiseman_. + +Good morrow my good Neighbour, Mr. Attentive; whither are you walking +so early this morning? methinks you look as if you were concerned about +something more than ordinary. Have you lost any of your Cattel, or what +is the matter? + +Attentive. Good Sir, Good morrow to you, I have not as yet lost ought, +but yet you give a right ghess of me, for I am, as you say, concerned +in my heart, but ’tis because of the badness of the times. And Sir, +you, as all our Neighbours know, are a very observing man, pray +therefore what do you think of them? + +Wise. Why? I think, as you say, to wit, that they are bad times, and +bad they will be, untill men are better: for they are bad men that +make bad times; if men therefore would mend, so would the times. ’Tis +a folly to look for good dayes, so long as sin is so high, and those +that study its nourishment so many. God bring it down, and those that +nourish it to Repentance, and then my good Neighbour, you will be +concerned, not as you are now: Now you are concerned because times are +so bad; but then you will be so, ’cause times are so good: Now you are +concerned so as to be perplexed, but then you will be concerned so as +to lift up your voice with shouting; for I dare say, could you see such +dayes they would make you shout. + +Atten. Ai, so they would, such times I have prayed for, such times I +have longed for: but I fear they’l be worse before they be better. + +Wise. Make no Conclusions, man: for he that hath the hearts of men +in his hand, can change them from worse to better, and so bad times +into good. God give long life to them that are good, and especially to +those of them that are capable of doing him service in the world. The +Ornament and Beauty of this lower World, next to God and his Wonders, +are the men that spangle and shine in godliness. + +Now as Mr. Wiseman said this, he gave a great sigh. + +Atten. Amen. Amen. But why, good Sir, do you sigh so deeply? is it for +ought else than that for the which as you have perceived, I my self am +concerned? + +Wise. I am concerned with you, for the badness of the times; but that +was not the cause of that sigh, of the which, as I see, you take +notice. I sighed at the remembrance of the death of that man for whom +the Bell tolled at our Town yesterday. + +Atten. Why? I trow, Mr. Goodman your Neighbour is not dead. Indeed I +did hear that he had been sick. + +Wise. No, no, it is not he. Had it been he, I could not but have been +concerned, but yet not as I am concerned now. If he had died, I should +only have been concerned for that the world had lost a Light: but the +man that I am concerned for now, was one that never was good, therefore +such an one who is not dead only, but damned. He died that he might +die, he went from Life to Death, and then from Death to Death, from +Death Natural to death Eternal. And as he spake this, the water stood +in his eyes. + +Atten. Indeed, to goe from a death-bed to Hell is a fearful thing to +think on. But good Neighbour Wiseman, be pleased to tell me who this +man was, and why you conclude him so miserable in his death? + +Wise. Well, if you can stay, I will tell you who he was, and why I +conclude thus concerning him. + +Atten. My leisure will admit me to stay, and I am willing to hear you +out. And I pray God your discourse may take hold on my heart, that I +may be bettered thereby. So they agreed to sit down under a tree: Then +Mr. Wiseman proceeded as followeth. + +Wise. The man that I mean, is one Mr. Badman; he has lived in our Town +a great while, and now, as I said, he is dead. But the reason of my +being so concerned at his death, is, not for that he was at all related +to me, or for that any good conditions died with him, for he was far +from them, but for that, as I greatly fear, he hath, as was hinted +before, died two deaths at once. + +Atten. I perceive what you mean by two deaths at once; and to speak +truth, ’tis a fearfull thing thus to have ground to think of any: for +although the death of the ungodly and sinners is laid to heart but of +few, yet to die in such a state, is more dreadful and fearful than any +man can imagine. Indeed if a man had no Soul, if his state was not +truely Immortal, the matter would not be so much; but for a man to be +so disposed of by his Maker, as to be appointed a sensible being for +ever, and for him too to fall into the hands of revenging Justice, +that will be always, to the utmost extremity that his sin deserveth, +punishing of him in the dismal dungeon of Hell, this must needs be +unutterably sad, and lamentable. + +Wise. There is no man, I think, that is sensible of the worth of one +Soul, but must, when he hears of the death of unconverted men, be +stricken with sorrow and grief: because, as you said well, that mans +state is such, that he has a sensible being for ever. For ’tis sense +that makes punishment heavy. But yet sense is not all that the Damned +have, they have sense and reason too; so then, as Sense receiveth +punishment with sorrow because it feels, and bleeds under the same, +so by Reason, and the exercise thereof, in the midst of torment, all +present Affliction is aggravated, and that three manner of wayes: + +1. Reason will consider thus with himself; For what am I thus +tormented? and will easily find ’tis for nothing but that base and +filthy thing, Sin; and now will Vexation be mixed with Punishment, and +that will greatly heighten the Affliction. + +2. Reason will consider thus with himself. How long must this be my +state? And will soon return to himself this Answer: This must be my +state for ever and ever. Now this will greatly increase the torment. + +3. Reason will consider thus with himself; What have I lost more than +present ease and quiet by my sins that I have committed? And will +quickly return himself this answer: I have lost Communion with God, +Christ, Saints and Angels, and a share in Heaven and eternal Life: And +this also must needs greaten the misery of poor damned souls. And this +is the case of Mr. Badman. + +Atten. I feel my heart even shake at the thoughts of coming into such +a state. Hell! who knows that is yet alive, what the torments of Hell +are? This word Hell gives a very dreadful sound. + +Wise. Ai, so it does in the ears of him that has a tender Conscience. +But if, as you say, and that truly, the very Name of Hell, is so +dreadful, what is the Place it self, and what are the Punishments that +are there inflicted, and that without the least intermission, upon the +Souls of damned men, for ever and ever. + +Atten. Well, but passing this; my leisure will admit me to stay, and +therefore pray tell me what it is that makes you think that Mr. Badman +is gone to Hell. + +Wise. I will tell you. But first do you know which of the Badmans I +mean? + +Atten. Why was there more of them than one? + +Wise. O, yes, a great many, both Brothers and Sisters, and yet all of +them the Children of a godly Parent, the more a great deal is the pity. + +Atten. Which of them therefore was it that died. + +Wise. The eldest, old in years, and old in sin; but the sinner that +dies an hundred years old shall be accursed. + +Atten. Well, but what makes you think he is gone to Hell? + +Wise. His wicked life, and fearful death, specially since the Manner of +his death was so corresponding with his life. + +Atten. Pray let me know the manner of his death, if your self did +perfectly know it. + +Wise. I was there when he died: But I desire not to see another such +man (while I live) die in such sort as he did. + +Atten. Pray therefore let me hear it. + +Wise. You say you have leisure and can stay, and therefore, if you +please, we will discourse even orderly of him. First, we will begin +with his Life, and then proceed to his Death: Because a relation of the +first may the more affect you, when you shall hear of the second. + +Atten. Did you then so well know his Life? + +Wise. I knew him of a Child. I was a man, when he was but a boy, and I +made special observation of him from first to last. + +Atten. Pray then let me hear from you an account of his Life; but be as +brief as you can, for I long to hear of the manner of his death. + +Wise. I will endeavour to answer your desires, and first, I will tell +you, that from a Child he was very bad: his very beginning was ominous, +and presaged that no good end, was, in likelyhood, to follow thereupon. +There were several sins that he was given to, when but a little +one, that manifested him to be notoriously infected with Or[i]ginal +corruption; for I dare say he learned none of them of his Father or +Mother; nor was he admitted to go much abroad among other Children, +that were vile, to learn to sin of them: Nay, contrariwise, if at any +time he did get abroad amongst others, he would be as the Inventer of +bad words, and an example in bad actions. To them all he used to be, as +we say, the Ring-leader, and Master-sinner from a Childe. + +Atten. This was a bad Beginning indeed, and did demonstrate that he +was, as you say, polluted, very much polluted with Original Corruption. +For to speak my mind freely, I do confess, that it is mine opinion, +that Children come polluted with sin into the World, and that oft-times +the sins of their youth, especially while they are very young, are +rather by vertue of Indwelling sin, than by examples that are set +before them by others. Not but that they learn to sin by example too, +but Example is not the root, but rather the Temptation unto wickedness. +The root is sin within; for from within, out of the heart of man +proceedeth sin. {20a} {20b} + +Wise. I am glad to hear that you are of this opinion, and to confirm +what you have said by a few hints from the Word. Man in his birth is +compared to an Ass, (an unclean Beast) and to a wretched Infant in +its blood: besides, all the first-born of old that were offered unto +the Lord, were to be redeemed at the age of a month, and that was +before they were sinners by imitation. The Scripture also affirmeth, +{21a} that by the sin of one, Judgement came upon all; and renders +this reason, for that all have sinned: nor is that Objection worth a +rush, That Christ by his death hath taken away Original Sin. First, +Because it is Scriptureless. Secondly, Because it makes them incapable +of Salvation by Christ; for none but those that in their own Persons +are sinners, are to have Salvation by him. Many other things might be +added, but between persons so well agreed as you and I are, these may +suffice at present: but when an Antagonist comes to deal with us about +this matter, then we have for him often other strong Arguments, if he +be an Antagonist worth the taking notice of. {21b} + +Atten. But, as was hinted before, he used to be the Ring-leading +Sinner, or the Master of mischief among other children; yet these are +but Generals; pray therefore tell me in Particular which were the sins +of his Childhood. + +Wise. I will so. When he was but a Child, he was so addicted to Lying, +{21c} that his Parents scarce knew when to believe he spake true; yea, +he would invent, tell, and stand to the Lyes that he invented and told, +and that with such an audacious face, that one might even read in his +very countenance the symptoms of an hard and desperate heart this way. + +Atten. This was an ill beginning indeed, and argueth that he began to +harden himself in sin betimes. For a lye cannot be knowingly told and +stood in, (and I perceive that this was his manner of way in Lying) +but he must as it were force his own heart into it. Yea, he must make +his heart {21d} hard, and bold to doe it: Yea, he must be arrived to +an exceeding pitch of wickedness thus to doe, since all this he did +against that good education, that before you seemed to hint, he had +from his Father and Mother. + +Wise. The want of good Education, as you have intimated, is many times +a cause why Children doe so easily, so soon, become bad; especially +when there is not only a want of that, but bad Examples enough, as, the +more is the pity, there is in many Families; by vertue of which poor +Children are trained up in Sin, and nursed therein for the Devil and +Hell. But it was otherwise with Mr. Badman, for to my knowledge, this +his way of Lying, was a great grief to his Parents, for their hearts +were much dejected at this beginning of their Son; nor did there want +Counsel and Correction from them to him, if that would have made him +better. He wanted not to be told, in my hearing, and that over and over +and over, That all Lyars should have their part in the Lake that burns +with fire and brimstone; and that whosoever loveth and maketh a lye, +should not have any part in the new and heavenly Jerusalem: {22a} But +all availed nothing with him; when a fit, or an occasion to lie, came +upon him, he would invent, tell, and stand to his Lie (as steadfastly +as if it had been the biggest of truths,) that he told, and that with +that hardening of his heart and face, that it would be to those that +stood by, a wonder. Nay, and this he would doe when under the rod of +correction which is appointed by God for Parents to use, that thereby +they might keep their Children from Hell. {22b} + +Atten. Truly it was, as I said, a bad beginning, he served the Devil +betimes; yea he became a Nurse to one of his {22c} Brats, for a spirit +of Lying is the Devils Brat, {22d} for he is a Liar and the Father of +it. + +Wise. Right, he is the Father of it indeed. A Lie is begot by the +Devil, as the Father, and is brought forth by the wicked heart, as the +Mother: wherefore another Scripture also saith, Why hath Satan filled +thy heart to lye, {22e} &c. Yea, he calleth the heart that is big +with a lye, an heart that hath Conceived, that is, by the Devil. Why +hast thou conceived this thing in thy heart, thou hast not lied unto +men, but unto God. True, his lye was a lye of the highest nature, but +every lye hath the {22f} same Father and Mother as had the lie last +spoken of. For he is a lier, and the Father of it. A lie then is the +Brat of Hell, and it cannot {23a} be in the heart before the person +has committed a kind of spiritual Adultery with the Devil. That Soul +therefore that telleth a known lie, has lien with, and conceived it by +lying with the Devil, the only Father of lies. For a lie has only one +Father and Mother, the Devil and the Heart. No marvel therefore if the +hearts that hatch and bring forth Lies, be so much of complexion with +the Devil. Yea, no marvel though God and Christ have so bent their Word +against lyers: a lyer is weded to the Devil himself. + +Atten. It seems a marvellous thing in mine eyes, that since a lye is +the Offspring of the devill, and since a lye brings the soul to the +very den of Devils, to wit, the dark dungeon of hell; that men should +be so desperately wicked as to accustom themselves to so horrible a +thing. + +Wise. It seems also marvellous to me, specially when I observe for how +little a matter some men will study, contrive, make and tell a lye. You +shall have some that will lye it over and over, and that for a peny +{23b} profit. Yea, lye and stand in it, although they know that they +lye: yea, you shall have some men that will not stick to tell lye after +lye, though themselves get nothing thereby; They will tell lyes in +their ordinary discourse with their Neighbours, also their News, their +Jests, and their Tales must needs be adorned with lyes; or else they +seem to bear no good sound to the ear, nor shew much to the fancie of +him to whom they are told. But alas, what will these lyers doe, when, +for their lyes they shall be tumbled down into hell, to that Devil that +did beget those lyes in their heart, and so be tormented by fire and +brimstone, with him, and that for ever and ever, for their lyes? + +Atten. Can you not give one some example of Gods Judgements upon lyers, +that one may tell them to lyers when one hears them lye, if perhaps +they may by the hearing thereof, be made afraid, and ashamed to lye. + +Wise. Examples! why, {23c} Saphira and his wife are examples enough +to put a stop, one would think, to a spirit addicted thereto, for +they both were stricken down dead for telling a lye, and that by God +himself, in the midst of a company of people. But if Gods threatning of +Liers with Hell-fire, and with the loss of the Kingdom of Heaven, will +not prevail with them to leave off to lie and make lies, it cannot be +imagined that a relation of temporal Judgements that have swept liers +out of the World heretofore, should do it. Now, as I said, this Lying +was one of the first sins that Mr. Badman was addicted to, and he could +make them and tell them fearfully. + +Atten. I am sorry to hear this of him, and so much the more because, as +I fear, this sin did not reign in him {24a} alone; for usually one that +is accustomed to lying, is also accustomed to other evils besides, and +if it were not so also with Mr. Badman, it would be indeed a wonder. + +Wise. You say true, the lier is a Captive slave of more than the spirit +of lying: and therefore this Mr. Badman, as he was a lier from a Child, +so he was also much given to {24b} pilfer and steal, so that what he +could, as we say, handsomly lay his hands on, that was counted his own, +whether they were the things of his fellow Children; or if he could lay +hold of any thing at a Neighbours house, he would take it away; you +must understand me of Trifles; for being let but a Child he attempted +no great matter, especially at first. But yet as he grew up in strength +and ripeness of wit, so he attempted to pilfer and steal things still +of more value than at first. He took at last great pleasure in robbing +of Gardens and Orchards; and as he grew up, to steal Pullen from the +Neighbourhood: Yea, what was his {24c} Fathers, could not escape his +fingers, all was Fish that came to his Net, so hardened, at last, was +he in this mischief also. + +Atten. You make me wonder more and more. What, play the Thief too! +What play the Thief so soon! He could not but know, though he was but +a Child, that what he took from others, was none of his own. Besides, +if his Father was a good man, as you say, it could not be, but he must +also hear from him, that to steal was to transgress the Law of God, and +so to run the hazard of eternal Damnation. + +Wise. His Father was not wanting to use the means to reclaim him, often +urging, as I have been told, that saying in the Law of Moses, {24d} +Thou shalt not steal: And also that, This is the Curse that goeth forth +over the face of the whole earth, for every one that stealeth shall be +cut off, &c. {25a} The light of Nature also, though he was little, must +needs shew him that what he took from others, was not his own, and that +he would not willingly have been served so himself. But all was to no +purpose, let Father and Conscience say what they would to him, he would +go on, he was resolved to go on in his wickedness. + +Atten. But his Father would, as you intimate, sometimes rebuke him for +his wickedness; pray how would he carry it then? + +Wise. How! why, like to a Thief that is found. He would stand {25b} +gloating, and hanging down his head in a sullen, pouching manner, (a +body might read, as we use to say, the picture of Ill-luck in his +face,) and when his Father did demand his answer to such questions +concerning his Villany, he would grumble and mutter at him, and that +should be all he could get. + +Atten. But you said that he would also rob his Father, methinks that +was an unnatural thing. + +Wise. Natural or unnatural, all is one to a Thief. Beside, you +must think that he had likewise Companions to whom he was, for the +wickedness that he saw in them, more {25c} firmly knit, than either to +Father or Mother. Yea, and what had he cared if Father and Mother had +died for grief for him. Their death would have been, as he would have +counted, great release and liberty to him: For the truth is, they and +their counsel was his Bondage; yea, and if I forget not, I have heard +some say, that when he was, at times, among his Companions, he would +greatly {25d} rejoyce to think that his Parents were old, and could not +live long, and then, quoth he, I shall be mine own man, to do what I +list without their controul. + +Atten. Then it seems he counted that robbing of his Parents was no +crime. + +Wise. None at all, and therefore he fell directly under that +Sentence, Whoso robbeth his Father or his Mother, and saith it is no +transgression, the same is the companion of a destroyer. And for that +he set so light by them as to their Persons and Counsels, ’twas a sign +that at present he was of a very abominable spirit, {26a} and that some +Judgement waited to take hold of him in time to come. + +Atten. But can you imagin what it was, I mean, in his conceit (for I +speak not now of the suggestions of Satan, by which doubtless he was +put on to do these things,) I say what it should be in his conceit, +that should make him think that this his manner of pilfering and +stealing was no great matter. + +Wise. It was, for that, the things that he stole, were small; to rob +Orchards, and Gardens, and to steal Pullen, and the like, these he +counted {26b} Tricks of Youth, nor would he be beat out of it by all +that his Friends could say. They would tell him that he must not covet, +or desire, (and yet to desire, is less than to take) even any thing, +the least thing that was his Neighbours, and that if he did, it would +be a transgression of the Law; but all was one to him: what through +the wicked Talk of his Companions, and the delusion of his own corrupt +heart, he would go on in his pilfering course, and where he thought +himself secure, would talk of, and laugh at it when he had done. + +[Picture: Take note symbol] Atten. Well, I heard a man once, when he +was upon the Ladder with the Rope about his Neck, confess (when ready +to be turned off by the Hangman) that that which had brought him to +that end, was his accustoming of himself, when young, to pilfer and +steal small things. To my best remembrance he told us, that he began +the trade of a Thief by stealing Pins and Points, and therefore did +forewarn all the Youth, that then were gathered together to see him +die, to take heed of beginning, though but with little sins, because by +tampering at first with little ones, way is made for the commission of +bigger. + +Wise. Since you are entred upon Storyes, I also will tell you one, the +which, {26d} though I heard it not with mine own Ears, yet my Author I +dare believe: {26e} It is concerning one old Tod, that was hanged about +Twenty years agoe, or more, at Hartford, for being a Thief. The Story +is this: + +[Picture: Take note symbol] At a Summer Assizes holden at Hartfor[d], +while the Judge was sitting upon the Bench, comes this old Tod into +the Court, cloathed in a green Suit, with his Leathern Girdle in his +hand, his Bosom open, and all on a dung sweat, as if he had run for +his Life; and being come in, he spake aloud as follows: {27} My Lord, +said he, Here is the veryest Rogue that breaths upon the face of the +earth. I have been a Thief from a Child: When I was but a little one, I +gave my self to rob Orchards, and to do other such like wicked things, +and I have continued a Thief ever since. My Lord, there has not been a +Robbery committed thus many years within so many miles if this place, +but I have either been at it, or privy to it. + +The Judge thought the fellow was mad, but after some conference with +some of the Justices, they agreed to Indict him; and so they did of +several felonious Actions; to all which he heartily confessed Guilty, +and so was hanged with his Wife at the same time. + +Atten. This is a remarkable Story indeed, and you think it is a true +one. + +Wise. It is not only remarkable, but pat to our purpose. This Thief, +like Mr. Badman, began his Trade betimes; he began too where Mr. Badman +began, even at robbing of Orchards, and other such things, which +brought him, as you may perceive, from sin to sin, till at last it +brought him to the publick shame of sin, which is the Gallows. + +As for the truth of this Story, the Relator told me that he was at the +same time himself in the Court, and stood within less than two yards of +old Tod, when he heard him aloud to utter the words. + +Atten. These two sins of lying and stealing were a bad sign of an evil +end. + +Wise. So they were, and yet Mr. Badman came not to his end like old +Tod; Though I fear, to as bad, nay, worse than was that death of the +Gallows, though less discerned by spectators; but more of that by and +by. But you talk of these two sins as if these were all that Mr. Badman +was addicted to in his Youth: Alas, alas, he swarmed with sins, even as +a Begger does with Vermin, and that when he was but a Boy. + +Atten. Why what other sins was he addicted to, I mean while he was but +a Child? + +Wise. You need not ask, to what other sins was he, but to what other +sins was he not addicted, that is, of such as suited with his Age: for +a man may safely say, that nothing that was vile came amiss to him; if +he was but capable to do it. Indeed some sins there be that Childhood +knows not how to be tampering with; but I speak of sins that he was +capable of committing, of which I will nominate two or three more. And, + +First, He could not endure the {28a} Lords Day, because of the Holiness +that did attend it; the beginning of that Day was to him as if he was +going to Prison, (except he could get out from his Father and Mother, +and lurk in by-holes among his Companions, untill holy Duties were +over.) Reading the Scriptures, hearing Sermons, godly Conference, +repeating of Sermons, and Prayer, were things that he could not away +with; and therefore if his Father on such days, (as often he did, +though sometimes notwithstanding his diligence, he would be sure to +give him the slip) did keep him strictly to the observation of the day, +he would plainly shew by all carriages that he was highly discontent +therewith: he would sleep at Duties, would talk vainly with his +Brothers, and as it were, think every godly opportunity seven times as +long as it was, gruding till it was over. + +Atten. This his abhorring of that day, was not, I think, for the sake +of the day itself: for as it is a day, it is nothing else but as other +days of the Week: But I suppose that the {28b} reason of his loathing +of it, was, for that God hath put sanctity and holiness upon it; also +because it is the day above all the days of the week that ought to be +spent in holy Devotion, in remembrance of our Lords Resurrection from +the dead. + +Wise. Yes, ’twas therefore, that he was such an enemy to it, even +because more restraint was laid upon him on that day, from his own +ways, than were possible should be laid upon him on all others. + +Atten. Doth not God by instituting of a day unto holy Duties, make +great proof how the hearts and inclinations of poor people do stand to +Holiness of heart, and a Conversation in [h]oly duties? + +Wise. {29a} Yes doubtless; and a man shall shew his Heart and his Life +what they are, more by one Lords-day, than by all the days of the week +besides: And the reason is, because on the Lords-day there is a special +restraint laid upon men as to Thoughts and Life, more than upon other +days of the week besides. Also, men are enjoyned on that day to a +stricter performance of holy Duties, and restraint of worldly business, +than upon other days they are; wherefore, if their hearts incline not +naturally to good, now they will shew it, now they will appear what +they are. The Lords Day is a kind of an Emblem of the heavenly Sabbath +above, and it makes manifest how the heart stands to the perpetuity of +Holiness, more than to be found in a transient Duty, does. + +On other days a man may be in and out of holy Duties, and all in a +quarter of an hour; but now, the Lords Day is, as it were, a day that +enjoyns to one perpetual Duty of Holiness: Remember that thou keep +holy the Sabbath day, {29b} (which by Christ is not abrogated, but +changed, into the First of the week,) not as it was given in particular +to the Jews, but as it was sanctified by him from the Beginning of +the world; and therefore is a greater proof of the frame and temper +of a mans heart, and does more make manifest to what he is inclined, +than doth his other performance of Duties: Therefore God puts great +difference between them that truly call (and walk in) this day as holy, +and count it Honourable, {29c} upon the account that now they have +an opportunity to shew how they delight to honour him; {29d} in that +they have, not only an Hour, but a whole Day to shew it in: I say, he +puts great difference between these, and that other sort that say, +When will the Sabbath be gone, that we may be at our worldly business. +{29e} The first he calleth a Blessed man, but brandeth the other for +an unsanctified worldling. And indeed, to delight ourselves in Gods +service upon his Holy days, gives a better proof of a sanctified +Nature, than to grudge at the coming, and to be weary of the holy +duties of such dayes, as Mr. Badman did. + +Atten. There may be something in what you say, for he that cannot abide +to keep one day holy to God, to be sure he hath given a sufficient +proof that he is an unsanctified man; and as such, what should he do +in Heaven? that being the place where a perpetual Sabath is to be kept +to God; {30a} I say, to be kept for ever and ever. And for ought I +know, one reason why one day in seven, hath been by our Lord set apart +unto holy Duties for men, may be to give them conviction that there +is enmity in the hearts of sinners to the God of Heaven, for he that +hateth Holiness, hateth God himself. They pretend to love God, and +yet love not a holy day, and yet love not to spend that day in one +continued act of holiness to the Lord: They had as good say nothing as +to call him Lord, Lord, and yet not doe the things that he says. And +this Mr. Badman was such an one: he could not abide this day, nor any +of the Duties of it. Indeed, when he could get from his Friends, and +so {30b} spend it in all manner of idleness and profaneness, then he +would be pleased well enough: but what was this but a turning the day +into night, or other than taking an opportunity at Gods forbidding, +to follow our Callings, to solace and satisfie our lusts and delights +of the flesh. I take the liberty to speak thus of Mr. Badman, upon a +confidence of what you, Sir, have said of him, is true. + +Wise. You needed not to have made that Apology for your censuring of +Mr. Badman, for all that knew him, will confirm what you said of him +to be true. He could not abide either that day, or any thing else that +had the stamp or image of God upon it. Sin, sin, and to do the thing +that was naught, was that which he delighted in, and that from a little +Child. + +Atten. I must say again, I am sorry to hear it, and that for his own +sake, and also for the sake of his Relations, who must needs be broken +to pieces with such doings as these: For, for these things sake comes +the wrath of God upon the Children of disobedience: {30c} and doubtless +he must be gone to Hell, if he died without Repentance; and to beget a +Child for Hell, is sad for Parents to think on. + +Wise. Of his Dying, as I told you, I will give you a Relation anon, +but now we are upon his Life, and upon the Manner of his Life in his +Childhood, even of the sins that attended him then, some of which I +have mentioned already; and indeed I have mentioned but some, for yet +there are more to follow, and those not at all inferiour to what you +have already heard. + +Atten. Pray what were they? + +Wise. Why he was greatly given, and that while a Lad, to grievous +{31a} Swearing and Cursing: yea, he then made no more of Swearing and +Cursing, than I do of telling my fingers. Yea, he would do it without +provocation thereto. He counted it a glory to Swear and Curse, and it +was as natural to him, as to eat and drink and sleep. + +Atten. Oh! what a young Villain was this! here is, as the Apostle says, +a yielding of Members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin, {31b} +indeed! This is proceeding from evil to evil with a witness; This +argueth that he was a black-mouthed young Wretch indeed. + +Wise. He was so; and yet, as I told you, he counted, above all, this +kind of sinning, to be {31c} a Badge of his Honour: He reckoned himself +a mans Fellow when he had learnt to Swear and Curse boldly. + +Atten. I am perswaded that many do think, as you have said, that to +Swear, is a thing that does bravely become them, and that it is the +best way for a man, when he would put authority, or terrour into his +words, to stuff them full of the sin of Swearing. + +Wise. You say right, else, as I am perswaded, men would not so usually +belch out their blasphemous Oaths, as they do: they take a pride in it; +they think that to swear is Gentleman-like; and having once accustomed +themselves unto it, they hardly leave it all the days of their lives. + +Atten. Well, but now we are upon it, pray shew me {31d} the difference +between Swearing and Cursing; for there is a difference, is there not? + +Wise. Yes: There is a difference between Swearing and Cursing, +Swearing, vain swearing, such as young Badman accustomed himself unto. +Now vain and sinful swearing, {31e} Is a light and wicked calling of +God, &c. to witness to our vain and foolish attesting of things, and +those things are of two sorts. + +1. Things that we swear, are, or shall be done. + +2. Things so sworn to, true or false. + +1. Things that we swear, are, or shall be done. Thou swearest thou +hast done such a thing, that such a thing is so, or shall be so; for +it is no matter which of these it is that men swear about, if it be +done lightly and wickedly, and groundlesly, it is vain, because it is +a sin against the Third Commandement, which says, Thou shalt not take +the Name of the Lord thy God in vain. {32a} For this is a vain using +of that Holy and Sacred Name, and so a sin for which, without sound +Repentance, there is not, nor can be rightly expected, forgiveness. + +Atten. Then it seems, though as to the matter of fact, a man swears +truely, yet if he sweareth lightly and groundlesly, his Oath is evil, +and he by it, under sin. + +Wise. Yes; a man may say, {32b} The Lord liveth, and that is true, and +yet in so saying, swear falsly; because he sweareth vainly, needlesly, +and without a ground. To swear groundedly and necessarily, (which then +a man does, when he swears as being called thereto of God,) that is +tolerated of the Word: but this was none of Mr. Badmans swearing, and +therefore that which now we are not concerned about. + +Atten. I perceive, by the Prophet, that a man may sin in swearing +to a Truth: They therefore must needs most horribly sin, that swear +to confirm their Jests and Lies; and as they think, the better to +beautifie their foolish talking. + +Wise. They sin with an high hand; for they presume to imagine, {32c} +that God is as wicked as themselves, to wit, that he is an Avoucher +of Lies to be true. For, as I said before, to swear, is to call God +to witness; and to swear to a Lie, is to call God himself, to witness +that that Lie is true. This therefore must needs offend; for it puts +the highest affront upon the Holiness and Righteousness of God, +therefore his wrath must sweep them away. This kind of Swearing is put +in with lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing Adultery; and +therefore must not go unpunished: {32d} For if God will not hold him +guiltless that taketh his Name in vain, which a man may doe when he +swears to a truth, (as I have shewed before,) how can it be imagined, +that he should hold such guiltless, who, by Swearing, will appeal to +God, if Lies be not true, or that swear out of their frantick and +Bedlam madness. It would grieve and provoke a sober man to wrath, if +one should swear to a notorious lye, and avouch that that man would +attest it for a truth; and yet thus do men deal with the holy God: They +tell their Jestings, Tales and Lies, and then swear by God that they +are true. Now this kind of Swearing was as common with young Badman, as +it was to eat when he was an hungred, or to go to bed when it was night. + +Atten. I have often mused in my mind, what it should be that should +make men so common in the use of the sin of Swearing, since those that +be wise, will believe them never the sooner for that. + +Wise. It cannot be any thing that is good, you may be sure; because the +thing it self is abominable: {33a} 1. Therefore it must be from the +promptings of the spirit of the Devil within them. 2. Also it flows +sometimes from hellish Rage, when the tongue hath set on fire of Hell +even the whole course of nature. {33b} 3. But commonly Swearing flows +from that daring Boldness that biddeth defiance to the Law that forbids +it. 4. Swearers think also that by their belching of their blasphemous +Oaths out of their black and polluted mouths, they shew themselves the +more valiant men: 5. And imagine also, that by these outrageous kind +of villianies, they shall conquer those that at such a time they have +to do with, and make them believe their lyes to be true. 6. They also +swear frequently to get Gain thereby, and when they meet with fools, +they overcome them this way. But if I might give advice in this matter, +no Buyer should lay out one farthing with him that is a common Swearer +in his Calling; especially with such an Oath-master that endeavoureth +to swear away his commodity to another, and that would swear his +Chapmans money into his own pocket. + +Atten. All these causes of Swearing, so far as I can perceive, flow +from the same Root as doe the Oaths themselves, even from a hardened +and desperate heart. But pray shew me now how wicked cursing is to be +distinguished from this kind of swearing. + +Wise. {34a} Swearing, as I said, hath immediately to do with the Name +of God, and it calls upon him to be witness to the truth of what is +said: That is, if they that swear, swear by him. Some indeed swear by +Idols, as by the Mass, by our Lady, by Saints, Beasts, Birds, and other +creatures; but the usual way of our profane ones in England, is to +swear by God, Christ, Faith, and the like: But however, or by whatever +they swear, Cursing is distinguished from Swearing thus. + +To {34b} Curse, to Curse profanely, it is to sentence another or our +self, for, or to evil: or to wish that some evil might happen to the +person or thing under the Curse, unjustly. + +It is to sentence for, or to evil, (that is, without a cause): Thus +Shimei cursed David: He sentenced him for and to evil unjustly, when +he said to him, Come out, come out thou bloody man, and thou man of +Belial. The Lord hath returned upon thee all the blood of the house of +Saul, in whose stead thou hast reigned, and the Lord hath delivered the +kingdom into the hand of Absalom thy son: and behold thou art taken in +thy mischief, because thou art a bloody man. {34c} + +This David calls a grievous Curse. And behold, saith he to Solomon his +Son, thou hast with thee Shimei a Benjamite, which cursed me with a +grievous curse in the day when I went to Mahanaim. {34d} + +But what was this Curse? Why, First, It was a wrong sentence past upon +David; Shimei called him Bloody man, man of Belial, when he was not. +Secondly, He sentenced him to the evil that at present was upon him, +for being a bloody man, (that is, against the house of Saul,) when that +present evil overtook David, for quite another thing. + +And we may thus apply it to the {34e} profane ones of our times who in +their rage and envy, have little else in their mouths but a sentence +against their Neighbour for, and to evil unjustly. How common is it +with many, when they are but a little offended with one, to cry, Hang +him, Damn him, Rogue! This is both a sentencing of him for, and to +evil, and is in it self a grievous Curse. + +2. The other kind of Cursing, is to wish that some evil might happen +to, and overtake this or that person or thing: And this kind of +Cursing, Job counted a grievous sin. I have not suffered (says he) my +mouth to sin, {35a} by wishing a curse to his soul; or consequently, to +Body or Estate. This then is a wicked cursing, to wish that evil might +either befall another or our selves: And this kind of cursing young +Badman accustomed himself unto. + +1. He {35b} would wish that evil might befall others; he would wish +their Necks broken, or that their Brains were out, or that the Pox, or +Plague was upon them, and the like: All which is a devilish kind of +cursing, and is become one of the common sins of our age. + +2. He would also as often wish a Curse to himself, saying, Would I +might be hanged, or burned, or that the Devil might fetch me, if it +be not so, or the like. We count the {35c} Damme Blades to be great +Swearers; but when in their hellish fury they say, God-damme me, God +perish me, or the like, they rather curse than swear; yea, curse +themselves, and that with a Wish that Damnation might light upon +themselves; which wish and Curse of theirs, in a little time, they will +see accomplished upon them, even in Hell-fire, if they repent not of +their sins. + +Atten. But did this young Badman accustom himself to such filthy kind +of language? + +Wise. I think I may say, that nothing was more frequent in his mouth, +and that upon the least provocation. Yea he was so versed in such kind +of language, that neither {35d} Father, nor Mother, nor Brother, nor +Sister, nor Servant, no nor the very Cattel that his Father had, could +escape these Curses of his. I say, that even the bruit Beasts when he +drove them, or rid upon them, if they pleased not his humour, they must +be sure to partake of his curse. {35e} He would wish their Necks broke, +their Legs broke, their Guts out, or that the Devil might fetch them, +or the like: and no marvel, for he that is so hardy to wish damnation, +or other bad curses to himself, or dearest relations; will not stick to +wish evil to the silly Beast, in his madness. + +Atten. Well, I see still that this Badman was a desperate villain. But +pray, Sir, since you have gone thus far, now shew me whence this evil +of cursing ariseth, and also what dishonour it bringeth to God; for I +easily discern that it doth bring damnation to the soul. + +Wise. This evil of Cursing ariseth, in general, from the desperate +wickedness of the heart, but particularly from, {36a} {36b} 1. Envie, +which is, as I apprehend, the leading sin to Witchcraft. 2. It also +ariseth from Pride which was the sin of the fallen Angels; 3. It +ariseth too from Scorn and contempt of others: 4. But for a man to +curse himself, must needs arise from desperate Madness. + +The {36c} dishonour that it bringeth to God, is this. It taketh away +from him his Authority, in whose power it is onely, to Bless and Curse; +not to Curse wickedly, as Mr. Badman, but justly, and righteously, +giving by his Curse to those that are wicked, the due Reward of their +deeds. + +Besides, these wicked men, in their wicked cursing of their Neighbour, +&c. do even Curse God himself in his handy work. Man is Gods Image, +and to curse wickedly the Image of God, is to curse God himself. {36d} +Therefore as when men wickedly swear, they rend, and tare Gods Name, +and make him, as much as in them lies, the avoucher and approver of all +their wickedness; so he that curseth and condemneth in this sort his +Neighbour, or that wisheth him evil, curseth, condemneth, and wisheth +evil to the Image of God, and consequently judgeth and condemneth God +himself. + +Suppose that a man should say with his mouth, I wish that the Kings +Picture was burned; would not this mans so saying, render him as an +Enemy to the Person of the King? Even so it is with them that, by +cursing, wish evil to their neighbour, or to themselves, they contemn +the Image, even the Image of God himself. + +Atten. But do you think that the men that do thus, do think that they +do so vilely, so abominably? + +Wise. The question is not what men do believe concerning their sin, but +what Gods Word says of it: If Gods Word says that Swearing and Cursing +are sins, though men should count them for Vertues, their reward will +be a reward for sin, to wit, the damnation of the soul. + +To {37a} curse another, and to swear vainly and falsly, are sins +against the Light of Nature. + +1. To Curse is so, because, whoso curseth another, knows, that at the +same time he would not be so served himself. + +2. To Swear also, is a sin against the same Law: for Nature will tell +me, that I should not lie, and therefore much less Swear to confirm it. +Yea, the Heathens have looked upon Swearing to be a solemn Ordinance of +God, and therefore not to be lightly or vainly used by men, though to +confirm a matter of truth. {37b} + +Atten. But I wonder, since Curseing and Swearing are such evils in the +eyes of God, that he doth not make some Examples to others, for their +committing such wickedness. + +[Picture: Take note symbol] Wise. Alas! so he has, a thousand times +twice told, as may be easily gathered by any observing people in every +Age and Countrey. I could present you with several my self; but waving +the abundance that might be mentioned, I will here present you with +{37c} two; One was that dreadful Judgment of God upon one N. P. at +Wimbleton in Surrey; who, after a horrible fit of Swearing at, and +Cursing of some persons that did not please him, suddenly fell sick, +and in little time died raving, cursing and swearing. + +But above all take that dreadful Story of Dorothy Mately an Inhabitant +of As[h]over in the County of Darby. + +[Picture: Take note symbol] This Dorothy Mately, saith the Relator, +was noted by the people of the Town to be a great Swearer, and Curser, +and Lier, and Thief; (just like Mr. Badman.) And the labour that she +did usually follow, was to wash the Rubbish that came forth of the +Lead Mines, and there to get sparks of Lead-Ore; and her usual way of +asserting of things, was with these kind of Imprecations: I would I +might sink into the earth if it be not so, or I would God would make +the earth open and swallow me up. Now upon the 23. of March, 1660. +this Dorothy was washing of Ore upon the top of a steep Hill, about a +quarter of a mile from Ashover, and was there taxed by a Lad for taking +of two single Pence out of his Pocket, (for he had laid his Breeches +by, and was at work in his Drawers;) but she violently denyed it, +wishing, That the ground might swallow her up if she had them: She also +used the same wicked words on several other occasions that day. + +Now one George Hodgkinson of Ashover, a man of good report there, came +accidentally by where this Dorothy was, and stood still a while to talk +with her, as she was washing her Ore; there stood also a little Child +by her Tub-side, and another a distance from her, calling aloud to her +to come away; wherefore the said George took the Girle by the hand to +lead her away to her that called her: But behold, they had not gone +above ten yards from Dorothy, but they heard her crying out for help; +so looking back, he saw the Woman, and her Tub, and Sive, twirling +round, and sinking into the ground. Then said the man, Pray to God to +pardon thy sin, for thou art never like to be seen alive any longer. So +she and her Tub twirled round, and round, till they sunk about three +yards into the Earth, and then for a while staid. Then she called for +help again, thinking, as she said, that she should stay there. Now the +man though greatly amazed, did begin to think which way to help her, +but immediately a great stone which appeared in the Earth, fell upon +her head, and brake her Skull, and then the Earth fell in upon her and +covered her. She was afterwards digged up, and found about four yards +within ground, with the Boys two single Pence in her pocket, but her +Tub and Sive could not be found. + +[Picture: Take note symbol] Atten. You bring to my mind a sad story, +the which I will relate unto you. The thing is this; About a bow-shoot +from where I once dwelt, there was a blind Ale-house, and the man that +kept it had a Son whose name was Edward. This Edward was, as it were, +an half-fool, both in his words, and manner of behaviour. To this blind +Ale-house certain jovial companions would once or twice a week come, +and this Ned, (for so they called him) his Father would entertain his +guests withall; to wit, by calling for him to make them sport by his +foolish words and gestures. So when these boon blades came to this mans +house, the Father would call for Ned: Ned therefore would come forth; +and the villain was devilishly addicted to cursing, yea to cursing his +Father and Mother, and any one else that did cross him. And because +(though he was an half-fool) he saw that his practice was pleasing, he +would do it with the more audaciousness. + +Well, when these brave fellows did come at their times to this +Tippling-house (as they call it) to fuddle and make merry, then must +Ned be called out; and because his Father was best acquainted with +Ned, and best knew how to provoke him, therefore He would usually ask +him such questions, or command him such business, as would be sure to +provoke him indeed. Then would he (after his foolish manner) Curse his +Father most bitterly; at which the old man would laugh, (and so would +the rest of the guests, as at that which pleased them best) still +continuing to ask, that Ned still might be provoked to curse, that they +might still be provoked to laugh. This was the mirth with which the old +man did use to entertain his guests. + +The curses wherewith this Ned did use to curse his father, and at which +the old man would laugh, were these, and such like: The Devil take you; +The Devil fetch you: He would also wish him Plagues and Destructions +many. Well, so it came to pass, through the righteous Judgement of +God, that Neds Wishes and Curses were in a little time fuelled upon +his Father; for not many months passed between them after this manner, +but the Devil did indeed take him, possess him, and also in few days +carried him out of this world by death; I say, Satan did take him and +possess him: I mean, so it was judged by those that knew him, and had +to do with him in that his lamentable condition. He could feel him like +a live thing goe up and down in his body, but when tormenting time was +come (as he had often tormenting fits) then he would lye like an hard +bump in the soft place of his chest, (I mean, I saw it so,) and so +would rent and tare him, and make him roar till he died away. + +I told you before, that I was an ear and eye witness of what I here +say; and so I was. I have heard Ned in his Roguery, cursing his Father, +and his Father laughing thereat most heartily; still provoking of Ned +to curse, that his mirth might be encreased. I saw his Father also, +when he was possessed, I saw him in one of his fits, and saw his flesh +(as ’twas thought) by the Devil, gathered up on an heap, about the +bigness of half in Egge; to the unutterable torture and afflict[i]on +of the old man. There was also one Freeman, (who was more than an +ordinary Doctor) sent for, to cast out this Devil; and I was there +when he attempted to do it. The manner whereof was this. They had the +possessed into an out-room, and laid him on his belly upon a Form, +with his head hanging over the Forms end; then they bound him down +thereto: which done, they set a pan of Coals under his mouth, and put +something therein which made a great smoak; by this means (as ’twas +said) to fetch out the Devil. There therefore they kept the man till +he was almost smothered in the smoak, but no Devil came out of him; at +which Freeman was somewhat abashed, the man greatly afflicted, and I +made to go away wondering and fearing. In a little time therefore that +which possessed the man, carried him out of the World, according to the +cursed Wishes of his Son. And this was the end of this hellish mirth. + +Wise. These were all sad Judgements. + +Atten. These were dreadful Judgments indeed. + +Wise. Ai, and they look like the Threatning of that Text, (though +chiefly it concerned Judas,) As he loved cursing, so let it come unto +him; as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him. As he +cloathed himself with cursing as with a garment, so let it come into +his bowels like water, and as oyl into his bones. {40a} + +Atten. It is a fearful thing for Youth to be trained up in a way of +Cursing and Swearing. + +Wise. Trained up in them! that I cannot say Mr. Badman was, for his +Father hath oft-times in my hearing, bewailed the badness of his +Children, and of this naughty Boy in particular. I believe that the +wickedness of his Children made him (in the thoughts of it) goe many a +Night with heavy heart to bed, and with as heavy an one to rise in the +Morning. But all was one to his graceless Son, neither wholsom counsel, +nor fatherly sorrow, would make him mend his Manners. + +There {40b} are some indeed that do train up their Children to swear, +curse, lye and steal, and great is the misery of such poor Children +whose hard hap it is to be ushered into the world by, and to be under +the tuition too of such ungodly Parents. It had been better for such +Parents, had they not begat them, and better for such Children had they +not been born. O! methinks for a Father or a Mother to train up a Child +in that very way that leadeth to Hell and Damnation, what thing so +horrible! But Mr. Badman was not by his Parents so brought up. + +Atten. But methinks, since this Young Badman would not be ruled at +home, his Father should have tryed what good could have been done of +him abroad, by putting him out to some man of his acquaintance, that +he knew to be able to command him, and to keep him pretty hard to some +employ: So should he, at least, have been prevented of time to do those +wickednesses that could not be done without time to do them in. + +Wise. Alas, his Father did so, {41a} he put him out betimes to one of +his own Acquaintance, and entreated him of all love, that he would take +care of Son, and keep him from extravagant wayes. His Trade also was +honest and commodious; he had besides a full Employ therein, so that +this young Badman had no vacant seasons nor idle hours yielded him by +his Calling, therein to take opportunities to do Badly: but all was one +to him, as he had begun to be vile in his Fathers house, even so he +continued to be when he was in the house of his Master. + +Atten. I have known some Children, who though they have been very Bad +at home, yet have altered much when they have been put out abroad; +especially when they have fallen into a Family, where the Governours +thereof have made conscience of maintaining of the Worship and Service +of God therein; but perhaps that might be wanting in Mr. Badmans +Masters house. + +Wise. Indeed some Children do greatly mend, when put under other mens +Roofs; but, as I said, this naughty boy did not so; nor did his badness +continue, because he wanted a Master that both could and did correct +it: For his {41b} Master was a very good man, a very devout person; one +that frequented the best Soul-means, that set up the Worship of God in +his Family, and also that walked himself thereafter. He was also a man +very meek and merciful, one that did never overdrive young Badman in +business, nor that kept him at it at unseasonable hours. + +Atten. Say you so! This is rare: I for my part can see but few that can +parallel, in these things, with Mr. Badmans Master. + +Wise. Nor I neither, (yet Mr. Badman had such an one;) for, for the +most past, {42a} Masters are now a days such as mind nothing but their +worldly concerns, and if Apprentices do but answer their commands +therein, Soul and Religion may go whither they will. Yea, I much fear, +that there have been many towardly Lads put out by their parents to +such Masters, that have quite undone them as to the next world. + +Atten. The more is the pity. But pray, now you have touched upon this +subject, shew me how many wages a Master may be the ruin of his poor +Apprentice. + +Wise. Nay, I cannot tell you of all the wayes, yet some of them I will +mention. + +Suppose then that a towardly Lad be put to be an Apprentice with one +that is reputed to be a Godly man, yet that Lad may be ruined many +wayes; that is, if his Master be not circumspect in all things that +respect both God and man, and that before his Apprentice. + +1. If {42b} he be not moderate in the use of his Apprentice; if he +drives him beyond his strength; if he holds him to work at unseasonable +hours; if he will not allow him convenient time to read the Word, to +Pray, &c. This is the way to destroy him; that is, in those tender +begin[n]ings of good thoughts, and good beginnings about spiritual +things. + +2. If he suffers his house to be scattered with profane and wicked +Books, such as stir up to lust, to wantonness, such as teach idle, +wanton, lascivious discourse, and such as has a tendency to provoke +to profane drollery and Jesting; and lastly, such as tend to corrupt, +and pervert the Doctrine of Faith and Holiness. All these things will +eat as doth a canker, and will quickly spoil, in Youth, &c. those good +beginnings that may be putting forth themselves in them. + +3. If there be a mixture of Servants, that is, if some very bad be in +the same place, that’s a way also to undo such tender Lads; for they +that are bad and sordid Servants, will be often (and they have an +opportunity too, to be) distilling and fomenting of their profane and +wicked words and tricks before them, and these will easily stick in the +flesh and minds of Youth, to the corrupting of them. + +4. If the Master have one Guise for abroad, and another for home; +that is, if his Religion hangs by in his house as his Cloak does, +and he be seldom in it, except he be abroad; this, young beginners +will take notice of, and stumble at. We say, Hedges have eyes, and +little Pitchers have ears; and indeed, {43a} Children make a greater +inspection into the Lives of Fathers, Masters, &c. than oft-times they +are aware of: And therefore should Masters be carefull, else they may +soon destroy good beginnings in their Servants. + +5. If the Master be unconscionable in his Dealing, and trades with +lying words; or if bad Commodities be avouched to be good, or if he +seeks after unreasonable gain, or the like; his servant sees it, and it +is enough to undo him. Elies Sons being bad before the congregation, +made Men despise the sacrifices of the Lord. {43b} + +But these things by the by, only they may serve for a hint to Masters +to take heed that they take not Apprentices to destroy their Souls. +But young Badman had none of these hinderances; {43c} His father took +care, and provided well for him, as to this: He had a good Master, he +wanted not good Books, nor good Instruction, nor good Sermons, nor good +Examples, no nor good fellow-Servants neither: but all would not doe. + +Atten. ’Tis a wonder, that in such a Family, amidst so many spiritual +helps, nothing should take hold of his heart! What! not good Books, +nor good Instructions, nor good Sermons, nor good Examples, nor good +fellow-Servants, nor nothing do him good! + +Wise. You talk, he minded none of these things; nay, all these were +{43d} abominable to him. + +1. For good Books, they might lie in his Masters house till they rotted +for him, he would not regard to look into them; but, contrary-wise, +would get all the bad and abominable Books that he could, as beastly +Romances, and books full of Ribbauldry, even such as immediately tended +to set all fleshly lusts on fire. True, he durst not be known to have +any of these, to his Master; therefore would he never let them be seen +by him, but would keep them in close places, and peruse them at such +times, as yielded him fit opportunities thereto. + +2. For good Instruction, he liked that, much as he liked good books; +his care was to hear but little thereof, and to forget what he heard +as soon as ’twas spoken. Yea, I have heard some that knew him then, +say, that one might evidently discern by the shew of his countenance +and gestures, that good counsel was to him like {44a} little-ease, even +a continual torment to him; nor did he ever count himself at liberty, +but when farthest off of wholsom words. He would hate them that rebuked +him, and count them his deadly enemies. + +3. For good Example; which was frequently set him by his Master, both +in Religious and Civil matters; these, young Badman would laugh at, and +would also make a byword of them, when he came in place where he with +safety could. + +4. His Master indeed would make him go with him to Sermons, and that +where he thought the best Preachers were, but this ungodly young man, +what shall I say, was (I think) a Master of Art in all mischief; he +had these wicked ways to hinder himself of hearing, let the Preacher +thunder never so loud. + +1. His {44b} way was, when come into the place of hearing, to sit down +in some corner, and then to fall fast asleep. + +2. Or else to fix his adulterous eyes upon some beautifull Object that +was in the place, and so all Sermon-while, therewith be feeding of his +fleshly lusts. + +3. Or, if he could get near to some that he had observed would fit his +humour, he would be whispering, gigling, and playing with them, till +such time as Sermon was done. + +Atten. Why! he was grown to a prodigious height of wickedness. + +Wise. He was so, and that which aggravates all, was, this was his +practice as soon as he was come to his Master, he was as ready at all +these things, as if he had, before he came to his Master, served an +Apprentiship to learn them. + +Atten. There could not but be added (as you relate them) Rebellion to +his sin. Methinks it is as if he had said, I will not hear, I will not +regard, I will not mind good, I will not mend, I will not turn, I will +not be converted. + +[Picture: Take note symbol] Wise. You say true, and I know not to whom +more fitly to compare him, {45b} than to that man, who when I my self +rebuked him for his wickedness, in this great huff replied; What would +the Devil do for company, if it was not for such as I. + +Atten. Why did you ever hear any man say so. + +Wise. Yes, that I did; and this young Badman was as like him, as an +Egg is like an Egg. Alas! the Scripture makes mention of many that by +their actions speak the same. They say unto God, Depart from us, for we +desire not the knowledge of thy ways; Again, They refuse to hearken, +and pull away their shoulder, and stop their ears; yea, they make their +hearts hard as an Adamant-stone, lest they should hear the Law, and the +words that the Lord of Host[s] hath sent. {45c} What are all these but +such as Badman, and such as the young man but now mentioned? That young +man was my Play-fellow when I was solacing my self in my sins: I may +make mention of him to my shame; but he has a great many fellows. + +Atten. Young Badman was like him indeed, and he trod his steps, as if +his wickedness had been his very Copy; I mean, as to his desperateness: +for had he not been a desperate one, he would never have made you such +a reply, when you was rebuking of him for his sin. But when did you +give him such a rebuke? + +Wise. A while after God had parted him and I, by Calling of me (as I +hope) by his Grace, still leaving him in his sins; and so far as I +could ever gather, as he lived, so he died, even as Mr. Badman did: but +we will leave him, and return again to our discourse. + +Atten. Ha, poor obstinate sinners! doe they think that God cannot be +even with them? + +Wise. I do not know, what they think, but I know that God hath said, +That as He cried, and they would not hear, so they shall crie, and +I will not hear, saith the Lord. {45d} Doubtless there is a time a +coming, when Mr. Badman will crie for this. + +Atten. But I wonder that he should be so expert in wickedness, so soon! +alas, he was but a Stripling, I suppose, he was, as yet, not Twenty. + +Wise. No, nor Eighteen neither: but (as with Ishmael, and with the +Children that mocked the Prophet) the seeds of sin did put forth +themselves betimes in him. {46a} + +Atten. Well, he was as wicked a young man as commonly one shall hear of. + +Wise. You will say so, when you know all. + +Atten. All, I think here is a great All; but if there is more behind, +pray let us hear it. + +Wise. Why, then I will tell you, that he had not been with his Master +much above a year and a half, but he came {46b} acquainted with three +young Villains (who here shall be nameless,) that taught him to +adde to his sin, much of like kind; and he as aptly received their +Instructions. One of them was chiefly given to Uncleanness, another to +Drunkenness; and the third to Purloining, or stealing from his Master. + +Atten. Alas poor Wretch, he was bad enough before, but these, I +suppose, made him much worse. + +Wise. That they made him worse you may be sure of, for they taught him +to be an Arch, a chief one in all their wayes. + +Atten. It was an ill hap that he ever came acqu[a]inted with them. + +Wise. You must rather word it thus. It {46c} was the Judgement of God +that he did; that is, he came acquainted with them, through the anger +of God. He had a good Master, and before him a good Father: By these +he had good counsel given him for Months and Years together; but his +heart was set upon mischief, he loved wickedness more than to do good, +even untill his Iniquity came to be hateful; therefore, from the anger +of God it was, that these companions of his, and he, did at last so +acquaint together. Sayes Paul, They did not like to retain God in their +knowledge; {46d} and what follows? wherefore, God gave them over, or +up to their own hearts lusts. And again, As for such as turn aside +to their own crooked wayes, the Lord shall lead them forth with the +workers of iniquity. {46e} This therefore was Gods hand upon him, that +he might be destroyed, be damned; because he received not the love of +the Truth that he might be saved. He chose his Delusions and Deluders +for him, even the company of base men, of Fools, that he might be +destroyed. {46f} {47a} + +Atten. I cannot but think indeed, that it is a Great Judgment of God +for a man to be given up to the company of vile men; for what are such +but the Devils {47b} Decoyes, even those by whom he drawes the simple +into the Net? A Whoremaster, a Drunkard, a Thiefe, what are they but +the Devils baits, by which he catcheth others? + +Wise. You say right; but this young Badman was no simple one, if by +simple, you mean one uninstructed; for he had often good counsel given +him: but if by simple, you mean, him that is a Fool as to the true +Knowledge of, and Faith in Christ, then he was a simple one indeed: for +he chose death, rather than life, and to live in continual opposition +to God, rather than to be Reconciled unto him; according to that saying +of the wise man; The fooles hated knowledge, and did not choose the +Fear of the Lord: {47c} and what Judgement more dreadfull can a fool +be given up to, than to be delivered into the hands of such men, that +have skill to do nothing, but to ripen sin, and hasten its finishing +unto damnation? And therefore men should be afraid of offending God, +because he can in this manner punish them for their sins. [Picture: +Take note symbol] I knew a man that once was, as I thought, hopefully +awakened about his Condition; yea, I knew two that were so awakened; +but in time they began to draw back, and to incline again to their +lusts; wherefore, God gave them up to the company of three or four men, +that in less than three years time brought them roundly to the Gallows, +where they were hanged like Dogs, because they refused to live like +honest men. {47e} + +Atten. But such men do not believe, that thus to be given up of God, is +in Judgement and anger; they rather take it to be their liberty, and +do count it their happiness; they are glad that their Cord is loosed, +and that the reins are in their neck; they are glad that they may sin +without controul, and that they may choose such company as can make +them more expert in an evil way. + +Wise. Their Judgement is therefore so much the greater, because thereto +is added blindness of Mind, and hardness of Heart in a wicked way. They +are turned up to the way of Death, but must not see to what place they +are going: They must go as the Ox to the slaughter, and as the Fool +to the Correction of the Stocks, {48a} till a Dart strikes through +their Liver, not knowing that it is for their life. This, I say, +makes their Judgement double, they are given up of God, for a while +to sport themselves with that which will assuredly make them mourn at +last, when their flesh and their body is consumed. {48b} These are +those that Peter {48c} speaks of, that shall utterly perish in their +own corruptions; these, I say, who count it pleasure to ryot in the +day-time, and that sport themselves with their own deceivings, are, as +natural bruit beasts, made to be taken and destroyed. + +Atten. Well, but I pray now concerning these three Villains that were +young Badmans companions: Tell me more particularly how he carried it +then. + +Wise. How he carried it! why, he did as they. I intimated so much +before, when I said, they made him an arch, a chief one in their ways. + +First, He became a Frequenter of {48d} Taverns and Tippling-houses, and +would stay there untill he was even as drunk as a Beast. And if it was +so, that he could not get out by day, he would, be sure, get out by +night. Yea, he became so common a Drunkard, at last, that he was taken +notice of to be a Drunkard even by all. + +Atten. This was Swinish, for Drunkenness, is so beastly a sin, a sin +so much against Nature, that I wonder that any that have but the +appearance of Men, can give up themselves to so beastly (yea, worse +than beastly) a thing. + +Wise. It is a Swinish vanity indeed. I will tell you another Story. +{48f} [Picture: Take note symbol] There was a Gentleman that had a +Drunkard to be his Groom, and coming home one night very much abused +with Beer, his Master saw it. Well (quoth his Master within himself,) +I will let thee alone to night, but to morrow morning I will convince +thee that thou art worse than a Beast, by the behaviour of my Horse. +So when morning was come, he bids his man goe and water his Horse, +and so he did; but coming up to his Master, he commands him to water +him again; so the fellow rid into the water the second time, but his +masters horse would now drink no more, so the fellow came up and told +his Master. Then said his Master, Thou drunken sot, thou art far worse +than my Horse, he will drink but to satisfie nature, but thou wilt +drink to the abuse of nature; he will drink but to refresh himself, +but thou to thy hurt and dammage; He will drink, that he may be more +serviceable to his Master, but thou, till thou art uncapable of serving +either God or Man. O thou Beast, how much art thou worse than the horse +that thou ridest on. + +Atten. Truly I think that his Master served him right; for in doing +as he did, he shewed him plainly, as he said, that he had not so much +government of himself as his horse had of himself, and consequently +that his beast did live more according to the Law of his nature by far, +than did his man. But pray go on with what you have further to say. + +Wise. Why, I say, that there are {49a} four things, which if they were +well considered, would make drunkenness to be abhorred in the thoughts +of the Children of men. + +1. It greatly tendeth to impoverish and beggar a man. The Drunkard, +says Solomon, shall come to poverty. {49b} Many that have begun the +world with Plenty, have gone out of it in Rags; through drunkenness. +Yea, many Children that have been born to good Estates, have yet been +brought to a Flail & a Rake, through this beastly sin of their Parents. + +2. This sin of Drunkenness, it bringeth upon the Body, many, great, and +incurable Diseases, by which Men do in little time come to their end, +and none can help them. So, because they are overmuch wicked, therefore +they dye before their time. {49c} + +3. Drunkenness, is a sin that is often times attended with abundance of +other evils. Who hath woe? Who hath sorrow? Who hath contention? Who +hath babblings? Who hath wounds without cause? Who hath redness of the +eyes? They that tarry long at the Wine, they that go to seek mixt wine. +{49d} That is, the Drunkard. + +4. By Drunkenness, Men do often times shorten their dayes; goe out +of the Ale-house drunk, and break their Necks before they come home. +Instances not a few might be given of this, but this is so manifest, a +man need say nothing. + +Atten. But {50a} {50b} that which is worse than all is, it also +prepares men for everlasting burnings. + +Wise. Yea, and it so stupifies and besotts the soul, that a man that +is far gone in Drunkenness, is hardly ever recovered to God. Tell me, +when did you see an old drunkard converted? No, no, such an one will +sleep till he dies, though he sleeps on the top of a {50c} Mast, let +his dangers be never so great and Death and damnation never so near, he +will not be awaked out of his sleep. So that if a man have any respect +either to Credit, Health, Life or Salvation, he will not be a drunken +man. But the truth is, where this sin gets the upper hand, men are, as +I said before, so intoxicated and bewitched with the seeming pleasures, +and sweetness thereof; that they have neither heart nor mind to think +of that which is better in itself; and would, if imbraced, do them good. + +Atten. You said that drunkenness tends to poverty, yet some make +themselves rich by drunken bargains. + +Wise. I {50d} said so, because the Word says so. And as to some mens +getting thereby, that is indeed but rare, and base: yea, and base will +be the end of such gettings. The Word of God is against such wayes, and +the curse of God will be the end of such doings. An Inheritance may +sometimes thus be hastily gotten at the beginning, but the end thereof +shall not be blessed. Hark what the Prophet saith; Wo to him that +coveteth an evil covetousness, that he may set his nest on high. {50e} +Whether he makes drunkenness, or ought else, the engine and decoy to +get it; for that man doth but consult the shame of his own house, the +spoiling of his family, and the damnation of his Soul; for that which +he getteth by working of iniquity, is but a getting by the devices of +Hell; Therefore he can be no gainer neither for himself or family, that +gains by an evil course. But this was one of the sins that Mr. Badman +was addicted to after he came acquainted with these three fellows, nor +could all that his Master could do break him of this Beastly sin. + +Atten. But where, since he was but an Apprentice, could he get Money to +follow this practice, for drunkenness, as you have intimated, is a very +costly sin. + +Wise. His Master {51a} paid for all. For, (as I told you before) as he +learned of these three Villains to be a Beastly Drunkard; so he learned +of them to pilfer and steal from his Master. Sometimes he would sell +off his Masters Goods, but keep the Money, that is when he could; also +sometimes he would beguile his Master by taking out of his Cashbox: and +when he could do neither of these, he would convey away of his Masters +wares, what he thought would be least missed, and send or carry them to +such and such houses, where he knew they would be laid up to his use, +and then appoint set times there, to meet and make merry with these +fellowes. + +Atten. This, was as bad, nay, I think, worse than the former; for by +thus doing, he did, not only run himself under the wrath of God, but +has endangered the undoing of his Master and his Familie. + +Wise. Sins go not alone, but follow one the other as do the links of a +Chain; he that will be a drunkard, must have money either of his own, +or of some other mans; either of his Fathers, Mothers, Masters, or at +the high-way, or some way. + +Atten. I fear that many an honest man is undone by such kind of +servants. + +Wise. I am of the same mind with you, but {51b} this should make the +dealer the more wary what kind of Servants he keeps, and what kind of +Apprentices he takes. It should also teach him to look well to his Shop +himself, also to take strict account of all things that are bought +and sold by his Servants. The Masters neglect herein may embolden his +servant to be bad, and may bring him too in short time to rags and a +morsel of Bread. + +Atten. I am afraid that there is much of this kind of pilfering among +servants in these bad dayes of ours. + +Wise. Now, while it is in my mind, I will tell you a story. [Picture: +Take note symbol] When I was in prison, there came a woman to me that +was under a great deal of trouble. So I asked her (she being a stranger +to me) what she had to say to me. She said, she was afraid she should +be damned. I asked her the cause of those fears. She told me that she +had sometime since lived with a Shop-keeper at Wellingborough, and had +robbed his box in the Shop several times of Money, to the value of more +than now I will say; and pray, says she, tell me what I shall do. I +told her, I would have her go to her Master, and make him satisfaction: +She said, she was afraid; I asked her why? She said, she doubted he +would hang her. I told her, that I would intercede for her life, and +would make use of other friends too to do the like; But she told me, +she durst not venture that. Well, said I, shall I send to your Master, +while you abide out of sight, and make your peace with him, before he +sees you; and with that, I asked her her Masters name. But all that +she said in answer to this, was, Pray let it alone till I come to you +again. So away she went, and neither told me her Masters Name, nor +her own: This is about ten or twelve years since, and I never saw her +again. I tell you this story for this cause; to confirm your fears, +that such kind of servants too many there be; and that God makes them +sometimes like old Tod, of whom mention was made before, (through the +terrors that he layes upon them) to betray themselves. + +[Picture: Take note symbol] I could tell you of another, that came to +me with a like relation concerning her self, and the robbing of her +Mistress; but at this time let this suffice. + +Atten. But what was that other Villain addicted to, I mean, young +Badmans third companion? + +Wise. Uncleanness. {52b} I told you before, but it seems you forgot. + +Atten. Right, it was Uncleanness. Uncleanness is also a filthy sin. + +Wise. It is so; and yet it is one of the most reigning sins in our day. + +Atten. So they say, and that too among those that one would think had +more wit, even among the great ones. + +Wise. The more is the pity: for usually Examples that are set by them +that are great and chief, {52c} spread sooner, and more universally, +then do the sins of other men; yea, and when such men are at the head +in transgressing, sin walks with a bold face through the Land. As +Jeremiah saith of the Prophets, so may it be said of such, From them +is profaneness gone forth into all the land; that is, with bold and +audacious face, Jer. 23. 15. + +Atten. But pray let us return again to Mr. Badman and his companions. +You say one of them was very vile in the commission of Uncleanness. + +Wise. Yes, so I say; not but that he was a Drunkard and also Thievish, +but he was most arch in this sin of Uncleanness: This Roguery was his +Master-piece, for he was a Ringleader to them all in the beastly sin of +Whoredom. He was also best acquainted with such houses where they were, +and so could readily lead the rest of his Gang unto them. The Strumpets +also, because they knew this young Villain, would at first discover +themselves in all their whorish pranks to those that he brought with +him. + +Atten. That is a deadly thing: I mean, it is a deadly thing to young +men, when such beastly queans, shall, with words and carriages that are +openly tempting, discover themselves unto them; It is hard for such to +escape their Snare. + +Wise. That is true, therefore the Wise mans counsel is the best: Come +not near the door of her house; {53a} for they are (as you say) very +tempting, as is seen by her in the Proverbs. I looked (says the Wise +man) through my casement, and beheld among the simple ones, I discerned +a young man void of understanding, passing through the streets near +her corner, and he went the way to her house: In the twilight, in +the evening, in the black and dark night. And behold, there met him +a Woman, with the attire of an harlot, and subtle of heart; ({53c} +she is loud and stubborn, her feet abide not in her house. Now she is +without, now she is in the street, and lieth in wait at every corner.) +So she caught him, and kiss’d him, and with an impudent face said unto +him: I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows. +Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I +have found thee. I have decked my bed with coverings of Tapestry, with +carved works, with fine Linnen of Ægypt: I have perfumed my bed with +Myrrhe, Aloes, and Cinnamon; come let us take our fill of love untill +the Morning, let us solace our selves with loves. {53b} Here was a bold +Beast: And indeed, the very eyes, hands, words and ways of such, are +all snares and bands to youthful, lustful fellows: And with these was +young Badman greatly snared. + +Atten. This sin of Uncleanness {54a} is mightily cried out against both +by Moses, the Prophets, Christ, and his Apostles; and yet, as we see, +for all that, how men run head-long to it! + +Wise. You have said the truth, and I will adde, that God, to hold men +back from so filthy a sin, has set such a stamp of his Indignation upon +it, and commanded such evil effects to follow it, that were not they +that use it bereft of all Fear of God, and love to their own health, +they could not but stop and be afraid to commit it. For, besides the +eternal Damnation that doth attend such in the next world, (for these +have no Inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and of God, Ephes. 5.) the +evil effects thereof in this world are dreadfull. + +Atten. Pray skew me some of them, that as occasion offereth it self, I +may shew them to others for their good. + +Wise. So I will. 1. {54b} It bringeth a man (as was said of the sin +before) to want and poverty; for by means of a Whorish woman, a man is +brought to a piece of bread. The reason is, for that an Whore will not +yield without hire; and men when the Devil and Lust is in them, and God +and his Fear far away from them, will not stick, so they may accomplish +their desire, to lay their Signet, their Bracelets, and their Staff +to pledge, {54c} rather than miss of the fulfilling of their lusts. +2. Again, by this sin men diminish their strength, and bring upon +themselves, even upon the Body, a multitude of Diseases. This King +Lemuel’s Mother warned him of. What my Son, said she, and what the son +of my womb, and what the Son of my Vows: Give not thy strength unto +women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth Kings. {54d} This sin +is destructive to the Body. Give me leave to tell you another story. +[Picture: Take note symbol] I {54f} have heard of a great man that was +a very unclean person, and he had lived so long in that sin, that he +had almost lost his sight. So his Physicians were sent for, to whom he +told his to Disease; but they told him, that they could do him no good, +unless he would forbear his Women. Nay then, said he, farewell sweet +Sight. Whence observe, that this sin, as I said, is destructive to the +Body; and also, that some men be so in love therewith, that they will +have it, though it destroy their body. + +Atten. Paul says also, that he that sins this sin, sins against his +own Body. But what of that? he that will run the hazard of eternal +Damnation of his Soul, but he will commit this sin, will for it run the +hazard of destroying his Body. If young Badman feared not the Damnation +of his Soul, do you think that the consideration of impairing of his +Body, would have deterred him therefrom? + +Wise. You say true. But yet, methinks, there are still such bad effects +follow, often, upon the commission of it, that if men would consider +them, it would put, at least, a stop to their career therein. + +Atten. What other evil effects attend this sin? + +Wise. Outward shame and disgrace, and that in these particulars: {55a} + +First, There often follows this foul sin, the Foul Disease, now called +by us the Pox. A disease so nauseous and stinking, so infectious to the +whole body (and so intailed to this sin) that hardly are any common +with unclean Women, but they have more or less a touch of it to their +shame. + +Atten. That is a foul disease indeed: [Picture: Take note symbol] I +knew a man once that rotted away with it; and another that had his Nose +eaten off, and his Mouth almost quite sewed up thereby. + +Wise. It is a Disease, that where it is, it commonly declares, that +the cause thereof is Uncleanness. It declares to all that behold such +a man, that he is an odious, a beastly, unclean person. This is that +strange punishment that Job speaks of, that is appointed to seize on +these workers of Iniquity. {55c} + +Atten. Then it seems you think that the strange punishment that Job +there speaks of, should be the foul disease. + +Wise. I have thought so indeed, and that for this reason: We see that +this Disease is entailed as I may say, to this most beastly sin, nor is +there any disease so entailed to any other sin, as this to this. That +this is the sin to which the strange Punishment is entailed, you will +easily perceive when you read the Text. I made a covenant with mine +eyes, said Job, why should I think upon a Maid? For what portion is +there (for that sin) from above, and what Inheritance of the Almighty +from on high? And then he answers himself; Is not destruction to the +wicked, and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity? This +strange Punishment is the Pox. + +Also I think that this foul Disease is that which Solomon intends, when +he saith, (speaking of this unclean and beastly creature) A wound and +dishonour shall he get, and his reproach shall not be turned away. {56} +A Punishment Job calls it, a Wound and Dishonour, Solomon calls it; and +they both do set it as a Remark upon this sin; Job calling it a strange +punishment, and Solomon a reproach that shall not be turned away from +them that are common in it. + +Atten. What other things follow upon the commission of this beastly sin? + +Wise. Why, often-times it is attended with Murder, with the murder +of the Babe begotten on the defiled bed. How common it is for the +Bastard-getter and Bastard-bearer, to consent together to murder their +Children, will be better known at the day of Judgement; yet something +is manifest now. + +I will tell you another story. [Picture: Take note symbol] An ancient +man, one of mine acquaintance, a man of good credit in our Countrey, +had a Mother that was a Midwife: who was mostly imployed in laying +great persons. To this womans house, upon a time, comes a brave +young Gallant on horseback, to fetch her to lay a young Lady. So she +addresses herself to go with him; wherefore, he takes her up behind +him, and away they ride in the night. Now they had not rid far, but +the Gentleman litt off his horse, and taking the old Midwife in his +arms from the horse, turned round with her several times, and then set +her up again; then he got up, and away they went till they came at a +stately house, into which he had her, and so into a Chamber where the +young Lady was in her pains: He then bid the Midwife do her Office, and +she demanded help, but he drew out his Sword and told her, if she did +not make speed to do her Office without, she must look for nothing but +death. Well, to be short, this old Midwife laid the young Lady, and a +fine sweet Babe she had; Now there was made in a Room hard by, a very +great Fire: so the Gentleman took up the Babe, went and drew the coals +from the stock, cast the Child in, and covered it up, and there was an +end of that. So when the Midwife had done her work, he paid her well +for her pains, but shut her up in a dark room all day, and when night +came, took her up behind him again, and carried her away, till she came +almost at home; then he turned her round, and round, as he did before, +and had her to her house, set her down, bid her Farewell, and away he +went: And she could never tell who it was. + +This Story the Midwifes son, who was a Minister, told me; and also +protested that his mother told it him for a truth. + +Atten. Murder doth often follow indeed, as that which is the fruit +of this sin: but sometimes God brings even these Adulterers, and +Adulteresses to shameful ends. [Picture: Take note symbol] I heard of +one, (I think, a Doctor of Physick) and his Whore, who had had three +or four Bastards betwixt them, and had murdered them all, but at last +themselves were hanged for it, in or near to Colchester. It came out +after this manner: The Whore was so afflicted in her conscience abort +it, that she could not be quiet untill she had made it known: Thus +God many times makes the actors of wickedness their own accusers, and +brings them by their own tongues to condigne punishment for their own +sins. + +Wise. There has been many such instances, but we will let that pass. I +was once in the presence of a Woman, a married woman, that lay sick of +the sickness whereof she died; and being smitten in her conscience for +the sin of Uncleanness, which she had often committed with other men, +[Picture: Take note symbol] I heard her (as she lay upon her Bed) cry +out thus: I am a Whore, and all my Children are Bastards: And I must go +to Hell for my sin; and look, there stands the Devil at my beds feet to +receive my Soul when I die. + +Atten. These are sad storyes, tell no more of them now, but if you +please shew me yet some other of the evil effects of this beastly sin. + +Wise. This sin is such a snare to the Soul, that unless a miracle +of Grace prevents, it unavoidably perishes in the enchanting and +bewitching pleasures of it. This is manifest by these, and such like +Texts. + +The Adulteress will hunt for the precious life. Whoso committeth +adultery with a woman, lacketh understanding, and he that doth it +destroys his own soul. {57} An Whore is a deep ditch, and a strange +woman is a narrow pit. Her house inclines to death, and her pathes unto +the dead. None that go in unto her return again, neither take they hold +of the path of life. She hath cast down many wounded; yea many strong +men have been slain by her, her house is the way to Hell, going down to +the Chambers of Death. {58a} + +Atten. These are dreadful sayings, and do shew the dreadful state of +those that are guilty of this sin. + +Wise. Verily so they doe. But yet that which makes the whole more +dreadful, is, That men are given up to this sin, because they are +abhorred of God, and because abhorred, therefore they shall fall into +the commission of it; and shall live there. The mouth (that is, the +flattering Lips) of a strange woman is a deep pit, the abhorred of the +Lord shall fall therein. {58b} Therefore it saith again of such, that +they have none Inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and of God. {58c} + +Atten. Put all together, and it is a dreadful thing to live and die in +this transgression. + +Wise. True. But suppose, that instead of all these Judgments, this sin +had attending of it all the felicities of this life, and no bitterness, +shame, or disgrace mixed with it, yet one hour in Hell will spoil all. +O! this Hell, Hell-fire, Damnation in Hell, it is such an inconceivable +punishment, that were it but throughly believed, it would nip this sin, +with others, in the head. But here is the mischief, those that give +up themselves to these things, do so harden themselves in Unbelief +and Atheism about the things, the punishments that God hath threatned +to inflict upon the committers of them, that at last they arrive to, +almost, an absolute and firm belief that there is no Judgment to come +hereafter: Else they would not, they could not, no not attempt to +commit this sin, by such abominable language as some do. + +[Picture: Take note symbol] I heard of one that should say to his Miss, +when he tempted her to the committing of this sin, If thou wilt venture +thy Body, I will venture my Soul. {58d} And I my self heard another +say, when he was tempting of a Maid to commit uncleanness with him, +(it was in Olivers dayes) That if she did prove with Child, he would +tell her how she might escape punishment, (and that was then somewhat +severe,) Say (saith he) when you come before the Judge, That you are +with Child by the Holy Ghost. [Picture: Take note symbol] I heard him +say thus, and it greatly afflicted me; I had a mind to have accused him +for it before some Magistrate; but he was a great man, and I was poor, +and young: so I let it alone, but it troubled me very much. + +Atten. ’Twas the most horrible thing that ever I heard in my life. But +how far off are these men from that Spirit and Grace that dwelt in +Joseph! + +Wise. Right; when Joseph’s Mistress tempted him, yea tempted him daily; +{59b} yea, she laid hold on him, and said with her Whores forehead, +Come lie with me, but he refused: He hearkned not to lie with her, or +to be with her. Mr. Badman would have taken the opportunity. + +And a little to comment upon this of Joseph. {59c} + +1. Here is a Miss, a great Miss, the Wife of the Captain of the Guard, +some beautiful Dame, I’le warrant you. + +2. Here is a Miss won, and in her whorish Affections come over to +Joseph, without his speaking of a word. + +3. Here is her unclean Desire made known; Come lie with me, said she. + +4. Here was a fit opportunity. There was none of the men of the house +there within. + +5. Joseph was a young man, full of strength, and therefore the more in +danger to be taken. + +6. This was to him, a Temptation, from her, that lasted days. + +7. And yet Joseph refused, 1. Her daily Temptation; 2. Her daily +Solicitation: 3. Her daily Provocation, heartily, violently and +constantly. For when she caught him by the Garment, saying, Lie with +me, he left his Garment in her hand, and gat him out. Ay, and although +contempt, treachery, slander, accusation, imprisonment, and danger +of death followed, (for an Whore careth not what mischief she does, +when she cannot have her end) yet Joseph will not defile himself, sin +against God, and hazard his own eternal salvation. + +Atten. Blessed Joseph! I would thou hadst more fellows! + +Wise. Mr. Badman has more fellows than Joseph, else there would not +be so many Whores as there are: For though I doubt not but that that +Sex is bad enough this way, yet I verify believe that many of them +are made Whores at first by the flatteries of Badmans fellows. Alas! +there is many a woman plunged into this sin at first even by promises +of Marriage. {60a} I say, by these promises they are flattered, yea, +forced into a consenting to these Villanies, and so being in, and +growing hardened in their hearts, they at last give themselves up, even +as wicked men do, to act this kind of wickedness with greediness. But +Joseph you see, was of another mind, for the Fear of God was in him. + +I will, before I leave this, tell you here two notable storyes; and I +wish Mr. Badmans companions may hear of them. They are found in Clarks +Looking-glass for Sinners; and are these. + +Mr. Cleaver (says Mr. Clark) reports of one whom he knew, that had +committed the act of Uncleanness, whereupon he fell into such horror of +Conscience that he hanged himself; leaving it thus written in a paper. +Indeed, (saith he) I acknowledge it to be utterly unlawful for a man to +kill himself, but I am bound to act the Magistrates part, because the +punishment of this sin is death. {60b} + +Clark doth also in the same page make mention of two more, who as they +were committing Adultery in London, were immediately struck dead with +fire from Heaven, in the very Act. Their bodyes were so found, half +burnt up, and sending out a most loathsom savour. + +Atten. These are notable storyes indeed. + +Wise. So they are, and I suppose they are as true as notable. + +Atten. Well, but I wonder, if young Badmans Master knew him to be such +a Wretch, that he would suffer him in his house. + +Wise. They liked one another even as {60c} fire and water doe. Young +Badmans wayes were odious to his Master, and his Masters wayes were +such as young Badman could not endure. Thus in these two, was fulfilled +that saying of the Holy Ghost: An unjust man is an abomination to the +just, and he that is upright in the way is abomination to the wicked. +{60d} + +The good mans wayes, Mr. Badman could not abide, nor could the good man +abide the bad wayes of his base Apprentice. Yet would his Master, if he +could, have kept him, and also have learnt him his trade. + +Atten. If he could! why he might, if he would, might he not? + +Wise. Alas, Badman ran away {61a} from him once and twice, and would +not at all be ruled. So the next time he did run away from him, he did +let him go indeed. For he gave him no occasion to run away, except it +was by holding of him as much as he could (and that he could do but +little) to good and honest rules of life. And had it been ones own +case, one should have let him go. For what should a man do, that had +either regard to his own Peace, his Childrens Good, or the preservation +of the rest of his servants from evil, but let him go? Had he staid, +the house of Correction had been most fit for him, but thither his +Master was loth to send him, because of the love that he bore to his +Father. An house of correction, I say, had been the fittest place for +him, but his Master let him go. + +Atten. He ran away you say, but whither did he run? + +Wise. Why, to one of his own trade, {61b} and also like himself. Thus +the wicked joyned hand in hand, and there he served out his time. + +Atten. Then, sure, he had his hearts desire, when he was with one so +like himself. + +Wise. Yes. So he had, but God gave it him in his anger. + +Atten. How do you mean? + +Wise. I mean as before, that for a wicked man to be by the Providence +of God, turned out of a good mans doors, into a wicked mans house to +dwell, is a sign of the Anger of God. {61c} For God by this, and such +Judgements, says thus to such an one: Thou wicked one, thou lovest +not me, my wayes, nor my people; Thou castest my Law and good Counsel +behinde thy back: Come, I will dispose of thee in my wrath; thou shalt +be turned over to the ungodly, thou shalt be put to school to the +Devil, I will leave thee to sink and swim in sin, till I shall visit +thee with Death and Judgment. This was therefore another Judgment that +did come upon this young Badman. + +Atten. You have said the truth, for God by such a Judgment as this, in +effect says so indeed; for he takes them out of the hand of the just, +and binds them up in the hand of the wicked, and whither they then +shall be carried, a man may easily imagin. + +Wise. It is one of the saddest tokens of Gods anger that happens to +such kind of persons: And that for several reasons. {62a} + +1. Such an one, by this Judgment, is put out out of the way, and from +under the means which ordinarily are made use of to do good to the +soul. For a Family where Godliness is professed, and practised, is Gods +Ordinance, the place which he has appointed to teach young ones the way +and fear of God. {62b} Now to be put out of such a Family into a bad, a +wicked one, as Mr. Badman was, must needs be in Judgment, and a sign of +the anger of God. For in ungodly Families men learn to forget God, to +hate goodness, and to estrange themselves from the wayes of those that +are good. + +2. In Bad Families, they have continually fresh Examples, and also +incitements to evil, and fresh encouragements to it too. Yea moreover, +in such places evil is commended, praised, well-spoken of, and they +that do it, are applauded; and this, to be sure, is a drowning +Judgement. + +3. Such places are the very haunts and Walks of the infernal Spirits, +who are continually poysoning the Cogitations and Minds of one or other +in such Families, that they may be able to poyson others. Therefore +observe it, usually in wicked Families, some one, or two, are more +arch for wickedness then are any other that are there. Now such are +Satans Conduit-pipes; for by them he conveighs of the spawn of Hell, +through their being crafty in wickedness, into the Ears and Souls of +their Companions. Yea, and when they have once conceived wickedness, +they travel with it, as doth a woman with Child, till they have brought +it forth; Behold, he travelleth with iniquity, and hath conceived +mischief, and brought forth falshood. {62c} Some men, as here is +intimated in the Text, and as was hinted also before, have a kind of +mystical, but hellish copulation with the Devil, who is the Father, +and their Soul the Mother of sin and wickedness; and they, so soon as +they have conceived by him, finish, by bringing forth sin, both it, and +their own damnation. {62d} + +Atten. How {63a} much then doth it concern those Parents that love +their Children, to see, that if they go from them, they be put into +such Families as be good, that they may learn there betimes to eschew +evil, and to follow that which is good? + +Wise. It doth concern them indeed; and it doth also concern them {63b} +that take Children into their Families, to take heed what Children they +receive. For a man may soon by a Bad boy, be dammaged both in his Name, +Estate, and Family, and also hindred in his Peace and peaceable pursuit +after God and godliness; I say, by one such Vermin as a wicked and +filthy Apprentice. + +Atten. True, for one Sinner destroyeth much good, and a poor man is +better than a Lier. But many times a man cannot help it; for such as at +the beginning promise very fair, are by a little time proved to be very +Rogues, like young Badman. + +Wise. That is true also, but when a man has done the best he can to +help it, he may with the more confidence expect the Blessing of God to +follow, or he shall have the more peace, if things go contrary to his +desire. + +Atten. Well, but did Mr. Badman and his Master agree so well? I mean +his last Master, since they were Birds of a Feather, I mean, since they +were so well met for wickedness. + +Wise. This second Master, was, as before I told you, bad enough, but +yet he would often fall out {63c} with young Badman his Servant, and +chide, yea and some times beat him too, for his naughty doings. + +Atten. What! for all he was so bad himself! This is like the Proverb, +The Devil corrects Vice. + +Wise. I will assure you, ’tis as I say. For you must know, that +Badmans wayes suited not with his Masters gains. Could he have done +as the Damsel that we read of Acts 16. {63d} did, to wit, fill his +Masters Purse with his badness, he had certainly been his White-boy, +but it was not so with young Badman; and therefore, though his Master +and he did suit well enough in the main, yet in this and that point +they differed. Young Badman {63e} was for neglecting of his Masters +business, for going to the Whore-house, for beguiling of his Master, +for attempting to debauch his Daughters, and the like: No marvel then +if they disagreed in these points. Not so much for that his Master had +an antipathy against the fact it self, for he could do so when he was +an Apprentice; but for that his servant by his sin made spoil of his +Commodities, &c. and so damnified his Master. + +Had (as I said before) young Badmans wickedness, had only a tendency to +his Masters advantage; as could he have sworn, lied, cousened, cheated, +and defrauded customers for his Master, (and indeed sometimes he did +so) but had that been all that he had done, he had not had, no not a +wry word from his Master: But this was not always Mr. Badmans way. + +Atten. That was well brought in, even the Maid that we read of in the +Acts, and the distinction was as clear betwixt the wickedness, and +wickedness of servants. + +Wise. Alas! men that are wicked themselves, yet greatly hate it in +others, not simply because it is wickedness, but because it opposeth +their interest. Do you think that that Maids master would have been +troubled at the loss of her, if he had not lost, with her, his gain: +No, I’le warrant you; she might have gone to the Devil for him: But +when her master saw that the hope of his gain was gone, then, then he +fell to persecuting Paul. {64a} But Mr. Badmans master did sometimes +lose by Mr. Badmans sins, and then Badman and his master were at odds. + +Atten. Alas poor Badman! Then it seems thou couldest not at all times +please thy like. + +Wise. No, he could not, and the reason I have told you. + +Atten. But do not bad Masters condemn themselves in condemning the +badness of their servants. {64b} + +Wise. Yes; {64c} in that they condemn that in another which they either +have, or do allow in themselves. And the time will come, when that +very sentence that hath gone out of their own mouths against the sins +of others, themselves living and taking pleasure in the same, shall +return with violence upon their own pates. The Lord pronounced Judgment +against Baasha, as for all his evils in general, so for this in +special, because he was like the house of Jeroboam, and yet killed him. +{64d} This is Mr. Badmans Masters case, he is like his man, and yet he +beats him. He is like his man, and yet he rails at him for being bad. + +Atten. But why did not young Badman run away from this Master, as he +ran away from the other? + +Wise. He did not. And if I be not mistaken, the reason {65a} why, was +this. There was Godliness in the house of the first, and that young +Badman could not endure. For fare, for lodging, for work, and time, he +had better, and more by this Masters allowance, than ever he had by his +last; but all this would not content, because Godliness was promoted +there. He could not abide this praying, this reading of Scriptures, and +hearing, and repeating of Sermons: he could not abide to be told of his +transgressions in a sober and Godly manner. + +Atten. There is a great deal in the Manner of reproof, wicked men both +can, and cannot abide to hear their transgressions spoken against. + +Wise. There is a great deal of difference indeed. This last Master +of Mr. Badmans, would tell Mr. Badman of his sins in Mr. Badmans own +dialect; he would swear, and curse, and damn, when he told him of his +sins, and this he could bear better, {65b} than to be told of them +after a godly sort. Besides, that last Master would, when his passions +and rage was over, laugh at and make merry with the sins of his servant +Badman: And that would please young Badman well. Nothing offended +Badman but blows, and those he had but few of now, because he was +pretty well grown up. For the most part when his Master did rage and +swear, he would give him Oath for Oath, and Curse for Curse, at least +secretly, let him go on as long as he would. + +Atten. This was hellish living. + +Wise. ’Twas hellish living indeed: And a man might say, that with this +Master, young Badman compleated himself {65c} yet more and more in +wickedness, as well as in his trade: for by that he came out of his +time, what with his own inclination to sin, what with his acquaintance +with his three companions, and what with this last Master, and the +wickedness he saw in him; he became a sinner in grain. I think he had a +Bastard laid to his charge before he came out of his time. + +Atten. Well, but it seems he did live to come out of his time, {66a} +but what did he then? + +Wise. Why, he went home to his Father, and he like a loving and +tender-hearted Father received him into his house. + +Atten. And how did he carry it there? + +Wise. Why, the reason why he went home, {66b} was, for Money to set +up for himself, he staied but a little at home, but that little while +that he did stay, he refrained himself {66c} as well he could, and did +not so much discover himself to be base, for fear his Father should +take distaste, and so should refuse, or for a while forbear to give him +money. + +Yet even then he would have his times, and companions, and the fill of +his lusts with them, but he used to blind all with this, he was glad +to see his old acquaintance, and they as glad to see him, and he could +not in civility but accomodate them with a bottle or two of Wine, or a +dozen or two of Drink. + +Atten. And did the old man give him money to set up with? + +Wise. Yes, above two hundred pounds. + +Atten. Therein, I think, the old man was out. Had I been his Father, I +would have held him a little at staves-end, till I had had far better +proof of his manners to be good; (for I perceive that his Father did +know what a naughty boy he had been, both by what he used to do at +home, and because he changed a good Master for a bad, &c.) He should +not therefore have given him money so soon. What if he had pinched a +little, and gone to Journey-work for a time, that he might have known +what a penny was, by his earning of it? Then, in all probability, he +had known better how to have spent it: Yea, and by that time perhaps, +have better considered with himself, how to have lived in the world. +Ay, and who knows but he might have come to himself with the Prodigal, +and have asked God and his Father forgiveness for the villanies that he +had committed against them. {66d} + +Wise. If his Father could also have blessed this manner of dealing to +him, and have made it effectual for the ends that you have propounded; +then I should have thought as you. But alas, alas, you talk as if +you never knew, or had at this present forgot what the bowels and +compassions of a Father are. Why did you not serve your own son so? +But ’tis evident enough, that we are better at giving good counsel to +others, than we are at taking good counsel our selves. {67a} But mine +honest neighbour, suppose that Mr. Badmans Father had done as you say, +and by so doing had driven his son to ill courses, what had he bettered +either himself or his son in so doing? + +Atten. That’s true, but it doth not follow, that if the Father had done +as I said, the son would have done as you suppose. But if he had done +as you have supposed, what had he done worse than what he hath done +already? {67b} + +Wise. He had done bad enough, that’s true. But suppose his Father +had given him no Money, and suppose that young Badman had taken a +pett thereat, and in an anger had gone beyond Sea, and his Father had +neither seen him, nor heard of him more. Or suppose that of a mad and +headstrong stomach he had gone to the High-way for money, and so had +brought himself to the Gallows, and his Father and Family to great +contempt, or if by so doing he had not brought himself to that end, yet +he had added to all his wickedness, such and such evils besides: And +what comfort could his Father have had in this? + +Besides, when his Father had done for him what he could, with desire +to make him an honest man, he would then, whether his son had proved +honest or no, have laid down his head with far more peace, than if he +had taken your Counsel. + +Atten. Nay I think I should not a been forward to have given advice +in the cause; but truly you have given me such an account of his +vilianies, that the hearing thereof has made me angry with him. + +Wise. In an angry mood we may soon out-shoot our selves, but poor +wretch, as he is, he is gone to his place. But, as I said, when a good +Father hath done what he can for a bad Child, and that Child shall +prove never the better, he will lie down with far more peace, than if +through severity, he had driven him to inconveniencies. + +I remember that I have heard of a good woman, that had (as this old +man) a bad and ungodly {68a} son, and she prayed for him, counselled +him, and carried it Motherly to him for several years together; but +still he remained bad. At last, upon a time, after she had been at +prayer, as she was wont, for his conversion, she comes to him, and +thus, or to this effect, begins again to admonish him. Son, said she, +Thou hast been and art a wicked Child, thou hast cost me many a prayer +and tear, and yet thou remainest wicked. Well, I have done my duty, I +have done what I can to save thee; now I am satisfied, that if I shall +see thee damned at the day of Judgment, I shall be so far off from +being grieved for thee, that I shall rejoyce to hear the sentence of +thy damnation at that day: And it converted him. + +I tell you, that if Parents carry it lovingly towards their Children, +mixing their Mercies with loving Rebukes and their loving Rebukes with +Fatherly and Motherly Compassions, they are more likely to save their +Children, than by being churlish and severe toward them: but if they do +not save them, if their mercy doth them no good, yet it will greatly +ease them at the day of death, to consider; I have done by love as much +as I could, to save and deliver my child from Hell. + +Atten. Well I yield. But pray let us return again to Mr. Badman: You +say, that his Father gave him a piece of money that he might set up for +himself. + +Wise. Yes, his Father did give him a piece of money, and he did set +up, {68b} and almost as soon set down again: for he was not long set +up, but by his ill managing of his matters at home, together with +his extravagant expences abroad, he was got so far into debt, and +had so little in his shop to pay, that he was hard put to it to keep +himself out of prison. But when his Creditors understood that he was +about to marry, and in a fair way to get a rich Wife, they said among +themselves, We will not be hasty with him, if he gets a rich Wife he +will pay us all. + +Atten. But how could he so quickly run out, for I perceive ’twas in +little time, by what you say? + +Wise. ’Twas in little time indeed, I think he was not above two years +and a half in doing of it: but the reason {69a} is apparent; for he +being a wild young man, and now having the bridle loose before him, and +being wholly subjected to his lusts and vices, he gave himself up to +the way of his heart, and to the sight of his eye, forgetting that for +all these things God will bring him to Judgment; {69b} and he that doth +thus, you may be sure, shall not be able long to stand on his leggs. + +Besides, he had now an addition of {69c} new companions; companions you +must think, most like himself in Manners, and so such that cared not +who sunk, if they themselves might swim. These would often be haunting +of him, and of his shop too when he was absent. They would commonly egg +him to the Ale-house, but yet make him Jack-pay-for-all; They would be +borrowing also money of him, but take no care to pay again, except it +was with more of their company, which also he liked very well; and so +his poverty came like one that travelleth, and his want like an armed +man. + +But all the while they studied his temper; {69d} he loved to be +flattered, praised and commanded for Wit, Manhood, and Personage; and +this was like stroking him over the face. Thus they Collogued with him, +and got yet more and more into him, and so (like Horse-leaches) they +drew away that little that his father had given him, and brought him +quickly down, almost to dwell next dore to the begger. + +Atten. Then was the saying of the wise man fulfilled, He that keepeth +company with harlots, and a companion of fools, shall be destroyed. +{69e} + +Wise. Ay, and that too, A companion of riotous persons shameth his +father; {69f} For he, poor man, had both grief and shame, to see how +his son (now at his own hand) behaved himself in the enjoyment of those +good things, in and under the lawfull use of which he might have lived +to Gods glory, his own comfort, and credit among his neighbours. But +he that followeth vain persons, shall have poverty enough. {69g} The +way that he took, led him directly into this condition; for who can +expect other things of one that follows such courses? Besides, when he +was in his Shop, he could not abide to be doing; He was naturally given +to Idleness: He loved to live high, but his hands refused to labour; +and what else can the end of such an one be, but that which the wise +man saith? The Drunkard and the Glutton shall come to poverty, and +drowsiness shall cloath a man with rags. {70a} + +Atten. But now, methinks, when he was brought thus low, he should have +considered the hand of God that was gone out against him, and should +have smote upon the breast, and have returned. + +Wise. Consideration, good consideration was far from him, he was as +stout and proud now, as ever in all his life, and was as high too in +the pursuit of his sin, as when he was in the midst of his fulness; +only he went now {70b} like a tyred Jade, the Devil had rid him almost +off of his leggs. + +Atten. Well, but what did he do when all was almost gone? + +Wise. Two things were now his play. {70c} 1. He bore all in hand by +Swearing, and Cracking and Lying, that he was as well to pass, as he +was the first day he set up for himself, yea that he had rather got +than lost; and he had at his beck some of his Companions that would +swear to confirm it as fast as he. + +Atten. This was double wickedness, ’twas a sin to say it, and another +to swear it. + +Wise. That’s true, but what evil is that that he will not doe, that is +left of God, as I believe Mr. Badman was? + +Atten. And what was the other thing? + +Wise. Why, that which I hinted before, he was for looking out for +a rich Wife: {70d} and now I am come to some more of his invented, +devised, designed, and abominable Roguery, such that will yet declare +him to be a most desperate sinner. + +The thing was this: A Wife he wanted, or rather Money; for as for a +woman, he could have Whores enow at his whistle. But, as I said, he +wanted Money, and that must be got by a Wife, or no way; nor could he +so easily get a Wife neither, except he became an Artist at the way +of dissembling; nor would dissembling do among that people that could +dissemble as well as he. But there dwelt a Maid not far from him, that +was both godly, {70e} and one that had a good Portion, but how to get +her, there lay all the craft. {71a} Well, he calls a Council of some +of his most trusty and cunning Companions, {71b} and breaks his mind +to them; to wit, that he had a mind to marry: and he also told them to +whom; But, said he, how shall I accomplish my end, she is Religious, +and I am not? Then one of them made reply, saying, Since she is +Religious, you must pretend to be so likewise, and that for some time +before you go to her: Mark therefore whither she goes daily to hear, +and do you go thither also; but there you must be sure to behave your +self soberly, and make as if you liked the Word wonderful well; stand +also where she may see you, and when you come home, be sure that you +walk the street very soberly, and go within sight of her: This done +for a while, then go to her, and first talk of how sorry you are for +your sins, and shew great love to the Religion that she is of; still +speaking well of her Preachers and of her godly acquaintance, bewailing +your hard hap, that it was not your lot to be acquainted with her and +her fellow-Professors sooner; and this is the way to get her. Also you +must write down Sermons, talk of Scriptures, and protest that you came +a wooing to her, only because she is Godly, and because you should +count it your greatest happiness if you might but have such an one: As +for her Money, slight it, it will be never the further off, that’s the +way to come soonest at it, for she will be jealous at first that you +come for her Money; you know what she has, but make not a word about +it. Do this, and you shall see if you do not intangle the Lass. + +Thus was the snare laid for this poor honest Maid, and she was quickly +catched in his pit. + +Atten. Why, did he take this counsel? + +Wise. Did he! yes, and after a while, went as boldly to her, {71c} and +that under a Vizzard of Religion, as if he had been for Honesty and +Godliness, one of the most sincere and upright-hearted in England. He +observed all his points, and followed the advice of his Counsellers, +and quickly obtained her too; for natural parts he had, he was tall, +and fair, and had plain, but very good Cloaths on his back; and his +Religion was the more easily attained; for he had seen something in the +house of his Father, and first Master, and so could the more readily +put himself into the Form and Shew thereof. + +So he appointed his day, and went to her, as that he might easily +do, for she had neither father nor mother to oppose. Well, when he +was come, and had given her a civil Complement, {72a} to let her +understand why he was come, then he began and told her, That he had +found in his heart a great deal of love to her Person; and that, of +all the Damosels in the world he had pitched upon her, if she thought +fit, to make her his beloved wife. The reasons, as he told her, why he +had pitched upon her were, her Religious and personal Excellencies; +and therefore intreated her to take his condition into her tender and +loving consideration. As for the world, quoth he, I have a very good +trade, and can maintain my self and Family well, while my wife sits +still on her seat; I have got thus, and thus much already, and feel +money come in every day, but that is not the thing that I aim at, ’tis +an honest and godly Wife. Then he would present her with a good Book or +two, pretending how much good he had got by them himself. He would also +be often speaking well of godly Ministers, especially of those that he +perceived she liked, and loved most. Besides, he would be often telling +of her, what a godly Father he had, and what a new man he was also +become himself; and thus did this treacherous Dealer, deal with this +honest and good Girl, to her great grief and sorrow, as afterward you +shall hear. + +Atten. But had the maid no friend to looke after her? + +Wise. Her Father and Mother were dead, and that he knew well enough, +and so she was the more easily overcome by his naughty lying tongue. +But if she had never so many friends, she might have been beguiled by +him. It is too much the custom of young people now, to think themselves +wise enough to make their own Choyce, and that they need not ask +counsel of those that are older and also wiser then they: {72b} but +this is a great fault in them, and many of them have paid dear for it. +Well, to be short, in little time Mr. Badman obtains his desire, {73a} +gets this honest Girl and her money, is married to her, brings her +home, makes a Feast, entertains her royally, but her Portion must pay +for all. + +Atten. This was wonderfull deceitfull doings, a man shall seldom hear +of the like. + +Wise. By this his doing, he shewed how little he feared God, {73b} and +what little dread he had of his Judgments. For all this carriage, and +all these words were by him premeditated evil, he knew he lyed, he knew +he dissembled; yea, he knew that he made use of the name of God, of +Religion, good Men, and good Books, but as a stalking-Horse, thereby +the better to catch his game. In all this his glorious pretense of +Religion, he was but a glorious painted Hypocrite, and hypocrisie is +the highest sin that a poor carnal wretch can attain unto; it is also a +sin that most dareth God, and that also bringeth the greater damnation. +Now was he a whited Wall, now was he a painted Sepulchre; {73c} now +was he a grave that appeared not; for this poor honest, godly Damosel, +little thought that both her peace, and comfort, and estate, and +liberty, and person, and all, were going to her burial, {73d} when she +was going to be married to Mr. Badman; And yet so it was, she enjoyed +her self but little afterwards; she was as if she was dead and buried, +to what she enjoyed before. + +Atten. Certainly some wonderfull Judgment of God must attend and +overtake such wicked men as these. + +Wise. You may be sure that they shall have Judgment to the full, for +all these things, when the day of Judgment is come. But as for Judgment +upon them in this life, it doth not alwayes come, no not upon those +that are worthy thereof. They that tempt God are delivered, and they +that work wickedness are set up: {73e} But they are reserved to the day +of wrath, and then for their wickedness, God will repay them to their +faces. {73f} The wicked is reserved to the day of destruction, they +shall be brought forth to the day of wrath; who shall declare his way +to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done? yet shall he be +brought to the grave, and remain in the tomb. {73g} That is, ordinarily +they escape God’s hand in this life, save only a few Examples are made, +that others may be cautioned, and take warning thereby: But at the day +of Judgment they must be rebuked for their evil with the lashes of +devouring fire. + +Atten. Can you give me no examples of Gods wrath upon men that have +acted this tragical wicked deed Mr. Badman. + +Wise. Yes; {74a} Hamor and Shechem, and all the men of their City, for +attempting to make God and Religion the stalking-Horse to get Jacobs +daughters to wife, were together slain with the edge of the sword. A +Judgment of God upon them, no doubt, for their dissembling in that +matter. All manner of lying and dissembling is dreadfull, but to make +God and Religion a Disguise, therewith to blind thy Dissimulation from +others eyes, is highly provoking to the Divine Majesty. + +[Picture: Take note symbol] I knew one that dwelt not far off from our +Town, that got him a wife as Mr. Badman got his; but he did not enjoy +her long: for one night as he was riding home (from his companions, +where he had been at a neighbouring Town) his horse threw him to the +ground, where he was found dead at break of day; frightfully and +lamentably mangled with his fall, and besmeared with his own blood. + +Atten. Well, but pray return again to Mr. Badman, how did he carry it +to his wife, after he was married to her? + +Wise. Nay, let us take things along as we go. He had not been married +but a little while, but his Creditors came upon him {74c} for their +money: He deferred them a little while, but at last things were come to +that point, that pay he must, or must do worse; so he appointed them a +time, and they came for their money, and he payed them down with her +money before her eyes, for those goods that he had profusely spent +among his Whores long before, (besides the portion that his Father gave +him) to the value of two hundred pounds. + +Atten. This beginning was bad; but what shall I say? ’twas like Mr. +Badman himself. Poor woman, this was but a bad beginning for her, I +fear it filled her with trouble enough, as I think such a beginning +would have done, one, perhaps much stronger than she. + +Wise. Trouble, ay, you may be sure of it, but now ’twas too late to +repent, {75a} she should have looked better to herself, when being wary +would have done her good; her harms may be an advantage to others, that +will learn to take heed thereby; but for her self, she must take what +follows, even such a life now as Mr. Badman her Husband will lead her, +and that will be bad enough. + +Atten. This beginning was bad, and yet I fear it was but the beginning +of bad. + +Wise. You may he sure, that it was but the beginning of badness, for +other evils came on apace; as for instance: it was but a little while +after he was married, {75b} but he hangs his Religion upon the hedge, +or rather dealt with it as men deal with their old Cloaths, who cast +them off, or leave them to others to wear, for his part he would be +Religious no longer. + +Now therefore he had pulled off his Vizzard, and began to shew himself +in his old shape, a base, wicked, debauched fellow, (and now the poor +woman saw that she was betrayed indeed;) now also his old Companions +begin to flock about him, and to haunt his house and Shop as formerly: +And who with them but Mr. Badman? and who with him again but they? + +Now those good people that used to company with his Wife, began to be +ama[t]ed and discouraged; {75c} also he would frown and gloat upon +them, as it he abhorred the appearance of them: so that in little +time he drove all good company from her, and made her sit solitary by +herself. He also began now to go out a nights to those Drabs {75d} +who were his Familiars before, with whom he would stay somtimes till +midnight, and sometimes till almost morning, and then would come home +as drunk as a Swine; and this was the course of Mr. Badman. + +Now, when he came home in this case, if his wife did but speak a word +to him, about where he had been, and why he had so abused himself, +though her words were spoken in never so much meekness and love, then +she was Whore, {76a} and Bitch, and Jade; and ’twas well if she miss’d +his fingers and heels. Sometimes also he would bring his Puncks home to +his house, and wo be to his wife when they were gone, if she did not +entertain them with all varieties possible, and also carry it lovingly +to them. + +Thus this good woman was made by Badman her Husband, to possess nothing +but disappointments as to all that he had promised her, or that she +hoped to have at his hands. + +But that that added pressing weight to all her sorrow, was, that, as +he had cast away all Religion himself, so he attempted, if possible, +to make her do so too. {76b} He would not suffer her to go out to the +Preaching of the Word of Christ, nor to the rest of his Appointments, +for the health and salvation of her Soul: he would now taunt at, and +reflectingly speak of her Preachers; {76c} and would receive, yea raise +scandals of them, to her very great grief and affliction. + +Now she scarce durst go to an honest Neighbours house, or have a good +Book in her hand; specially when he had his companions in his house, or +had got a little drink in his head. He would also, when he perceived +that she was dejected, speak tauntingly, {76d} and mockingly to her in +the presence of his Companions, calling of her his Religious Wife, his +demure Dame, and the like; also he would make a sport of her among his +wanton ones abroad. + +If she did ask him (as sometimes she would) to let her go out to a +Sermon, he would in a currish manner reply, Keep at home, keep at home, +and look to your business, we cannot live by hearing of Sermons. {76e} +If she still urged that he would let her goe, then he would say to +her, Goe if you dare. He would also charge her with giving of what he +had to her Ministers, when, vile wretch, he had spent it on his vain +Companions before. + +This was the life that Mr. Badmans good wife lived, within few months +after he had married her. + +Atten. This was a disappointment indeed. + +Wise. A disappointment indeed, as ever, I think, poor woman had. One +would think that the Knave might a little let her have had her will, +since it was nothing but to be honest, and since she brought him so +sweet, so lumping a Portion, for she brought hundreds into his house: I +say, one would think he should have let her had her own will a little, +since she desired it only in the Service and Worship of God: but could +she win him to grant her that? no, not a bit if it would have saved +her life. True, sometimes she would steal out when he was from home, +on a Journey, or among his drunken companions, but with all privacy +imaginable; {77a} and, poor woman, this advantage she had, she carried +it so to all her Neighbours, that, though many of them were but carnal, +yet they would not betray her, or tell of her going out to the Word, +if they saw it, but would rather endeavour to hide it from Mr. Badman +himself. + +Atten. This carriage of his to her, was enough to break her heart. + +Wise. It was enough to do it indeed, yea it did effectually do it. +It killed her in time, yea it was all the time a killing of her. She +would often-times when she sate by her self, thus mournfully bewail +her condition: {77b} Wo is me that I sojourn in Meshech, and that I +dwell in the tents of Kedar; my soul hath long time dwelt with him that +hateth peace. {77c} O what shall be given unto thee, thou deceitful +tongue? or what shall be done unto thee, thou false tongue? I am a +Woman grieved in spirit, my Husband has bought me and sold me for his +lusts: ’Twas not me, but my Money that he wanted: O that he had had it, +so I had had my liberty! + +This she said, not of contempt of his Person, but of his Conditions, +and because she saw that by his hypocritical tongue, he had brought her +not only almost to beggery, but robbed her of the Word of God. + +Atten. It is a deadly thing, I see, to be unequally yoaked with +Unbelievers. If this woman had had a good Husband, how happily might +they have lived together! Such an one would have prayed for her, taught +her, and also would have encourages her in the Faith, and ways of God: +But now, poor creature, instead of this, there is nothing but the quite +contrary. + +Wise. It is a deadly thing indeed, and therefore, by the Word of +God his people are forbid to be joyned in marriage with them. {77d} +Be not, saith it, unequally yoaked together with unbelievers; for +what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what +communion hath light with darkness? And what Concord hath Christ with +Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an Infidel? And what +agreement hath the Temple of God with Idols? {78a} There can be no +agreement where such Matches are made, even God himself hath declared +the contrary, from the beginning of the world. I (says he) will put +enmity betwixt thee and the woman, betwixt thy seed and her seed. {78b} +Therefore he saith in another place, they can mix no better than Iron +and Clay. I say, they cannot agree, they cannot be one, and therefore +they should be aware at first, and not lightly receive such into their +affections. God has often made such Matches bitter, especially to his +own. Such matches are, as God said of Elie’s Sons that were spared, +to consume the eyes, and to grieve the heart. Oh the wailing, and +lamentation that they have made that have been thus yoaked, especially +if they were such as would be so yoaked, against their light, and good +counsel to the contrary. + +Atten. Alas! he deluded her with his tongue, and feigned reformation. + +Wise. Well, well; she should have gone more warily to work: {78d} +what if she had acquainted some of her best, most knowing, and godly +friends therewith? what if she had engaged a Godly Minister or two to +have talked with Mr. Badman? Also, what if she had laid wait round +about him, to espie if he was not otherwise behind her back than +he was before her face? And besides, I verily think (since in the +multitude of Counsellors there is safety) that if she had acquainted +the Congregation with it, and desired them to spend some time in prayer +to God about it, and if she must have had him, to have received him +as to his godliness, upon the Judgment of others, rather than her +own, (she knowing them to be Godly and Judicious, and unbiassed men) +she had had more peace all her life after; than to trust to her own +poor, raw, womanish Judgment, as she did. Love is blind, and will see +nothing amiss, where others may see an hundred faults. Therefore I say, +she should not have trusted to her own thoughts in the matter of his +Goodness. + +As to his Person, there she was fittest to judge, because she was to +be the person pleased, but as to his Godliness, there the Word was +the fittest Judge, and they that could best understand it, because +God was therein to be pleased. I wish {79a} that all young Maidens +will take heed of being beguiled with flattering words, with feigning +and lying speeches, and take the best way to preserve themselves from +being bought and sold by wicked men, as she was; lest they repent with +her, when (as to this) repentance will do them no good, but for their +unadvisedness goe sorrowing to their graves. + +Atten. Well, things are past with this poor woman, and cannot be called +back, let others {79b} beware, by her misfortunes, lest they also fall +into her distress. + +Wise. That is the thing that I say, let them take heed, lest for +their unadvisedness the smart, as this poor woman has done. And ah! +methinks, that they that yet are single persons, and that are tempted +to marry to such as Mr. Badman; would, to inform, and warn themselves +in this matter, before they intangle themselves, but goe to some that +already are in the snare, and ask them how it is with them, as to the +suitable, or unsuitableness of their marriage, and desire their advice. +Surely they would ring such a peal in their ears about the unequality, +unsuitableness, disadvantages, and disquietments, and sins that attend +such marriages, that would make them beware as long as they live. But +the bird in the air, knows not the notes of the bird in the snare, +untill she comes thither herself: Besides, to make up such marriages, +Satan, and carnal Reason, and Lust, or at least Inconsiderateness, has +the chiefest hand; and where these things bear sway, designs, though +never so destructive, will goe headlong on: and therefore I fear, that +but little warning will be taken by young Girls, at Mr. Badmans wives +affliction. + +Atten. But are there no disswasive arguments to lay before such, to +prevent their future misery. + +Wise. Yes: There is the Law of God, that forbiddeth marriage with +unbelievers. These kind of marriages also are condemned even by +irrational creatures. 1. It is forbidden by the Law of God both in +the Old Testament and in the New. 1. In the Old. Thou shalt not make +Marriages with them; Thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor +his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son, Deut. 7. 4, 5. {80a} 2. In +the New Testament it is forbidden. Be ye not unequally yoaked together +with unbelievers; Let them marry to whom they will, only in the Lord. +{80b} + +Here now is a prohibition, {80c} plainly forbidding the Believer to +marry with the Unbeliever, therefore they should not do it. Again, +these unwarrantable Marriages, are, as I may so say, condemned by +irrational creatures, who will not couple but with their own sort: Will +the Sheep couple with a Dog, the Partridge with a Crow, or the Feasant +with an Owl? No, they will strictly tye up themselves to those of their +own sort only: Yea, it sets all the world a wondring, when they see or +hear the contrary. Man only is most subject to wink at, and allow of +these unlawful mixtures of men and women; Because man only is a sinful +Beast, a sinful Bird, therefore he, above all, will take upon him by +rebellious actions to answer, or rather to oppose and violate the Law +of his God and Creator; nor shall these, or other Interogatories, [What +fellowship? what concord? what agreement? what communion can there +be in such Marriages?] be counted of weight, or thought worth the +answering by him. + +But further. The dangers {80d} that such do commonly run themselves +into, should be to others a disswasive argument to stop them from doing +the like: for besides the distresses of Mr. Badmans wife, many that +have had very hopefull beginnings for heaven, have by vertue of the +mischiefs that have attended these unlawfull marriages, miserably and +fearfully miscarried. Soon after such marriages, Conviction (the first +step toward heaven) hath ceased; Prayer (the next step toward Heaven) +hath ceased; Hungrings and thirstings after salvation (another step +towards the Kingdom of Heaven) have ceased. In a word, such marriages +have estranged them from the Word, from their godly and faithful +Friends, and have brought them again into carnal company, among carnal +Friends, and also into carnal Delights, where, and with whom they have +in conclusion both sinfully abode, and miserably perished. + +And this is one reason why God hath forbidden this kind of unequal +marriages. For they, saith he, meaning the ungodly, will turn away thy +son from following me, that they may serve other Gods, so will the +anger of the Lord be kindled against you, and destroy you suddenly. +{81a} Now mark, there were some in Israel, that would, notwithstanding +this prohibition, venture to marry to the Heathens and Unbelievers: +But what followed? They served their Idols, they sacrificed their Sons +and their Daughters unto Devils. Thus were they defiled with their own +works, and went a whoring with their own Inventions. Therefore was the +wrath of the Lord kindled against his people, insomuch that he abhorred +his own Inheritance. {81b} + +Atten. But let’s return again to Mr. Badman; had he any Children by his +wife? + +Wise. Yes, seven. + +Atten. I doubt they were but badly brought up. + +Wise. One of them loved its Mother dearly, and would constantly harken +to her voice. Now that Child {81c} she had the opportunity to instruct +in the Principles of Christian Religion, and it became a very gracious +child. But that child Mr. Badman could not abide, he would seldom +afford it a pleasant word, but would scowl and frown upon it, speak +churlishly and doggedly to it, and though as to Nature it was the most +feeble of the seven, yet it oftenest felt the weight of its Fathers +fingers. Three of his Children did directly follow his steps, and began +to be as vile as (in his youth) he was himself. The other that remained +became a kind of mungrel Professors, not so bad as their Father, nor +so good as their Mother, but were betwixt them both. They had their +Mothers Notions, and their Fathers Actions, and were much like those +that you read of in the Book of Nehemiah; These children spake half in +the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews Language, but +according to the language of each people. {81d} + +Atten. What you say in this matter, is observable, and if I take not my +mark amiss, it often happeneth after this manner where such unlawful +Marriages are contracted. + +Wise. It sometimes doth so, and the reason, with respect to their +Parents, is this: Where the one of the Parents is godly, and the other +ungodly and vile, (though they can agree in begetting of Children, +yet) they strive for their Children when they are born. {82a} The +godly Parent strives for the child, and by Prayers, Counsel and good +Examples, labours to make it holy in body and soul, and so fit for the +Kingdom of Heaven; but the ungodly would have it like himself, wicked +and base and sinful; and so they both give instructions accordingly: +instructions did I say? yea, and Examples too, according to their +minds. Thus the godly, as Hannah, is presenting her Samuel unto the +Lord: but the ungodly, like them that went before them, are for +offering their Children to Moloch, to an Idol, to sin, to the Devil, +and to Hell. Thus one harkeneth to the Law of their Mother, and is +preserved from destruction, but as for the other, as their Fathers +did, so do they. Thus did Mr. Badman and his wife part some of their +Children betwixt them; but as for the other three that were as ’twere +Mungrels, betwixt both, they were like unto those that you read of in +Kings, They feared the Lord, but served their own Idols. {82b} They +had, as I sail, their Mothers Notions, and I will adde, Profession +too, but their Fathers Lusts, and something of his Life. Now their +Father did not like them, because they had their Mothers tongue; and +the Mother did not like them because they had still their Fathers +heart and life; nor were they indeed fit company for good or bad. The +Good would not trust them because they were bad, the Bad would not +trust them because they were good, viz. The good would not trust them +because they were bad in their Lives, and the bad would not trust them +because they were good in their Words: So they were forced with Esau to +joyn in affinity with Ishmael; to wit, to look out a people that were +Hypocrites like themselves, and with them they matcht, and lived and +died. + +Atten. Poor woman, she could not but have much perplexity. + +Wise. Yea, and poor Children, that ever they were sent into the world +as the fruit of the loyns, and under the government of such a father as +Mr. Badman. + +Atten. You say right, for such children, lye, almost under all manner +of disadvantages: but we must say nothing, because this also is the +sovereign Will of God. + +Wise. We may not by any means object against God: yet we may talk of +the advantages, and disadvantages that Children have by having for +their Parents such as are either Godly, or the contrary. + +Atten. You say right, we may so, and pray now, since we are about it, +speak something in brief unto it, that is, unto this; What advantage +those Children have above others, that have for their Parents such as +indeed are Godly. + +Wise. So I will, only I must first premise these two or three things. +{83a} + +1. They have not the advantage of Election for their fathers sakes. + +2. They are born, as others, the children of wrath, though they come of +Godly Parents. + +3. Grace comes not unto them as an Inheritance, because they have Godly +Parents. These things premised I shall now proceed. + +1. The children of Godly Parents are the children of many Prayers: they +are prayed for before, and Prayed for after they are born, and the +Prayer of a godly Father and godly Mother doth much. + +2. They have the advantage of what restraint is possible, from what +evils their Parents see them inclinable to, and that is a second mercy. + +3. They have the advantage of Godly instruction, and of being told +which be, and which be not the right ways of the Lord. + +4. They have also those ways commended unto them, and spoken well of in +their hearing, that are good. + +5. Such are also, what may be, kept out of evil company, from evil +Books, and from being taught the way of Swearing, Lying, and the like, +as Sabbath-breaking, and mocking at good men, and good things, and this +is a very great mercy. + +6. They have also the benefit of a godly life set before them +doctrinally by their Parents, and that doctrine backt with a godly and +holy example: and all these are very great advantages. + +Now all these advantages, the children of ungodly Parents want; {84a} +and so are more in danger of being carried away with the error of the +wicked. For ungodly Parents neither Pray for their Children, nor do, +nor can they heartily instruct them; they do not after a godly manner +restrain them from evil, nor do they keep them from evil company. They +are not grieved at, nor yet do they forewarn their children to beware +of such evil actions that are abomination to God, and to all good +men. They let their children break the Sabbath, swear, lye, be wicked +and vain. They commend not to their children an holy life, nor set a +good example before their eyes. No, they do in all things contrary: +Estranging of their children what they can, from the love of God and +all good men, so soon as they are born. Therefore it is a very great +Judgment of God upon children to be the Offspring of base and ungodly +men. {84b} + +Atten. Well, but before we leave Mr. Badmans wife and children, I have +a mind, if you please, to enquire a little more after one thing, the +which I am sure you can satisfie me in. + +Wise. What is that? + +Atten. You said a while ago, that this Mr. Badman would not suffer his +wife to go out to hear such godly Ministers as she liked, but said if +she did, she had as good never come home any more. Did he often carry +it thus to her? + +Wise. He did say so, he did often say so. This I told you then, and had +also then told you more, but that other things put me out. + +Atten. Well said, pray therefore now go on. + +Wise. So I will. Upon a time, she was on a Lords day for going to hear +a Sermon, and Mr. Badman was unwilling {84c} she should: but she at +that time, as it seems, did put on more courage than she was wont; and +therefore, after she had spent upon him, a great many fair words and +entreaties, if perhaps she might have prevailed by them, but all to no +purpose at all: At last she said she would go, and rendred this reason +for it; I have an Husband, but also a God; my God has commanded me, and +that upon pain of damnation, to be a continual Worshipper of him, and +that in the way of his own Appointments: I have an Husband, but also a +Soul, and my Soul ought to be more unto me, than all the world besides. +This soul of mine I will look after, care for, and (if I can) provide +it an Heaven for its habitation. You are commanded to love me, as you +love your own body, and so do I love you; {85a} but I tell you true, I +preferr my Soul before all the world, and its Salvation I will seek. + +At this, first, {85b} he gave her an ugly wish, and then fell into a +fearfull rage, and sware moreover that if she did go, he would make +both her, and all her damnable Brotherhood (for so he was pleased to +call them) to repent their coming thither. + +Atten. But what should he mean by that? + +Wise. You may easily guess what he meant: he meant, he would turn +Informer, and so either weary out those that she loved, from meeting +together to Worship God; or make them pay dearly for their so doing; +the which if he did, he knew it would vex every vein of her tender +heart. + +Atten. But do you think Mr. Badman would have been so base? + +Wise. Truly he had malice, and enmity enough in his heart to do it, +onely he was a Tradesman; also he knew that he must live by his +neighbours, and so he had that little wit in his anger, that he +refrained himself, and did it not. But, as I said, he had malice and +envy enough in his heart {85c} to have made him to do it, only he +thought it would worst him in his trade: yet these three things he +would be doing. + +1. He would be putting of others on to molest and abuse her friends. + +2. He would be glad when he heard that any mischief befell them. + +3. And would laugh at her, when he saw her troubled for them. And now I +have told you Mr. Badmans way as to this. + +Atten. But was he not afraid of the Judgments of God, that did fly +about at that time? + +Wise. He regarded not the Judgment nor Mercy of God, for had he at all +done that, he could not have done as he did. But what Judgments do you +mean? + +Atten. Such Judgments, that if Mr Badman himself had taken but sober +notice of, they might have made him a hung down his ears. + +Wise. Why, have you heard of any such persons that the Judgments of God +have overtaken. + +Atten. Yes, and so, I believe, have you too, though you make so strange +about it. + +Wise. I have so indeed, to my astonishment and wonder. + +Atten. Pray, therefore, if you please, tell me what it is, as to this, +that you know; and then, perhaps, I may also say something to you of +the same. + +Wise. [Picture: Take note symbol] In {86} our Town there was one +W. S. a man of a very wicked life; and he, when there seemed to be +countenance given to it, would needs turn Informer. Well, so he did, +and was as diligent in his business as most of them could be; he would +watch a nights, climb Trees, and range the Woods a days, if possible, +to find out the Meeters, for then they were forced to meet in the +Fields: yea, he would curse them bitterly, and swear most fearfully +what he would do to them when he found them. Well, after he had gone on +like a Bedlam in his course a while, and had done some mischiefs to the +people, he was stricken by the hand of God, and that in this manner. + +1. Although he had his tongue naturally at will, now he was taken with +a faultering in his speech, and could not for weeks together speak +otherwise, than just like a man that was drunk. + +2. Then he was taken with a drauling, or slabbering at his mouth, which +slabber sometimes would hang at his mouth well nigh half way down to +the ground. + +3. Then he had such a weakness in the back sinews of his Neck, that oft +times he could not look up before him, unless he clapped his hand hard +upon his forehead, and held up his head that way, by strength of hand. + +4. After this his speech went quite away, and he could speak no more +than a Swine or a Bear. Therefore, like one of them, he would gruntle +and make an ugly noyse, according as he was offended, or pleased, or +would have any thing done, &c. + +In this posture he continued for the space of half a year, or +thereabouts, all the while otherwise well, and could go about his +business, save once that he had a fall from the Bell as it hangs in +our Steeple, which ’twas a wonder it did not kill him: But after that +he also walked about, till God had made him a sufficient spectacle of +his Judgment for his sin, and then on a sudden he was stricken and dyed +miserably: and so there was an end of him and his doings. + +I will tell you of another. [Picture: Take note symbol] About four +miles from St. Neots, there was a Gentleman had a man, and he would +needs be an Informer, and a lusty young man he was. Well, an Informer +he was, and did much distress some people, and had perfected his +Informations so effectually against some, that there was nothing +further to do, but for the Constables to make distress on the people, +that he might have the Money or Goods; and as I heard, he hastened them +much to do it. Now while he was in the heat of his work, as he stood +one day by the Fire-side, he had (it should seem) a mind to a Sop in +the Pan, (for the Spit was then at the fire,) so he went to make him +one; but behold, a Dog (so say his own Dog) took distaste at something, +and bit his Master by the Leg; the which bite, notwithstanding all the +means that was used to cure him, turned (as was said) to a Gangrene; +however, that wound was his death, and that a dreadful one too: for my +Relator said, that he lay in such a condition by this bite, (as the +beginning) till his flesh rotted from off him before he went out of +the world. But what need I instance in particular persons, when the +Judgement of God against this kind of people was made manifest, I think +I may say, if not in all, yet in most of the Counties in England where +such poor Creatures were. But I would, if it had been the will of God, +that neither I nor any body else, could tell you more of these Stories: +True stories, that are neither Lye, nor Romance. + +Atten. Well, I also heard of both these my self, and of more too, as +remarkable in their kind as these, if I had any list to tell them: +but let us leave those that are behind to others, or to the coming of +Christ, who then will justifie or condemn them as the merit of their +work shall require; or if they repented, and found mercy, I shall be +glad when I know it, for I wish not a curse to the Soul of mine Enemy. + +Wise. There can be no pleasure in the telling of such stories, though +to hear of them may do us a pleasure: They may put us in mind that +there is a God that judgeth in the earth, and that doth not alwayes +forget nor deferre to hear the Crye of the destitute; They also +carry along with them both Caution and Counsel to those that are the +survivors of such. Let us tremble at the Judgements of God, and be +afraid of sinning against him, and it shall be our protection. It shall +go well with them that fear God, that fear before him. + +Atten. Well Sir, as you have intimated, so I think we have in this +place spoken enough about these kind of men; if you please, let us +return again to Mr. Badman himself, if you have any more to say of him. + +Wise. More! we have yet scarce throughly begun with Any thing that we +have said. All the particulars are in themselves so full of badness, +that we have rather only looked in them, than indeed said any thing to +them: but we will pass them, and proceed. You have heard of the sins +of his Youth, of his Apprentiship, and how he set up, and married, and +what a life he hath led his wife; and now I will tell you some more +{88a} of his pranks. He had the very knack of Knavery; had he, as I +said before, been bound to serve an Apprentiship to all these things, +he could not have been more cunning, he could not have been more +artificial at it. + +Atten. Nor perhaps so artificially neither. For as none can teach +Goodness like to God himself, so concerning Sin and Knavery, none can +teach a man it like the Devil, to whom, as I perceive, Mr. Badman went +to School from his Childhood to the end of his life. But pray Sir, make +a beginning. + +Wise. Well so I will. You may remember that I told you what a condition +he was in for Money before he did marry, and how he got a rich Wife, +with whose Money he paid his debts: Now when he had paid his debts, he +having some Moneys left, he sets up again {88b} as briskly as ever, +keeps a great Shop, drives a great Trade, and runs again a great way +into debt; but now not into the debt of one or two, but into the debt +of many, so that at last he came to owe some thousands; and thus he +went on a good while. And to pursue his ends the better, he began now +to study to please all men, and to suit himself to any company; he +could now be as they, say as they, that is, if he listed; and then he +would list, when he perceived that by so doing, he might either make +them his Customers or Creditors for his Commodities. If he dealt with +honest men, (as with some honest men he did) then he would be as they; +talk as they, seem to be sober as they, talk of Justice and Religion as +they, and against Debauchery as they; yea, and would too seem to shew a +dislike of them that said, did, or were otherwise than honest. + +Again, when he did light among those that were bad, then he would be +as they, but yet more close and cautiously, except he were sure of his +company: Then he would carry it openly, be as they; say, Damn’em and +Sink’em, as they. If they railed on Good men, so could he; {89} if +they railed on Religion, so could he: if they talked beastly, vainly, +idlely, so would he; if they were for drinking, swearing, whoring, or +any the like Villanies, so was he. This was now the path he trod in, +and could do all artificially, as any man alive. And now he thought +himself a perfect man, he thought he was always a Boy till now. What +think you now of Mr. Badman? + +Atten. Think! why, I think he was an Atheist: For no man but an Atheist +can do this. I say, it cannot be, but that the man that is such as this +Mr. Badman, must be a rank and stinking Atheist; for he that believes +that there is either God or Devil, Heaven or Hell, or Death, and +Judgment after, cannot doe as Mr. Badman did; I mean, if he could do +these things without reluctancy and check of Conscience; yea, if he had +not sorrow and remorse for such abominable sins as these. + +Wise. Nay, he was so far off from reluctancies and remorse of +Conscience for these things, that he counted them the excellency of +his Attainments, the quintessence of his Wit, his rare and singular +vertues, such as but few besides himself could be the Masters of. +Therefore, as for those that made boggle and stop at things, and that +could not in Conscience, and for fear of Death and Judgement, do such +things as he; he would call them Fools and Noddies, and charge them for +being frighted with the talk of unseen Bugbears; and would encourage +them, if they would be men indeed, to labour after the attainment of +this his excellent art. He would often-times please himself {90a} with +the thoughts of what he could do in this matter, saying within himself; +I can be religious, and irreligious, I can be any thing, or nothing; +I can swear, and speak against swearing; I can lye, and speak against +lying; I can drink, wench, be unclean, and defraud, and not be troubled +for it: Now I enjoy my self, and am Master of mine own wayes, and not +they of me. This I have attained with much study, great care, and more +pains. But this his talk should be only with himself, to his wife, who +he knew durst not divulge it; or among his Intimates, to whom he knew +he might say any thing. + +Atten. Did I call him before an Atheist? I may call him now a Devil, or +a man possessed with one, if not with many. I think that there cannot +be found in every corner such an one as this. True, it is said of King +Ahaz, that he sinned more and more; and of Ahab, that he sold himself +to work wickedness; and of the men of Sodom, that they were sinners +exceedingly before the Lord. {90b} + +Wise. An Atheist he was no doubt, if there be such a thing as an +Atheist in the world, but for all his brags of perfection and security +in his wickedness, I believe that at times God did let down fire from +Heaven into his Conscience. True, I believe he would quickly put it +out again, and grow more desperate and wicked afterward, but this also +turned to his destruction, as afterward you may hear. {90c} + +But I am not of your mind, to think that there are but few such in +the world; except you mean as to the Degree of wickedness unto which +he had attained. For otherwise, no doubt, {90d} there is abundance of +such as he: men of the same mind, of the same principles, and of the +same conscience too, to put them into practice. Yea, I believe that +there are many that are endeavouring to attain to the same pitch of +wickedness; and all them are such as he, in the Judgment of the Law; +nor will their want of hellish wit to attain thereto, excuse them at +the day of Judgment. You know that in all Science, some are more arch +than some; and so it is in the art, as well as in the practice of +wickedness: some are two-fold, and some seven-fold more the children +of Hell than others, (and yet all the children of Hell,) else they +would all be Masters, and none scholars in the school of wickedness. +But there must be Masters, and there must be Learners; Mr. Badman was +a master in this art, and therefore it follows that he must be an arch +and chief one in that mystery. + +Atten. You are in the right, for I perceive that some men, though they +desire it, cannot be so arch in the practice thereof as others, but are +(as I suppose they call them) fools and dunces to the rest, their heads +and capacities will not serve them to act and do so wickedly. But Mr. +Badman wanted not a wicked head to contrive, as well as a wicked heart +to do his wickedness. + +Wise. True, but yet I say, such men shall at the day of Judgment, be +judged, not only for what they are, but also for what they would be. +For if the thought of foolishness is sin, {91a} doubtless the desire +of foolishness is more sin: and if the desire be more, the endeavour +after it must needs be more and more. {91b} He then that is not an +artificial Atheist and Transgressor, yet if he desires to be so, if he +endeavoureth to be so, he shall be Judged and condemned to Hell for +such an one. For the Law Judgeth men, as I said, according to what +they would be. He that looketh upon a woman to lust after her, hath +committed adultery with her already in his heart. {91c} By the same +rule, he that would steal, doth steal; he that would cheat, doth cheat; +he that would swear, doth swear; and he that would commit adultery, +doth do so. For God Judgeth men according to the working of their +minds, and saith; As he thinketh, so is he. That is, so is he in his +heart, in his intentions, in his desires, in his endeavours; and Gods +Law, I say, lays hold of the desires, intentions and endeavours, even +as it lays hold of the act of wickedness it self. {91d} A man then that +desires to be as bad as Mr. Badman, (and desires to be so wicked have +many in their hearts) though he never attains to that proficiency in +wickedness as he, shall yet be Judged for as bad a man as he, because +’twas in his desires to be such a wicked one. + +Atten. But this height of wickedness in Mr. Badman, will not yet out +of my mind. This hard, desperate, or what shall I call it, diabolicall +frame of heart, was in him a foundation, a ground-work, to all acts and +deeds that were evil. + +Wise. The heart, and the desperate wickedness of it, is the foundation +and groundwork of all. Atheism, professed and practicall, spring both +out of the heart, yea and all manner of evils besides. {92a} For they +be not bad deeds that make a bad man, but he is already a bad man that +doth bad deeds. A man must be wicked before he can do wickedness. {92b} +Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked. ’Tis an evil tree that bears +evil fruit, men gather no grapes of thorns; the heart therefore must be +evil, before the man can do evil, and good before the man doth good. + +Atten. Now I see the reason why Mr. Badman was so base, as to get a +Wife by dissimulation, and to abuse her so like a Villain when he had +got her, it was because he was before by a wicked heart prepared to act +wickedness. + +Wise. You may be sure of it; for from within, out of the heart of +man proccedeth evil thoughts, Adulteries, Fornications, Murders, +Thefts, Coveteousness, Wickedness, Deceit, Lasciviousness, an evil +Eye, Blasphemy, Pride, Foolishness. All these things come from within, +and defile a man. {92c} And a man, as his naughty mind inclines him, +makes use of these, or any of these, to gratifie his lust, to promote +his designs, to revenge his malice, to enrich, or to wallow himself +in the foolish pleasures and pastimes of this life: And all these did +Mr. Badman do, even to the utmost, if either opportunity, or purse, or +perfidiousness, would help him to the obtaining of his purpose. + +Atten. Purse! Why he could not but have Purse to do almost what he +would, having married a wife with so much money. + +Wise. Hold you there; some of Mr. Badmans sins were costly, as his +drinking, and whoring, and keeping other bad company; though he was a +man that had ways too many to get money, as well as ways too many to +spend it. + +Atten. Had he then such a good Trade, for all he was such a bad man? or +was his Calling so gainfull to him, as alwayes to keep his Purses belly +full, though he was himself a great spender? + +Wise. No: It was not his Trade that did it, though he had a pretty +trade too. He had another way to get Money, and that by hatfulls and +pocketfulls at a time. + +Atten. Why I trow he was no Highway man, was he? + +Wise. I will be sparing in my speech as to that, though some have +muttered as if he could ride out now and then, about no body but +himself knew what, over night, and come home all dirty and weary next +morning. But that is not the thing I aim at. + +Atten. Pray let me know it, if you think it convenient that I should. + +Wise. I will tell you: It was this, he had an art to Break, {93a} and +get hatfulls of money by breaking. + +Atten. But what do you mean by Mr. Badmans Breaking? you speak +mystically, do you not? + +Wise. No, no, I speak plainly. Or, if you will have it in plainer +language, ’tis this: When Mr. Badman had swaggered and whored away +most of his wifes portion, he began to feel that he could not much +longer stand upon his legs in this course of life, and keep up his +Trade and Repute (such as he had) in the world; but by the new Engine +of Breaking. Wherefore, upon a time, he gives a great, and sudden +{93b} rush into several mens debts, to the value of about four or five +thousand pound, driving at the same time a very great trade, by selling +many things for less than they cost him, to get him custom, therewith +to blind his Creditors eyes. His Creditors therefore feeling that he +had a great employ, and dreaming that it must needs at length turn +to a very good account to them, trusted him freely without mistrust, +and so did others too, to the value of what was mentioned before. +Well, when Mr. Badman had well feathered his Nest with other mens +goods and money, after a little time {93c} he breaks. And by and by +it is noysed abroad that Mr. Badman had shut up Shop, was gone, and +could trade no longer. Now, by that time his breaking was come to his +Creditors ears, he had by Craft and Knavery made so sure of what he +had, that his Creditors could not touch a penny. Well, when he had +done, he sends his mournfull sugered letters to his Creditors, to let +them understand what had happened unto him, and desired them not to +be severe with him; {94a} for he bore towards all men an honest mind, +and would pay so far as he was able. Now he sends his letters by a man +{94b} confederate with him, who could make both the worst, and best +of Mr. Badmans case: The best for Mr. Badman, and the worst for his +Creditors. So when he comes to them, he both bemoans them, and condoles +Mr. Badmans condition: Telling of them, that without a speedy bringing +of things to a conclusion, Mr. Badman would be able to make them no +satisfaction, but at present he both could, and would, and that to the +utmost of his power: and to that end, he desired that they would come +over to him. Well, his Creditors appoint him a time, and come over; and +he, mean while, authorizes another to treat with them, but will not +be seen himself, unless it was on a Sunday, lest they should snap him +with a Writ. So his deputed friend treats with them about their concern +with Mr. Badman, first telling them of the great care that Mr. Badman +took to satisfie them and all men for whatsoever he ought, as far as +in him lay, and, how little he thought a while since to be in this low +condition. He pleaded also the greatness of his Charge, the greatness +of Taxes, the Badness of the times, and the great Losses that he had +by many of his customers, some of which died in his debt, others were +run away, and for many that were alive, he never expected a farthi[n]g +from them. Yet nevertheless he would shew himself an honest man, and +would pay as far as he was able; and if they were willing to come to +terms, he would make a composition with them, (for he was not able to +pay them all.) The Creditors asked what he would give? {94c} ’Twas +replyed, Half a crown in the pound. At this they began to huff, and he +to renew his complaint and entreaty; but the Creditors would not hear, +and so for that time their meeting without success broke up. But after +his Creditors were in cool blood, and admitting of second thoughts, and +fearing lest delays should make them lose all, they admit of a second +debate, come together again, and by many words, and great ado, they +obtained five shillings i’th’ pound. {94d} So the money was produced, +Releases and Discharges drawn, signed, and sealed, Books crossed, and +all things confirmed; and then Mr. Badman can put his head out of +dores again, and be a better man than when he shut up Shop, by several +thousands of pounds. + +Atten. And did he do thus indeed? + +Wise, Yes, once, and again. I think he brake twice or thrice. + +Atten. And did he do it before he had need to do it? + +Wise. Need! What do you mean by need? there is no need at any time for +a man to play the knave. {95} He did it of a wicked mind, to defraud +and beguile his Creditors: he had wherewithall of his Father, and also +by his Wife, to have lived upon, with lawfull labour, like an honest +man. He had also when he made this wicked Break (though he had been +a profuse and prodigal spender) to have paid his creditors their own +to a farthing. But had he done so, he had not done like himself, like +Mr. Badman; had he, I say, dealt like an honest man, he had then gone +out of Mr. Badmans road. He did it therefore of a dishonest mind, and +to a wicked end; to wit, that he might have wherewithall, howsoever +unlawfully gotten, to follow his Cups and Queans, and to live in the +full swinge of his lusts, even as he did before. + +Atten. Why this was a meer Cheat. + +Wise. It was a cheat indeed. This way of breaking, it is else but a +more neat way of Thieving, of picking of pockets, of breaking open of +shops, and of taking from men what one has nothing to do with. But +though it seem easie, it is hard to learn, no man that has conscience +to God or man, can ever be his Crafts Master in this Hellish art. + +Atten. Oh! Sirs! what a wicked man was this? + +Wise. A wicked man indeed. By this art he could tell how to make men +send their goods to his shop, and then be glad to take a penny for that +for which he had promised before it came thither, to give them a Groat: +I say, he could make them glad to take a Crown for a pounds worth, and +a thousand for that for which he had promised before to give them four +thousand pounds. + +Atten. This argueth that Mr. Badman had but little conscience. + +Wise. This argued that Mr. Badman had No Conscience at all; for +Conscience, the least spark of a good Conscience cannot endure this. + +Atten. Before we go any further in Mr. Badmans matters, let me desire +you, if you please, to give me an answer to these two questions. {96a} + +1. What do you find in the Word of God against such a practice, as this +of Mr. Badmans is? {96b} + +2. What would you have a man do that is in his Creditors debt, and can +neither pay him what he owes him, nor go on in a trade any longer? + +Wise. I will answer you as well as I can. And first to the first of +your questions. To wit, What I find in the Word of God against such a +practice, as this of Mr. Badmans is. + +Answ. The Word of God doth forbid this wickedness; and to make it the +more odious in our eyes, it joyns it with Theft and Robbery: Thou shalt +not, says God, defraud thy neighbour, nor rob him. {96c} Thou shalt +not defraud, that is, deceive or beguile. Now thus to break, is to +defraud, deceive and beguile; which is, as you see, forbidden by the +God of Heaven: Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, nor rob him. It is +a kind of theft and robbery, thus to defraud, and beguile. {96d} It is +a wilely robbing of his shop, and picking of his pocket: a thing odious +to Reason and Conscience, and contrary to the Law of nature. It is a +designed piece of wickedness, and therefore a double sin. A man cannot +do this great wickedness on a sudden, and through a violent assault +of Satan. He that will commit this sin, must have time to deliberate, +that by invention, he may make it formidable, and that with lies and +high dissimulations. He that commits this wickedness, must first hatch +it upon his bed, beat his head about it, and lay his plot strong: So +that to the completing of such a wickedness, there must be adjoyned +many sins, and they too, must go hand in hand untill it be compleated. +But what saith the Scripture? {96e}{96f} Let no man go beyond, and +defraud his Brother in any matter, because the Lord is the avenger +of all such. But this kind of Breaking is a going beyond my Brother; +This is a compassing of him about that I may catch him in my net; and +as I said, an art to rob my Brother, and to pick his pocket, and that +with his consent. Which doth not therefore mitigate, but so much the +more greaten and make odious the offence. For men that are thus wilily +abused cannot help themselves, they are taken in a deceitfull net. But +God will here concern himself, he will be the avenger, he will be the +avenger of all such either here or in another world. + +And this, the Apostle testifies again, where he saith; {97a} But he +that doth wrong, shall receive for the wrong that he hath done, and +there is no respect of persons. {97b} That is, there is no man, be he +what he will, if he will be guilty of this sin, of going beyond, of +beguiling of, and doing wrong to his Brother, but God will call him +to an account for it, and will pay him with vengeance for it too; for +there is no respect of persons. + +I might add, that this sin of wronging, of going beyond, and defrauding +of my Neighbour, it is like that first prank that the Devil plaid with +our first Parents, {97c} (as the Altar that Uriah built for Ahaz, was +taken from the fashion of that that stood at Damascus, to be the very +pattern of it.) The Serpent beguiled me, says Eve; Mr. Badman beguiles +his Creditors. The Serpent beguiled Eve with lying promises of gain; +and so did Mr. Badman beguile his Creditors. The Serpent said one thing +and meant another, when he beguiled Eve; and so did Mr. Badman when he +beguiled his Creditors. + +That man therefore that doth thus deceive and beguile his neighbour, +imitateth the Devil; he taketh his examples from him, and not from God, +the Word, or good men: and this did Mr. Badman. + +And now to your second question: To wit, What I would have a man do, +that is in his Creditors debt, and that can neither pay him, nor go on +in a trade any longer? {97d} + +Answ. First of all. If this be his case, and he knows it, let him not +run one penny further in his Creditors debt. For that cannot be done +with good conscience. He that knowes he cannot pay, and yet will run +into debt; does knowingly wrong and defraud his neighbour, and falls +under that sentence of the Word of God, The wicked borroweth and payeth +not again. Yea worse, he borrows though at the very same time he knows +that he cannot pay again. He doth also craftily take away what is his +Neighbours. That is therefore the first thing that I would propound to +such: Let him not run any further into his Creditors debt. {98a} + +Secondly, After this, let him consider, {98b} how, and by what means +he was brought into such a condition, that he could not pay his just +debts. To wit, whether it was by his own remisness in his Calling, by +living too high in Dyet or Apparel, by lending too ravishingly that +which was none of his own, to his loss; or whether by the immediate +hand and Judgment of God. + +If by searching, he findes, that this is come upon him through +remisness in his Calling, Extravagancies in his Family, or the like; +let him labour for a sence of his sin and wickedness, {98c} for he has +sinned against the Lord: First, in his being slothfull in business, +and in not providing, to wit, of is own, by the sweat of his brows, +or other honest ways, for those of his own house. {98d} And secondly +in being lavishing in Dyet and Apparel in the Family, or in lending +to others that which was none of his own. This cannot be done with +good conscience: it is both against reason and nature, and therefore +must be a sin against God. I say therefore, if thus this debtor hath +done, if ever he would live quietly in conscience, and comfortably in +his condition for the future, let him humble himself before God, and +repent of this his wickedness. For he that is slothfull in his work, +is brother to him that is a great waster. {98e} To be slothfull and a +waster too, is to be as it were a double sinner. + +But again, as this man should enquire into these things, so he should +also into this. How came I into this way of dealing in which I have +now miscarried? is it a way that my Parents brought me up in, put me +Apprentice to, or that by providence I was first thrust into? or is it +a way into which I have twisted my self, as not being contented with my +first lot, that by God and my Parents I was cast into? This ought duly +to be considered. {98f} And if upon search, a man shall find that he is +out of the place and Calling into which he was put by his Parents, or +the Providence of God, and has miscarried in a new way, that through +pride and dislike of his first state he as chose rather to embrace; +his miscarriage is his sin, the fruit of his Pride, and a token of the +Judgment of God upon him for his leaving of his first state. And for +this he ought, as for the former, to be humble and penitent before the +Lord. + +But if by search, {99a} he finds, that his poverty came by none of +these; if by honest search, he finds it so, and can say with good +conscience, I went not out of my place and state in which God by his +providence had put me; but have abode with God in the calling wherein +I was called, and have wrought hard, and fared meanly, been civilly +apparelled, and have not directly, nor indirectly made away with my +Creditors goods: Then has his fall come upon him by the immediate hand +of God, whether by visible or invisible wayes. For sometimes it comes +by visible wayes, to wit, by Fire, by Thieves, by loss of Cattel, or +the wickedness of sinful dealers, &c. And sometimes by means invisible, +and then no man knows how; we only see things are going, but cannot see +by what way they go. Well, Now suppose that a man, by an immediate hand +of God is brought to a morsel of Bread, what must he do now? {99b} + +I answer: His surest way is still to think, that this is the fruit of +some sin, though possibly not sin in the management of his calling, +yet of some other sin. God casteth away the substance of the wicked. +Therefore let him still humble himself before his God, because his hand +is upon him, and say, What sin is this, for which this hand of God is +upon me? and let him be diligent to find it out, for some sin is the +cause of this Judgment; for God doth not willingly afflict nor grieve +the children of men. Either the heart is too much set upon the world, +or Religion is too much neglected in thy Family, or some thing. There +is a Snake in the grass, a Worm in the gourd; some sin in thy bosom, +for the sake of which God doth thus deal with thee. + +Thirdly, This thus done, let that man again consider thus with himself: +Perhaps God is now changing of my Condition and state in the world; +he has let me live in fashion, in fulness, and abundance of worldly +glory, and I did not to his glory improve, as I should, that his good +dispensation to me. {100a} But when I lived in full and fat pasture, +I did there lift up the heel: Therefore he will now turn me into hard +Commons, that with leanness, and hunger, and meanness, and want, I may +spend the rest of my days. But let him do this without murmering, and +repining; let him do it in a godly manner, submitting himself to the +Judgment of God. Let the rich rejoyce in that he is made low. {100b} + +This is duty, and it may be priviledg to those that are under this hand +of God. And for thy encouragement to this hard work, (for this is a +hard work) consider of these four things. {100c} + +1. This is right lying down under Gods hand, and the way to be exalted +in Gods time: when God would have Job embrace the Dunghill, he embraces +it, and says, The Lord giveth, and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be +the name of the Lord. {100d} + +2. Consider, That there are blessings also that attend a low condition, +more than all the world are aware of. A poor condition has preventing +mercy attending of it. The poor, because they are poor, are not capable +of sinning against God as the rich man does. + +3. The Poor can more clearly see himself preserved by the providence +of God than the rich, for he trusteth in the abundance of his riches. +{100e} + +4. It may be God has made thee poor, because he would make thee rich. +Hearken my beloved brethren, hath not God chosen the poor of this +world, rich in Faith, and heirs of a Kingdom which God hath promised to +them that love him? {100f} + +I am perswaded, if men upon whom this hand of God is, would thus +quietly lye down, and humble themselves under it, they would find more +peace, yea, more blessing of God attending them in it, than the most of +men are aware of. But this is an hard Chapter, and therefore I do not +expect that many should either read it with pleasure, or desire to take +my counsel. + +Having thus spoken to the Broken man, with reference to his own self; I +will now speak to him as he stands related to his Creditors. + +In the next place therefore, let him fall upon the most {101a} honest +way of dealing with his Creditors, and that I think must be this. + +First, Let him timely make them acquainted with his condition, and also +do to them these three things. + +1. Let him heartily, and unfeignedly ask them forgiveness for the wrong +that he has done them. + +2. Let him proffer them all, and the whole all that ever he has in the +world; let him hide nothing, let him strip himself to his raiment for +them; let him not keep a Ring, a Spoon, or any thing from them. + +3. If none of these two will satisfie them, let him proffer them his +Body, to be at their dispose, to wit, either to abide imprisonment +their pleasure, or to be at their service, till by labour and travel he +hath made them such amends as they in reason think fit, (only reserving +something for the succour of his poor and distressed Family out of +his labour, which in Reason, and Conscience, and Nature, he is bound +also to take care of:) Thus shall he make them what amends he is able, +for the Wrong that he hath done them in wasting and spending of their +Estates. + +By thus doing, he submits himself to Gods rod, commits himself to the +dispose of his Providence; yea, by thus doing, he casteth the lot of +his present and future condition into the lap of his Creditors, and +leaves the whole dispose thereof to the Lord, {101b} even as he shall +order and incline their hearts to do with him. And let that be either +to forgive him; or to take that which he hath for satisfaction; or to +lay his body under affliction, this way or that, according to Law; +can he, I say, thus leave the whole dispose to God, let the issue be +what it will, that man shall have peace in his mind afterward. And the +comforts of that state, (which will be comforts that attend Equity, +Justice, and Duty,) will be more unto him, because more according to +Godliness, than can be the comforts that are the fruits of Injustice, +Fraudulency, and Deceit. Besides, this is the way to engage God to +favour him by the sentence of his Creditors; (for He can entreat them +to use him kindly,) and he will do it when his ways are pleasing in his +sight: When a mans ways please the Lord, his enemies shall be at peace +with him; {102a} And surely, for a man to seek to make restitution for +wrongs done, to the utmost of his power, by what he is, has, and enjoys +in this world, is the best way, in that capacity, and with reference to +that thing, that a man can at this time be found active in. + +But he that doth otherwise, abides in his sin, refuses to be disposed +of by the Providence of God, chuseth an high Estate, though not +attained in Gods way; when Gods Will is, that he should descend into a +low one: yea, he desperately saith in his heart and actions, I will be +mine own chooser, and that in mine own way, whatever happens or follows +thereupon. + +Atten. You have said well, in my mind. But suppose now, that Mr. Badman +was here, could he not object as to what you have said, saying, Go +and teach your Brethren, that are Professors, this lesson, for they, +as I am, are guilty of Breaking; yea I am apt to think, of that which +you call my Knavish way of breaking; to wit, of breaking before they +have need to break. But if not so, yet they are guilty of neglect in +their Calling, {102b} of living higher, both in Fare and Apparrel, than +their Trade or Income will maintain. Besides, that they do break, all +the world very well knowes, and that they have the art to plead for +a composition, is very well known to men; and that it is usual with +them, to hide their Linnen, their Plate, their Jewels, and (’tis to +be thought, sometimes Money and Goods besides,) is as common as four +eggs a penny. And thus they beguile men, debauch their consciences, sin +against their Profession, and make, ’tis to be feared, their lusts in +all this, and the fulfilling of them, their end. I say, if Mr. Badman +was here to object thus unto you, what would be your reply? + +Wise. What! Why I would say, I hope no Good man, no man of good +conscience, no man that either feareth God, regardeth the credit of +Religion, the peace of Gods people, or the salvation of his own soul, +will do thus. + +Professors, such perhaps there may be, and who, upon earth can help +it? Jades there be of all colours. {103a} If men will profess, and +make their profession a stalking-Horse to beguile their neighbours of +their estates, as Mr. Badman himself did, when he beguiled her that +now is with sorrow his wife, who can help it? The Churches of old +were pestered with such, and therefore no marvel if these perilous +difficult times be so. But mark how the Apostle words it: Nay do wrong +and defraud, and that your Brethren: Know you not, that the unrighteous +shall not inherit the Kingdom of God? Be not deceived, neither +Fornicator, nor Idolaters, nor Adulterers, nor Effeminate, nor abusers +of themselves with Mankind, nor Thieves, nor Covetous, nor Drunkards, +nor Revilers, nor Extortioners, shall inherit the Kingdom of God. {103b} + +None of these shall be saved in this state, nor shall profession +deliver them from the censure of the Godly, when they shall be manifest +such to be. But their profession we cannot help: How can we help it, if +men should ascribe to themselves the title of Holy ones, Godly ones, +Zealous ones, Self-denying ones, or any other such glorious title? and +while they thus call themselves, they should be the veryest Rogues for +all evil, sin, and villany imaginable, who could help it? True, they +are a scandal to Religion, a grief to the honest hearted, an offence +to the world, and a stumbling stone to the weak, and these offences +have come, do come, and will come, do what all the world can; but wo be +to them through whom they come; {103c} let such professors therefore +disowned by all true Christians, and let them be reckoned among those +base men of the world which by such actions they most resemble: They +are Mr. Badmans Kindred. + +For {103d} they are a shame to Religion, I say these slithy, rob-Shop, +pick-pocket men, they are a shame to Religion, and religious men should +be ashamed of them. God puts such an one among the Fools of the world, +therefore let not Christians put them among those that are wise for +heaven. As the Partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not, so he +that getteth riches and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of +his dayes, and at his end shall be a fool. {103e} And the man under +consideration is one of these, and therefore must look to fall by this +Judgment. + +A professor! and practice such villianies as these! such an one is not +worthy to bear that name any longer. We may say to such as the Prophet +spake to their like, to wit, to the rebellious that were in the house +of Israel. Goe ye, serve every man his Idols:—If ye will not hearken +to the Law and Testament of God, to lead your lives thereafter: but +pollute Gods holy name no more with your Gifts, and with your Idols. +{104a} + +Goe professors, Goe; leave off profession, unless you will lead your +lives according to your profession. Better never profess, than to make +profession a stalking-horse to sin, Deceit, to the Devil, and Hell. + +The ground and rules of Religion allow not any such thing: Receive us, +says the Apostle, we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we +have defrauded no man. {104b} Intimating, that those that are guilty of +wronging, corrupting or defrauding of any, should not be admitted to +the fellowship of Saints, no nor into the common catalogue of Brethren +with them. + +Nor can men with all their Rhetorick, and Eloquent speaking prove +themselves fit for the Kingdom of Heaven, or men of good conscience on +earth. {104c} O that godly plea of Samuel: Behold here I am, says he, +witness against me, before the Lord, and before his Anointed, whose +Oxe have I taken, or whose Ass have I taken, or whom have I defrauded, +whom have I oppressed, {104d} &c? This was to do like a man of good +conscience indeed. And in this his Appeal, he was so justified in the +consciencies of the whole Congregation, that they could not but with +one voice, as with one mouth, break out joyntly and say, Thou hast not +defrauded us, nor oppressed us. {104e} + +A Professor, and defraud, away with him! a Professor should not owe +any man any thing, but love. A professor should provide things, not +of other mens, but of his own, of his own honest getting, and that +not onely in the sight of God, but of all men; that he may adorn the +Doctrine if God our Saviour in all things. + +Atten. But {105a} suppose God should blow upon a Professor in his +Estate, and Calling, and he should be run out before he is aware, must +he be accounted to be like Mr. Badman, and lie under the same reproach +as he? + +Wise. No: {105b} If he hath dutifully done what he could to avoid it. +It is possible for a Ship to sink at sea, notwithstanding the most +faithfull endeavour of the most skilful Pilot under Heaven. And thus, +as I suppose, it was with the Prophet that left his wife in debt to the +hazarding the slavery of her children by the Creditors. {105c} He was +no profuse man, nor one that was given to defraud, for the Text says he +feared God; yet, as I said, he was run out more than she could pay. + +If God would blow upon a man, who can help it? and he will do so +sometimes, {105d} because he will change dispensations with men, and +because he will trye their Graces. {105e} Yea, also because he will +overthrow the wicked with his Judgments; and all these things are seen +in Job. But then the consideration of this, should bid men have a care +that they be honest, lest this comes upon them for their sin: It should +also bid them beware of launching further into the world, than in an +honest way by ordinary means they can Godlily make their retreat; for +the further in, the greater fall. It should also teach them, to begg +of God his blessing upon their endeavours, their honest and lawfull +endeavours. And it should put them upon a diligent looking to their +steps, that if in their going they should hear the Ice crack, they may +timely goe back again. + +These things considered, and duely put in practice, if God will blow +upon a man, then let him be content, and with Job embrace the dunghill; +let him give unto all their dues, and not fight against the Providence +of God, (but humble himself rather under his mighty hand,) which comes +to strip him naked and bare: for he that doth otherwise, fights against +God; and declares that he is a stranger to that of Paul; I know both +how to be abased, and I know how to abound; every where, in all things, +I am instructed both to be full, and to be hungry, both to abound, and +to suffer need. {105f} + +Atten. But Mr. Badman would not, I believe, have put this difference +’twixt things feigned, and those that fall of necessity. + +Wise. If he will not, God will, Conscience will; and that not thine own +only, but the Consciences of all those that have seen the way, and that +have known the truth of the condition of such an one. + +Atten. Well: Let us at this time leave this matter, and return again to +Mr. Badman. + +Wise. With all my heart will I proceed to give you a relation of what +is yet behind of his Life, in order to our discourse of his Death. + +Atten. But pray do it with as much brevity as you can. + +Wise. Why? are you a weary of my relating of things? + +Atten. No. But it pleases me to hear a great deal in few words. + +Wise. I profess not my self an artist that way, but yet as briefly as I +can, I will pass through what of his Life is behind; and again I shall +begin with his fraudulent dealing (as before I have shewed with his +Creditors, so now) with his Customers, and those that he had otherwise +to deal withall. + +He dealt by deceitfull Weights and Measures. {106} He kept weights to +buy by, and weights to sell by; measures to buy by, and measures to +sell by: those he bought by were too big, those he sold by were too +little. + +Besides, he could use a thing called slight of hand, if he had to do +with other mens weights and measures, and by that means make them +whether he did buy or sell, yea though his Customer or Chapman looked +on, turn to his own advantage. + +Moreover, he had the art to misreckon men in their Accounts whether +by weight, or measure, or money, and would often do it to his worldly +advantage, and their loss: What say you to Mr. Badman now? + +And if a question was made of his faithfull dealing, he had his +servants ready, that to his purpose he had brought up, that would +avouch and swear to his Book, or word: this was Mr. Badmans practice; +What think you of Mr. Badman now? + +Atten. Think! Why I can think no other but that he was a man left to +himself, a naughty man; for these, as his other, were naughty things; +if the tree, as indeed it may, ought to be judged, what it is by its +fruits; then Mr. Badman must needs be a bad Tree. But pray, for my +further satisfaction, shew me now by the Word of God, evil of this his +practice: and first of his using false Weights and Measures. + +Wise. The evil of that! why the evil of that appears to every eye: the +Heathens, that live like Beasts and Bruits in many things, do abominate +and abhorr such wickedness as this. Let a man but look upon these +things as he goes by, and he shall see enough in them from the light of +nature to make him loath so base a practice; although Mr. Badman loved +it. + +Atten. But shew me something out of the Word against it, will you? + +Wise. I will willingly do it. And first we will look into the Old +Testament: {107a} You shall, saith God there, do no unrighteousness in +Judgment, in mete-yard, in weights or in measures, a just Ballance, a +just Weight, a just Ephah, and a just Hin shall you have. {107b} This +is the Law of God, and that which all men according to the Law of the +land ought to obey. So again: Ye shall have just Ballances, and a just +Ephah, &c. {107c} + +Now having shewed you the Law, I will also shew you how God takes +swerving therefrom. A false Ballance is not good; a false Ballance is +an abomination to the Lord. {107d} Some have just Weights but false +Ballances, and by vertue of those false Ballances, by their just +Weights, they deceive the Countrey: {107e} Wherefore, God first of all +commands that the Ballance be made Just: A just Ballance shalt thou +have. Else they may be, yea are, decievers, notwithstanding their just +weights. + +Now, having commanded that men have a just Ballance, and testifying +that a false one is an abomination to the Lord, he proceedeth also unto +weight and measure. + +Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small; +{107f} that is one to buy by, and another to sell by, as Mr. Badman +had. Thou shalt not have in thy house divers measures, a great and a +small, (and these had Mr. Badman also) but thou shalt have a perfect +and a just weight; a perfect and a just measure shalt thou have, that +thy days may be lengthened in the land which the Lord thy God giveth +thee. For all that do such things, (that is, that use false Weights and +Measures) and all that do unrighteously are abomination to the Lord. +See now both how plentiful, and how punctual the Scripture is in this +matter. But perhaps it may be objected, that all this is old Law, and +therefore hath nothing to do with us under the New Testament. (Not +that I think you, neighbour, will object thus:) Well, to this foolish +objection, let us make an Answer. First, he that makes this objection, +if he doth it to overthrow the authority of those Texts, {108a} +discovereth that himself is first cousen to Mr. Badman: For a Just man +is willing to speak reverently of those commands. That man therefore +hath, I doubt, but little conscience, if any at all that is good, +that thus objecteth against the Text: but let us look into the New +Testament, and there we shall see how Christ confirmeth the same: Where +he commandeth that men make to others good measure, including also that +they make good weight; telling such that doe thus, or those that do it +not, that they may be encouraged to do it; Good measure, pressed down, +shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom; +for with the same measure that ye mete withall, it shall be measured +to you again: {108b} To wit, both from God and man. For as God will +shew his indignation against the false man, by taking away even that +he hath, so he will deliver up the false man to the Oppressor, and the +Extortioner shall catch from him, as well as he hath catched from his +neighbour; therefore another Scripture saith, When thou shalt cease to +deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee. That the +New Testament also, hath an inspection into mens Trading, yea even with +their weights and measures, is evident from these general exhortations. +{108c} Defraud not; lye not one to another; let no man goe beyond his +brother in any matter, for God is the avenger of all such: whatsoever +you do, do it heartily, as unto the Lord, doing all in his name, to his +glory; and the like. All these injunctions and commandments do respect +our life and conversation among men, with reference to our dealing, +trading, and so consequently they forbid false, deceitful, yea all +doings that are corrupt. + +Having thus in a word or two shewed you, that these things are bad; I +will next, for the conviction of those that use them, shew you, where +God saith they are to be found. {109a} + +1. They are not to be found in the house of the good and godly man, for +he, as his God, abhorrs them; but they are to be found in the house +of evil doers, {109b} such as Mr. Badmans is. Are there, saith the +Prophet, yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, +and the scant measure that is abomination? {109c} Are they there yet, +notwithstanding Gods forbidding, notwithstanding Gods tokens of anger +against those that do such things? O how loth is a wicked man to let +goe a sweet, a gainful sin, when he hath hold of it! They hold fast +deceit, they refuse to let it goe. + +2. These deceitful Weights and Measures are not to be found in the +house of the Mercifull, but in the house of the Cruel; in the house +of them that love to oppress. {109d} The Ballances of deceit are in +his hand, he loveth to oppress. {109e} He is given to oppression and +cruelty, therefore he useth such wicked things in his calling. Yea +he is a very cheat, and as was hinted before, concerning Mr. Badmans +breaking, so I say now, concerning his using these deceitful weights +and measures, it is as bad, as base, as to take a purse, or pick a +pocket; for it is a plain robbery, it takes away from a man that which +is his own, even the price of his money. + +3. The deceitful Weights and Measures are not to be found in the house +of such as relieve the belly, and that cover the loyns of the poor, +but of such as indeed would swallow them up. {109f} Hear ye this, +ye that swallow up the needy, and that make the poor of the land to +fail, saying, When will the new Moon be gone that we may sell corn, +and the Sabbath that we may set forth Wheat, making the Ephah small +and the Sheckle great, (making the Measure small, and the Price great) +and falsifying the Ballances by deceit, that ye may buy the poor for +silver, and the needy for a pair of shooes, and sell the refuse of the +Wheat. The Lord hath sworn by the excellencie of Jacob, surely I will +not forget any of their works. {109g} So detestable and vile a thing is +this in the sight of God. + +4. God abominates the thoughts of calling of those that use false +weights and measures, by any other term than, that they be Impure ones +{110a} or the like: Shall I count them pure (saith he) with the bag of +deceitful weights? {110b} no by no means, they are impure ones, their +hands are defiled, deceitful gain is in their houses, they have gotten +what they have by coveting an evil Covetousness, and therefore must and +shall be counted among the impure, among the wicked of the world. + +Thus you see how full and plain the Word of God is, against this sin, +and them that use it. And therefore Mr. Badman, for that he used by +these things thus to rook and cheat his neighbours, is rightly rejected +from having his Name in, and among the catalogue of the godly. + +Atten. But I am perswaded, that the using of these things, and the +doing by them thus deceitfully, is not counted so great an evil by some. + +Wise. Whether it be counted an evil or a vertue, by men, it mattereth +not; you see by the Scriptures, the Judgment of God upon it. It was not +counted an evil by Mr. Badman, nor is it by any that still are treading +in his steps. But, I say, ’tis no matter how men esteem of things, let +us adhere to the Judgment of God. And the rather, because when we our +selves have done weighing and measuring to others, then God will weigh +and measure both us and our actions. And when he doth so, as he will +do shortly, then wo be to him to whom, and of whose actions it shall +be thus said by him: Tekel, Thou art weighed in the Ballances, and art +found wanting. {110c} God will then recompense their evil of deceiving +upon their own head, when he shall shut them out of his presence, +favour, and kingdom, for ever and ever. + +Atten. But ’tis a wonder, that since Mr. Badmans common practice was to +do thus, that some one or more did not find him out, and blame him for +this his wickedness. + +Wise. For the generality of people, he went away clever with his +Knavery. For what with his Ballance, his false Ballance, and good +weight, and what with his slight of hand to boot, he beguiled, +sometimes a little, and sometimes more, most that he had to deal with: +Besides, those that use this naughty trade, are either such as blind +men with a shew of Religion, or by hectoring the buyer out by words. +I must confess Mr. Badman was not so arch at the first; {111a} that +is, to do it by shew of Religion; for now he began to grow threadbare, +(though some of his brethren are arch enough this way, yea and of his +sisters too, for I told you at first that there was a great many of +them, and of them good:) but for hectoring, for swearing, for lying, if +these things would make weight and measure, they should not be wanting +to Mr. Badmans Customers. + +Atten. Then it seems he kept good Weights, and a bad Ballance; well +that was better than that both should be bad. + +Wise. Not at all. There lay the depth of his deceit: {111b} For if +any at any time found fault, that he used them hardly, and that they +wanted their weight of things; he would reply: Why did you not see +them weighed? will you not believe your own eyes: If you question my +weights, pray carry them whether you will, I will maintain them to be +good and just. The same he would say of his scales. So he blinded all, +by his Ballance. + +Atten. This is cunning indeed: but as you say, there must be also +something done or said, to blind therewith, and this I perceive Mr. +Badman had. + +Wise. Yes. He had many ways to blind, but he was never clever at it, +by making a shew of Religion, (though he cheated his wife therewith:) +for he was, especially by those that dwelt near him, too well known +to do that, though he would bungle at it as well as he could. But +there are some that are arch villains this way; they shall to view +live a whole life Religiously, and yet shall be guilty of these most +horrible sins: And yet Religion in it self is never the worse, nor +yet the true professors of it. But as Luther says, In the name of +God begins all mischief. For Hypocrites have no other way to bring +their evils to maturity, but by using and mixing the Name of God and +Religion therewith. {112b} Thus they become whited Walls; {112a} for by +this white, the white of Religion, the dirt of their actions is hid. +Thus also they become graves that appear not, and they that goe over +them, (that have to do with them) are not aware of them, but suffer +themselves to be deluded by them. Yea, if there shall, as there will +sometimes, rise a doubt in the heart of the buyer about the weight and +measure he should have, why, he suffereth his very sences to be also +deluded, by recalling of his Chapmans Religion to mind, and thinks +verily that not his good chapman but himself is out; for he dreams not +that his chapman can deceive. But if the buyer shall find it out, and +shall make it apparent, that he is beguiled; then shall he be healed by +having amends made, and perhaps fault shall be laid upon servants, &c. +and so Master Cheat shall stand for a right honest man in the eye of +his Customer, though the next time he shall pick his pocket again. + +Some {112c} plead Custom for their Cheat, as if that could acquit +them before the Tribunal of God: And others say, it came to them for +so much, and therefore another must take it for so much, though there +is wanting both as to weight and measure: but in all these things +there are Juggles; or if not, such must know, {112d} That that which +is altogether just, they must doe. Suppose that I be cheated my self +with a brass half-Crown, must I therefore cheat another therewith? +if this be bad in the whole, it is also bad in the parts. Therefore +however thou are dealt withall in thy buying, yet thou must deal justly +in selling, or thou sinnest against thy soul, and art become as Mr. +Badman. And know, that a pretence to custom is nothing worth. ’Tis not +custom, but good conscience that will help at Gods Tribunal. + +Atten. But I am perswaded, that that which is gotten by men this way, +doth them but little good. + +Wise. I am of your mind for that, but this is not considered by those +thus minded. For if they can get it, though they get, as we say, the +Devil and all, by their getting, yet they are content, and count that +their getting is much. + +Little good! Why do you think they consider that? No: no more than +they consider what they shall doe in the Judgment, at the day of God +Almighty, for their wrong getting of what they get, and that is just +nothing at all. {113a} + +But to give you a more direct answer. This kind of getting, is so far +off from doing them little good, that it doth them no good at all; +because thereby they lose their own souls; What shall it profit a man +if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? {113b} He +loseth then, he loseth greatly that getteth after this fashion. This is +the man that is penny-wise, and pound-foolish; this is he that loseth +his good Sheep for a halfpennyworth of tarr; that loseth a soul for +a little of the world. And then what doth he get thereby, but loss +and dammage? {113c} Thus he getteth, or rather loseth about the world +to come: But what doth he get in this world, more than travel and +sorrow vexation of spirit, and disappointment? Men aim at blessedness +in getting, I mean, at temporal blessedness; but the man that thus +getteth, shall not have that. For though an Inheritance after this +manner may be hastily gotten at the beginning, yet the end thereof +shall not be blessed. They gather it indeed, and think to keep it too, +but what says Solomon? God casteth it away. The Lord will not suffer +the soul of the righteous to famish, but he casteth away the substance +of the wicked. + +The time, as I said, that they do enjoy it, it shall doe them no good +at all; but long to be sure they must not have it. For God will either +take it away in their life time, or else in the generation following, +according to that of Job: He, the wicked, may prepare it, but the just +shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver. {113d} + +Consider that also that is written in the Proverbs: A good man leaveth +an Inheritance to his childrens children, and the wealth of the sinner +is laid up for the just. {113e} What then doth he get thereby, that +getteth by dishonest means? why he getteth Sin and Wrath, Hell and +Damnation: and now tell me how much he doth get. + +This, I say, is his getting; so that as David says, we may be bold +to say too: I beheld the wicked in great prosperity, and presently I +cursed his habitation: for it cannot prosper with him. Fluster and +huff, and make a doe for a while he may, but God hath determined that +both he and it shall melt like grease, and any observing man may see it +so. Behold, the unrighteous man in a way of Injustice getteth much, and +loadeth himself with thick Clay, but anon it withereth, it decayeth, +and even he, or the Generation following decline, and return to beggery. + +And this Mr. Badman, notwithstanding his cunning and crafty tricks to +get money, did dye, no body can tell whether worth a farthing or no. + +Atten. He had all the bad tricks, I think, that it was possible for a +man to have, to get money; one would think that he should a been rich. + +Wise. You reckon too fast, if you count these all his bad tricks to get +money: For he had more besides. {114a} + +If his customers were in his Books (as it should goe hard but he would +have them there; at least, if he thought he could make any advantage of +them,) then, then would he be sure to impose upon them his worst, even +very bad Comodity, yet set down for it the price that the best was sold +at: like those that sold the Refuse Wheat, or the worst of the wheat; +making the Sheckle great, {114b} yet hoisting up the price: This was +Mr. Badmans way. He {114c} would sell goods that cost him not the best +price by far, for as much as he sold the best of all for. He had also +a trick to mingle his comodity, that that which was bad might goe off +with the less mistrust. + +Besides, if his customers at any time paid him money, let them look to +themselves, and to their Acquitances, for he would usually attempt to +call for that payment again, specially if he thought that there was +hopes of making a prize thereby, and then to be sure if they could not +produce good and sufficient ground of the payment, a hundred to one but +they payed it again. Sometimes the honest Chapman would appeal to his +servants for proof of the payment of money, but they were trained up by +him to say after his mind, right or wrong: so that, relief that way, he +could get none. + +Atten. It is a bad, yea an abominable thing for a man to have such +servants. For by such means a poor customer may be undone and not +know how to help himself. Alas! if the master be so unconscionable, +as I perceive Mr. Badman was, to call for his money twice, and if his +servant will swear that it is a due debt, where is any help for such a +man? he must sink, there is no remedy. + +Wise. This is very bad, but this has been a practice, and that hundreds +of years agoe. But what saith the Word of God? I will punish all those +that leap upon the threshold, which fill their masters houses with +violence and deceit. {115a} {115b} + +Mr. Badman also had this art; could he get a man at advantage, that +is, if his chapman durst not go from him, or if the comodity he wanted +could not for the present be conveniently had elsewhere; Then let him +look to himself, he would surely make his purse-strings crack; he would +exact upon him without any pity or conscience. + +Atten. That was Extortion, was it not? I pray let me hear your Judgment +of Extortion, what it is, and when committed? + +Wise. Extortion {115c} is a screwing from men more than by the Law of +God or men is right; and it is committed sometimes by them in Office, +about Fees, Rewards, and the like: but ’tis most commonly committed +by men of Trade, who without all conscience, when they have the +advantage, will make a prey of their neighbour. And thus was Mr. Badman +an Extortioner; for although he did not exact, and force away, as +Bailifs and Clarks have used to doe; yet he had his opportunities, and +such cruelty to make use of them, that he would often, in his way, be +Extorting, and forcing of money out of his Neighbours pocket. For every +man that makes a prey of his advantage upon his neighbours necessities, +to force from him more than in reason and conscience, according to +the present prizes of things such comodity is worth; may very well be +called an Extortioner, and Judged for one that hath No inheritance in +the Kingdom of God. {115d} + +Atten. Well, this Badman was a sad wretch. + +Wise. Thus you have often said before. But now we are in discourse of +this, give me leave a little to goe on. We have a great many people +in the Countrey too that live all their dayes in the practice, and so +under the guilt of Extortion: people, alas! that think scorn to be so +accounted. + +As for Example: {116a} There is a poor body that dwells, we will +suppose, so many miles from the Market; and this man wants a Bushel of +Grist, a pound of Butter, or a Cheese for himself, his wife and poor +children: But dwelling so far from the Market, if he goes thither, +he shall lose his dayes work, which will be eight pence or ten pence +dammage to him, and that is something to a poor man. So he goeth to +one of his Masters or Dames for what he wanteth, and asks them to help +him with such a thing: Yes, say they, you may have it; but withall +they will give him a gripe, perhaps make him pay as much (or more) for +it at home, as they can get when they have carryed it five miles to +a Market, yea and that too for the Refuse of their Commodity. But in +this the Women are especially faulty, in the sale of their Butter and +Cheese, &c. Now this is a kind of Extortion, it is a making a prey of +the necessity of the poor, it is a grinding of their faces, a buying +and selling of them. + +But above all, your {116b} Hucksters, that buy up the poor mans +Victuals by whole-sale, and sell it to him again for unreasonable +gains, by retale, and as we call it, by piece meal; they are got into a +way, after a stingeing rate, to play their game upon such by Extortion: +I mean such who buy up Butter, Cheese, Eggs, Bacon, &c. by whole sale, +and sell it again (as they call it) by penny worths, two penny worths, +a half penny worth, or the like, to the poor, all the week after the +market is past. + +These, though I will not condemn them all, do, many of them, bite and +pinch the poor by this kind of evil dealing. These destroy the poor +because he is poor, and that is a grievous sin. He that oppresseth the +poor to increase his riches, and that giveth to the rich, shall surely +come to want. {116c} Therefore he saith again, Rob not the poor because +he is poor, neither oppress the afflicted in the gate; for the Lord +will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of them that spoile them. + +Oh that he that gripeth and grindeth the face of the poor, would take +notice of these two Scriptures! Here is threatned the destruction of +the Estate, yea and of the Soul too, of them that oppress the poor. +Their Soul we shall better see where, and in what condition that is in, +when the day of Doom is come; but for the Estates of such, they usually +quickly moulter; and that sometimes all men, and sometimes no man knows +how. + +Besides, these are Usurers, yea they take usury for victuals, which +thing the Lord has forbidden. {117a} And because they cannot so +well do it on the Market-day, therefore they do it, as I said, when +the market is over; for then the poor falls into their mouths, and +are necessitated to have, as they can, for their need, and they are +resolved they shall pay soundly for it. Perhaps some will find fault +for my medling thus with other folks matters, and for my thus prying +into the secrets of their iniquity. But to such I would say, since such +actions are evil, ’tis time they were hissed out of the world. For +all that doe such things, offend against God, wrong their neighbour, +and like Mr. Badman doe provoke God to Judgment. God knows, there is +abundance of deceit in the world! + +Wise. Deceit! Aie, but I have not told you the thousandth part of it; +nor is it my business now to rake to the bottom of that dunghill: what +would you say, if I should anatomize some of those vile wretches called +Pawn-Brokers, that lend Money and Goods to poor people, who are by +necessity forced to such an inconvenience; and will make, by one trick +or other, the Interest of what they so lend, amount to thirty, forty, +yea sometimes fifty pound by the year; nothwithstanding the Principal +is secured by a sufficient pawn; which they will keep too at last, if +they can find any shift to cheat the wretched borrower. + +Atten. Say! Why such Miscreants are the pest and Vermin of the +Common-Wealth, not fit for the society of men; but methinks by some of +those things you Discoursed before, you seem to import that it is not +lawful for a man to make the best of his own. + +Wise. If by making the best, you mean, to sell for as much as by hook +or crook he can get for his comodity; then I say, it is not lawful. +And if I should say the contrary, I should justifie Mr. Badman and all +the rest of that Gang: but that I never shall doe, for the Word of God +condemns them. But that it is not lawful for a man at all times, to +sell his commodity for as much as he can, I prove by these reasons. +{118a} + +First, If it be lawful for me alway to sell my commodity as dear, +or for as much as I can, then ’tis lawful for me to lay aside in my +dealing with others, good conscience, to them, and to God: but it +is not lawful for me, in my dealing with others, to lay aside good +conscience, &c. Therefore it is not lawful for me always to sell my +commodity as dear, or for as much as I can. + +That {118b} it is not lawful to lay aside good conscience in our +dealings, has already been proved in the former part of our discourse: +but that a man must lay it aside that will sell his commodity always as +dear or for as much as he can, is plainly manifest thus. + +1. He that will (as is mentioned afore) sell his commodity as dear as +he can, must sometimes make a prey of the ignorance of his chapman: +{118c} but that he cannot doe with a good conscience (for that is to +overreach, and to goe beyond my chapman, and is forbidden, 1 Thess. 4. +6.) Therefore he that will sell his commodity, as afore, as dear, or +for as much as he can, must of necessity lay aside good conscience. + +2. He that will sell his commodity always as dear as he can, must +needs, sometimes make a prey of his neighbours necessity; {118d} but +that he cannot doe with a good conscience, (for that is to goe beyond +and defraud his neighbour, contrary to 1 Thess. 4. 6.) Therefore he +that will sell his commodity, as afore, as dear, or for as much as he +can, must needs cast off and lay aside a good conscience. + +3. He that will (as afore) sell his commodity as dear, or for as much +as he can, must, if need be, make a prey of his neighbours fondness; +but that a man cannot doe with a good conscience, {119a} (for that is +still a going beyond him, contrary to 1 Thess. 4. 6.) Therefore, he +that will sell his commodity as dear, or for as much as he can, must +needs cast off, and lay aside good conscience. + +The same also may be said for buying; no man may always buy as cheap as +he can, but must also use good conscience in buying; {119b} The which +he can by no means use and keep, if he buyes always as cheap as he can, +and that for the reasons urged before. For such will make a prey of the +ignorance, necessity, and fondness of their chapman, the which they +cannot doe with a good consceince. + +When Abraham would buy a Burying-place of the Sons of Heth, thus he +said unto them. Intreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar, that he may +give me the cave of Machpelah, which he hath, in the end his field. For +as much as it is worth shall he give it me. Gen. 23. 8, 9. {119c} He +would not have it under foot, he scorned it, he abhored it: It stood +not with his Religion, Credit, nor Conscience. So also when David, +would buy a field of Ornon the Jebusite: Thus he said unto him: Grant +me the place the threshing-floor, that I may build an Altar there unto +the Lord. Thou shalt give it me for the full price. {119d} He also, as +Abraham, made conscience of this kind of dealing: he would not lie at +catch to go beyond, no not the Jebusite, but will give him his full +price for his field. For he knew that there was wickedness, as in +selling too dear so in buying too cheap, therefore he would not do it. + +There ought therefore to be good conscience used, as in selling, so in +buying; for ’tis also unlawful for a man to goe beyond or to defraud +his neighbour in buying; yea ’tis unlawful to doe it in any matter, +and God will plentifully avenge that wrong: as I also before have +forewarned and testified. See also the {119e} text in the margent. But, + +Secondly, if it be lawful for me always to sell my commodity as dear, +or for as much as I can, then it is lawful for me to deal with my +neighbour without the use of {120a} charity: but it is not lawful +for me to lay aside, or to deal with my neighbour without the use of +charity, therefore it is not lawful for me always to sell my commodity +to my neighbour for as much as I can. A man in dealing should as really +design his Neighbours good, profit, and advantage, as his own: For this +is to exercise Charity in his dealing. + +That I should thus use, or exercise charity towards my Neighbour in my +buying and selling, &c. with him, is evident from the general command: +[Let all your things be done in charity:] {120b} But that a man cannot +live in the exercise of charity, that selleth, as afore, as dear, or +that buyeth as cheap as he can, is evident by these reasons. + +1. He that sells his commodity as dear, or for as much money (always) +as he can, seeks himself, and himself only; (but charity seeketh not +her own, nor her own only {120c}:) So then, he that seeks himself, and +himself onely, as he that sells (as afore) as dear as he can, does; +maketh not use of, nor doth he exercise charity, in his so dealing. + +2. He that selleth his commodity (always) for as much as he can get, +hardeneth his heart against all reasonable entreaties of the buyer. But +he that doth so, cannot exercise charity in his dealing; therefore it +is not lawful for a man to sell his commodity, as afore, as dear as he +can. + +Thirdly, If it be lawful for me to sell my commodity, as afore, as dear +as I can, then there can be no sin in my Trading, how unreasonably +soever I manage my calling, whether by Lying, Swearing, Cursing, +Cheating; for all this is but to sell my commodity as dear as I can: +but that there is sin in these, is evident, therefore I may not sell my +commodity always as dear as I can. {120d} {120e} + +Fourthly, He that sells, as afore, as dear as he can, offereth violence +to the law of Nature: {121b} for that saith, Doe unto all men, even as +ye would that they should doe unto you. {121a} Now, was the Seller a +Buyer, he would not that he of whom he buyes, should sell him always as +dear as he can; therefore he should not sell so himself, when it is his +lot to sell, and others to buy of him. + +Fifthly, He that selleth, as afore, as dear as he can, makes use of +that instruction, that God hath not given to others, but sealed up in +his hand, {121c} to abuse his Law, and to wrong his neighbour withall: +which indeed is contrary to God. {121d} God hath given thee more +skill, more knowledge and understanding in thy commodity than he hath +given to him that would buy of thee. But what! canst thou think, that +God has given thee this, that thou mightest thereby make a prey of +thy neighbour? that thou mightest thereby goe beyond and beguile thy +neighbour? No, verily; but he hath given thee it, for his help; that +thou mightest in this, be eyes to the blind, and save thy neighbour +from that dammage, that his ignorance, or necessity, or fondness would +betray him into the hands of. + +Sixthly, In all that a man does, he should have an eye to the glory of +God, {121e} but that he cannot have that sells his commodity always for +as much as he can, for the reasons urged before. + +Seventhly, All that a man does, he should doe in the Name of the Lord +Jesus Christ; {121f} that is, as being commanded, and authorized to doe +it by him: but he that selleth always as dear as he can, cannot so much +as pretend to this, without horrid blaspheming of that Name, because +commanded by him to doe otherwise. + +Eightly, and lastly, In all that a man does, he should have an eye to +the day of Judgment, and to the consideration of how his actions will +be esteemed of in that day. {121g} Therefore there is not any man can +or ought to sell always as dear as he can: unless he will, yea he must +say, in so doing, I will run the hazard of the tryal of that day, If +thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest ought of thy neighbour, +ye shall not oppress one another. {122a} + +Atten. But why doe you put in those cautionary words? They must not +sell [always] as dear, nor buy [always] as cheap as they can: doe you +not thereby intimate that a man may sometimes do so? + +Wise. I doe indeed intimate that somtimes the seller may sell as dear, +and the buyer buy as cheap as he can; but this is allowable only +in these cases: When he that sells is a Knave, and lays aside all +good conscience in selling; or when the buyer is a Knave, and layes +aside all good conscience in buying. If the buyer therefore lights +of a Knave, or if the seller lights of a Knave, then let them look +to themselves: but yet so, as not to lay aside conscience, because +he that thou dearest with doth so: but how vile or base soever the +chapman is, do thou keep thy commodity at a reasonable price: or if +thou buyest, offer reasonable gain for the thing thou wouldest have: +and if this will not do with the buyer or seller, then seek thee a more +honest chapman: If thou objectest, But I have not skil to know when a +pennyworth is before me: Get some that have more skill than thy self in +that affair, and let them in that matter dispose of thy money. But if +there were no Knaves in the world, these objections need not be made. + +And thus, my very good neighbour, have I given you a few of my reasons, +why a man that hath it, should not always sell too dear, nor buy as +cheap as he can: but should use good Conscience to God, and Charity to +his Neighbour in both. + +Atten. But were some men here, to hear you, I believe they would laugh +you to scorn. + +Wise. I question not that at all, for so, {122b} Mr. Badman used to +doe, when any man told him of his faults: he used to think himself +wiser than any, and would count, as I have hinted before, that he +was not arrived to a manly spirit that did stick or boggle at any +wickedness. But let Mr. Badman and his fellowes laugh, I will bear it, +and still give them good counsel. But I will remember also, for my +further relief and comfort, that thus they that were covetous of old, +served the Son of God himself. It is their time to laugh now, that they +may mourn in time to come. {122c} And, I say again, when they have +laughed out their laugh; He that useth not good conscience to God, and +charity to his neighbour, in buying and selling, dwells next dore to an +Infidel, and is near of kin to Mr. Badman. + +Atten. Well, but what will you say to this question? {123a} (you know +that there is no settled price set by God upon any Commodity that is +bought or sold under the Sun; but all things that we buy and sell, do +ebbe and flow, as to price, like the Tide:) How (then) shall a man of a +tender conscience doe, neither to wrong the seller, buyer, nor himself, +in buying and selling of commodities? + +Wise. This Question is thought to be frivolous by all that are of Mr. +Badmans way; ’tis also difficult in it self: yet I will endeavour +to shape you an Answer, {123b} and that first to the matter of the +question; to wit, How a Tradesman should, in Trading, keep a good +conscience; (A buyer or seller either.) Secondly, How he should prepare +himself to this work, and live in the practice of it. + +For the first: He {123c} must observe what hath been said before, to +wit, he must have conscience to God, charity to his neighbour; and I +will add, much moderation in dealing. Let him therefore keep within the +bounds of the affirmative of those eight reasons that before were urged +to prove, that men ought not in their Dealing, but to do Justly and +mercifully ’twixt man and man; and then there will be no great fear of +wronging the seller, buyer, or himself. + +But particularly to prepare, or instruct a man to this work: + +1. Let the Tradesman or others consider, that there is not that in +great Gettings, and in abundance, which the most of men do suppose: For +all that a man has over and above what serves for his present necessity +and supply, serves only to feed the lusts of the eye. For what good +is there to the owners thereof, save the beholding of them with their +eyes? {123d} Men also, many times, in getting of riches, get therewith +a snare to their soul: {123e} But few get good by getting of them. But +this consideration, Mr. Badman could not abide. + +2. Consider, that the getting of wealth dishonestly (as he does, that +getteth it without good conscience and charity to his neighbour,) is a +great offender against God. Hence he says, I have smitten mine hands +at thy dishonest gain, which thou hast made. {124a} It is a manner of +speech that shews anger in the very making of mention of the Crime. +Therefore, + +3. Consider, that a little honestly gotten, though it may yield thee +but a dinner of herbs at a time, will yield more peace therewith, than +will a stalled Ox, ill gotten. Better is a little with righteousness, +than great revenues without right. {124b} + +4. Be thou confident, that Gods eyes are upon all thy wayes, and that +he pondereth all thy goings, and also that he marks them, writes them +down, and seals them up in a bag, against the time to come. {124c} + +5. Be thou sure that thou remembrest, that thou knowest not the day +of thy death. Remember also, that when death comes, God will give thy +substance, for the which thou hast laboured, and for the which perhaps +thou hast hazarded thy soul, to one, thou knowest not who, nor whether +he shall be a wise man or a fool. And then, what profit hath he that +laboureth for the wind? {124d} + +Besides, thou shalt have nothing that thou mayest so much as carry +away in thine hand. Guilt shall goe with thee, if thou hast got it +dishonestly, and they also to whom thou shalt leave it, shall receive +it to their hurt. + +These things duly considered, and made use of by thee to the preparing +of thy heart to thy calling of buying or selling; I come in the next +place to shew thee how thou shouldest live in the practick part of this +art. Art thou to buy or sell? + +1. If thou sellest, do not commend; if thou buyest, do not dispraise, +any otherwise, but to give the thing that thou hast to do with, its +just value and worth; for thou canst not do otherwise knowingly, but of +a covetous and wicked mind. Wherefore else are comodities over-valued +by the Seller, and also under-valued by the Buyer. It is naught, it is +naught, says the buyer, but when he hath got his bargain he boasteth +thereof. {124e} What hath this man done now but lyed in the dispraising +of his bargain? and why did he dispraise it, but of a covetous mind, to +wrong and beguile the seller? + +2. Art thou a seller, and do things grow dear? set not thy hand to +help, or hold them up higher; this cannot be done without wickedness +neither; for this is a making of the sheckle great: {125a} Art thou a +buyer, and do things grow dear? use no cunning or deceitful language +to pull them down: for that cannot be done but wickedly too. What then +shall we do? will you say. Why I answer: Leave things to the providence +of God, and do thou with moderation submit to his hand. But since, when +they are growing dear, the hand that upholds the price, is, for the +time, more strong than that which would pull it down; That being the +hand of the seller, who loveth to have it dear, specially if it shall +rise in his hand: therefore I say, do thou take heed, and have not a +hand in it. The which thou mayest have to thine own and thy neighbours +hurt, these three ways: + +1. By crying out scarcity, scarcity, beyond the truth and state of +things: especially take heed of doing of this by way of a prognostick +for time to come. ’Twas for {125b} this for which he was trodden to +death in the gate of Samaria, that you read of in the book of Kings. +This sin has a double evil in it. 1. It belieth the present blessing +of God amongst us: and, 2. It undervalueth the riches of his goodness, +which can make all good things to abound towards us. + +2. This wicked thing may be done by hoarding up, when the hunger and +Necessity of the poor calls for it. Now that God may shew his dislike +against this, he doth, as it were, license the people to curse such an +hoarder up. He that withholdeth corn, the people shall curse him, but +blessing shall be upon the head of him that selleth it. {125c} + +3. But if things will rise, do thou be grieved; Be also moderate in all +thy sellings, and be sure let the poor have a pennyworth, and sell thy +Corn to those in necessity: {125d} Which then thou wilt do, when thou +shewest mercy to the poor in thy selling to him, and when thou for his +sake, because he is poor, undersellest the market. This is to buy and +sell with good conscience: thy buyer thou wrongest not, thy Conscience +thou wrongest not, thy self thou wrongest not, for God will surely +recompense thee. + +I have spoken concerning Corn, but thy duty is, to let thy moderation +in all things be known unto all men, the Lord is at hand. {125e} + +Atten. Well, Sir, now I have heard enough of Mr. Badmans naughtiness, +pray now proceed to his Death. + +Wise. Why Sir, the Sun is not so low, we have yet three hours to night. + +Atten. Nay; I am not in any great hast, but I thought you had even now +done with his Life. + +Wise. Done! no, I have yet much more to say. + +Atten. Then he has much more wickedness than I thought he had. + +Wise. That may be. But let us proceed: This Mr. Badman, added to all +his wickedness this, He was a very proud man, a Very proud man. {126a} +He was exceeding proud and haughty in mind; He looked, that what he +said, ought not, must not be contradicted or opposed. He counted +himself as wise as the wisest in the Countrey, as good as the best, +and as beautiful as he that had most of it. He took great delight in +praising of himself, and as much in the praises that others gave him. +He could not abide that any should think themselves above him, or that +their wit or personage should by others be set before his. {126b} He +had scarce a fellowly carriage for his equals. But for those that were +of an inferior ranck, he would look over them in great contempt. And +if at any time he had any remote occasion of having to do with them, +he would shew great height, and a very domineering spirit. So that in +this it may be said that Solomon gave a characteristical note of him, +when he said: Proud and haughty scorner is his name, who dealeth in +proud wrath. {126c} He never thought his Dyet well enough dressed, his +Cloathes fine enough made, or his Praise enough refined. + +Atten. This Pride, is a sin that sticks as close to nature I think, as +most sins. There is Uncleanness and Pride, I know not of any two gross +sins that stick closer to men then they. They have, as I may call it, +an interest in Nature; it likes them because they most suit its lusts +and fancies: and therefore no marvel though Mr. Badman was tainted with +pride, since he had so wickedly given up himself to work all iniquity +with greediness. + +Wise. You say right; Pride, is a sin that sticks close to Nature, +{126d} and is one of the first follies wherein it shews it self to be +polluted. For even in Childhood, even in little children, Pride will +first of all shew it self; it is a hasty, an early appearance of the +sin of the soul. It, as I may say, is that corruption that strives +for predominancy in the heart, and therefore usually comes out first. +But though children are so incident to it, yet methinks those of more +years, should be ashamed thereof. I might at the first have begun with +Mr. Badmans Pride, only I think it is not the Pride in Infancy, that +begins to make a difference betwixt one and another, as did, and do +those wherewith I began my relation of his life: therefore I passed it +over, but now, since he had no more consideration of himself, and of +his vile and sinful state, but to be proud when come to years; I have +taken the occasion in this place to make mention of his pride. + +Atten. But pray, if you can remember them, tell me of some places of +Scripture that speak against pride. I the rather desire this, because +that pride is now a reigning sin, and I happen sometimes to fall into +the company of them that in my conscience are proud, very much, and I +have a mind also to tell them of their sin; now when I tell them of it, +unless I bring Gods word too, I doubt they will laugh me to scorn. + +Wise. Laugh you to scorn! the Proud man will laugh you to scorn, bring +to him what Text you can, except God shall smite him in his conscience +by the Word: Mr. Badman did use to serve them so that did use to tell +him of his: and besides, when you have said what you can, they will +tell you they are not proud, and that you are rather the proud man, +else you would not judge, nor so malapertly meddle with other mens +matters as you do. Nevertheless, since you desire it, I will mention +two or three texts: They are these. Pride and arrogancy do I hate. A +mans pride shall bring him low. And he shall bring down their pride. +And all the proud, and all that do wickedly shall be as stubble, and +the day that comes shall burn them up. {127} This last, is a dreadful +Text; it is enough to make a proud man shake: God, saith he, will make +the proud ones as stubble; that is, as fuel for the fire, and the day +that cometh shall be like a burning oven, and that day shall burn them +up, saith the Lord. But Mr. Badman could never abide to hear pride +spoken against, nor that any should say of him, He is a proud man. + +Atten. What should be the reason of that? + +Wise. He did not tell me the reason; but I suppose it to be that which +is common to all vile persons. They love this Vice, but care not to +bear its name. {128a} The Drunkard loves the sin, but loves not to be +called a drunkard. The Thief loveth to steal, but cannot abide to be +called a thief, the whore loveth to commit uncleanness, but loveth not +to be called a Whore; And so Mr. Badman loved to be proud, but could +not abide to be called a proud man. The sweet of sin, is desirable to +polluted and corrupted man, but the name thereof, is a blot in his +Scutcheon. + +Atten. ’Tis true that you have said: but pray how many sorts of pride +are there? + +Wise. There are two sorts of Pride; {128b} Pride of Spirit, and Pride +of Body. The first of these is thus made mention of in the Scriptures. +Every one that is proud in heart is abomination to the Lord. {128c} A +high look, and a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked is sin. +The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit. Bodily pride +these Scriptures mention. In that day the Lord shall take away the +bravery of their tinckling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, +and their round tires like the Moon, the chains, and the bracelets, +and the mufflers, the bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the +headbands, and the tablets, and the ear-rings, the rings, and the +Nose-jewels: {128d} The changable suits of Apparell, and the mantles, +and the wimples, and the crisping pins, the glasses, and the fine +linnen, and the hoods and the vails. By these expressions it is evident +that there is Pride of Body, as well as Pride of Spirit, and that both +are sin, and so abominable to the Lord. But these Texts Mr. Badman +could never abide to read, they were to him as Micaiah was to Ahab, +they never spake good of him, but evil. + +Atten. I suppose that it was not Mr. Badmans case alone even to maligne +those Texts that speak against their vices: For I believe, that most +ungodly men, (where the Scriptures are) have a secret antipathy against +those words of God that do most plainly and fully rebuke them for their +sins. {128e} + +Wise. That is out of doubt, and by that antipathy, they shew, that sin +and Satan are more welcome to them than are the wholesome instructions +of life and godliness. + +Atten. Well, but not to goe off from our discourse of Mr. Badman. You +say he was proud: but will you shew me now some symptoms of one that is +proud? + +Wise. Yes, that I will: And first I will shew you some symptoms of +Pride of Heart. {129a} Pride of heart, is seen by outward things, as +Pride of Body in general, is a sign of pride of heart; for all proud +gestures of the body flow from Pride of heart: therefore Solomon saith; +There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes, and their eye-lids +are lifted up: {129b} And again; There is that exalteth their gate, +their going. {129c} Now these lofty eyes, and this exalting of the +gate, is a sign of a Proud heart: for both these actions come from the +heart: for out of the heart comes Pride, in all the visible appearances +of it. {129d} But more particularly: + +1. Heart Pride is discovered {129e} by a stretched out Neck, and by +mincing as they go. For the wicked, the Proud, have a proud Neck, a +proud Foot, a proud Tongue, by which this their going is exalted. This +is that which makes them look scornfully, speak ruggedly, and carry it +huffingly among their Neighbours. + +2. A proud heart, is a persecuting one: The wicked through his pride +doth persecute the poor. {129f} + +3. A prayerless man is a proud man. {129g} + +4. A contentious man is a proud man. {129h} + +5. The disdainful man is a proud man. {129i} + +6. The man that oppresses his neighbour is a proud man. {129j} + +7. He that hearkeneth not to Gods Word with reverence and fear, is a +proud man. {129k} + +8. And he that calls the proud happy, is, be sure, a proud man. All +these are proud in heart, and this their pride of heart doth thus +discover it self. {129l} {129m} + +As to bodily {129n} pride, it is discovered, that is, something of it, +by all the particulars mentioned before; for though they are said to +be symptoms of pride of heart, yet they are symptoms of that pride, +by their shewing of themselves in the Body. You know diseases that +are within, are seen oft-times by outward and visible Signs, yet by +them very signs even the outside is defiled also. So all those visible +signs of heart-pride, are signs of bodily pride also. But to come to +more outward signs: The putting on of Gold, and Pearls, and costly +array; the pleating of the hair, the following of fashions, the seeking +by gestures to imitate the proud, either by speech, looks, dresses, +goings, or other fools baubles, (of which at this time the world is +full) all these, and many more, are signs, as of a proud heart, so of +bodily pride also. {130b} + +But Mr. Badman would not allow, by any means, that this should be +called Pride, {130c} but rather neatness, handsomness, comeliness, +cleanliness, &c. neither would he allow that following of fashions +was any thing else, but because he would not be proud, singular, and +esteemed fantastical by his neighbours. + +Atten. But I have been told, that when some have been rebuked for their +pride, they have turned it again upon the brotherhood of those by whom +they have been rebuked: saying, Physician heal thy Friends, look at +home, among your Brotherhood, even among the wisest of you, and see if +you your selves be clear, even you professors: for who is prouder than +you professors? scarcesly the Devil himself. + +Wise. My heart akes at this answer, because there is too much cause for +it. {130d} This very Answer would Mr. Badman give his wife, when she +(as she would sometimes) reproved him for his pride: We shall have, +says he, great amendments in living now, for the Devil is turned a +corrector of vice: For no sin reigneth more in the world, quoth he, +than pride among professors. And who can contradict him? let us give +the Devil his due, the thing is too apparent for any man to deny. + +And I doubt not but the same answer is ready in the mouths of Mr. +Badmans friends; for they may and do see pride display it self in the +Apparel and carriages of professors; one may say, almost as much, as +among any people in the Land, the more is the pity. Ay, and I fear that +even their Extravagancies in this, hath hardened the heart of many a +one, as I perceive it did somewhat the heart of Mr. Badman himself. + +For mine own part, I have seen many my self, and those Church-members +too, so deckt and bedaubed with their Fangles and Toyes, and that when +they have been at the solemn Appointments of God, in the way of his +Worship, that I have wondred with what face such painted persons could +sit in the place where they were without swounding. But certainly the +holiness of God, and also the pollution of themselves by sin, must +needs be very far out of the minds of such people, what profession +soever they make. + +I have read of an Whores forehead, {131a} and I have read of +christian-shamefacedness; I have read of costly array, and of that +which becometh women professing Godliness, with good works; {131b} +{131c} but if I might speak, I know what I know, and could say, and +yet do no wrong, that which would make some professors stink in their +places; {131d} but now I forbear. + +Atten. Sir, you seem to be greatly concerned at this, but what I shall +say more? it is whispered, that some good Ministers have countenanced +their people in their light and wanton Apparrel, yea have pleaded for +their Gold, and Pearls, and costly array, &c. + +Wise. I know not what they have pleaded for, but ’tis easily seen that +they tolerate, or at least wise, wink and connive at such things, both +in their Wives and Children. And so from the Prophets of Jerusalem is +profaneness gone forth into all the land. {131e} And when the hand of +the Rulers are chief in a trespass, who can keep their people from +being drowned in that trespass? + +Atten. This is a lamentation, and must stand for a lamentation. + +Wise. So it is, and so it must. And I will add, it is a shame, it is +a reproach, it is a stumbling-block to the blind; {131f} for though +men be as blind as Mr. Badman himself, yet they can see the foolish +lightness that must needs be the bottom of all these apish and wanton +extravagancies. But many have their excuses ready; to wit, their +Parents, their Husbands, and their breeding calls for it, and the like: +yea, the examples of good people prompt them to it: but all these will +be but the Spiders webb, when the thunder of the Word of the great God +shall rattle from Heaven against them, as it will at Death or Judgment; +but I wish it might do it before. But alas! these excuses are but bare +pretences, these proud ones love to have it so. I once talked with a +Maid, by way of reproof, for her fond and gaudy garment. But she told +me, [Picture: Take note symbol] The Tailor would make it so: when alas, +poor proud Girle, she gave order to the Taylor so to make it. Many make +Parents, and Husbands, and Taylors, &c. the Blind to others, but their +naughty hearts, and their giving of way thereto, that is the original +cause of all these evils. + +Atten. Now you are speaking of the cause of pride, pray shew me yet +further why pride is now so much in request? {132b} + +Wise. I will shew you what I think are the reasons of it. + +1. The first is, {132c} Because such persons are led by their own +hearts, rather than by the Word of God. I told you before, that the +original fountain of pride is the heart. For out of the heart comes +pride; it is therefore because they are led by their hearts, which +naturally tends to lift them up in pride. This pride of heart, tempts +them, and by its deceits overcometh them; {132d} yea it doth put a +bewitching vertue into their Peacocks feathers, and then they are +swallowed up with the vanity of them. + +2. Another reason why professors are so proud, (for those we are +talking of now) is because they are more apt to take example of those +that are of the World, than they are to take example of those that are +Saints indeed. Pride is of the world. For all that is of the world, +the lusts of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, +are not of the Father but of the world. {132e} Of the world therefore +Professors learn to be proud. But they should not take them for +example. It will be objected, No, nor your saints neither, for you are +as proud as others: Well, let them take shame that are guilty. But when +I say, professors should take example for their life by those that are +saints indeed, I mean as Peter says: They should take example of those +that were in old time, the saints; for saints of old time were the +best, therefore to these he directeth us for our pattern. Let the wives +conversation be chast, and also coupled with fear. Whose adorning, +saith Peter, let it not be that outward adorning, of pleating the hair, +and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of Apparel: but let it be the +hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the +ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of +great price. For after this manner, in the old time, the holy women +also who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection to +their own husbands. {132f} + +3. Another reason is, {133a} Because they have forgotten the pollution +of their Nature. For the remembrance of that, must needs keep us +humble, and being kept humble, we shall be at a distance from pride. +The proud and the humble are set in opposition; (God resisteth the +proud, but giveth grace to the humble.) And can it be imagined, that a +sensible Christian should be a proud one; sence of baseness tends to +lay us low, not to lift us up with pride; not with pride of Heart, nor +pride of Life: But when a man begins to forget what he is, then he, if +ever, begins to be proud. + +Methinks it is one of the most senceless and ridiculous things in the +world, that a man should be proud of that which is given him on purpose +to cover the shame of his nakedness with. + +4. Persons that are proud, have gotten God and his Holiness out of +their sight. {133b} If God was before them, as he is behind their back; +And if they saw him in his holiness, as he sees them in their sins +and shame, they would take but little pleasure in their apish Knacks. +The Holiness of God makes the Angels cover their faces, crumbles +Christians, when they behold it, into dust and ashes: {133c} and as his +Majesty is, such is his Word; Therefore they abuse it, that bring it to +countenance pride. + +Lastly, {133d} But what can be the end of those that are proud, in +the decking of themselves after their antick manner? why are they for +going with their Bulls-foretops, with their naked shoulders, and Paps +hanging out like a Cows bag? why are they for painting their faces, +for stretching out their necks, and for putting of themselves into all +the Formalities which proud Fancy leads them to? Is it because they +would honour God? because they would adorn the Gospel? because they +would beautifie Religion, and make sinners to fall in love with their +own salvation? No, no. It is rather to please their lusts, to satisfie +their wild and extravagant fancies; and I wish none doth it to stir up +lust in others, to the end they may commit uncleanness with them. I +believe, whatever is their end, this is one of the great designes of +the Devil: and I believe also, that Satan has drawn more into the sin +of uncleanness, by the spangling shew of fine cloaths, than he could +possibly have drawn unto it, without them. I wonder what it was, that +of old was called the Attire of an Harlot: certainly it could not be +more bewitching and tempting than are the garments of many professors +this day. + +Atten. I like what you say very well, and I wish that all the proud +Dames in England that profess, were within the reach and sound of your +words. + +Wise. What I have said, I believe is true, but as for the proud Dames +in England that profess, they have Moses and the Prophets, and if they +will not hear them, how then can we hope that they should recieve good +by such a dull sounding Ramshorn as I am? However, I have said my mind, +and now if you will, we will proceed to some other of Mr. Badmans +doings. + +Atten. No: pray before you shew me any thing else of Mr. Badman, shew +me yet more particularly the evil effects of this sin of Pride. + +Wise. With all my heart, I will answer your request. {134a} + +1. {134b} Then: ’Tis pride that makes poor Man so like the Devil in +Hell, that he cannot in it be known to be the Image and similitude of +God. The Angels when they became Devils, ’twas through their being +lifted or puffed up with pride. ’Tis pride also that lifteth or puffeth +up the heart of the sinner, and so makes him to bear the very image of +the Devil. + +2. {134c} Pride makes a man so odious in the sight of God, that he +shall not, must not come nigh his Majesty. Though the Lord be high, yet +hath he respect to the lowly, but the proud he knows afar off. Pride +sets God and the Soul at a distrance; pride will not let a man come +nigh God, nor God will not let a proud man come nigh unto him: Now this +is a dreadful thing. + +3. {134d} As pride sets, so it keeps God and the Soul at a distance. +God resisteth the proud; resists, that is, he opposes him, he thrusts +him from him, he contemneth his person and all his performances. Come +in to Gods Ordinances, the proud man may; but come into his presence, +have communion with him, or blessing from him, he shall not. For the +high God doth resist him. {135a} + +4. {135b} The Word saith, that The Lord will destroy the House of the +proud. He will destroy his House; it may be understood, he will destroy +him and his. So he destroyed proud Pharaoh, so he destroyed proud +Corah, and many others. + +5. {135c} Pride, where it comes, and is entertained, is a certain +forerunner of some Judgment that is not far behind. When pride goes +before, shame and destruction will follow after. When pride cometh, +then cometh shame. Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit +before a fall. + +6. {135d} Persisting in pride makes the condition of a poor man as +remediless as is that of the Devils themselves. + +And this I fear was Mr. Badmans condition, and that was the reason that +he died so as he did; as I shall shew you anon. + +But what need I thus talk of the particular actions, or rather +prodigious sins of Mr. Badman, when his whole Life and all his actions, +went as it were to the making up one massie body of sin? {135e} +Instead of believing that there was a God, his Mouth, his Life and +Actions declared, that he believed no such thing. His transgression +said within my heart, that there was no fear of God before his eyes. +{135f} {135g} Instead of honouring of God, and of giving glory to him +for any of his Mercies, or under any of his good Providences towards +him (for God is good to all, and lets his Sun shine, and his Rain fall +upon the unthankful and unholy,) he would ascribe the glory to other +causes. If they were Mercies, he would ascribe them (if the open face +of the providence did not give him the lye) to his own wit, labour, +care, industry, cunning, or the like: if they were Crosses, he would +ascribe them, or count them the offspring of Fortune, ill Luck, Chance, +the ill mannagement of matters, the ill will of neighbours, or to his +wifes being Religious, and spending, as he called it, too much time in +Reading, Praying, or the like. It was not in his way to acknowledge +God, (that is, graciously) or his hand in things. But, as the Prophet +saith; Let favour be skewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn +righteousness. {136a} And again, They returned not to him that smote +them, nor did they seek the Lord of hosts. {136b} This was Mr. Badmans +temper, neither Mercies nor Judgment would make him seek the Lord. Nay, +as another Scripture sayes, he would not see the works of God, nor +regard the operations of his hands either in mercies or in Judgments. +{136c} But further, when by Providence he has been cast under the best +Means for his soul, (for, as was shewed before, he having had a good +master, and before him a good father, and after all a good wife, and +being sometimes upon a Journey, and cast under the hearing of a good +Sermon, as he would sometimes for novelties sake go to hear a good +Preacher;) he was always without heart to make use thereof: In this +land of righteousness he would deal unjustly, and would not behold the +majesty of the Lord. + +Instead of reverencing the Word, {136g} when he heard it preached, +read, or discoursed of, he would sleep, talk of other Business, or else +object against the authority, harmony, and wisdom of the Scriptures. +Saying, How do you know them to be the Word of God? how do you know +that these sayings are true? The Scriptures, he would say, were as +a Nose of Wax, and a man may turn them whithersoever he lists: one +Scripture says one thing, and another sayes the quite contrary; +Besides, they make mention of a thousand imposibilities; they are the +cause of all dissensions and discords that are in the Land: Therefore +you may (would he say) still think what you will, but in my mind they +are best at ease that have least to do with them. + +Instead of loving and honouring of them that did bear in their +Foreheads the Name, and in their Lives the Image of Christ, they should +be his Song, {136h} the matter of his Jests, and the objects of his +slanders. He would either make a mock at their sober deportment, their +gracious language, quiet behaviour, or else desperately swear that they +did all in deceit and hypocrisie. He would endeavour to render godly +men as odious and contemptable as he could; any lyes that were made +by any, to their disgrace, those he would avouch for truth, and would +not endure to be controlled. He was much like those that the prophet +speaks of, that would sit and slander his mothers son; {137a} yea, +he would speak reproachfully of his wife, though his conscience told +him, and many would testifie, that she was a very vertuous woman. He +would also raise slanders of his wives friends himself, affirming that +their doctrine tended to lasciviousness, and that in their assemblies +they acted and did unbeseeming men and women, that they committed +uncleanness, &c. He was much like those that affirmed the Apostle +should say, Let us do evil that good may come: {137b} Or like those +of whom it is thus written: Report, say they, and we will report it. +{137c} And if he could get any thing by the end that had scandal in it, +if it did but touch professors, how falsely soever reported; Oh! then +he would glory, laugh, and be glad, and lay it upon the whole party: +Saying, Hang them Rogues, there is not a barrel better Herring of all +the holy Brotherhood of them: Like to like, quoth the Devil to the +Collier, this is your precise Crew. And then he would send all home +with a curse. + +Atten. If those that make profession of Religion be wise, Mr. Badmans +watchings and words will make them the more wary and careful in all +things. + +Wise. You say true. For when we see men do watch for our halting, and +rejoyce to see us stumble and fall, it should make us so much abundance +the more careful. {137d} + +I do think it was as delightful to Mr. Badman to hear, raise, and tell +lies, and lying stories of them that fear the Lord, as it was for him +to go to bed when a weary. But we will at this time let these things +pass. For as he was in these things bad enough, so he added to these, +many more the like. + +He was an {137e} angry, wrathfull, envious man, a man that knew not +what meekness or gentleness meant, nor did he desire to learn. His +natural temper was to be surly, huffie, and rugged, and worse; and +he so gave way to his temper, as to this, that it brought him to be +furious and outrageous in all things, specially against goodness it +self, and against other things too, when he was displeased. {138a} + +Atten. Solomon saith, He is a fool that rageth. + +Wise. He doth so; and sayes moreover, That anger rests in the bosom of +fools. {138b} And truly, if it be a sign of a Fool to have anger rest +in his bosom, then was Mr. Badman, notwithstanding the conceit that he +had of his own abilities, a Fool of no small size. + +Atten. Fools are mostly most wise in their own eyes. + +Wise. True. But I was a saying, that if it be a sign that a man is a +Fool, when Anger rests in his bosom; Then what is it a sign of, think +you, when Malice and Envy rests there? For to my knowledge Mr. Badman +was as malicious and as envious a man as commonly you can hear of. + +Atten. Certainly, malice and envy flow {138c} from pride and arrogancy, +and they again from ignorance, and ignorance from the Devil; And I +thought, that since you spake of the pride of Mr. Badman before, we +should have something of these before we had done. + +Wise. Envy flows from Ignorance indeed. And this Mr. Badman was so +envious an one, where he set against, that he would swell with it, as +a Toad, as we say, swells with poyson. He whom he maligned, might at +any time even read envy in his face wherever he met with him, or in +whatever he had to do with him. + +His envy was so rank and strong, that if it at any time turned its head +against a man, it would hardly ever be pulled in again: He would watch +over that man to do him mischief, as the Cat watches over the Mouse +to destroy it; yea, he would wait seven years, but he would have an +opportunity to hurt him, and when he had it, he would make him feel the +weight of his Envy. + +Envy is a devilish thing, the Scripture intimates that none can stand +before it. A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty, but a fools wrath is +heavier than them both. Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous, but +who can stand before envy? {138d} {138e} + +This Envy, for the foulness of it, is reckoned {138f} among the foulest +Villanies that are, as adultery, murder, drunkenness, revellings, +witchcrafts, heresies, seditions, &c. Yea, it is so malignant a +corruption, that it rots the very bones of him in whom it dwells. A +sound heart is life to the flesh, but envy the rottenness of the bones. +{139a} + +Atten. This Envy is the very Father and Mother of a great many hideous +and prodigious wickednesses: I say, it is the very {139b} Father and +Mother of them; it both besets them, and also nourishes them up, till +they come to their cursed maturity in the bosom of him that entertains +them. + +Wise. You have given it a very right description, in calling of it +the Father and Mother of a great many other prodigious wickednesses: +for it is so venomous and vile a thing, that it puts the whole course +of Nature out of order, and makes it fit for nothing but confusion, +and a hold for every evil thing. For where envy and strife is, there +is confusion, and every evil work. {139c} Wherefore, I say, you have +rightly called it, The very Father and Mother of a great many other +sins. And now for our further edification, I will reckon up some of the +births of Envy. + +1. Envy, as I told you before, it rotteth the very bones of him that +entertains it. And, {139d} + +2. As you have also hinted, it is heavier than a Stone, than Sand; yea, +and I will add, It falls like a Mill-stone upon the head. Therefore, + +3. It kills him that throws it, and him at whom it is thrown. Envy +slayeth the silly one. {139e} That is, him in whom it resides, and him +who is its object. + +4. ’Twas that also that slew Jesus Christ himself; for his adversaries +persecuted him through their envy. {139f} {139g} + +5. Envy was that by vertue of which Joseph was sold by his Brethren +into Egypt: {139h} + +6. ’Tis envy that hath the hand in making of variance among Gods +Saints. {139i} + +7. ’Tis envy in the hearts of Sinners, that stirres them up to thrust +Gods Ministers out of their coasts. + +8. What shall I say? ’Tis envy that is the very Nursery of whisperings, +debates, backbitings, slanders, reproaches, murders, &c. + +’Tis not possible to repeat all the particular fruits of this sinfull +root. Therefore, it is no marvel that Mr. Badman was such an ill +natured man, for the great roots of all manner of wickedness were in +him, unmortified, unmaimed, untouched. + +Atten. But it is {140a} a rare case, even this of Mr. Badman, that he +should never in all his life be touched with remorse for his ill-spent +life. + +Wise. Remorse, I cannot say he ever had, if by remorse you mean +repentance for his evils. Yet twice I remember he was under some +trouble of mind about his condition: {140b} Once when he broke his legg +as he came home drunk from the Ale-house; and another time when he fell +sick, and thought he should die: Besides these two times, I do not +remember any more. + +Atten. Did he break his legg then? + +Wise. Yes: Once, as he came home drunk from the Ale-house. + +Atten. Pray how did he break it? + +Wise. Why upon a time he was at an Ale-house, that wicked house, about +two or three miles from home, and having there drank hard the greatest +part of the day, when night was come, he would stay no longer, but +calls for his horse, gets up, and like a Madman (as drunken persons +usually ride) away he goes, as hard as horse could lay legs to the +ground. Thus he rid, till coming to a dirty place, where his horse +flouncing in, fell, threw his master, and with his fall broke his legg: +so there he lay. {140c} But you would not think how he {140d} swore at +first. But after a while, he comeing to himself, and feeling by his +pain, and the uselesness of his legg, what case he was in, and also +fearing that this bout might be his death; he began to crie out after +the manner of such; {140e} Lord help me, Lord have mercy upon me, good +God deliver me, and the like. So there he lay, till some came by, who +took him up, carried him home, where he lay for some time, before he +could go abroad again. + +Atten. And then, you say, he called upon God. + +Wise. He cryed out in his pain, and would say, O God, and O Lord, +help me: but whether it was that his sin might be pardoned, and his +soul saved, or whether to be rid of his pain, I will not positively +determine; though I fear it was but for the last; {141a} because, when +his pain was gone, and he had got hopes of mending, even before he +could go abroad, he cast off prayer, and began his old game; to wit, to +be as bad as he was before. He then would send for his old companions; +his Sluts also would come to his house to see him, and with them he +would be, as well as he could for his lame leg, as vicious as they +could be for their hearts. + +Atten. ’Twas a wonder he did not break his neck. + +Wise. His neck had gone instead of his leg, but that God was +long-suffering towards him; he had deserved it ten thousand times over. +There have been many, as I have heard, and as I have hinted to you +before, that have taken their Horses when drunk, as he; but they have +gone from the pot to the grave; for they have broken their necks ’twixt +the Ale-house and home. [Picture: Take note symbol] One hard by us also +drunk himself dead; he drank, and dyed in his drink. + +Atten. ’Tis a sad thing to dye drunk. + +Wise. So it is: But yet I wonder that no more do so. For considering +the heinousness of that sin, and with how many other sins it is +accompanied, {141c} as with oaths, blasphemies, lyes, revellings, +whoreings, brawlings, &c. it is a wonder to me, that any that live in +that sin should escape such a blow from heaven that should tumble them +into their graves. Besides, when I consider also how, when they are +as drunk as beasts, they, without all fear of danger, will ride like +Bedlams and mad men, even as if they did dare God to meddle with them +if he durst, for their being drunk: I say, I wonder that he doth not +withdraw his protecting providences from them, and leave them to those +Dangers and Destructions that by their sin they have deserved, and +that by their Bedlam madness they would rush themselves into: only I +consider again, that he has appointed a day wherein he will reckon with +them, {141d} and doth also commonly make Examples of some, to shew that +he takes notice of their sin, abhorrs their way, and will count with +them for it at the set time. + +Atten. It is worthy of our remark, to take notice how God, to shew his +dislike of the sins of men, strikes some of them down with a blow; as +the breaking of Mr. Badmans legg, for doubtless that was a stroak from +heaven. + +Wise. It is worth our remark indeed. It was an open stroak, it fell +upon him while he was in the height of his sin: And it looks much like +to that in Job; Therefore he knoweth their works, and overturneth them +in the night, so that they are destroyed. He striketh them as wicked +men in the open sight of others: {142a} Or as the Margent reads it, +in the place of beholders. He layes them with his stroak in the place +of beholders. There was {142b} Mr. Badman laid, his stroak was taken +notice of by every one: his broken legg was at this time the Town-talk. +Mr. Badman has broken his legg, sayes one: How did he break it? sayes +another: As he came home drunk from such an Ale-house, said a third; A +Judgment of God upon him, said a fourth. This his sin, his shame, and +punishment, are all made conspicuous to all that are about him. I will +here tell you another story or two. + +I have read in Mr. Clark’s Looking-glass for Sinners; {142c} That upon +a time, a certain drunken fellow boasted in his Cups, that there was +neither Heaven nor Hell; also he said, He believed, that man had no +Soul, and that for his own part, he would sell his soul to any that +would buy it. Then did one of his companions buy it of him for a cup of +Wine; and presently the Devil in mans shape bought it of that man again +at the same price; and so in the presence of them all laid hold on this +Soul-seller, and carried him away through the Air, so that he was never +more heard of. + +In pag. 148, he tells us also: That there was one at Salisbury, in the +midst of his health drinking and carousing in a Tavern; and he drank +a health to the Devil, saying, That if the Devil would not come and +pledge him, he would not believe that there was either God or Devil. +Whereupon his companions stricken with fear, hastened out of the room: +and presently after, hearing a hideous noise, and smelling a stinking +savour, the Vintner ran up into the chamber; and coming in, he missed +his Guest, and found the window broken, the Iron barr in it bowed, and +all bloody: But the man was never heard of afterwards. + +Again, in pag. 149. he tells us of a Bailiff of Hedly: Who upon a +Lords Day being drunk at Melford, got upon his horse, to ride through +the streets, saying, That his horse would carry him to the Devil: and +presently his horse threw him, and broke his neck. These things are +worse than the breaking of Mr. Badmans Leg, and should be a caution to +all of his friends that are living, lest they also fall by their sin +into these sad Judgements of God. + +But, as I said, Mr. Badman quickly forgot all, his conscience was +choaked, before his legg was healed. And therefore, before he was well +of the fruit of one sin, he tempts God to send another Judgment to +seize upon him: And so he did quickly after. For not many months after +his legg was well, he had a very dangerous fit of sickness, insomuch +that now he began to think he must dye in very deed. {143a} + +Atten. Well, and what did he think and do then? + +Wise. He thought he must go to Hell; this I know, for he could not +forbear but say so. {143b} To my best remembrance, he lay crying out +all one night for fear, and at times he would so tremble, that he would +make the very bed shake under him. {143c} But, Oh! how the thoughts +of Death, of Hell-fire, and of eternal Judgment, did then wrack his +conscience. Fear might be seen in his face, and in his tossings to and +fro: It might also be heard in his words, and be understood by his +heavy groans. He would often cry, I am undone, I am undone; my vile +life has undone me. + +Atten. Then his former atheistical thoughts and principles, were too +weak now to support him from the fears of eternal damnation. + +Wise. Aie! they were too weak indeed. They may serve to stifle +conscience, when a man is in the midst of his prosperity, and to harden +the heart against all good counsel when a man is left of God, and +given up to his reprobate mind: {143d} But alas, atheistical thoughts, +Notions and Opinions, must shrink and melt away, when God sends, yea +comes with sickness to visit the soul of such a sinner for his sin. +There was a man dwelt about 12 miles off from us, that had so trained +up himself in his atheistical Notions, that at last he attempted to +write a book against Jesus Christ, and against the divine Authority +of the Scriptures. (But I think it was not printed:) Well, after many +days God struck him with sickness, whereof he dyed. So, being sick, +and musing upon his former doings, the Book that he had written came +into his mind, and with it such a sence of his evil in writing of +it, that it tore his Conscience as a Lyon would tare a Kid. He lay +therefore upon his death-bed in sad case, {144a} and much affliction +of conscience: some of my friends also went to see him; and as they +were in his chamber one day, he hastily called for Pen Ink and Paper, +which when it was given him, he took it and writ to this purpose. +[Picture: Take note symbol] I, such an one, in such a Town, must goe +to Hell-fire, for writing a Book against Jesus Christ, and against the +Holy Scriptures: And would also have leaped out of the window of his +house to have killed himself, but was by them prevented of that: so he +dyed in his bed, such a death as it was. ’Twill be well if others take +warning by him. + +Atten. This is a remarkable story. + +Wise. ’Tis as true as remarkable; I had it from them that I dare +believe, who also themselves were eye and ear witnesses; and also that +catcht him in their arms, and saved him when he would have leaped out +of his chamber-window, to have destroyed himself. + +Atten. Well, you have told me what were Mr. Badmans thoughts (now, +being sick) of his condition; pray tell me also what he then did when +he was sick? + +Wise. Did! he did many things, which I am sure he never thought to +have done, and which, to be sure, was not looked for of his wife and +children. + +In this fit of sickness, his Thoughts were quite altered about his +wife; I say his Thoughts, so far as could be judged by his words and +carriages to her. {144c} For now she was his good wife, his godly wife, +his honest wife, his duck, and dear, and all. Now he told her, that she +had the best of it, she having a good Life to stand by her, while his +debaucheries and ungodly Life did always stare him in the face. Now he +told her, the counsel that she often gave him, was good; though he was +so bad as not to take it. + +Now he would hear her talk to him, and he would lie sighing by her +while she so did. Now he would bid her pray for him, that he might be +delivered from Hell. {145a} + +He would also now consent, that some of her good Ministers might come +to him to comfort him; and he would seem to shew them kindness when +they came, for he would treat them kindly with words, and hearken +diligently to what they said, only he did not care that they should +talk much of his ill spent life, because his conscience was clogged +with that already; he cared not now to see his old companions, the +thoughts of them was a torment to him: and now he would speak kindly to +that child of his that took after its mothers steps, though he could +not at all abide it before. + +He also desired the prayers of good people, that God of his mercy would +spare him a little longer, promising that if God would but let him +recover this once, what a new, what a penitent man he would be toward +God, and what a loving husband he would be to his wife: what liberty +he would give her, yea how he would goe with her himself to hear her +Ministers, and how they should go hand in hand in the way to heaven +together. + +Atten. Here was a fine shew of things; I’le warrant you, his wife was +glad for this. + +Wise. His wife! Aie, and a many good people besides: it was noysed all +over the Town, {145b} what a great change there was wrought upon Mr. +Badman; how sorry he was for his sins, how he began to love his wife, +how he desired good men should pray to God to spare him; and what +promises he now made to God in his sickness, that if ever he should +raise him from his sick bed to health again, what a new penitent man he +would be towards God, and what a loving husband to his good wife. + +Well, ministers prayed, and good people rejoyced, thinking verily that +they now had gotten a man from the Devil; nay, some of the weaker sort +did not stick to say that God had began a work of Grace in his heart; +and his wife, poor woman, {145c} you cannot think how apt she was to +believe it so; she rejoyced, and she hoped as she would have it. But, +alas! alas! in little time things all proved otherwise. + +After he had kept his Bed a while, his distemper began to abate, and he +to feel himself better, so he in little time was so finely mended, that +he could walk about the house, and also obtained a very fine stomach +to his food: {146a} and now did his wife and her good friends stand +gaping, to see Mr. Badman fulfill his promise of becoming new towards +God, and loving to his wife: but the contrary only shewed it self. For +so soon as ever he had hopes of mending, and found that his strength +began to renew, his trouble began to goe off his heart, and he grew as +great a stranger to his frights and fears, as if he had never had them. + +But verily, I am apt to think, that one reason of his no more +regarding, or remembring of his sick-bed fears, and of being no better +for them, was, some words that the Doctor that supplied him with +Physick said to him when he was mending. For as soon as Mr. Badman +began to mend, the Doctor comes and sits him down by him in his house, +and there fell into discourse with him about the nature of his disease; +and among other things they talked of Badmans trouble, and how he +would cry out, tremble, and express his fears of going to Hell when +his sickness lay pretty hard upon him. To which the Doctor replyed: +{146b} That those fears and Out-cries did arise from the height of +his distemper, for that disease was often attended with lightness of +the head, by reason the sick party could not sleep, and for that the +vapours disturbed the brain: But you see Sir, quoth he, that so soon +as you got sleep and betook your self to rest, you quickly mended, and +your head settled, and so those frenzies left you. + +And was it so indeed, thought Mr. Badman; was my troubles, only the +effects of my distemper, and because ill vapours got up into my brain? +Then surely, since my Physician was my Saviour, my Lust again shall be +my God. So he never minded Religion more, but betook him again to the +world, his lusts and wicked companions: And there was an end of Mr. +Badmans Conversion. + +Atten. I thought, (as you told me of him) that this would be the result +of the whole; for I discerned by your relating of things, that the +true symptoms of conversion were wanting in him, and that those that +appeared to be any thing like them, were only such as the reprobates +may have. + +Wise. You say right, for there wanted in him, when he was most +sensible, a sence of the pollution of his Nature; he only had guilt for +his sinful actions, the which Cain, and Pharaoh, and Saul, and Judas, +those reprobates, have had before him. {147a} + +Besides, the great things that he desired, were, to be delivered from +going to Hell, (and who would willingly?) and that his life might be +lengthened in this world. We find not by all that he said or did, that +Jesus Christ the Saviour was desired by him, from a sence of his need +of his Righteousness to cloath him, and of his Spirit to sanctifie him. +{147b} + +His own strength was whole in him, he saw nothing of the treachery of +his own heart; for had he, he would never have been so free to make +promises to God of amendment. He would rather have been afraid, that +if he had mended, he should have turned with the dog to his vomit, and +have begged prayers of Saints, and assistance from heaven upon that +account, that he might have been kept from doing so. + +’Tis true he did beg prayers of good people, and so did Pharaoh of +Moses and Aaron, and Simon Magus of Simon Peter. {147c} + +His mind also seemed to be turned to his wife and child; but alas! +’twas rather from conviction that God had given him concerning their +happy estate over his, than for that he had any true love to the work +of God that was in them. True, some shews of kindness he seemed to have +for them, and so had rich Dives, when in Hell, to his five brethren +that were yet in the world; yea he had such love, as to wish them in +Heaven, that they might not come thither to be tormented. {147d} + +Atten. Sick-bed Repentance is seldom good for any thing. + +Wise. You {147e} say true, it is very rarely good for any thing indeed. +Death is unwelcom to Nature, and usually when sickness and death visit +the sinner; the first taking of him by the shoulder, and the second +standing at the Bed-chamber door to receive him; then the sinner begins +to look about him, and to bethink with himself, These will have me +away before God; and I know that my Life has not been as it should, +how shall I do to appear before God! Or if it be more the sence of the +punishment, and the place of the punishment of sinners, that also is +starting to a defiled conscience, now rouzed by deaths lumbring at the +door. + +And hence usually is sick-bed Repentance, and the matter of it: To wit, +to be saved from Hell, and from Death, and that God will restore again +to health till they mend; concluding that it is in their power to mend, +as is evident by their large and lavishing promises to do it. + +I have known many, that, when they have been sick, have had large +measures of this kind of Repentance, and while it has lasted, the noyse +and sound thereof, has made the Town to ring again: but alas! how long +has it lasted? oft-times scarce so long as untill the party now sick +has been well. It has passed away like a mist or a vapour, it has +been a thing of no continuance. But this kind of Repentance is by God +compared to the howling of a dog. And they have not cried unto me with +their heart, when they howled upon their bed. {148a} + +Atten. Yet one may see, by this, the desperateness of mans heart: +{148b} for what is it but desperate wickedness, to make promise to God +of amendment, if he will but spare them; and yet so soon as they are +recovered (or quickly after,) fall to sin as they did before, and never +to regard their promise more. + +Wise. It is a sign of desperateness indeed; yea, of desperate madness. +For surely, they must needs think, that God took notice of their +promise, that he heard the words that they spake, {148c} and that he +hath laid them up against the time to come; and will then bring out, +and testifie to their faces, that they flattered him with their mouth, +and lyed unto him with their tongue, {148d} when they lay sick, to +their thinking, upon their death-bed, and promised him that if he would +recover them they would repent and amend their ways. But thus, as I +have told you, Mr. Badman did. He made great promises that he would be +a New man, that he would leave his sins, and become a Convert, that he +would love, &c. his godly wife, &c. Yea many fine words had Mr. Badman +in his sickness, but no good actions when he was well. + +Atten. And how did his good wife take it, when she saw that he had no +Amendment, but that he returned with the Dog to his vomit, to his old +courses again? + +Wise. Why it {149a} broke her heart, it was a worse disappointment to +her than the cheat that he gave her in marriage: At least she laid it +more to heart, and could not so well grapple with it. You must think +that she had put up many a prayer to God for him before, even all the +time that he had carried it so badly to her, and now when he was so +affrighted in his sickness, and so desired that he might live and mend, +poor woman, she thought that the time was come for God to answer her +prayers; nay, she did not let with gladness, to whisper it out amongst +her Friends, that ’twas so: but when she saw her self disappointed by +her husbands turning Rebel again, she could not stand up under it, but +falls into a languishing distemper, and in a few weeks gave up the +Ghost. + +Atten. Pray how did she dye? + +Wise. Die! she dyed bravely; full of comfort of the faith of her +Interest in Christ, and by him, of the world to come: she had many +brave Expressions in her sickness, and gave to those that came to +visit her many signs of her salvation; the thoughts of the Grave, but +specially of her Rising again, were sweet thoughts to her. She would +long for Death, because she knew it would be her Friend. She behaved +her self like to some that were making of them ready to go meet their +Bridegroom. {149b} Now, said she, I am going to rest from my sorrows, +my sighs, my tears, my mournings and complaints: I have heretofore +longed to be among the Saints, but might by no means be suffered to +goe, but now I am going, (and no man can stop me) to the great Meeting, +to the general Assembly, and Church of the first-born which are written +in Heaven. {149c} There I shall have my hearts desire; there I shall +worship without Temptation or other impediment; there I shall see the +face of my Jesus, whom I have loved, whom I have served, and who now, +I know, will save my soul. {149d} I have prayed often for my husband, +that he might be converted, but there has been no answer of God in that +matter; Are my prayers lost? are they forgotten? are they thrown over +the barr? No; they are hanged upon the horns of the golden Altar, and I +must have the benefit of them my self, that moment that I shall enter +into the gates, in at which the righteous Nation that keepeth truth +shall enter: I say, I shall have the benefit of them. I can say as holy +David; I say, I can say of my husband, as he could of his enemies. As +for me, when they were sick my cloathing was of sack-cloth, I humbled +my soul with fasting, and my prayer returned into my bosom. {150a} My +prayers are not lost, my tears are yet in God’s bottle; I would have +had a Crown, and Glory for my husband, and for those of my children +that follow his steps; but so far as I can see yet, I must rest in the +hope of having all my self. + +Atten. Did she talk thus openly? + +Wise. No; this she spake but to one or two of her most intimate +acquaintance, who were permitted to come and see her, when she lay +languishing upon her death-bed. + +Atten. Well, but pray go on in your relation, this is good: I am glad +to hear it, this is as a cordial to my heart while we sit thus talking +under this tree. + +Wise. When she drew near her end, she called for her husband, and when +he was come to her, she told him, {150b} That now he and she must +part, and said she, God knows, and thou shalt know, that I have been a +loving, faithful Wife unto thee; my prayers have been many for thee; +and as for all the abuses that I have received at thy hand, those I +freely and heartily forgive, and still shall pray for thy conversion, +even as long as I breathe in this world. But husband, I am going +thither, where no bad man shall come, and if thou dost not convert, +thou wilt never see me more with comfort; let not my plain words offend +thee: I am thy dying wife, and of my faithfulness to thee, would leave +this Exhortation with thee: Break off thy sins, fly to God for mercy +while mercies gate stands open; remember, that the day is coming, when +thou, though now lusty and well, must lye at the gates of death, as I +do: And what wilt thou then do, if thou shalt be found with a naked +soul, to meet with the Cherubims with their flaming swords? yea, what +wilt thou then do, if Death and Hell shall come to visit thee, and thou +in thy sins, and under the Curse of the Law? + +Atten. This was honest and plain: but what said Mr. Badman to her? + +Wise. He did what he could to divert her talk, {151a} by throwing in +other things; he also shewed some kind of pity to her now, and would +ask her, What she would have? and with various kind of words put her +out of her talk; for when she see that she was not regarded, she fetcht +a deep sigh, and lay still. So he went down, and then she called for +her Children, and began to talk to them. And first she spake to those +that were rude, {151b} and told them the danger of dying before they +had grace in their hearts. She told them also, that Death might be +nearer them than they were aware of; and bid them look, when they went +through the Church-yard again, if there was not little graves there. +And, ah children, said she, will it not be dreadful to you, if we only +shall meet at the day of Judgment, and then part again, and never see +each other more? And with that she wept, the Children (also) wept; so +she held on her discourse: Children, said she, I am going from you, I +am going to Jesus Christ, and with him there is neither sorrow, nor +sighing, nor pain, nor tears, nor death. {151c} Thither would I have +you go also, but I can neither carry you, nor fetch you thither; but if +you shall turn from your sins to God, and shall beg mercy at his hands +by Jesus Christ, you shall follow me, and shall, when you dye, come to +the place where I am going, that blessed place of Rest: and then we +shall be for ever together, beholding the face of our Redeemer, to our +mutual and eternal joy. So she bid them remember the words of a dying +mother when she was cold in her grave, and themselves were hot in their +sins, if perhaps her words might put check to their vice, and that they +might remember and turn to God. + +Then they all went down; but her {151d} Darling, to wit, the child that +she had most love for, because it followed her ways. So she addressed +her self to that. Come to me, said she, my sweet child, thou art the +child of my joy: I have lived to see thee a Servant of God; thou shalt +have eternal life. I, my sweet heart, shall goe before, and thou shalt +follow after; if thou shalt hold the beginning of thy confidence +stedfast to the end. {152a} When I am gone, do thou still remember my +words, love thy Bible, follow my Ministers, deny ungodliness still, and +if troublous times shall come, set an higher price upon Christ, his +Word and Wayes, and the testimony of a good conscience, than upon all +the world besides. Carry it kindly and dutifully to thy Father, but +choose none of his ways. If thou mayest, goe to service, choose that, +rather than to stay at home; but then be sure to choose a service where +thou mayest be helped forwards in the way to heaven; and that thou +mayest have such a service, speak to my Minister, he will help thee, if +possible, to such an one. + +I would have thee also, my dear child, to love thy Brothers and +Sisters, but learn none of their naughty tricks. Have no fellowship +with the unfruitfull works of darkness, but rather reprove them. {152b} +Thou hast Grace, they have none: do thou therefore beautifie the way +of salvation before their eyes, by a godly life, and conformable +conversation to the revealed will of God, that thy Brothers and Sisters +may see and be the more pleased with the good wayes of the Lord. + +If thou shalt live to marry, take heed of being served as I was; that +is, of being beguiled with fair words, and the flatteries of a lying +tongue. But first be sure of godliness. Yea, as sure as it is possible +for one to be in this world: trust not thine own eyes, nor thine own +Judgment; I mean as to that persons godliness that thou art invited to +marry. Ask counsel of good men, and do nothing therein, if he lives, +without my Ministers advice. I have also my self desired him to look +after thee. Thus she talked to her children, and gave them counsel, and +after she had talked to this a little longer, she kiss’d it, and bid it +go down. + +Well, in short, her time drew on, and the day that she must die. So she +{152c} died with a soul full of Grace, an heart full of comfort, and by +her death ended a life full of trouble. Her husband made a Funerall for +her, perhaps because he was glad he was rid of her, but we will leave +that to be manifest at Judgment. + +Atten. This Woman died well: And now we are talking of the dying of +Christians, I will tell you a story of one that died some time since +in our Town. The man was a godly old Puritan, for so the godly were +called in time past. This man after a long, and godly life, fell sick, +of the sickness, whereof he died. And as he lay drawing on, the woman +that looked to him thought she heard Musick, and that the sweetest that +ever she heard in her life, which also continued untill he gave up the +Ghost: [Picture: Take note symbol] now when his soul departed from +him, the Musick seemed to withdraw and to go further and further off +from the house, and so it went untill the sound was quite gone out of +hearing. + +Wise. What do you think that might be? + +Atten. For ought I know, the melodious Notes of Angels, that were sent +of God to fetch him to Heaven. + +Wise. I cannot say but that God goes out of his Ordinary Road with us +poor mortals sometimes. I cannot say this of this woman, but yet she +had better musick in her heart than sounded in this womans ears. + +Atten. I believe so; but pray tell me, did any of her other children +hearken to her words, so as to be bettered in their souls thereby? + +Wise. One of them did, {153b} and became a very hopefull young man: but +for the rest I can say nothing. + +Atten. And what did Badman do after his wife was dead? + +Wise. Why even as he did before, he scarce mourned a fortnight for her, +and his mourning then was, I doubt, more in fashion than in heart. + +Atten. Would he not sometimes talk of his Wife, when she was dead? + +Wise. Yes, when the fit took him, and could commend her too extremely; +saying, she was a good, godly, vertuous woman. But this is not a thing +to be wondred at: It is common with wicked men, to hate Gods Servants +while alive, and to commend them when they are dead. So served the +Pharisees the Prophets: Those of the Prophets that were dead, they +commended; and those of them that were alive they condemned. {153c} + +Atten. But did not Mr. Badman marry again quickly? + +Wise. No, not a good while after: and when he was asked the reason, +he would make this slighty answer, Who would keep a Cow of their own, +that can have a quart of milk for a penny? {154a} Meaning, Who would be +at the charge to have a Wife, that can have a Whore when he listeth? +So villanous, so abominable did he continue after the death of his +wife. Yet at last there was one was too hard for him. For, getting of +him to her upon a time, and making of him sufficiently drunk, she was +so cunning as to get a promise of marriage of him, and so held him to +it, and forced him to marry her. {154b} And she, as the saying is, was +as good as he, {154c} at all his vile and ranting tricks: she had her +companions as well as he had his, and she would meet them too at the +Tavern and Ale-house, more commonly than he was aware of. To be plain, +she was a very Whore, and had as great resort came to her, where time +and place was appointed, as any of them all. Aie, and he smelt it too, +but could not tell how to help it. For if he began to talk, she could +lay in his dish the whores that she knew he haunted, and she could fit +him also with cursing and swearing, for she would give him Oath for +Oath, and Curse for Curse. + +Atten. What kind of oaths would she have? + +Wise. Why damn her, and sink her, and the like. + +Atten. These are provoking things. + +Wise. So they are: but God doth not altogether let such things goe +unpunished in this life. Something of this I have shewed you already, +and will here give you one or two Instances more. + +There lived, saith one, {154d} in the year 1551. in a city of Savoy, +a man who was a monstrous Curser and Swearer, and though he was often +admonished and blamed for it, yet would he by no means mend his +manners. At length a great plague happening in the City, he withdrew +himself into a Garden, where being again admonished to give over his +wickedness, he hardned his heart more, Swearing, Blaspheming God, and +giving himself to the Devil: And immediately the Devil snatched him +up suddenly, his wife and kinswoman looking on, and carried him quite +away. The Magistrates advertised hereof, went to the place and examined +the Woman, who justified the truth of it. + +Also at Oster in the Dutchy of Magalapole, (saith Mr. Clark) a wicked +Woman, used in her cursing to give herself body and soul to the Devil, +and being reproved for it, still continued the same; till (being at a +Wedding-Feast) the Devil came in person, and carried her up into the +Air, with most horrible outcries and roarings: And in that sort carried +her round about the Town, that the Inhabitants were ready to dye for +fear: And by and by he tore her in four pieces, leaving her four +quarters in four several high-wayes; and then brought her Bowels to the +Marriage-feast, and threw them upon the Table before the Maior of the +Town, saying, Behold, these dishes of meat belong to thee, whom the +like destruction waiteth for, if thou dost not amend thy wicked life. + +Atten. Though God forbears to deal thus with all men that thus rend and +tare his Name, and that immediate Judgments do not overtake them; yet +he makes their lives by other Judgments bitter to them, does he not? + +Wise. Yes, yes. And for proof, I need goe no further than to this +Badman and his wife; for their railing, and cursing, and swearing ended +not in words: They would fight and fly at each other, and that like +Cats and Dogs. But it must be looked upon as the hand and Judgment of +God upon him for his villany; he had an honest woman before, but she +would not serve his turn, and therefore God took her away, and gave +him one as bad as himself. Thus that measure that he meted to his +first wife, this last did mete to him again. And this is a punishment, +wherewith sometimes God will punish wicked men. So said Amos to +Amaziah: Thy wife shall be an Harlot in the City. {155} With this +last wife Mr. Badman lived a pretty while; but, as I told you before, +in a most sad and hellish manner. And now he would bewail his first +wifes death: not of love that he had to her Godliness, for that he +could never abide, but for that she used alwayes to keep home, whereas +this would goe abroad; his first wife was also honest, and true to +that Relation, but this last was a Whore of her Body: The first woman +loved to keep things together, but this last would whirl them about as +well as he: The first would be silent when he chid, and would take it +patiently when he abused her, but this would give him word for word, +blow for blow, curse for curse; so that now Mr. Badman had met with his +match: {156a} God had a mind to make him see the baseness of his own +life, in the wickedness of his wives. {156b} But all would not do with +Mr. Badman, he would be Mr. Badman still: This Judgment did not work +any reformation upon him, no, not to God nor man. + +Atten. I warrant you that Mr. Badman thought when his wife was dead, +that next time he would match far better. + +Wise. What he thought I cannot tell, but he could not hope for it in +this match. For here he knew himself to be catcht, he knew that he was +by this woman intangled, and would therefore have gone back again, but +could not. He knew her, I say, to be a Whore before, and therefore +could not promise himself a happy life with her. For he or she that +will not be true to their own soul, will neither be true to husband nor +wife. And he knew that she was not true to her own soul, and therefore +could not expect she should be true to him but Solomon says, An whore +is a deep pit, and Mr. Badman found it true. For when she had caught +him in her pit, she would never leave him till she had got him to +promise her Marriage; and when she had taken him so far, she forced him +to marry indeed. And after that, they lived that life that I have told +you. + +Atten. But did not the neighbours take notice of this alteration that +Mr. Badman had made? + +Wise. Yes; and many of his Neighbours, yea, many of those that were +carnal said, {156c} ’Tis a righteous Judgment of God upon him, for +his abusive carriage and language to his other wife: for they were +all convinced that she was a vertuous woman, and he, vile wretch, had +killed her, I will not say, with, but with the want of kindness. + +Atten. And how long I pray did they live thus together? + +Wise. Some fourteen or sixteen years, even untill (though she also +brought somthing with her) they had sinned all away, and parted as poor +as Howlets. {156d} And, in reason, how could it be otherwise? he would +have his way, and she would have hers; he among his companions, and she +among hers; he with his Whores, and she with her Rogues; and so they +brought their Noble to Nine-pence. + +Atten. Pray of what disease did Mr. Badman die, for now I perceive we +are come up to his death? + +Wise. I cannot so properly say that he died of one disease, {157a} +for there were many that had consented, and laid their heads together +to bring him to his end. He was dropsical, he was consumptive, he was +surfeited, was gouty, and, as some say, he had a tang of the Pox in his +bowels. Yet the Captain of all these men of death that came against him +to take him away, was the Consumption, for ’twas that that brought him +down to the grave. + +Atten. Although I will not say, but the best men may die of a +consumption, a dropsie, or a surfeit; yea, that these may meet upon a +man to end him: yet I will say again, that many times these diseases +come through mans inordinate use of things. Much drinking brings +dropsies, consumptions, surfeits, and many other diseases; and I doubt, +that Mr. Badman’s death did come by his abuse of himself in the use +of lawfull and unlawfull things. I ground this my sentence upon that +report of his life that you at large have given me. + +Wise. I think verily that you need not call back your sentence; for +’tis thought by many, that by his Cups and his Queans he brought +himself to this his destruction: he was not an old man when he dyed, +nor was he naturally very feeble, but strong, and of a healthy +complexion: Yet, as I said, he moultered away, and went, when he set a +going, rotten to his Grave. And that which made him stink when he was +dead, I mean, that made him stink in his Name and Fame, was, that he +died with a spice of the foul disease upon him: A man whose life was +full of sin, and whose death was without repentance. + +Atten. These were blemishes sufficient to make him stink indeed. + +Wise. They were so, and they did do it. No man could speak well of him +when he was gone. {157b} His Name rotted above ground, as his Carkass +rotted under. And this is according to the saying of the wise man: The +memory of the just is blessed, but the name of the wicked shall rot. +{157c} + +This Text, in both the parts of it, was fulfilled upon him and the +woman that he married first. For her Name still did flourish, though +she had been dead almost seventeen years; but his began to stink and +rot, before he had been buried seventeen dayes. + +Atten. That man that dieth with a life full of sin, and with an heart +void of repentance, although he should die of the most Golden disease +(if there were any that might be so called) I will warrant him his Name +shall stink, and that in Heaven and Earth. + +Wise. You say true; and therefore doth the name of Cain, Pharaoh, Saul, +Judas, and the Pharisees, though dead thousands of years agoe, stink as +fresh in the nostrils of the world as if they were but newly dead. + +Atten. I do fully acquiesce with you in this. But, Sir, since you have +charged him with dying impenitent, pray let me see how you will prove +it: {158a} not that I altogether doubt it, because you have affirmed +it, but yet I love to have proof for what men say in such weighty +matters. + +Wise. When I said, he died without repentance, I meant, so far as those +that knew him, could judge, when they compared his Life, the Word, and +his Death together. + +Atten. Well said, they went the right way to find out whether he had, +that is, did manifest that he had repentance or no. Now then shew me +how they did prove he had none? + +Wise. So I will: And first, {158b} this was urged to prove it. He had +not in all the time of his sickness, a sight and sence of his sins, but +was as secure, and as much at quiet, as if he had never sinned in all +his life. + +Atten. I must needs confess that this is a sign he had none. For how +can a man repent of that of which he hath neither sight nor sence? But +’tis strange that he had neither sight nor sence of sin now, when he +had such a sight and sence of his evil before: I mean when he was sick +before. + +Wise. He was, as I said, as secure now, as if he had been as sinless as +an Angel; though all men knew what a sinner he was, for he carried his +Sins in his Forehead. His debauched Life was read and known of all men; +but his Reputation was read and known of no man; for, as I said, he had +none. And for ought I know, the reason he had no sence of his sins now, +was because he profited not by that sence that he had of them before. +He liked not to retain that knowledge of God then, that caused his sins +to come to remembrance: Therefore God gave him up now to a reprobate +mind, to hardness and stupidity of Spirit; and so was that Scripture +fulfilled upon him, He hath blinded their eyes. And that, Let their +eyes be darkned that they may not see. {159a} Oh! for a man to live +in sin, and to go out of the world without Repentance for it, is the +saddest Judgement that can overtake a man. + +Atten. But, Sir, although both you and I have consented that {159b} +without a sight and sence of sin there can be no Repentance, yet that +is but our bare Say-so; let us therefore now see if by the Scripture we +can make it good. + +Wise. That is easily done. The three thousand that were converted, +(Acts the second,) repented not, till they had sight and sence of their +sins: {159c} Paul repented not till he had sight and sence of his sins: +the Jailor repented not till he had sight and sence of his sins: nor +could they. For of what should a man repent? The Answer is, of Sin. +What is it to Repent of sin? The answer is, To be sorry for it, to turn +from it. {159d} But how can a man be sorry for it, that has neither +sight nor sence of it. David did, not only commit sins, but abode +impenitent for them, untill Nathan the Prophet was sent from God to +give him a sight and sence of them; {159e} and then, but not till then, +he indeed repented of them. Job, in order to his Repentance, cries unto +God, Shew me wherefore thou contendest with me. And again, That which I +see not teach thou me, I have born chastisement, I will not offend any +more: {159f} That is, not in what I know, for I will repent of it; nor +yet in what I know not, when thou shalt shew me it. + +Also Ephraims Repentance was after he was turned to the sight and sence +of his sins, and after he was instructed about the evil of them. {159g} + +Atten. These are good testimonies of this truth, and doe (if matter +of fact, with which Mr. Badman is charged, be true), prove indeed +that he did not repent, but as he lived, so he dyed in his sin: For +without Repentance a man is sure to dye in his sin; for they will lie +down in the dust with him, {160a} rise at the Judgement with him, hang +about his Neck like Cords and Chains when he standeth at the Barre +of Gods Tribunal, and goe with him too when he goes away from the +Judgment-seat, with a Depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire, +prepared for the Devil and his Angels; and there shall fret and gnaw +his Conscience, because they will be to him a never-dying worm. {160b} + +Wise. You say well, and I will add a word or two more to what I have +said: Repentance, as it is not produced without a sight and sence +of sin, so every sight and sence of sin cannot produce it: I mean, +every sight and sence of sin cannot {160c} produce that Repentance, +that is Repentance unto salvation; repentance never to be repented +of. For it is yet fresh before us, that Mr. Badman had a sight and +sence of sin, in that fit of sickness that he had before, but it dyed +without procuring any such godly fruit; as was manifest by his so +soon returning with the Dog to his Vomit. Many people think also that +Repentance stands in Confession of sin only, but they are very much +mistaken: For Repentance, as was said before, is a being sorry for, and +a turning from transgression to God by Jesus Christ. Now, if this be +true, that every sight and sence of sin will not produce Repentance, +then Repentance cannot be produced there where there is no sight and +sence of sin. That every sight and sence of sin will not produce +repentance, to wit, the godly repentance that we are speaking of, is +manifest in Cain, Pharaoh, Saul and Judas, who all of them had sence, +great sence of sin, but none of them repentance unto life. + +Now I conclude, that Mr. Badman did die impenitent, and so a death most +miserable. + +Atten. But pray now, before we conclude our discourse of Mr. Badman, +give me another proof of his dying in his sins. + +Wise. Another proof is this. {160d} He did not desire a sight and +sence of sins, that he might have repentance for them. Did I say he +did not desire it, I will add, he greatly desired to remain in his +security: and that I shall prove by that which follows. First, he could +not endure that any man, now, should talk to him of his sinfull life, +and yet that was the way to beget a sight and sence of sin, and so of +repentance from it in his soul. But, I say, he could not endure such +discourse. Those men that did offer to talk unto him of his ill-spent +Life, they were as little welcome to him in the time of his last +sickness, as was Elijah when he went to meet with Ahab, as he went down +to take possession of Naboths Vineyard. Hast thou found me, said Ahab, +O mine enemy? {161a} So would Mr. Badman say in his heart to and of +those that thus did come to him, though indeed they came even of love, +to convince him of his evil life, that he might have repented thereof, +and have obtained mercy. + +Atten. Did good men then goe to see him in his last sickness? + +Wise. Yes: Those that were his first wifes acquaintance, they went to +see him, and to talk with, and to him, if perhaps he might now, at +last, bethink himself, and cry to God for mercy. + +Atten. They did well to try now at last if they could save his soul +from Hell: But pray how can you tell that he did not care for the +company of such? + +Wise. Because of the differing Carriage that he had for them, from +what he had when his old carnal companions came to see him: When his +old Campanions came to see him, he would stir up himself as much as he +could both by words and looks, to signifie they were welcome to him; he +would also talk with them freely, and look pleasantly upon them, though +the talk of such could be none other but such as David said, carnal men +would offer to him, when they came to visit him in his sickness: If +he comes to see me, says he, he speaketh vanity, his heart gathereth +iniquity to itself. {161b} But these kind of talks, I say, Mr. Badman +better brooked, than he did the company of better men. + +But I will more particularly give you a Character {161c} of his +carriage to good men (and good talk) when they came to see him. + +1. When they were come, he would seem to fail in his spirits at the +sight of them. + +2. He would not care to answer them to any of those questions that they +would at times put to him, to feel what sence he had of sin, death, +Hell, and Judgment: But would either say nothing, or answer them by way +of evasion, or else by telling of them he was so weak and spent that he +could not speak much. + +3. He would never shew forwardness to speak to, or talk with them, but +was glad when they held their tongues. He would ask them no question +about his state and another world, or how he should escape that +damnation that he had deserved. + +4. He had got a haunt at last to bid his wife and keeper, when these +good people attempted to come to see him, to tell them that he was +asleep or inclining to sleep, or so weak for want thereof, that he +could not abyde any noyse. And so they would serve them time after +time, till at last they were discouraged from coming to see him any +more. + +5. He was so hardned, now, in this time of his sickness, that he would +talk, when his companions came unto him, to the disparagement of those +good men (and of their good doctrine too) that of love did come to see +him, and that did labour to convert him. + +6. When these good men went away from him, he would never say, Pray +when will you be pleased to come again, for I have a desire to more of +your company, and to hear more of your good instruction? No not a word +of that, but when they were going would scarce bid them drink, or say, +Thank you for your good company, and good instruction. + +7. His talk in his sickness with his companions, would be of the World, +as Trades, Houses, Lands, great Men, great Titles, great places, +outward Prosperity, or outward Adversity, or some such carnal thing. + +By all which I conclude, that he did not desire a sence and sight of +his sin, that he might repent and be saved. + +Atten. It must needs be so as you say, if these things be true that you +have asserted of him. And I do the rather believe them, because I think +you dare not tell a lie of the dead. + +Wise. I was one of them that went to him, and that beheld his carriage +and manner of way, and this is a true relation of it that I have given +you. + +Atten. I am satisfied. But pray if you can, shew me now by the Word, +what sentence of God doth pass upon such men? + +Wise. Why, the man that is thus averse to repentance, that desires not +to hear of his sins, that he might repent and be saved; is said to be a +man that saith unto God, Depart from me, for I desire not the knowledge +of thy wayes. {163a} He is a man that sayes in his heart and with his +actions, I have loved strangers, (sins) and after them I will goe. He +is a man that shuts his eyes, stops his ears, and that turneth his +spirit against God. Yea he is the man that is at enmity with God, and +that abhorres him with his soul. {163b} + +Atten. What other signe can you give me that Mr. Badman died without +repentance? + +Wise. Why, he did never heartily cry to God for mercy all the time of +his affliction. {163c} True, when sinking fits, stitches, or pains took +hold upon him, then he would say as other carnal men use to do, Lord +help me, Lord strengthen me, Lord deliver me, and the like: But to cry +to God for mercy, that he did not, but lay, as I hinted before, as if +he never had sinned. + +Atten. That is another bad sign indeed; for crying to God for mercy, +is one of the first signs of repentance. When Paul lay repenting of +his sin, upon his bed, the Holy Ghost said of him, Behold he prayes. +{163d} But he that hath not the first signs of repentance, ’tis a sign +he hath none of the other, and so indeed none at all. I do not say, but +there may be crying, where there may be no sign of repentance. They +cryed, says David, to the Lord, but he answered them not; {163e} but +that he would have done, if their cry had been the fruit of repentance. +But, I say, if men may cry, and yet have no repentance, be sure, they +have none, that cry not at all. It is said in Job, They cry not when +he bindeth them; {163f} that is, because they have no repentance; no +repentance, no cryes; false repentance, false cryes; true repentance, +true cryes. + +Wise. I know that it is as possible for a man to forbear crying that +hath repentance, as it is for a man to forbear groaning that feeleth +deadly pain. He that looketh into the Book of Psalms, (where repentance +is most lively set forth even in its true and proper effects,) shall +there find, that crying, strong crying, hearty crying, great crying, +and uncessant crying, hath been the fruits of repentance: (But none of +this had this Mr. Badman, therefore he dyed in his sins.) + +That Crying is an inseparable effect of repentance, is seen in these +Scriptures. Have mercy upon me, O God, according to the multitude of +thy tender mercies, blot out my transgressions. O Lord, rebuke me +not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. Have +mercy upon me, O Lord, for I am weak. O Lord, heal me for my bones are +vexed. My soul is also vexed, but thou, O Lord, how long: Return, O +Lord, deliver my soul: O save me for thy mercies sake: O Lord, rebuke +me not in thy wrath, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure; for +thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore. There +is no soundness in my flesh, because of thine anger, neither is there +any rest in my bones, because of my sin. For mine iniquities are gone +over mine head, as an heavy burthen, they are too heavy for me. My +wounds stink and are corrupt; because of my foolishness. I am troubled, +I am bowed down greatly, I goe mourning all the day long. My loyns +are filled with a loathsom disease, and there is no soundness in my +flesh. I am feeble, and sore broken, I have roared by reason of the +disquietness of my heart. {164a} + +I might give you a great number more of the holy sayings of good men, +whereby they express how they were, what they felt, and whether they +cryed or no, when repentance was wrought in them. Alas, alas, it is as +possible for a man, when the pangs of Guilt are upon him to forbear +praying, as it is for a woman when pangs of travel are upon her to +forbear crying. If all the world should tell me that such a man hath +repentance, yet if he is not a praying man, I should not be perswaded +to believe it. + +Atten. I know no reason why you should: for there is nothing can +demonstrate that such a man hath it. But pray Sir, what other sign have +you, by which you can prove that Mr. Badman died in his sins, and so in +a state of damnation? + +Wise. I have this to prove it. {164b} Those who were his old sinfull +companions in the time of his health, were those whose company and +carnal talk he most delighted in, in the time of his sickness. I did +occasionally hint this before, but now I make it an argument of his +want of grace: for where there is indeed a work of Grace in the heart, +that work doth not only change the heart, thoughts and desires, but the +conversation also; yea conversation and company too. When Paul had a +work of grace in his soul, he assayed to Joyn himself to the Disciples. +He was for his old companions in their abominations no longer: he was +now a Disciple, and was for the company of Disciples. And he was with +them coming in and going out in Jerusalem. {165a} + +Atten. I thought something when I heard you make mention of it before. +Thought I, this is a shrewd sign that he had not grace in his heart. +Birds of a feather, thought I, will flock together: If this man was +one of Gods children, he would heard with Gods children, his delight +would be with, and in the company of Gods children. As David said, I +am a companion of all them that fear thee, and of them that keep thy +precepts. {165b} + +Wise. You say well, for what fellowship hath he that believeth with +an Infidel? And although it be true, that all that joyn to the godly +are not godly, yet they that shall inwardly choose the company of the +ungodly and open profane, rather than the company of the godly, as +Mr. Badman did; surely are not godly men, but profane. He was, as I +told you, out of his element, when good men did come to visit him, but +then he was where he would be, when he had his vain companions about +him. Alas! grace, as I said, altereth all, heart, life, company, and +all; for by it the heart and man is made new: and a new heart, a new +man, must have objects of delight that are new, and like himself: Old +things are passed away; Why? For all things are become new. {165c} Now +if all things are become new, to wit, heart, mind, thoughts, desires, +and delights, it followeth by consequence that the company must be +answerable: hence it is said, That they that believed were together; +that they went to their own company; that they were added to the +Church; that they were of one heart and of one soul; {165d} and the +like. Now if it be objected that Mr. Badman was sick, and so could +not goe to the godly, yet he had a tongue in his head, and could, had +he had an heart, have spoken to some to call or send for the godly to +come to him. Yea, he would have done so; yea the company of all others, +specially his fellow sinners, would, even in every appearance of them +before him, have been a burden and a grief unto him. His heart and +affection standing bent to good, good companions would have suited him +best. But his Companions were his old Associates, his delight was in +them, therefore his heart and soul were yet ungodly. + +Atten. Pray how was he when he drew near his end? for I perceive that +what you say of him now, hath reference to him, and to his actions, +at the beginning of his sickness? Then he could endure company, and +much talk; besides, perhaps then he thought he should recover and not +die, as afterwards he had cause to think, when he was quite wasted +with pining sickness, when he was at the graves mouth. But how was he, +I say, when he was (as we say) at the graves mouth, within a step of +death? when he saw, and knew, and could not but know, that shortly he +must dye, and appear before the Judgment of God? + +Wise. Why {166a} there was not any other alteration in him, than what +was made by his disease upon his body: sickness, you know, will alter +the body, also pains and stitches will make men groan; but for his +mind he had no alteration there. His mind was the same, his heart was +the same. He was the self-same Mr. Badman still: not onely in Name but +Conditions, and that to the very day of his death: yea, so far as could +be gathered to the very moment in which he died. + +Atten. Pray how was he in his death? was Death strong upon him? or did +he dye with ease, quietly? + +Wise. As quietly as a {166b} Lamb. There seemed not to be in it, to +standers by, so much as a strong struggle of Nature: and as for his +Mind, it seemed to be wholly at quiet. But pray why do you ask me this +question? + +Atten. Not for mine own sake, but for others. For there is such {166c} +an opinion as this among the ignorant: That if a man dies, as they call +it, like a Lamb, that is, quietly, and without that consternation of +mind that others shew in their death, they conclude, and that beyond +all doubt, that such an one is gone to Heaven, and is certainly escaped +the wrath to come. + +Wise. There is no Judgment to be made by a quiet death, of the Eternal +state of him that so dieth. Suppose one man should die quietly, another +should die suddenly, and a third should die under great consternation +of spirit; no man can Judge of their eternall condition by the manner +of any of these kinds of deaths. He that dies quietly, suddenly, or +under consternation of spirit, may goe to Heaven, or may goe to Hell; +no man can tell whether a man goes, by any such manner of death. The +{167a} Judgment therefore that we make of the eternall condition of a +man must be gathered from another consideration: To wit, Did the man +die in his sins? did he die in unbelief? did he die before he was born +again? then he is gone to the Devil and hell, though he died never so +quietly. Again, Was the man a good man? had he faith and holiness? +was he a lover and a Worshipper of God by Christ, according to his +Word? Then he is gone to God and Heaven, how suddenly, or in what +consternation of mind soever he died: But Mr. Badman was naught, his +life was evil, his wayes were evil; evil to his end: he therefore went +to Hell and to the Devil, how quietly soever he died. + +Indeed there is, in some cases, a Judgment to be made of a mans eternal +condition by the manner of the death he dieth. {167b} As suppose now +a man should murder himself, or live a wicked life, and after that +die in utter despair; these men without doubt do both of them goe to +Hell. And here I will take an occasion to speak of two of Mr. Badmans +Brethren, (for you know I told you before that he had Brethren,) and of +the manner of their death. One of them killed himself, and the other +after a wicked life died in utter despair. Now I should not be afraid +to conclude of both these, that they went by, and through their death +to hell. + +Atten. Pray tell me concerning the first, how he made away himself? + +Wise. Why, he took a knife and cut his own Throat, and immediately gave +up the Ghost and died. Now what can we judge of such a mans condition; +since the Scripture saith, No murderer hath eternall life, &c. but +that it must be concluded, that such an one is gone to Hell. He was a +murderer, a Self-murderer; and he is the worst murderer, one that slays +his own body and soul: nor doe we find mention made of any but cursed +ones that doe such kind of deeds. I say, no mention made in holy Writ +of any others, but such, that murder themselves. + +And this is the sore Judgment of God upon men, when God shall, for the +sins of such, give them up to be their own Executioners, or rather to +execute his Judgment and Anger upon themselves. And let me earnestly +give this Caution to sinners. Take heed, Sirs, break off your sins, +lest God serves you as he served Mr. Badmans Brother: That is, lest he +gives you up to be your own Murderers. + +Atten. Now you talk of this. [Picture: Take note symbol] I did once +know a man, a Barber, that took his own Raisor, and cut his own Throat, +and then put his head out of his Chamber-window, to shew the neighbours +what he had done, and after a little while died. + +Wise. [Picture: Take note symbol] I can tell you a more dreadful thing +than this: I mean as to the manner of doing the fact. {168c} There was +about twelve years since, a man that lived at Brafield by Northampton, +(named John Cox) that murdered himself; the manner of his doing of it +was thus. He was a poor man, and had for some time been sick (and the +time of his sickness was about the beginning of Hay-time;) and taking +too many thoughts how he should live afterwards, if he lost his present +season of work, he fell into deep despair about the world, and cryed +out to his wife the morning before he killed himself, saying, We are +undone. But quickly after, he desired his wife to depart the room, +Because, said he, I will see if I can get any rest; so she went out: +but he instead of sleeping, quickly took his Raisor, and therewith cut +up a great hole in his side, out of which he pulled, and cut off some +of his guts, and threw them, with the blood up and down the Chamber. +But this not speeding of him so soon as he desired, he took the same +Raisor and therewith cut his own throat. His wife then hearing of him +sigh and fetch his wind short, came again into the room to him, and +seeing what he had done, she ran out and called in some Neighbours, +who came to him where he lay in a bloody manner, frightfull to behold. +Then said one of them to him, Ah! John, what have you done? are you +not sorry for what you have done? He answered roughly, ’Tis too late +to be sorry. Then said the same person to him again, Ah! John, pray to +God to forgive thee this bloody act of thine. At the hearing of which +Exhortation, he seemed much offended, and in angry manner said, Pray! +and with that flung himself away to the wall, and so after a few gasps +died desperately. When he had turned him of his back, to the wall, the +blood ran out of his belly as out of a boul, and soaked quite through +the bed to the boards, and through the chinks of the boards it ran +pouring down to the ground. Some said, that when the neighbours came to +see him, he lay groaping with his hand in his bowels, reaching upward, +as was thought, that he might have pulled or cut out his heart. ’Twas +said also, that some of his Liver had been by him torn out and cast +upon the boards, and that many of his guts hung out of the bed on the +side thereof. But I cannot confirm all particulars; but the general of +the story, with these circumstances above mentioned, is true; I had it +from a sober and credible person, who himself was one that saw him in +this bloody state, and that talked with him, as was hinted before. + +Many other such dreadful things might be told you, but these are +enough, and too many too, if God in his wisdom had thought necessary to +prevent them. + +Atten. This is a dreadful Story: and I would to God that it might +be a warning to others to instruct them to fear before God, and +pray, lest he gives them up to doe as John Cox hath done. For surely +self-murderers cannot goe to Heaven: and therefore, as you have said, +he that dieth by his own hands, is certainly gone to Hell. But speak a +word or two of the other man you mentioned. + +Wise. What? of a wicked man dying in Despair? + +Atten. Yes, of a wicked man dying in despair. + +Wise. Well then: {169a} This Mr. Badmans other Brother was a very +wicked man, both in Heart and Life; I say in Heart, because he was so +in Life, nor could anything reclaim him; neither good Men, good Books, +good Examples, nor Gods Judgements. Well, after he had lived a great +while in his sins, God smote with a sickness of which he died. Now in +his sickness his Conscience began to be awakened, and he began to roar +out of his ill-spent Life, insomuch that the Town began to ring of him. +Now when it was noysed about, many of the Neighbours came to see him, +and to read by him, as is the common way with some; but all that they +could doe, [Picture: Take note symbol] could not abate his terror, but +he would lie in his Bed gnashing of his teeth, and wringing of his +wrists, concluding upon the Damnation of his Soul, and in that horror +and despair he dyed; not calling upon God, but distrusting in his +Mercy, and Blaspheming of his Name. + +Atten. This brings to my mind a man that a Friend of mine told me of. +[Picture: Take note symbol] He had been a wicked liver; so when he +came to die, he fell into despair, and having concluded that God had +no mercy for him he addressed himself to the Devil for favour, saying, +Good Devil be good unto me. + +Wise. This is almost like Saul, who being forsaken of God, went to the +Witch of Endor, and so to the Devil for help. {170a} But alas, should +I set my self to collect these dreadful Stories, it would be easie in +little time to present you with hundreds of them: But I will conclude +as I began; They that are their own Murderers, or that die in Despair, +after they have lived a life of wickedness, do surely go to Hell. + +And here I would put in a Caution: Every one that dieth under +consternation of spirit; that is, under amazement and great fear, do +not therefore die in Despair: For a good man may have this for his +bands in his death, and yet go to Heaven and Glory. For, as I said +before, He that is a good man, a man that hath Faith and Holiness, a +lover and Worshipper of God by Christ, according to his Word, may die +in consternation of spirit: for Satan will not be wanting to assault +good men upon their death-bed, but they are secured by the Word and +Power of God; yea, and are also helped, though with much agony of +spirit, to exercise themselves in Faith and Prayer, the which he that +dieth in Despair, can by no means doe. But let us return to Mr. Badman, +and enter further Discourse of the manner of his Death. + +Atten. I think you and I are both of a mind; for just now I was +thinking to call you back to him also. And pray now, since it is your +own motion to return again to him, let us discourse a little more of +his quiet and still death. + +Wise. With all my heart. You know we were speaking before of the manner +of Mr. Badmans death: {171a} How that he dyed very stilly and quietly; +upon which you made observation, that the common people conclude, +that if a man dyes quietly, and as they call it, like a Lamb, he is +certainly gone to Heaven: when alas, if a wicked man dyes quietly, if a +man that has all his dayes lived in notorious sin, dyeth quietly; his +quiet dying is so far off from being a sign of his being saved, that it +is an uncontrollable proof of his damnation. This was Mr. Badmans case, +he lived wickedly even to the last, and then went quietly out of the +world: therefore Mr. Badman is gone to Hell. + +Att. Well, but since you are upon it, and also so confident in it, to +wit, that a man that lives a wicked life till he dyes, and then dyes +quietly, is gone to Hell; let me see what shew of proof you have for +this your opinion. + +Wise. My first argument is drawn from the Necessity of repentance: No +man can be saved except he repents, nor can he repent that sees not, +that knows not that he is a sinner, and he that knows himself to be +a sinner, will, I will warrant him, be molested for the time by that +knowledge. {171b} This, as it is testified by all the Scriptures, so +it is testified by Christian experience. He that knows of himself to +be a sinner, is molested, especially if that knowledge comes not to +him untill he is cast upon his death-bed; molested, I say, before he +can dye quietly. Yea, he is molested, dejected and cast down, he is +also made to cry out, to hunger and thirst after mercy by Christ, +and if at all he shall indeed come to die quietly, I mean with that +quietness that is begotten by Faith and Hope in Gods mercy (to the +which Mr. Badman and his brethren were utter strangers,) his quietness +is distinguished by all Judicious observers, by what went before it, by +what it flows from, and also by what is the fruit thereof. + +I must confess I am no admirer of sick-bed repentance, for I think +verily it is seldom {171c} good for any thing: but I say, he that hath +lived in sin and profaneness all his dayes, as Mr. Badman did, and yet +shall dye quietly, that is, without repentance steps in ’twixt his life +and death, he is assuredly gone to Hell, and is damned. + +Atten. This does look like an argument indeed; for Repentance must +come, or else we must goe to Hell-fire: and if a lewd liver shall (I +mean that so continues till the day of his death), yet goe out of the +world quietly, ’tis a sign that he died without repentance, and so a +sign that he is damned. + +Wise. I am satisfied in it, for my part, and that from the Necessity, +and Nature of repentance. It is necessary, because God calls for it, +and will not pardon sin without it: Except ye repent ye shall all +likewise perish. This is that which God hath said, and he will prove +but a fool-hardy man that shall yet think to goe to Heaven and glory +without it. Repent, for the Ax is laid to the root of the tree, every +tree therefore that bringeth not forth good fruit, (but no good fruit +can be where there is not sound repentance) shall be hewn down, and +cast into the fire. {172a} This was Mr. Badmans case, he had attending +of him a sinfull life, and that to the very last, and yet dyed quietly, +that is, without repentance; he is gone to Hell and is damned. For the +Nature of repentance, I have touched upon that already, and shewed, +that it never was where a quiet death is the immediate companion of a +sinfull life; and therefore Mr. Badman is gone to Hell. + +Secondly, {172b} My second argument is drawn from that blessed Word of +Christ, While the strong man armed keeps the house, his goods are in +peace, till a stronger than he comes: but the strong man armed kept Mr. +Badmans house, that is, his heart, and soul, and body, for he went from +a sinfull life quietly, out of this world: the stronger did not disturb +by intercepting with sound repentance, betwixt his sinful life and his +quiet death: Therefore Mr. Badman is gone to Hell. + +The strong man armed is the Devil, and quietness is his security. The +Devil never fears losing of the sinner, if he can but keep him quiet: +can he but keep him quiet in a sinfull life, and quiet in his death, he +is his own. Therefore he saith, his goods are in peace; that is, out +of danger. There is no fear of the Devils losing such a soul, I say, +because Christ, who is the best Judge in this matter, saith, his goods +are in peace, in quiet, and out of danger. + +Atten. This is a good one too; {173a} for doubtless, peace and quiet +with sin, is one of the greatest signs of a damnable state. + +Wise. So it is. Therefore, when God would shew the greatness of his +anger against sin and sinners in one word, he saith, They are joyned +to Idols, let them alone. {173b} Let them alone, that is, disturb +them not; let them goe on without controll; let the Devil enjoy them +peaceably, let him carry them out of the world unconverted quietly. +This is one of the sorest of Judgments, and bespeaketh the burning +anger of God against sinfull men. See also when you come home, the +fourteenth Verse of the Chapter last mentioned in the Margent: I will +not punish your daughters when they commit Whoredom. I will let them +alone, they shall live and dye in their sins. But, + +Thirdly, My third argument {173c} is drawn from that saying of Christ: +He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their hearts; that they should +not see with their eyes, nor understand with their hearts, and be +converted, and I should heal them. {173d} + +There are three things that I will take notice of from these words. + +1. The first is, That there can be no conversion to God where the eye +is darkned, and the heart hardened. The eye must first be made to see, +and the heart to break and relent under and for sin, or else there +can be no conversion. He hath blinded their eyes, and hardned their +hearts, lest they should see, and understand and (So) be converted. And +this was clearly Mr. Badmans case, he lived a wicked life, and also +died with his eyes shut, and heart hardened, as is manifest, in that a +sinful life was joyned with a quiet death; and all for that he should +not be converted, but partake of the fruit of his sinfull life in Hell +fire. + +2. The second thing that I take notice of from these words is, That +this is a dispensation and manifestation of Gods anger against a man +for his sin. When God is angry with men, I mean, when he is so angry +with them, this among many is one of the Judgments that he giveth them +up unto, to wit, to blindness of mind, and hardness of heart, which +he also suffereth to accompany them till they enter in at the gates +of death. And then, and there, and not short of then and there, their +eyes come to be opened. Hence it is said of the rich man mentioned in +Luke, He dyed, and in Hell he lifted up his eyes: {174a} Implying that +he did not lift them up before: He neither saw what he had done, nor +whither he was going, till he came to the place of execution, even into +Hell. He died asleep in his soul; he dyed bespotted, stupified, and so +consequently for quietness, like a Child or Lamb, even as Mr. Badman +did: this was a sign of Gods anger; he had a mind to damn him for his +sins, and therefore would not let him see nor have an heart to repent +for them, lest he should convert, and his damnation, which God had +appointed, should be frustrate: lest they should be converted, and I +should heal them. + +3. The third thing that I take notice of from hence, is, That a +sinfull life and a quiet death annexed to it, is the ready, the open, +the beaten, the common high-way to Hell: there is no surer sign of +Damnation, than for a man to dye quietly after a sinfull life. I do +not say that all wicked men, that are molested at their death with a +sence of sin and fears of Hell, do therefore goe to Heaven, (for some +are also made to see, and are left to despair (not converted by seeing) +that they might go roaring out of this world to their place:) But I +say, there is no surer sign of a mans Damnation, than to dye quietly +after a sinful life; than to sin, and dye with his eyes shut; than to +sin, and dye with an heart that cannot repent. He hath blinded their +eyes and hardened their heart, that they should not see with their +eyes, nor understand with their heart; (no, not so long as they are in +this world) lest they should see with their eyes, and understand with +their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them. {174b} + +God has a Judgment for wicked men; God will be even with wicked men: +God knows how to reserve the ungodly to the day of Judgment to be +punished: {174c} And this is one of his wayes by which he doth it. Thus +it was with Mr. Badman. + +4. Fourthly, {174d} It is said in the Book of Psalms, concerning the +wicked, There is no bands in their death, but their strength is firm. +By no bands, he means no troubles, no gracious chastisements, no such +corrections for sin as fall to be the Lot of Gods people for theirs; +yea, that many times falls to be theirs, at the time of their death. +Therefore he adds concerning the wicked, They are not troubled (then) +like other men, neither are they plagued like other men; but go as +securely out of the world, as if they had never sinned against God, +and put their own souls into danger of damnation. There is no band in +their death. They seem to go unbound, and set at liberty, out of this +world, though they have lived notoriously wicked all their dayes in it. +The Prisoner that is to dye at the Gallows for his wickedness, must +first have his Irons knock’t off his legs; so he seems to goe most at +liberty, when indeed he is going to be executed for his transgressions. +Wicked men also have no bands in their death, they seem to be more at +liberty when they are even at the Wind-up of their sinfull life, than +at any time besides. + +Hence you shall have them boast of their Faith and Hope in Gods Mercy, +when they lye upon their death-bed; yea, you shall have them speak as +confidently of their salvation, as if they had served God all their +dayes: when the truth is, the bottom of this their boasting is, because +they have no bands in their death. + +Their sin and base life comes not into their mind to correct them, and +bring them to repentance; but presumptuous thoughts, and an hope and +faith of the Spiders (the Devils) making, possesseth their soul, to +their own eternal undoing. {175a} + +Hence wicked mens hope, is said to dye, not before, but with them; they +give up the Ghost together. And thus did Mr. Badman. His sins and his +hope went with him to the Gate, but there his hope left him, because it +dyed there; but his sins went in with him, to be a worm to gnaw him in +his conscience for ever and ever. + +The opinion therefore of the common people concerning this kind of +dying, is {175b} frivolous and vain; for Mr. Badman died like a Lamb, +or as they call it, like a Chrisom child, quietly and without fear. I +speak not this with reference to the strugling of nature with death, +but as to the strugling of the conscience with the Judgment of God. +I know that Nature will struggle with death. I have seen a Dog and +Sheep dye hardly: And thus may a wicked man doe, because there is an +antipathy betwixt nature and death. But even while, even then, when +Death and Nature are strugling for mastery, the soul, the conscience, +may be as besotted, as benummed, as senceless and ignorant of its +miserable state, as the block or bed on which the sick lyes: And thus +they may dye like a Chrisom child in shew, but indeed like one who by +the Judgment of God is bound over to eternal damnation; and that also +by the same Judgment is kept from seeing what they are, and whither +they are going, till they plunge down among the flames. + +And as it is a very great Judgment of God on wicked men that so dye, +(for it cuts them off from all possibility of repentance, and so of +salvation) {176a} so it is as great a Judgment upon those that are +their companions that survive them. For by the manner of their death, +they dying so quietly, so like unto chrisom children, as they call it, +they are hardened, and take courage to go on in their course. + +For comparing their life with their death, their sinful cursed lives +with their child-like, Lamb-like death, they think that all is well, +that no damnation is happened to them; Though they lived like Devils +incarnate, yet they dyed like harmless ones. There was no whirl-wind, +no tempest, no band, nor plague in their death: They dyed as quietly +as the most godly of them all, and had as great faith and hope of +salvation, and would talk as boldly of salvation as if they had +assurance of it. But as was their hope in life, so was their death: +Their hope was without tryal, because it was none of Gods working, and +their death was without molestation, because so was the Judgment of God +concerning them. + +But I say, at this their survivors take heart to tread their steps, and +to continue to live in the breach of the Law of God; yea they carry it +statelily in their villanies; for so it follows in the Psalm. There +is no bands in their death, but their strength is firm, &c. Therefore +pride compasseth them (the survivors) about as a chain, violence +covereth them as a garment. {176b} Therefore they take courage to do +evil, therefore they pride themselves in their iniquity. Therefore, +Wherefore? Why, because their fellows died, after they had lived long +in a most profane and wicked life, as quietly and as like to Lambs, as +if they had been innocent. + +Yea, they are bold, by seeing this, to conclude, that God, either does +not, or will not take notice of their sins. They speak wickedly, they +speak loftily. They speak wickedly of sin, for that they make it better +than by the Word it is pronounced to be. They speak wickedly concerning +oppression, that they commend, and count it a prudent act. They also +speak loftily: They set their mouth against the Heavens, &c. And they +say, How doth God know, and is there knowledge in the most High? +And all this, so far as I can see, ariseth in their hearts from the +beholding of the quiet and lamb-like death of their companions. {177a} + +Behold these are the ungodly that prosper in the world, {177b} (that +is, by wicked ways) they increase in riches. + +This therefore is a great Judgment of God, both upon that man that +dyeth in his sins, and also upon his companion that beholdeth him so +to dye. He sinneth, he dyeth in his sins, and yet dyeth quietly. What +shall his companion say to this? What Judgment shall he make how God +will deal with him, by beholding the lamb-like death of his companion? +Be sure, he cannot, as from such a sight say, Wo be to me, for Judgment +is before him: He cannot gather, that sin is a dreadful and a bitter +thing, by the child-like death of Mr. Badman. But must rather, if +he judgeth according to what he sees, or according to his corrupted +reason, conclude with the wicked ones of old, That every one that doth +evil, is good in the sight of the Lord, and he delighteth in them; or +where is the God of Judgment? {177c} + +Yea, this is enough to puzzle the wisest man. David himself, was put +to a stand, by beholding the quiet death of ungodly men. Verily, sayes +he, I have cleansed my heart in vain, and have washed my hands in +innocency. Psal. 73. 13. They, to appearance fare better by far than I: +Their eyes stand out with fatness, they have more than heart can wish; +But all the day long have I been plagued, and chastned every morning. +This, I say, made David wonder, yea, and Job and Jeremiah too: But +he goeth into the Sanctuary, and then he understands their end, nor +could he understand it before. I went into the Sanctuary of God: What +place was that? why there where he might enquire of God, and by him be +resolved of this matter: Then, says he, understood I their end. Then I +saw, that thou hast set them in slippery places, and that thou castest +them down to destruction. Castest them down, that is, suddenly, or +as the next words say, As in a moment they are utterly consumed with +terrors: which terrors did not cease them on their sick-bed, for they +had no bands in their death. The terrors therefore ceased them there, +where also they are holden in them for ever. This he found out, I say, +but not without great painfulness, grief and pricking in his reins: so +deep, so hard and so difficult did he find it, rightly to come to a +determination in this matter. + +And indeed, this is a deep Judgment of God towards ungodly sinners; +it is enough to stagger a whole world, only the Godly that are in the +world have a Sanctuary to go to, where the Oracle and Word of God is, +by which his Judgements, and a reason of many of them are made known +to, and understood by them. + +Atten. Indeed this is a staggering dispensation. It is full of the +wisdom and anger of God. And I believe, as you have said, that it is +full of Judgment to the world. Who would have imagined, that had not +known Mr. Badman, and yet had seen him die, but that he had been a man +of an holy life and conversation, since he died so stilly, so quietly, +so like a Lamb or Chrisom child? Would they not, I say, have concluded, +that he was a righteous man? or that if they had known him and his +life, yet to see him die so quietly, would they not have concluded that +he had made his peace with God? Nay further, if some had known that he +had died in his sins, and yet that he died so like a Lamb, would they +not have concluded, that either God doth not know our sins, or that +he likes them; or that he wants power, or will, or heart, or skill +to punish them; since Mr. Badman himself went from a sinfull life so +quietly, so peaceably, and so like a Lamb as he did? + +Wise. Without controversie, this is an heavy judgment of God upon +wicked men; (Job 21. 23) one goes to Hell in peace, another goes to +Hell in trouble; one goes to Hell being sent thither by his own hands; +another goes to Hell, being sent thither by the hand of his companion; +one goes thither with his eyes shut, and another goes thither with his +eyes open; one goes thither roaring, and another goes thither boasting +of Heaven and Happiness all the way he goes: One goes thither like Mr. +Badman himself, and others go thither as did his Brethren. But above +all, Mr. Badmans death, as to the manner of dying, is the fullest of +Snares and Traps to wicked men; therefore they that die as he, are the +greatest stumble to the world: They goe, and goe, they go on peaceably +from Youth to old Age, and thence to the Grave, and so to Hell, without +noyse: They goe as an Ox to the slaughter, and as a fool to the +correction of the Stocks; that is, both sencelesly and securely. O! but +being come at the gates of Hell! O! but when they see those gates set +open for them: O! but when they see that that is their home, and that +they must go in thither, then their peace and quietness flies away for +ever: Then they roar like Lions, yell like Dragons, howl like Dogs, and +tremble at their Judgment, as do the Devils themselves. Oh! when they +see they must shoot the Gulf and Throat of Hell! when they shall see +that Hell hath shut her ghastly Jaws upon them! when they shall open +their eyes, and find themselves within the belly and bowels of Hell! +then they will mourn, and weep, and hack, and gnash their teeth for +pain. But this must not be (or if it must, yet very rarely) till they +are gone out of the sight and hearing of those mortals whom they do +leave behind them alive in the world. + +Atten. Well, my good Neighbour Wiseman, I perceive that the Sun grows +low, and that you have come to a conclusion with Mr. Badmans Life and +Death; and therefore I will take my leave of you. Only first, let me +tell you, I am glad that I have met with you to day, and that our +hap was to fall in with Mr. Badmans state. I also thank you for your +freedom with me, in granting of me your reply to all my questions: I +would only beg your Prayers; that God will give me much grace, that I +may neither live nor die as did Mr. Badman. + +Wise. My good Neighbour Attentive, I wish your welfare in Soul and +Body; and if ought that I have said of Mr. Badmans Life and-Death, may +be of Benefit unto you, I shall be heartily glad; only I desire you to +thank God for it, and to pray heartily for me, that I with you may be +kept by the Power of God through Faith unto Salvation. + +Atten. Amen. Farewell. + +Wise. I wish you heartily Farewell. + + + + +MARGIN NOTES + + +_General note_. When Mr. Badman was printed much of the text was +annotated with notes in the margins. These are unlike our modern +footnotes in that they may apply to a range of text rather than at a +single point. However, in this Project Gutenberg eText it has not been +possible to reproduce the margin notes as such and hence they have been +turned into footnotes.—DP. + +{1a} Not included in this Project Gutenberg eText as we have already +released “The Holy War.”—DP. + +{1b} In this Project Gutenberg eText italics have been dropped as they +are excessive but otherwise the text, complete with capitalisation, +punctuation, spelling etc., is as in the edition transcribed.—DP. + +{20a} Original sin is the root of Actual transgressions. + +{20b} Mark 7. + +{21a} Job 11. 12. Ezek. 16. Exod. 13. 13. Chap. 34. 20. + +{21b} Rom. 5. + +{21c} Badman addicted to Lying from a child. + +{21d} A Lie knowingly told demonstrates that the heart is desperately +hard. + +{22a} The Lyers portion. Rev. 21. 8. 27. Chap. 22. 15. + +{22b} Prov. 22. 15. Chap. 23. 13, 14. + +{22c} Joh. 8. 44. + +{22d} The Devils Brat. + +{22e} Acts 5. 3, 4. + +{22f} The Father and Mother of a Lie. + +{23a} Mark. + +{23b} Some will tell a Lie for a Peny profit. + +{23c} An Example for Lyers. Acts 5. + +{24a} A Spirit of Lying accompanyed with other sins. + +{24b} Badman given to pilfer. + +{24c} Badman would rob his Father. + +{24d} Exod. 20. 15. + +{25a} Zech. 5. 3. + +{25b} Jer. 2. 26. How Badman did use to carry it when his Father used +to chide him for his sins. + +{25c} Badman more firmly knit to his Companions than either to Father +or Mother. + +{25d} Badman would rejoyce to think that his Parents death were at hand. + +{26a} 1 Sam. 2. 25. + +{26b} Badman counted his thieving no great matter. + +{26d} The Story of old Tod. + +{26e} Young Thieves takes notice. + +{27} Old Tod began his way to the Gallows by robbing of Orchards and +the like. + +{28a} Badman could not abide the Lords Day. + +{28b} Why Badman could not abide the Lords Day. + +{29a} God proves the heart what it is, by instituting of the Lords day, +and setting it apart to his service. + +{29b} Gen. 2. 2. Exod. 31. 13, 14, 15, 16, 17. Mar. 16. 1. Acts 20. +7. 1 Cor. 16. 1, 2. Mar. 2. 27, 28. Revel. 1. 10. + +{29c} Isa. 5. 8, 13.—Could not see where this fits in the text.—DP. + +{29d} Chap. 56. 2. + +{29e} Amos 8. 5. + +{30a} Heb. 4. 9. + +{30b} How Badman did use to spend the Lords Day. + +{30c} Ephes. 5. 6. + +{31a} Badman given to Swearing and Cursing. + +{31b} Rom. 6. 13. + +{31c} Swearing and Cursing a badge of Mr. Badmans honour. + +{31d} Difference betwixt Swearing and Cursing. + +{31e} What Swearing is. + +{32a} Exod. 20. 7. + +{32b} A man may sin in swearing to a truth. Jer. 5. 2. + +{32c} He that swears to a Lie, concludes that God is as wicked as +himself. + +{32d} Zech. 5. 3. Jer. 7. 9. Hos. 4. 2, 3. + +{33a} Six Causes of vain Swearing. + +{33b} Jam. 3. 6, 7, 8, 9. + +{34a} How Cursing is distinguished from Swearing. + +{34b} Of Cursing, what it is. + +{34c} 2 Sam. 16. 6, 7, 8. + +{34d} 1 King. 2. 8. + +{34e} How the profane ones of our times Curse. + +{35a} Job 30. 31. + +{35b} Badmans way of Cursing. + +{35c} The Damme Blade. + +{35d} Badman would curse his Father, &c. + +{35e} Badman would curse his Fathers Cattel. + +{36a} Job 15. Eccles. 7. 22. + +{36b} Four causes of Cursing. + +{36c} The dishonour it brings to God. + +{36d} Jam. 3. 9. + +{37a} Swearing and Cursing, are sins against the light of Nature. + +{37b} Gen. 31. + +{37c} Examples of Gods anger against them that Swear and Curse. + +{40a} Psal. 109. 17,18. + +{40b} A grievous thing to bring up Children wickedly. + +{41a} Badman put to be an Apprentice. + +{41b} Young Badmans Master, and his qualifications. + +{42a} A bad Master, a bad thing. + +{42b} How many ways a Master may be the ruin of an Apprentice. + +{43a} Children are great observers of what older folks doe. + +{43b} 1 Sam. 2. + +{43c} Badman had all advantages to be good, but continued Badman still. + +{43d} All good things abominable to Badman. + +{44a} Good counsel to Badman like Little-Ease. Prov. 9. 8. Chap. 15. +12. + +{44b} How Badman used to behave himself at Sermons. + +{45b} The desperate words of one H. S. who once was my Companion. He +was own bother to Ned, of whom you read before. + +{45c} Job 21. 14. Zech. 1. 11, 12, 13. + +{45d} Zech. 7. 13. + +{46a} Gen. 21. 9, 10. 2 King. 2. 23, 24. + +{46b} Badmans Acquaintance. + +{46c} A Sign of Gods Anger. + +{46d} Rom. 1. 28. + +{46e} Psal. 125. 5. + +{46f} 2 Thess. 2. 10, 11, 12. + +{47a} Prov. 12. 20. + +{47b} The Devils Decoys. + +{47c} Prov. 1. 29. + +{47e} This was done at Bedford. + +{48a} Prov. 7. 12, 13. + +{48b} Prov. 5. 11. + +{48c} 2 Pet. 2. 12, 13. + +{48d} Badman becomes a frequenter of Taverns. + +{48f} A Story for a Drunkard. + +{49a} Four evils attend drunkenness. + +{49b} Prov. 23. 20, 21. + +{49c} Eccles. 7. 17. + +{49d} Prov. 23. 29, 30. + +{50a} 1 Cor. 6. 10. + +{50b} The fifth evil the worst. + +{50c} Prov. 23. 34, 35. + +{50d} An Objection answered. + +{50e} Habak. 2, 9, 10, 11, 12. Ver. 5, 15. + +{51a} Badmans Masters Purse paid for his drunkenness. + +{51b} A Caution for Masters. + +{52b} Badmans third companion addicted to Uncleanness. + +{52c} Sins of great men dangerous. + +{53a} Prov. 5. 8. + +{53b} Chap. 7. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18. + +{53c} Signs of a whore. + +{54a} The sin of Uncleanness cried out against. + +{54b} What evils attend this sin. Prov. 6. 26. + +{54c} Gen. 38. 18. + +{54d} Prov. 31. 1, 2. + +{54f} A Story for unclean persons to take notice of. + +{55a} More evils attend this sin. + +{55c} Job 31. 1, 2, 3. + +{56} Prov. 6. 33. + +{57} Prov. 6. 26. + +{58a} Chap. 23. 27. Prov. 2. 18, 19. Chap. 7. 25, 26, 27. + +{58b} Prov. 22. 14. + +{58c} Ephes. 5. 5. + +{58d} Desperate words. + +{59b} Gen. 39. 10. + +{59c} Of chaste Joseph. + +{60a} Many are made whores by promises of Marriage, &c. + +{60b} Clarks Looking-glass for Sinners, Chap. 2. Pag. 12. + +{60c} Badman and his Master abhor one another. + +{60d} Prov. 29. 27. + +{61a} Young Badman runs away from his Master. + +{61b} He gets a new Master like himself. + +{61c} A sign of Gods anger upon young Badman. + +{62a} Demonstration of Gods anger towards him. + +{62b} Gen. 18. 18, 19. + +{62c} Psal. 7. 14. + +{62d} Jam. 1. 15. + +{63a} It concerns Parents to put their Children into good Families. + +{63b} Masters should also beware what Servants they entertain. + +{63c} Young Badman and his second Master cannot agree. + +{63d} Acts 16. 16. + +{63e} Reasons of their disagreeing. + +{64a} Acts 16. 17, 18, 19, 20. + +{64b} Ro. 14. 22. + +{64c} Bad Masters condemn themselves when they for badness beat their +Bad servants. + +{64d} 1 King. 16. 7. + +{65a} Why young Badman did not run away from this Master though he did +beat him. + +{65b} Why Badman could bear his last Masters reproof better than he +could the first. + +{65c} By what means Badman came to be compleated in his wickedness. + +{66a} Badman out of his time. + +{66b} He goes home to his Father. + +{66c} He refrains himself for Money. + +{66d} Severity what it inclines to. + +{67a} We are better at giving then taking good Counsel. + +{67b} This is to be considered. + +{68a} A good woman and her bad son. + +{68b} Mr. Badman sets up for himself, and quickly runs to the lands end. + +{69a} The reason of his runing out. + +{69b} Eccle. 11, 9. + +{69c} New companions. + +{69d} Mr. Badmans temper. + +{69e} Pro. 29. 3. Chap. 13. 20. + +{69f} Pro. 28. 7. + +{69g} Pro. 28. 19. + +{70a} Pro. 23. 21. + +{70b} His Behaviour under his decays. + +{70c} How he covered his decayes. + +{70d} Badman is for a rich Wife. + +{70e} Badman has a godly Maid in his eye. + +{71a} He seeks to get her, why, and how. + +{71b} He calls his Companions together, and they advise him how to get +her. + +{71c} Badman goes to the Damosel as his Counsel advised him. + +{72a} Badmans complement, his lying complement. + +{72b} Neglect of Counsel about marriage dangerous. + +{73a} Badman obtains his desire, is married, &c. + +{73b} His carriage judged ungodly and wicked. + +{73c} Mat. 23. + +{73d} The great alteration that quickly happened to Badmans wife. + +{73e} Mala. 3. 15. + +{73f} Expectation of Judgment is for such things. + +{73g} Job. 21. 30, 31, 32. + +{74a} An example of Gods anger on such as have heretofore committed +this sin of Mr. Badman. Gen 34. + +{74c} After Badman is married, his Creditors come upon him, and his +wives Portion pays for that which his whores were feasted with before +he was married. + +{75a} Now she reaps the fruits of her unadvisedness. + +{75b} Now Badman has got him a wife by Religion, he hangs it by as a +thing out of use, and entertains his old Companions. + +{75c} He drives good company from his wife. + +{75d} He goes to his Whores. + +{76a} He rails at his wife. + +{76b} He seeks to force his wife from her Religion. + +{76c} He mocks at her Preachers. + +{76d} He mocks his wife in her dejections. + +{76e} He refuses to let her go out to good company. + +{77a} She gets out sometimes by stealth. + +{77b} Her repentance and complaint. + +{77c} Psal. 120 + +{77d} The evil of being unequally yoaked together. + +{78a} 2 Cor. 6. 13. + +{78b} Gen. 3. 15. + +{78c} Deut. 2. 43. (This doesn’t exist but is as given in the text. +DP) + +{78d} Good counsel to those godly maids that are to marry. + +{79a} A caution to young women. + +{79b} Let Mr. Badmans wife be your Example. + +{80a} Deut. 7. 4, 5. (Rather unnecessary footnote. DP) + +{80b} 1 Cor. 7. 39. 2 Cor. 6. 14, 15, 16. + +{80c} Rules for those that are to marry. + +{80d} If you love your Souls take heed. + +{81a} Duet 7. + +{81b} Psal. 106. 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40. + +{81c} Badmans Children that he had by this good woman. + +{81d} Nehem. 13. 24. + +{82a} How the ungodly Father and godly Mother doe strive for the +Children that God doth give them. + +{82b} 2 King. 17. + +{83a} The advantages that Children have, whose Parents are both godly. + +{84a} The disadvantages that the Children of ungodly Parents have. + +{84b} Job 30. 8. + +{84c} A contest betwixt Mr. Badman and his wife. + +{85a} Ephes. 5. 28. + +{85b} With what weapons Badman did deal with his wife. + +{85c} Mr. Badmans heart discovered as to its enmity against the friends +of his wife. + +{86} Mark + +{88a} New discourse of Mr. Badman. + +{88b} Mr. Badman plays a new prank. + +{89} Mr. Badmans perfection. + +{90a} How Mr. Badman came to enjoy himself. + +{90b} 2 Chron. 28. 22. 1 King 21. 25. Gen. 13. 13. + +{90c} Job 21. 17. + +{90d} There are abundance like Mr. Badman. + +{91a} Pro. 24. 9. + +{91b} He that would be bad is bad. + +{91c} Matt 5. 28. + +{91d} Pro. 23. 7. Mat. 5. Rom. 7. 7. + +{92a} A bad heart makes a bad man. + +{92b} 1 Sam. 24. 13. Mat. 7. 16, 17, 18. + +{92c} Mar. 7. 20, 21, 22, 23. + +{93a} Mr. Badman had an art to break, and to get money that way. + +{93b} How he managed things in order to his breaking. + +{93c} He breaks. + +{94a} Mr. Badmans suger words to his Creditors. + +{94b} Badmans friend. + +{94c} What Mr. Badman propounds to his Creditors. + +{94d} They at last agree, and Mr. Badman gains by breaking. + +{95} There is no plea for his dishonesty. + +{96a} An answer to two questions. + +{96b} 1. Q[u]estion. + +{96c} Levit. 19. 13. + +{96d} The hainousness of this sin. + +{96e} 1 Thess. 4. 6. + +{96f} fair warning. + +{97a} Colos. 3. 25. + +{97b} Fair warning again. + +{97c} He that designedly commits this sin is like the Devil. + +{97d} 2. Question. + +{98a} How those that are Banckrupts should deal with their consciences. + +{98b} Good advice. + +{98c} Rom. 12. 11. + +{98d} 1 Tim. 5. 8. + +{98e} Pro. 18. 9. + +{98f} Good counsel again. + +{99a} How to find that thy decay came by the Judgment of God, or by thy +miscarriage. + +{99b} Another question. + +{99c} Pro. 10. 3. 1 Pet. 5. 6. + +{99d} Lam. 3. 33. + +{100a} Good advice again. Deut. 32. 15. + +{100b} James 1. 9, 10. + +{100c} Consider four things. + +{100d} Job 1. 21. Chap. 2. 8. + +{100e} Psal. 49. 6. + +{100f} Jam. 2. 5. + +{101a} Honest dealing with Creditors. + +{101b} Pro. 16. 33. + +{102a} Jer. 15. 10, 11. Pro. 16. 7. + +{102b} A heavy blot upon Religion. + +{103a} If Knaves will make profession their cloak to be vile, who can +help it? + +{103b} 1 Cor. 6. 8, 9, 10. 2 Tim. 3. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. + +{103c} Matt. 18. 6, 7, 8. + +{103d} Let such be disowned of all good men. + +{103e} Jer. 17. 11. + +{104a} Ezek. 20. 38, 39. + +{104b} 2 Cor. 7. 2. + +{104c} Mar. 10. 19. + +{104d} 1 Sam. 12. 3. + +{104e} Ver. 4. + +{105a} A question. + +{105b} An answer. + +{105c} 2 King. 4. 1, 2. + +{105d} Hag. 1. 9. + +{105e} God does sometimes blow upon his own people. How they should doe +at that time. + +{105f} Philip. 4. 12. + +{106} More of Mr. Badmans fraudulent dealing. He used deceitful weights +and scales. + +{107a} Levit. 19. 35, 36. + +{107b} Of Just weights and measures. + +{107c} Ezek. 45. 10. + +{107d} Pro. 20. 23. Chap. 11. 1. + +{107e} The evil of deceitful Balances, Weights and Measures. + +{107f} Deut. 25. 13, 14, 15, 16. + +{108a} The Old and New Law commands all men to be honest and upright in +their weights and measures. + +{108b} Luke 6. 88. + +{108c} Pat Scriptures for our purpose. + +{109a} Where false weights and measures are to be found. + +{109b} 1. With evil doers. + +{109c} Mic. 6. 10. + +{109d} 2. With the merciless and Oppressors. + +{109e} Hos. 12. 7. + +{109f} 3. With such as would swallow up the poor. + +{109g} Amos 8. 4, 5, 6, 7. + +{110a} 4. With impure ones. + +{110b} Mic. 6. 11. + +{110c} Dan. 5. 27. + +{111a} How Mr. Badman did cheat, and hide his cheating. + +{111b} Good Weights and a bad Ballance a deep piece of Knavery. + +{112a} Mat. 23. + +{112b} A cloak of Religion to blind Mr. Cheats Knavery. + +{112c} Some plead Custom to cheat. + +{112d} Deut. 16. 20. + +{113a} They get nothing that cozen and cheat. + +{113b} Mar. 9. + +{113c} Prov. 10. 3. Jer. 15. 13. Chap. 17. 3. + +{113d} Job 27. 17. + +{113e} Pro. 13. 22. + +{114a} More of Mr. Badmans Bad tricks. + +{114b} Amos 8. + +{114c} Another art to cheat withall. + +{115a} Zeph. 1. 9. + +{115b} Servants observe these words. + +{115c} Of Extortion. + +{115d} 1 Cor. 6. 9, 10. + +{116a} Who are Extortioners. + +{116b} Hucksters. + +{116c} Pro. 22. 16, 22. + +{117a} Deut. 23. 19. + +{118a} Whether it be lawful for a man to make the best of his own. +Proved in negative by 8 reasons. + +{118b} Good conscience must be used in selling. + +{118c} We must not make a prey of our neighbours Ignorance. + +{118d} Nor of his Neighbours Necessity. + +{119a} Nor of his Fondness of our commodity. + +{119b} We must use good conscience in buying. + +{119c} Gen. 23. 8, 9. + +{119d} 1 Chron. 21, 22. 24. + +{119e} Levit. 25. 14. + +{120a} Charity must be used in our dealings. + +{120b} 1 Cor. 16. 14. + +{120c} 1 Cor. 13. + +{120d} Ephes. 4. 25. + +{120e} There may be and is sin in trading. + +{121a} Matt. 7. 12. + +{121b} A man in trading must not offer violence to the Law of nature. + +{121c} Job. 37. 7. + +{121d} We must not abuse the Gift we have in the knowledge of earthly +things. + +{121e} 1 Cor. 10. 13. (Don’t see where this fits into text. DP) + +{121f} An eye to the glory of God in all we should have. + +{121g} Colo. 3. 17. + +{121h} Acts, 24. 15, 16. + +{122a} Levit. 25. 14. + +{122b} Badman used to laugh at them that told him of his faults. + +{122c} Luke. 16. 13, 14, 15. Chap. 6. 25. + +{123a} A question. + +{123b} An answer. + +{123c} Preparations to be a good dealer. + +{123d} Eccle. 5. 10, 11. + +{123e} 1 Tim. 6. 7, 8, 9. + +{124a} Ezek. 22. 13. + +{124b} Pro. 15. 17. Chap 16. 8. 1 Sam. 2. 5. Pro. 5. 21. + +{124c} Job 14. 17. + +{124d} Eccles. 5. 13, 14, 15. + +{124e} Prov. 20. 14. + +{125a} Amos 8. 5. + +{125b} A Judgment of God. 2 King. 7. + +{125c} Pro. 11. 26. + +{125d} Isa. 58. 6, 7, 8. + +{125e} Philip. 4. 5. + +{126a} Mr. Badman a very proud man. + +{126b} Of pride in general. + +{126c} Pro. 21. 24. + +{126d} Pride sticks close to nature. + +{127} Pro. 8. 13. Chap. 29. 23. Isa. 25. 11. Mal. 4. 1. + +{128a} Proud men do not love to be called proud. + +{128b} Two sorts of pride. + +{128c} Pro. 16. 5. Chap. 21. 4. Eccle. 7. 8. + +{128d} Isa. 3. 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22. + +{128e} Wicked men do hate that word that reproves their vice. + +{129a} Signes of a proud man in general. + +{129b} Pro. 30. 13. + +{129c} Pro. 17. 19. + +{129d} Mar. 7. + +{129e} In particular. + +{129f} Psal. 10. 2. + +{129g} Psal. 10. 4. + +{129h} Pro. 13. 10. + +{129i} Psal. 119. 51. + +{129j} Ver. 122. + +{129k} Jer. 13. 17. + +{129l} Chap. 43. 2. + +{129m} Mal. 3. 15. + +{129n} Of outward pride. + +{130a} 1 Tim. 2. 2. (Don’t see where this fits in the text.—DP) + +{130b} 1 Pet. 3. 3, 4, 5. + +{130c} Mr. Badman was not for having pride called pride. + +{130d} Professors guilty of the sin of pride. + +{131a} Jer. 3. 3. + +{131b} 1 Tim. 2. 9. + +{131c} 1 Pet. 3. 1, 2, 3. + +{131d} Jer. 23. 15. + +{131e} Ezra. 9. 2. + +{131f} Pride in professors a shame and stumbling-block to the world. + +{132b} Why pride is in such request. + +{132c} 1 Reason. Mar. 7. 22, 23. + +{132d} Obad. 3. + +{132e} 1 Joh. 2. 16. + +{132f} 1 Pet. 3. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. + +{133a} 3 Reason. + +{133b} 4 Reason. + +{133c} Isa. 6. + +{133d} 5 Reason. + +{134a} The evil effects of the sin of Pride. + +{134b} 1 Evil effect. 1 Tim. 3. 6. + +{134c} 2 Evil effect. Psal. 138. 9. + +{134d} 3 Evil effect. + +{135a} Jam. 4. 6. + +{135b} 4 Evil effect. Pro. 16. 25. + +{135c} 5 Evil effect. Pro. 11. 2. Prov. 16. 8. + +{135d} 6 Evil effect. 1 Tim. 3. 6. + +{135e} A general character of Mr. Badman. + +{135f} Psalm. 36. 1. + +{135g} A brief relation of Mr. Badmans ways. + +{136a} Isa. 26. 10. + +{136b} Isa. 9. 13. + +{136c} Isa. 26. 11. + +{136d} Psal. 29. 5. (Cannot see where this fits in the text.—DP) + +{136e} Pro. 17. 6. (Cannot see where this fits in the text.—DP) + +{136f} Isa. 26. 10. + +{136g} Mr. Badmans judgment of the Scriptures. + +{136h} Good men Mr. Badmans song. + +{137a} Psal. 50. 19. 20. + +{137b} Rom. 3. 7, 8. + +{137c} Jer. 23. 10. + +{137d} When the wicked watch, Gods people should be wary. + +{137e} Badman an angry, envious man. + +{138a} Pro. 14. 16. + +{138b} Eccle. 7. 9. + +{138c} Whence Envy flows. + +{138d} Pro. 27. 3, 4. + +{138e} Envie the worst of the four. + +{138f} Gal. 5. 19, 20. + +{139a} Pro. 14. 30. + +{139b} Envy is the father and mother of a many wickednesses. + +{139c} Jam. 3. 14, 15. + +{139d} Some of the births of Envy. + +{139e} Job. 5. 2. + +{139f} Matt. 27. 18. + +{139g} Mar. 15. 10. + +{139h} Acts 7. 9. + +{139i} Isa. 11. 13. + +{139j} Acts 13. 14. (Cannot see where this fits in the text.—DP) + +{140a} A rare thing. + +{140b} Mr. Badman under some trouble of mind. + +{140c} Mr. Badman brake his legg. + +{140d} He swears. + +{140e} He prays. + +{141a} It has no good effect upon him. + +{141c} How many sins do accompany drunkenness. + +{141d} Acts 17. 30, 31, 32. + +{142a} Job 34. 24, 25, 26. + +{142b} An open stroak. + +{142c} pag. 41. + +{143a} Mr. Badman fallen sick. + +{143b} His conscience is wounded. + +{143c} He cryes out in his sickness. + +{143d} His Atheism will not help him now. + +{144a} A dreadful example of Gods anger. + +{144c} What Mr. Badman did more when he was sick. + +{145a} Great alteration made in Mr. Badman. + +{145b} The Town-talk of Mr. Badmans change. + +{145c} His wife is comforted. + +{146a} Mr. Badman recovers and returns to his old course. + +{146b} Ignorant physicians kill souls while they cure bodyes. + +{147a} Gen. 4. 13. 14. Exo. 9. 27. 1 Sam. 15. 24. Matt. 27. 3, 4, 5. + +{147b} The true symptoms of conversion wanting in all Mr. Badmans sence +of sin and desires of mercy. + +{147c} Exo. 19. 28. Acts 8. 24. + +{147d} Luke 16. 27, 28. + +{147e} Of sick-bed repentance, and that it is to be suspected. + +{148a} Hos. 7. 14. + +{148b} A sign of the desperateness of mans heart. + +{148c} Deut. 1. 34, 35. + +{148d} Psal. 78. 34, 35, 36, 37. + +{149a} Mr. Badmans wifes heart is broken. + +{149b} Her Christian speech. + +{149c} Heb. 12. 22, 23, 24. + +{149d} Her talk to her friends. (Don’t see how this relates to the +text. DP) + +{150a} Ps. 35. 13. + +{150b} Her talk to her husband. + +{151a} He diverts her discourse. + +{151b} Her speech to her children that were rude. + +{151c} Rev. 7. 16. Chap. 21. 3, 4. + +{151d} Her speech to her darling. + +{152a} Heb. 3. 14. + +{152b} Ephes. 5. 11. + +{152c} Her death. + +{153b} One of her children converted by her dying words. + +{153c} Mat. 23. + +{154a} Mr. Badmans base language. + +{154b} He marryes again, and how he got this last wife. + +{154c} What she was, and how they lived. + +{154d} Clarks Looking Glass. + +{155} Amo. 7. 16, 17. + +{156a} He is punished in his last wife for his bad carriages towards his +first. + +{156b} He is not at all the better. + +{156c} None did pity him for his sorrow, but looked upon it as a just +reward. + +{156d} Badman and this last wife part as poor as Howlets. + +{157a} Mr Badmans sickness and diseases of which he died. + +{157b} Badmans name stinks when he is dead. + +{157c} Pro. 10. 7. + +{158a} That Mr. Badman dies impenitent is proved. + +{158b} 1 Proof that he died impenitent. + +{159a} Isa. 6. Ro. 11. + +{159b} No sence of sin, no repentance proved. + +{159c} Acts 2. Chap. 9. Chap. 16. + +{159d} Psal. 38. 18. + +{159e} 2 Sam. 12. + +{159f} Job 10. 2. Chap. 34. 32. + +{159g} Jer. 31. 18, 19, 20. + +{160a} Job 20. 11. Prov. 5. 22. + +{160b} Matt. 25. Isa. 66. 24. Mar. 9. 44. + +{160c} Every sight and sence of sin cannot produce repentance. + +{160d} 2 proof that he died impenitent. + +{161a} 1 King. 21. 17, 18, 19, 20, 21. + +{161b} Psal. 41. 6. + +{161c} How Badman carried it to good men when they came to visit him in +his last sickness. + +{163a} Job. 21. 14. + +{163b} Jer. 2. 25. Zech. 7. 11, 12. Acts. 28. 26, 27. + +{163c} 3 Proof that he died impenitent. + +{163d} Acts 9. 11. + +{163e} Psal. 18. 14. + +{163f} Job 36. 13. + +{164a} Psal. 51. 1. Psal. 6. 1, 2, 3, 4. Psal. 38. + +{164b} 4 Proof that he died impenitent. + +{165a} Acts. 9. 26. 28. + +{165b} Psal. 119. 63. + +{165c} 2 Cor. 5. 17. + +{165d} Acts. 4. 32, 33. Chap. 2. 44, 45, 46, 47. + +{166a} How Mr. Badman was when near his End. + +{166b} He died like a Lamb. + +{166c} The opinion of the Ignorant about his manner of dying. + +{167a} How we must judge whether men dye well or no. + +{167b} When we may judge of a mans eternal state by the manner of his +death. + +{168c} The story of John Cox. + +{169a} Of dying in Despair. + +{170a} 1 Sam. 28. + +{170b} Psal. 73. 4. (Don’t see where this fits into the text.—DP) + +{171a} Further discourse of Mr. Badmans death. + +{171b} He that after a sinfull life dies quietly, that is, without +repentance, goes to Hell. 1 Proof + +{171c} Sick-bed repentance seldom good for any thing. + +{172a} Luke 13. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. + +{172b} 2 Proof. + +{173a} Peace in a sinfull state is a sign of damnation. + +{173b} Hos 4. 17. + +{173c} 3 Proof. + +{173d} Joh. 12. 40. + +{174a} Luk. 16. 22. + +{174b} Rom. 2. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Acts 28. 26, 27. + +{174c} 2 Pet. 2. + +{174d} 4 Proof. 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The portrait of Bunyan drawn on +vellum by the same artist, and preserved in the Cracherode +Collection, furnished the basis of the full-length portrait, and +also of the sleeping likeness prefixed to the third edition of +the Pilgrim’s Progress, 1679" +title= +"Facsimile of the Frontispiece to the first edition of the Holy +War, engraved by Robert White. The portrait of Bunyan drawn on +vellum by the same artist, and preserved in the Cracherode +Collection, furnished the basis of the full-length portrait, and +also of the sleeping likeness prefixed to the third edition of +the Pilgrim’s Progress, 1679" +src="images/p0as.jpg" /> +</a></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><i>JOHN BUNYAN</i></p> +<h1>LIFE AND DEATH OF<br /> +M<sup>R</sup> BADMAN<br /> +<i>AND</i><br /> +THE HOLY WAR <a name="citation1a"></a><a href="#footnote1a" class="citation">[1a]</a></h1> +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">THE TEXT +EDITED BY</span><br /> +JOHN BROWN, D.D.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"> +<a href="images/p0bb.jpg"> +<img alt= +"Decorative graphic" +title= +"Decorative graphic" +src="images/p0bs.jpg" /> +</a></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span +class="smcap">Cambridge</span>:<br /> +at the University Press<br /> +1905</p> +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center">CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS +WAREHOUSE,</p> +<p style="text-align: center">C. 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In the opening +sentence of his preface he tells us it was intended by him as the +counterpart or companion picture to the Allegory. But +whatever his own intentions may have been, the Public of his own +time seem to have declined to accept the book in this +capacity. Indeed, another writer, who signs himself T. S., +undertook to complete Bunyan’s Allegory for him, in a book +in size and type closely resembling it, and entitled <i>The +Second Part of the Pilgrim’s Progress . . . exactly +Described under the Similitude of a Dream</i>. It was +printed for Jho. Malthus at the Sun in the Poultry, and published +in 1683. So far as is known, only one copy of this book is +now in existence, the copy which was formerly in the library of +the poet Southey and now in that of the Baptist Union. Upon +this Bunyan seems to have changed his purpose, so far as <i>The +Life and Death of Mr Badman</i> was concerned, and on the first +of January, 1685, published the story of Christiana and her +Children as his own Second Part of <i>The Pilgrim’s +Progress</i>.</p> +<p>The work before us, therefore, now stands apart by +itself. In its composition Bunyan seems to have been +greatly influenced, so far as form is concerned, by a book which +his wife brought with her on her marriage, and which, as he tells +us in his <i>Grace Abounding</i>, they read together. It +was entitled <i>The Plaine Man’s Pathway to Heaven</i>: By +Arthur Dent, Preacher of the Word of God at South Shoobury in +Essex. The eleventh impression, the earliest now known, is +dated 1609. Both books are in dialogue form, and in each +case the dialogue is supposed to be carried on through one long +day. Bunyan’s <i>Mr Wiseman</i>, like Dent’s +<i>Theologus</i>, holds forth instructive discourse, while the +<i>Mr Attentive</i> of the former, like the <i>Philagathus</i> of +the latter, listens and draws on his teacher by friendly +questionings. There is not in Bunyan’s conference, as +there is in Dent’s, an <i>Asunetus</i>, who plays the part +of an ignorant man to come out enlightened and convinced at last, +or an <i>Antilegon</i>, who carps and cavils all the way; and +there is not in Dent’s book what there is in +Bunyan’s, a biographical narrative connecting the various +parts of the dialogue; but the groundwork of each is the +same—a searching manifestation and exposure of the nature +and evils of various forms of immorality.</p> +<p>Bunyan’s book came out in 1680, and was published by +Nathaniel Ponder, who was also the publisher of <i>The +Pilgrim’s Progress</i>. A third edition appeared in +1696, but as no copy of the second edition is known to exist, no +date can be assigned to it. In 1684 Johannes Boekholt, a +publisher in Amsterdam, obtained leave of the State to issue a +Dutch translation, with the title <i>Het Leven en Sterben van Mr +Quaat</i>. This edition was illustrated by five +copper-plate engravings, executed by Jan Luiken, the eminent +Dutch engraver, who also illustrated <i>The Pilgrim’s +Progress</i> the following year. In 1782 a Welsh version, +translated by T. Lewys, was published at Liverpool with the +title: <i>Bywyd a Marwolaeth yr annuwiol dan enw Mr +Drygddyn</i>. A Gaelic version also was published at +Inverness in 1824, entitled <i>Beath agus Bas Mhr +Droch-duine</i>.</p> +<p>The present edition has been reprinted from a copy of the +first issue, lent by the Trustees of the Bunyan Church at +Bedford, and the proofs read with a second copy of the same +issue, in the library of the British Museum. For +convenience of reading, as in other issues of this series of +<span class="smcap">Cambridge English Classics</span>, the old +type forms of <i>j</i>, <i>s</i>, <i>u</i>, etc. have been made +uniform with those in general modern use; but neither the +spelling (including the use of capitals and italics <a name="citation1b"></a><a href="#footnote1b" class="citation">[1b]</a>) nor the punctuation has been altered, +save as specified. Effect has been given to the errata +noted by Bunyan himself, and printed on page 15 of this +issue.</p> +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p>The text of this edition of Bunyan’s <i>Holy War</i> <a name="citation1b"></a><a href="#footnote1a" class="citation">[1a]</a> is a careful reproduction of the First +Edition of 1682. It is not certain that there was any +further authentic reprint in Bunyan’s life-time. For +though both in the Bodleian and the British Museum there is a +copy purporting to be a second edition, and bearing date 1684, it +is difficult to resist the impression that they are pirated +copies, similar to those of which Nathaniel Ponder complained so +bitterly in the case of <i>The Pilgrim’s +Progress</i>. For both paper and typography are greatly +inferior to those of the first edition; some of Bunyan’s +most characteristic marginalia are carelessly omitted; +Bunyan’s own title—‘The Holy War made by +Shaddai upon Diabolus for the regaining of the Metropolis of the +World’—is altered to the feebler and more commonplace +form—‘The Holy War made by Christ upon the Devil for +the Regaining of Man’; and, further, when a new edition was +issued in 1696, the alterations and omissions of 168 4 were +ignored, and a simple reprint made of the first edition of +1682.</p> +<p style="text-align: right">J. B.</p> +<p>9 <i>October</i>, 1905.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"> +<a href="images/p1b.jpg"> +<img alt= +"Facsimile of title page of first (1680) edition of The Life and +Death of Mr. Badman" +title= +"Facsimile of title page of first (1680) edition of The Life and +Death of Mr. Badman" +src="images/p1s.jpg" /> +</a></p> +<h2>THE AUTHOR TO THE READER</h2> +<p>Courteous Reader,</p> +<p>As I was considering with my self, what I had written +concerning the Progress of the Pilgrim from this World to Glory; +and how it had been acceptable to many in this Nation: It came +again into my mind to write, as then, of him that was going to +Heaven, so now, of the Life and Death of the Ungodly, and of +their travel from this world to Hell. The which in this I +have done, and have put it, as thou seest, under the Name and +Title of Mr. Badman, a Name very proper for such a Subject: I +have also put it into the form of a Dialogue, that I might with +more ease to my self, and pleasure to the Reader, perform the +work.</p> +<p>And although, as I said, I have put it forth in this method, +yet have I as little as may be, gone out of the road of mine own +observation of things. Yea, I think I may truly say, that +to the best of my remembrance, all the things that here I +discourse of, I mean as to matter of fact, have been acted upon +the stage of this World, even many times before mine eyes.</p> +<p>Here therefore, courteous Reader, I present thee with the Life +and Death of Mr. Badman indeed: Yea, I do trace him in his Life, +from his Childhood to his Death; that thou mayest, as in a Glass, +behold with thine own eyes, the steps that take hold of Hell; and +also discern, while thou art reading of Mr. Badmans Death, +whether thou thy self art treading in his path thereto.</p> +<p>And let me entreat thee to forbear Quirking and Mocking, for +that I say Mr. Badman is dead; but rather gravely enquire +concerning thy self by the Word, whether thou art one of his +Linage or no: For Mr. Badman has left many of his Relations +behind him; yea, the very World is overspread with his +Kindred. True, some of his Relations, as he, are gone to +their place, and long home, but thousands of thousands are left +behind; as Brothers, Sisters, Cousens, Nephews, besides +innumerable of his Friends and Associates.</p> +<p>I may say, and yet speak nothing but too much truth in so +saying, that there is scarce a Fellowship, a Community, or +Fraternity of men in the World, but some of Mr. Badmans Relations +are there: yea rarely can we find a Family or Houshold in a Town, +where he has not left behind him either Brother, Nephew or +Friend.</p> +<p>The Butt therefore, that at this time I shoot at, is wide; and +’twill be as impossible for this Book to go into several +Families, and not to arrest some, as for the Kings Messenger to +rush into an house full of Traitors, and find none but honest men +there.</p> +<p>I cannot but think that this shot will light upon many, since +our fields are so full of this Game; but how many it will kill to +Mr. Badmans course, and make alive to the Pilgrims Progress, that +is not in me to determine; this secret is with the Lord our God +only, and he alone knows to whom he will bless it to so good and +so blessed an end. However, I have put fire to the Pan, and +doubt not but the report will quickly be heard.</p> +<p>I told you before, that Mr. Badman had left many of his +Friends and Relations behind him, but if I survive them (as +that’s a great question to me) I may also write of their +lives: However, whether my life be longer or shorter, this is my +Prayer at present, that God will stir up Witnesses against them, +that may either convert or confound them; for wherever they live, +and roll in their wickedness, they are the Pest and Plague of +that Countrey.</p> +<p>England shakes and totters already, by reason of the burden +that Mr. Badman and his Friends have wickedly laid upon it: Yea, +our Earth reels and staggereth to and fro like a Drunkard, the +transgression thereof is heavy upon it.</p> +<p>Courteous Reader, I will treat thee now, even at the Door and +Threshold of this house, but only with this Intelligence, that +Mr. Badman lies dead within. Be pleased therefore (if thy +leisure will serve thee) to enter in, and behold the state in +which he is laid, betwixt his Death-bed and the Grave. He +is not buried as yet, nor doth he stink, as is designed he shall, +before he lies down in oblivion.</p> +<p>Now as others have had their Funerals solemnized, according to +their Greatness and Grandure in the world, so likewise Mr. +Badman, (forasmuch as he deserveth not to go down to his grave +with silence) has his Funeral state according to his deserts.</p> +<p>Four things are usual at great mens Funerals, which we will +take leave, and I hope without offence, to allude to, in the +Funeral of Mr. Badman.</p> +<p>First, They are sometimes, when dead, presented to their +Friends, by their compleatly wrought Images, as lively as by +cunning mens hands they can be; that the remembrance of them may +be renewed to their survivors, the remembrance of them and their +deeds: And this I have endeavoured to answer in my discourse of +Mr. Badman; and therefore I have drawn him forth in his featours +and actions from his Childhood to his Gray hairs. Here +therefore thou hast him lively set forth as in Cutts; both as to +the minority, flower, and seniority of his Age, together with +those actions of his life, that he was most capable of doing, in, +and under those present circumstances of time, place, strength; +and the opportunities that did attend him in these.</p> +<p>Secondly, There is also usual at great mens Funerals, those +Badges and Scutcheons of their honour, that they have received +from their Ancestors, or have been thought worthy of for the +deeds and exploits they have done in their life: And here Mr. +Badman has his, but such as vary from all men of worth, but so +much the more agreeing with the merit of his doings: They all +have descended in state, he only as an abominable branch. +His deserts are the deserts of sin, and therefore the Scutcheons +of honour that he has, are only that he died without Honour, and +at his end became a fool. Thou shalt not be joyned with +them in burial.—The seed of evil doers shall never be +renowned.</p> +<p>The Funeral pomp therefore of Mr. Badman, is to wear upon his +Hearse the Badges of a dishonourable and wicked life; since his +bones are full of the sins of his Youth, which shall lye down, as +Job sayes, in the dust with him: nor is it fit that any should be +his Attendants, now at his death, but such as with him conspired +against their own souls in their life; persons whose +transgressions have made them infamous to all that have or shall +know what they have done.</p> +<p>Some notice therefore I have also here in this little +discourse given the Reader, of them who were his Confederates in +his life, and Attendants at his death; with a hint, either of +some high Villany committed by them, as also of those Judgments +that have overtaken and fallen upon them from the just and +revenging hand of God. All which are things either fully +known by me, as being eye and ear-witness thereto, or that I have +received from such hands, whose relation as to this, I am bound +to believe. And that the Reader may know them from other +things and passages herein contained, I have pointed at them in +the Margent, as with a finger thus: +<a href="images/tnb.jpg"> +<img alt= +"Graphic of hand with finger printing right" +title= +"Graphic of hand with finger printing right" +src="images/tns.jpg" /> +</a></p> +<p>Thirdly, The Funerals of persons of Quality have been +solemnized with some suitable Sermon at the time and place of +their Burial; but that I am not come to as yet, having got no +further than to Mr. Badmans death: but for as much as he must be +buried, after he hath stunk out his time before his beholders, I +doubt not but some such that we read are appointed to be at the +burial of Gog, will do this work in my stead; such as shall leave +him neither skin nor bone above ground, but shall set a sign by +it till the buriers have buried it in the Valley of Hamon-gog, +Ezek. 39.</p> +<p>Fourthly, At Funerals there does use to be Mourning and +lamentation, but here also Mr. Badman differs from others; his +Familiars cannot lament his departure, for they have not sence of +his damnable state; they rather ring him, and sing him to Hell in +the sleep of death, in which he goes thither. Good men +count him no loss to the world, his place can well be without +him, his loss is only his own, and ’tis too late for him to +recover that dammage or loss by a Sea of bloody tears, could he +shed them. Yea, God has said, he will laugh at his +destruction, who then shall lament for him, saying, Ah! my +brother. He was but a stinking Weed in his life; nor was he +better at all in his death: such may well be thrown over the wall +without sorrow, when once God has plucked them up by the roots in +his wrath.</p> +<p>Reader, If thou art of the race, linage, stock or fraternity +of Mr. Badman, I tell thee before thou readest this Book, thou +wilt neither brook the Author nor it, because he hath writ of Mr. +Badman as he has. For he that condemneth the wicked that +die so, passeth also the sentence upon the wicked that +live. I therefore expect neither credit of, nor countenance +from thee, for this Narration of thy kinsmans life.</p> +<p>For thy old love to thy Friend, his wayes, doings, &c. +will stir up in thee enmity rather, in thy very heart, against +me. I shall therefore incline to think of thee, that thou +wilt rent, burn, or throw it away in contempt: yea and wish also, +that for writing so notorious a truth, some mischief may befall +me. I look also to be loaded by thee with disdain, scorn +and contempt; yea that thou shouldest railingly and vilifyingly +say, I lye, and am a bespatterer of honest mens lives and +deaths. For Mr. Badman, when himself was alive, could not +abide to be counted a Knave (though his actions told all that +went by, that indeed he was such an one:) How then should his +brethren, that survive him, and that tread in his very steps, +approve of the sentence that by this Book is pronounced against +him? Will they not rather imitate Corah, Dathan, and +Abiram’s friends, even rail at me for condemning him, as +they did at Moses for doing execution?</p> +<p>I know ’tis ill pudling in the Cockatrices den, and that +they run hazards that hunt the Wild-Boar. The man also that +writeth Mr. Badmans life, had need to be fenced with a Coat of +Mail, and with the Staffe of a Spear, for that his surviving +friends will know what he doth: but I have adventured to do it, +and to play, at this time, at the hole of these Asps; if they +bite, they bite; if they sting, they sting. Christ sends +his Lambs in the midst of Wolves, not to do like them, but to +suffer by them for bearing plain testimony against their bad +deeds: But had one not need to walk with a Guard, and to have a +Sentinel stand at ones door for this? Verily, the flesh +would be glad of such help; yea, a spiritual man, could he tell +how to get it. Acts 23. But I am stript naked of +these, and yet am commanded to be faithful in my servi[c]e for +Christ. Well then, I have spoken what I have spoken, and +now come on me what will, Job 13. 13. True, the Text sayes, +Rebuke a scorner, and he will hate thee; and that, He that +reproveth a wicked man, getteth himself a Blot and Shame; but +what then? Open rebuke is better than secret love; and he +that receives it, shall find it so afterwards.</p> +<p>So then, whether Mr. Badmans friends shall rage or laugh at +what I have writ, I know that the better end of the staffe is +mine. My endeavour is to stop an hellish Course of Life, +and to save a soul from death, (Jam. 5.) and if for so doing, I +meet with envy from them, from whom in reason I should have +thanks, I must remember the man in the dream, that cut his way +through his armed enemies, and so got into the beauteous Palace; +I must, I say, remember him, and do my self likewise.</p> +<p>Yet four things I will propound to the consideration of Mr. +Badmans friends, before I turn my back upon them.</p> +<p>1. Suppose that there be an Hell in very deed, not that +I do question it, any more than I do whether there be a Sun to +shine; but I suppose it for argument sake, with Mr. Badmans +friends; I say, suppose there be an Hell, and that too, such an +one as the Scripture speaks of, one at the remotest distance from +God and Life eternall, one where the Worm of a guilty Conscience +never dyes, and where the fire of the Wrath of God is not +quenched.</p> +<p>Suppose, I say, that there is such an Hell, prepared of God +(as there is indeed) for the body and soul of the ungodly World +after this life, to be tormented in: I say, do but with thy self +suppose it, and then tell me, Is it not prepared for thee, thou +being a wicked man? Let thy conscience speak, I say, is it +not prepared for thee, thou being an ungodly man? And dost +thou think, wast thou there now, that thou art able to wrestle +with the Judgment of God? Why then do the fallen Angers +tremble there? thy hands cannot be strong, nor can thy heart +endure, in that day when God shall deal with thee: Ezek. 22. +14.</p> +<p>2. Suppose that some one that is now a soul in Hell for +sin, was permitted to come hither again to dwell; and that they +had a grant also, that upon amendment of life, next time the dye, +to change that place for Heaven ant Glory; what sayest thou, O +wicked man? would such an one (thinkest thou) run again into the +same course of life as before, and venture the damnation that for +sin he had already been in? Would he choose again to lead +that cursed life that afresh would kindle the flames of Hell upon +him, and that would bind him up under the heavy wrath of +God? O! he would not, he would not; the sixteenth of Luke +insinuates it: yea Reason it self, awake, would abhorr it, and +tremble at such a thought.</p> +<p>3. Suppose again, that thou that livest and rollest in +thy sin, and that as yet hast known nothing but the pleasure +thereof, shouldst be by an angel conveyed to some place where +with convenience, from thence thou mightest have a view of Heaven +and Hell; of the Joyes of the one, and the torments of the other; +I say, suppose that from thence thou mightest have such a view +thereof, as would convince thy reason, that both Heaven and Hell, +are such realities as by the Word they are declared to be; +wouldest thou (thinkest thou) when brought to thy home again, +chuse to thy self thy former life, to wit, to return to thy folly +again? No; if belief of what thou sawest, remained with +thee, thou wouldest eat Fire and Brimstone first.</p> +<p>4. I will propound again. Suppose that there was +amongst us such a Law, (and such a Magistrate to inflict the +penalty,) That for every open wickedness committed by thee, so +much of thy flesh should with burning Pincers be plucked from thy +Bones: Wouldest thou then go on in thy open way of Lying, +Swearing, Drinking and Whoring, as thou with delight doest +now? Surely, surely, No: The fear of the punishment would +make thee forbear; yea, would make thee tremble, even then when +thy lusts were powerfull, to think what a punishment thou wast +sure to sustain, so soon as the pleasure was over. But Oh! +the folly, the madness, the desperate madness that is in the +hearts of Mr. Badmans friends, who in despite of the threatnings +of an holy and sin revenging God, and of the outcries and +warnings of all good men; yea, that will in despite of the groans +and torments of those that are now in Hell for sin, (Luk. 16. 24. +28.) go on in a sinfull course of life; yea, though every sin is +also a step of descent, down to that infernal Cave. O how +true is that saying of Solomon, The heart of the sons of men is +full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and +after that they go to the dead, Eccles. 9. 3. To the dead! +that is, to the dead in Hell, to the damned dead; the place to +which those that have dyed Bad men are gone, and that those that +live Bad men are like to go to, when a little more sin, like +stollen waters, hath been imbibed by their sinful souls.</p> +<p>That which has made me publish this Book is,</p> +<p>1. For that wickedness like a flood is like to drown our +English world: it begins already to be above the tops of +mountains; it has almost swallowed up all; our Youth, our Middle +age, Old age, and all, are almost carried away of this +flood. O Debauchery, Debauchery, what hast thou done in +England! Thou hast corrupted our Young men, and hast made +our Old men beasts; thou hast deflowered our Virgins, and hast +made Matrons Bawds. Thou hast made our earth to reel to and +fro like a drunkard; ’tis in danger to be removed like a +Cottage, yea, it is, because transgression is so heavy upon it, +like to fall and rise no more. Isa. 24. 20.</p> +<p>O! that I could mourn for England, and for the sins that are +committed therein, even while I see that without repentance, the +men of Gods wrath are about to deal with us, each having his +slaughtering weapon in his hand: (Ezek. 9. 1, 2.) Well, I +have written, and by Gods assistance shall pray, that this flood +may abate in England: and could I but see the tops of the +Mountains above it, I should think that these waters were +abating.</p> +<p>2. It is the duty of those that can, to cry out against +this deadly plague, yea, to lift up their voice as with a Trumpet +against it; that men may he awakened about it, flye from it, as +from that which is the greatest of evils. Sin pull’d +Angels out of Heaven, pulls men down to Hell, and overthroweth +Kingdoms. Who, that sees an house on fire, will not give +the Allarum to them that dwell therein? who that sees the Land +invaded, will not set the Beacons on a fame? Who, that sees +the Devils, as roaring Lyons, continually devouring souls, will +not make an Out-cry? But above all, when we see sin, sinful +sin, a swallowing up a Nation, sinking of a Nation, and bringing +its Inhabitants to temporal, spiritual, and eternal ruine, shall +we not cry out, and cry, They are drunk, but not with Wine; they +stagger, but not with strong drink; they are intoxicated with the +deadly poyson of sin, which will, if its malignity be not by +wholsom means allayed, bring Soul and Body, and Estate and +Countrey, and all, to ruin and destruction?</p> +<p>3. In and by this my Out-cry, I shall deliver my self +from the ruins of them that perish: for a man can do no more in +this matter, I mean a man in my capacity, than to detect and +condemn the wickedness, warn the evil doer of the Judgment, and +fly therefrom my self. But Oh! that I might not only +deliver my self! Oh that many would hear, and turn at this +my cry, from sin! that they may be secured from the death and +Judgment that attend it.</p> +<p>Why I have handled the matter in this method, is best known to +my self: and why I have concealed most of the Names of the +persons whose sins or punishments I here and there in this Book +make relation of, is,</p> +<p>1. For that neither the sins nor Judgments were all +alike open; the sins of some, were committed, and the Judgments +executed for them only in a corner. Not to say that I could +not learn some of their names; for could I, I should not have +made them publick, for this reason.</p> +<p>2. Because I would not provoke those of their Relations +that survive them; I would not justly provoke them, and yet, as I +think, I should, should I have intailed their punishment to their +sins, and both to their names, and so have turned them into the +world.</p> +<p>3. Nor would I lay them under disgrace and contempt, +which would, as I think, unavoidably have happened unto them had +I withall inserted their Names.</p> +<p>As for those whose Names I mention, their crimes or Judgments +were manifest; publick almost as any thing of that nature that +happeneth to mortal men. Such therefore have published +their own shame by their sin, and God, his anger, by taking of +open vengeance.</p> +<p>As Job sayes, God has strook them as wicked men in the open +sight of others, Job 34. 26. So that I cannot conceive, +since their sin and Judgment was so conspicuous, that my +admonishing the world thereof, should turn to their detriment: +For the publishing of these things, are, so far as Relation is +concerned, intended for remembrancers: That they may also bethink +themselves, repent and turn to God, lest the Judgments for their +sins should prove hereditary. For the God of Heaven hath +threatned to visit the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, +if they hate him, to the third and fourth generation, Exod. 20. +5.</p> +<p>Nebuchadnezzars punishment for his pride being open, (for he +was for his sin, driven from his Kingly dignity, and from among +men too, to eat grass like an Ox, and to company with the +beasts,) Daniel did not stick to tell Belshazzar his son to his +face thereof; nor to publish it that it might be read and +remembred by the generations to come. The same may be said +of Judas and Ananias, &c. for their sin and punishment were +known to all the dwellers at Jerusalem, Acts 1. Chap. 5.</p> +<p>Nor is it a sign but of desperate impenitence and hardness of +heart, when the offspring or relations of those who have fallen +by open, fearfull and prodigious Judgments, for their sin, shall +overlook, forget, pass by, or take no notice of such high +outgoings of God against them and their house. Thus Daniel +aggravates Belshazzars crime, for that he hardened his heart in +pride, though he knew that for that very sin and transgression +his father was brought down from his height, and made to be a +companion for Asses. And thou his son, O Belshazzar, sayes +he, hast not humbled thy heart, though thou knewest all +this. Dan. 5. A home reproof indeed, but home is most +fit for an open and continued-in transgression.</p> +<p>Let those then that are the Offspring or relations of such, +who by their own sin, and the dreadfull Judgments of God, are +made to become a sign, (Deut. 16. 9, 10.) having been swept, as +dung, from off the face of the earth, beware, lest when Judgment +knocks at their door, for their sins, as it did before at the +door of their Pregenitors, it falls also with as heavy a stroak +as on them that went before them: Lest, I say, they in that day, +instead of finding mercy, find for their high, daring, and +Judgment-affronting-sins, Judgment without mercy.</p> +<p>To conclude, let those that would not dye Mr. Badmans death, +take heed of Mr. Badmans wayes: for his wayes bring to his end; +Wickedness will not deliver him that is given to it; though they +should cloak all with a Profession of Religion.</p> +<p>If it was a transgression of Old, for a man to wear a Womans +Apparel, surely it is a transgression now for a sinner to wear a +Christian Profession for a Cloak. Wolves in Sheeps +Cloathing swarm in England this day: Wolves both as to Doctrine, +and as to Practice too. Some men make a Profession, I +doubt, on purpose that they may twist themselves into a Trade; +and thence into an Estate; yea, and if need be, into an Estate +Knavishly, by the ruins of their Neighbour: let such take heed, +for those that do such things have the greater damnation.</p> +<p>Christian, make thy Profession shine by a Conversation +according to the Gospel: Or else thou wilt damnifie Religion, +bring scandal to thy Brethren, and give offence to the Enemies; +and ’twould be better that a Millstone was hanged about thy +neck, and that thou, as so adorned, wast cast into the bottom of +the Sea, than so to do.</p> +<p>Christian, a Profession according to the Gospel, is, in these +dayes, a rare thing; seek then after it, put it on, and keep it +without spot; and (as becomes thee) white, and clean, and thou +shalt be a rare Christian.</p> +<p>The Prophecy of the last times is, that professing men (for so +I understand the Text) s[h]all be, many of them, base; (2 Tim. +3.) but continue thou in the things that thou hast learned, not +of wanton men, not of licentious times, but of the Word and +Doctrine of God, that is according to Godliness; and thou shalt +walk with Christ in white.</p> +<p>Now God Almighty give his people Grace, not to hate or malign +Sinners nor yet to choose any of their wayes, but to keep +themselves pure from the blood of all men, by speaking and doing +according to that Name and those Rules that they profess to know, +and love; for Jesus Christs sake.</p> +<p style="text-align: right">John Bunyan.</p> +<h2>Books lately Printed for and Sold by Nathaniel Ponder at the +Peacock in the Poultrey, neer the Church.</h2> +<p>Biblia Sacra, sive Testamentum Vetus, ab Im. Tremellio & +Fr. Junio ex Hebræo Latinè redditum. Et +Testamentum Novum à Theod. Beza è Græco +in Latinum versum. Argumentis Capitum additis +versibúsque singulis distinctis, & seorsum expressis. +12°.</p> + +<p>Χριστολογία, +Or, A Declaration of the Glorious Mystery of the Person of +Christ, God and Man. With the Infinite Wisdom, Love and +Power of God in the contrivance and constitution thereof. +As also of the Grounds and Reasons of his Incarnation, the nature +of his Ministry in Heaven, the present State of the Church above +thereon, and the Use of his Person in Religion. With an +Account and Vindication of the Honour, Worship, Faith, Love, and +Obedience due unto him, in and from the Church. By John +Owen, D.D.</p> +<p>Divine Breathings: or a Manual of practical Contemplations, in +one Century: Tending to promote Gospel-Principles, and a good +Conversation in Christ. Comprizing in brief many of those +great Truths that are to be known and practised by a +Christian. By T.S.</p> +<p>Youth’s Comedy, or the Souls Tryals and Triumph: a +Dramatick Poem. With Divers Meditations intermixt upon +several Subjects. Set forth to help and encourage those +that are seeking a Heavenly Country. By the Author of +Youth’s Tragedy.</p> +<p>A Treatise of the Fear of God: shewing what it is, and how +distinguished from that which is not so. Also Whence it +comes. Who has it. What are the Effects. And +What the Priviledges of those that have it in their hearts. +By John Bunyan.</p> +<p>The Tragical History of Jetzer: Or, a Faithful Narrative of +the Feigned Visions, Counterfeit Revelations, and false Miracles +of the Dominican Fathers of the Covent of Bern in Switzerland, to +Propagate their Superstitions. For which Horrid Impieties, +the Prior, Sub-Prior, Lecturer, and Receiver of the said Covent +were Burnt at a Stake, Anno Dom. 1509. Collected From the +Records of the said City by the Care of Sir William Waller, +Knight. Translated from his French Copy by an Impartial +Pen, and now made Publick for the Information of English +Protestants, who may hence learn, that Catholicks will stick at +no Villanies which may Advance their Designs, nor at any +Perjuries that may Conceal them. With an Epistle, wherein +are some soft and gentle Reflections upon the Lying, Dying +Speeches of the Jesuites lately Executed at Tyburn. The +Second Edition.</p> +<p>The Pilgrims Progress from this World to that which is to +come: Delivered in the Similitude of a Dream. By John +Bunyan. This fourth Impression hath the Authors Picture and +many Additions.</p> +<p>There is now in the Press, and will be suddenly published, An +Exposition on the 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10th Chapters on the Hebrews: +Being a Third Volume. By John Owen, D.D.</p> +<h2>ERRATA.</h2> +<p>Page 127. line 8. for amated read amazed, p. 149. l. 15. for +herbaps r. perhaps, p. 162. l. 3, & 4. for diababolical r. +diabolical, p. 287. l. 9. for, for r. so, p. 304. for reputation +r. repentance.</p> +<h2>THE LIFE AND DEATH OF MR. BADMAN</h2> +<p>Presented to the World in a Familiar DIALOGUE Betwixt Mr. +<i>WISEMAN</i>, And, Mr. <i>ATTENTIVE</i>.</p> +<p><i>Wiseman</i>.</p> +<p>Good morrow my good Neighbour, Mr. Attentive; whither are you +walking so early this morning? methinks you look as if you were +concerned about something more than ordinary. Have you lost +any of your Cattel, or what is the matter?</p> +<p>Attentive. Good Sir, Good morrow to you, I have not as +yet lost ought, but yet you give a right ghess of me, for I am, +as you say, concerned in my heart, but ’tis because of the +badness of the times. And Sir, you, as all our Neighbours +know, are a very observing man, pray therefore what do you think +of them?</p> +<p>Wise. Why? I think, as you say, to wit, that they +are bad times, and bad they will be, untill men are better: for +they are bad men that make bad times; if men therefore would +mend, so would the times. ’Tis a folly to look for +good dayes, so long as sin is so high, and those that study its +nourishment so many. God bring it down, and those that +nourish it to Repentance, and then my good Neighbour, you will be +concerned, not as you are now: Now you are concerned because +times are so bad; but then you will be so, ’cause times are +so good: Now you are concerned so as to be perplexed, but then +you will be concerned so as to lift up your voice with shouting; +for I dare say, could you see such dayes they would make you +shout.</p> +<p>Atten. Ai, so they would, such times I have prayed for, +such times I have longed for: but I fear they’l be worse +before they be better.</p> +<p>Wise. Make no Conclusions, man: for he that hath the +hearts of men in his hand, can change them from worse to better, +and so bad times into good. God give long life to them that +are good, and especially to those of them that are capable of +doing him service in the world. The Ornament and Beauty of +this lower World, next to God and his Wonders, are the men that +spangle and shine in godliness.</p> +<p>Now as Mr. Wiseman said this, he gave a great sigh.</p> +<p>Atten. Amen. Amen. But why, good Sir, do you +sigh so deeply? is it for ought else than that for the which as +you have perceived, I my self am concerned?</p> +<p>Wise. I am concerned with you, for the badness of the +times; but that was not the cause of that sigh, of the which, as +I see, you take notice. I sighed at the remembrance of the +death of that man for whom the Bell tolled at our Town +yesterday.</p> +<p>Atten. Why? I trow, Mr. Goodman your Neighbour is +not dead. Indeed I did hear that he had been sick.</p> +<p>Wise. No, no, it is not he. Had it been he, I +could not but have been concerned, but yet not as I am concerned +now. If he had died, I should only have been concerned for +that the world had lost a Light: but the man that I am concerned +for now, was one that never was good, therefore such an one who +is not dead only, but damned. He died that he might die, he +went from Life to Death, and then from Death to Death, from Death +Natural to death Eternal. And as he spake this, the water +stood in his eyes.</p> +<p>Atten. Indeed, to goe from a death-bed to Hell is a +fearful thing to think on. But good Neighbour Wiseman, be +pleased to tell me who this man was, and why you conclude him so +miserable in his death?</p> +<p>Wise. Well, if you can stay, I will tell you who he was, +and why I conclude thus concerning him.</p> +<p>Atten. My leisure will admit me to stay, and I am +willing to hear you out. And I pray God your discourse may +take hold on my heart, that I may be bettered thereby. So +they agreed to sit down under a tree: Then Mr. Wiseman proceeded +as followeth.</p> +<p>Wise. The man that I mean, is one Mr. Badman; he has +lived in our Town a great while, and now, as I said, he is +dead. But the reason of my being so concerned at his death, +is, not for that he was at all related to me, or for that any +good conditions died with him, for he was far from them, but for +that, as I greatly fear, he hath, as was hinted before, died two +deaths at once.</p> +<p>Atten. I perceive what you mean by two deaths at once; +and to speak truth, ’tis a fearfull thing thus to have +ground to think of any: for although the death of the ungodly and +sinners is laid to heart but of few, yet to die in such a state, +is more dreadful and fearful than any man can imagine. +Indeed if a man had no Soul, if his state was not truely +Immortal, the matter would not be so much; but for a man to be so +disposed of by his Maker, as to be appointed a sensible being for +ever, and for him too to fall into the hands of revenging +Justice, that will be always, to the utmost extremity that his +sin deserveth, punishing of him in the dismal dungeon of Hell, +this must needs be unutterably sad, and lamentable.</p> +<p>Wise. There is no man, I think, that is sensible of the +worth of one Soul, but must, when he hears of the death of +unconverted men, be stricken with sorrow and grief: because, as +you said well, that mans state is such, that he has a sensible +being for ever. For ’tis sense that makes punishment +heavy. But yet sense is not all that the Damned have, they +have sense and reason too; so then, as Sense receiveth punishment +with sorrow because it feels, and bleeds under the same, so by +Reason, and the exercise thereof, in the midst of torment, all +present Affliction is aggravated, and that three manner of +wayes:</p> +<p>1. Reason will consider thus with himself; For what am I +thus tormented? and will easily find ’tis for nothing but +that base and filthy thing, Sin; and now will Vexation be mixed +with Punishment, and that will greatly heighten the +Affliction.</p> +<p>2. Reason will consider thus with himself. How +long must this be my state? And will soon return to himself +this Answer: This must be my state for ever and ever. Now +this will greatly increase the torment.</p> +<p>3. Reason will consider thus with himself; What have I +lost more than present ease and quiet by my sins that I have +committed? And will quickly return himself this answer: I +have lost Communion with God, Christ, Saints and Angels, and a +share in Heaven and eternal Life: And this also must needs +greaten the misery of poor damned souls. And this is the +case of Mr. Badman.</p> +<p>Atten. I feel my heart even shake at the thoughts of +coming into such a state. Hell! who knows that is yet +alive, what the torments of Hell are? This word Hell gives +a very dreadful sound.</p> +<p>Wise. Ai, so it does in the ears of him that has a +tender Conscience. But if, as you say, and that truly, the +very Name of Hell, is so dreadful, what is the Place it self, and +what are the Punishments that are there inflicted, and that +without the least intermission, upon the Souls of damned men, for +ever and ever.</p> +<p>Atten. Well, but passing this; my leisure will admit me +to stay, and therefore pray tell me what it is that makes you +think that Mr. Badman is gone to Hell.</p> +<p>Wise. I will tell you. But first do you know which +of the Badmans I mean?</p> +<p>Atten. Why was there more of them than one?</p> +<p>Wise. O, yes, a great many, both Brothers and Sisters, +and yet all of them the Children of a godly Parent, the more a +great deal is the pity.</p> +<p>Atten. Which of them therefore was it that died.</p> +<p>Wise. The eldest, old in years, and old in sin; but the +sinner that dies an hundred years old shall be accursed.</p> +<p>Atten. Well, but what makes you think he is gone to +Hell?</p> +<p>Wise. His wicked life, and fearful death, specially +since the Manner of his death was so corresponding with his +life.</p> +<p>Atten. Pray let me know the manner of his death, if your +self did perfectly know it.</p> +<p>Wise. I was there when he died: But I desire not to see +another such man (while I live) die in such sort as he did.</p> +<p>Atten. Pray therefore let me hear it.</p> +<p>Wise. You say you have leisure and can stay, and +therefore, if you please, we will discourse even orderly of +him. First, we will begin with his Life, and then proceed +to his Death: Because a relation of the first may the more affect +you, when you shall hear of the second.</p> +<p>Atten. Did you then so well know his Life?</p> +<p>Wise. I knew him of a Child. I was a man, when he +was but a boy, and I made special observation of him from first +to last.</p> +<p>Atten. Pray then let me hear from you an account of his +Life; but be as brief as you can, for I long to hear of the +manner of his death.</p> +<p>Wise. I will endeavour to answer your desires, and +first, I will tell you, that from a Child he was very bad: his +very beginning was ominous, and presaged that no good end, was, +in likelyhood, to follow thereupon. There were several sins +that he was given to, when but a little one, that manifested him +to be notoriously infected with Or[i]ginal corruption; for I dare +say he learned none of them of his Father or Mother; nor was he +admitted to go much abroad among other Children, that were vile, +to learn to sin of them: Nay, contrariwise, if at any time he did +get abroad amongst others, he would be as the Inventer of bad +words, and an example in bad actions. To them all he used +to be, as we say, the Ring-leader, and Master-sinner from a +Childe.</p> +<p>Atten. This was a bad Beginning indeed, and did +demonstrate that he was, as you say, polluted, very much polluted +with Original Corruption. For to speak my mind freely, I do +confess, that it is mine opinion, that Children come polluted +with sin into the World, and that oft-times the sins of their +youth, especially while they are very young, are rather by vertue +of Indwelling sin, than by examples that are set before them by +others. Not but that they learn to sin by example too, but +Example is not the root, but rather the Temptation unto +wickedness. The root is sin within; for from within, out of +the heart of man proceedeth sin. <a name="citation20a"></a><a +href="#footnote20a" class="citation">[20a]</a> <a +name="citation20b"></a><a href="#footnote20b" +class="citation">[20b]</a></p> +<p>Wise. I am glad to hear that you are of this opinion, +and to confirm what you have said by a few hints from the +Word. Man in his birth is compared to an Ass, (an unclean +Beast) and to a wretched Infant in its blood: besides, all the +first-born of old that were offered unto the Lord, were to be +redeemed at the age of a month, and that was before they were +sinners by imitation. The Scripture also affirmeth, <a +name="citation21a"></a><a href="#footnote21a" +class="citation">[21a]</a> that by the sin of one, Judgement came +upon all; and renders this reason, for that all have sinned: nor +is that Objection worth a rush, That Christ by his death hath +taken away Original Sin. First, Because it is +Scriptureless. Secondly, Because it makes them incapable of +Salvation by Christ; for none but those that in their own Persons +are sinners, are to have Salvation by him. Many other +things might be added, but between persons so well agreed as you +and I are, these may suffice at present: but when an Antagonist +comes to deal with us about this matter, then we have for him +often other strong Arguments, if he be an Antagonist worth the +taking notice of. <a name="citation21b"></a><a +href="#footnote21b" class="citation">[21b]</a></p> +<p>Atten. But, as was hinted before, he used to be the +Ring-leading Sinner, or the Master of mischief among other +children; yet these are but Generals; pray therefore tell me in +Particular which were the sins of his Childhood.</p> +<p>Wise. I will so. When he was but a Child, he was +so addicted to Lying, <a name="citation21c"></a><a +href="#footnote21c" class="citation">[21c]</a> that his Parents +scarce knew when to believe he spake true; yea, he would invent, +tell, and stand to the Lyes that he invented and told, and that +with such an audacious face, that one might even read in his very +countenance the symptoms of an hard and desperate heart this +way.</p> +<p>Atten. This was an ill beginning indeed, and argueth +that he began to harden himself in sin betimes. For a lye +cannot be knowingly told and stood in, (and I perceive that this +was his manner of way in Lying) but he must as it were force his +own heart into it. Yea, he must make his heart <a +name="citation21d"></a><a href="#footnote21d" +class="citation">[21d]</a> hard, and bold to doe it: Yea, he must +be arrived to an exceeding pitch of wickedness thus to doe, since +all this he did against that good education, that before you +seemed to hint, he had from his Father and Mother.</p> +<p>Wise. The want of good Education, as you have intimated, +is many times a cause why Children doe so easily, so soon, become +bad; especially when there is not only a want of that, but bad +Examples enough, as, the more is the pity, there is in many +Families; by vertue of which poor Children are trained up in Sin, +and nursed therein for the Devil and Hell. But it was +otherwise with Mr. Badman, for to my knowledge, this his way of +Lying, was a great grief to his Parents, for their hearts were +much dejected at this beginning of their Son; nor did there want +Counsel and Correction from them to him, if that would have made +him better. He wanted not to be told, in my hearing, and +that over and over and over, That all Lyars should have their +part in the Lake that burns with fire and brimstone; and that +whosoever loveth and maketh a lye, should not have any part in +the new and heavenly Jerusalem: <a name="citation22a"></a><a +href="#footnote22a" class="citation">[22a]</a> But all +availed nothing with him; when a fit, or an occasion to lie, came +upon him, he would invent, tell, and stand to his Lie (as +steadfastly as if it had been the biggest of truths,) that he +told, and that with that hardening of his heart and face, that it +would be to those that stood by, a wonder. Nay, and this he +would doe when under the rod of correction which is appointed by +God for Parents to use, that thereby they might keep their +Children from Hell. <a name="citation22b"></a><a +href="#footnote22b" class="citation">[22b]</a></p> +<p>Atten. Truly it was, as I said, a bad beginning, he +served the Devil betimes; yea he became a Nurse to one of his <a +name="citation22c"></a><a href="#footnote22c" +class="citation">[22c]</a> Brats, for a spirit of Lying is the +Devils Brat, <a name="citation22d"></a><a href="#footnote22d" +class="citation">[22d]</a> for he is a Liar and the Father of +it.</p> +<p>Wise. Right, he is the Father of it indeed. A Lie +is begot by the Devil, as the Father, and is brought forth by the +wicked heart, as the Mother: wherefore another Scripture also +saith, Why hath Satan filled thy heart to lye, <a +name="citation22e"></a><a href="#footnote22e" +class="citation">[22e]</a> &c. Yea, he calleth the +heart that is big with a lye, an heart that hath Conceived, that +is, by the Devil. Why hast thou conceived this thing in thy +heart, thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God. True, his +lye was a lye of the highest nature, but every lye hath the <a +name="citation22f"></a><a href="#footnote22f" +class="citation">[22f]</a> same Father and Mother as had the lie +last spoken of. For he is a lier, and the Father of +it. A lie then is the Brat of Hell, and it cannot <a +name="citation23a"></a><a href="#footnote23a" +class="citation">[23a]</a> be in the heart before the person has +committed a kind of spiritual Adultery with the Devil. That +Soul therefore that telleth a known lie, has lien with, and +conceived it by lying with the Devil, the only Father of +lies. For a lie has only one Father and Mother, the Devil +and the Heart. No marvel therefore if the hearts that hatch +and bring forth Lies, be so much of complexion with the +Devil. Yea, no marvel though God and Christ have so bent +their Word against lyers: a lyer is weded to the Devil +himself.</p> +<p>Atten. It seems a marvellous thing in mine eyes, that +since a lye is the Offspring of the devill, and since a lye +brings the soul to the very den of Devils, to wit, the dark +dungeon of hell; that men should be so desperately wicked as to +accustom themselves to so horrible a thing.</p> +<p>Wise. It seems also marvellous to me, specially when I +observe for how little a matter some men will study, contrive, +make and tell a lye. You shall have some that will lye it +over and over, and that for a peny <a name="citation23b"></a><a +href="#footnote23b" class="citation">[23b]</a> profit. Yea, +lye and stand in it, although they know that they lye: yea, you +shall have some men that will not stick to tell lye after lye, +though themselves get nothing thereby; They will tell lyes in +their ordinary discourse with their Neighbours, also their News, +their Jests, and their Tales must needs be adorned with lyes; or +else they seem to bear no good sound to the ear, nor shew much to +the fancie of him to whom they are told. But alas, what +will these lyers doe, when, for their lyes they shall be tumbled +down into hell, to that Devil that did beget those lyes in their +heart, and so be tormented by fire and brimstone, with him, and +that for ever and ever, for their lyes?</p> +<p>Atten. Can you not give one some example of Gods +Judgements upon lyers, that one may tell them to lyers when one +hears them lye, if perhaps they may by the hearing thereof, be +made afraid, and ashamed to lye.</p> +<p>Wise. Examples! why, <a name="citation23c"></a><a +href="#footnote23c" class="citation">[23c]</a> Saphira and his +wife are examples enough to put a stop, one would think, to a +spirit addicted thereto, for they both were stricken down dead +for telling a lye, and that by God himself, in the midst of a +company of people. But if Gods threatning of Liers with +Hell-fire, and with the loss of the Kingdom of Heaven, will not +prevail with them to leave off to lie and make lies, it cannot be +imagined that a relation of temporal Judgements that have swept +liers out of the World heretofore, should do it. Now, as I +said, this Lying was one of the first sins that Mr. Badman was +addicted to, and he could make them and tell them fearfully.</p> +<p>Atten. I am sorry to hear this of him, and so much the +more because, as I fear, this sin did not reign in him <a +name="citation24a"></a><a href="#footnote24a" +class="citation">[24a]</a> alone; for usually one that is +accustomed to lying, is also accustomed to other evils besides, +and if it were not so also with Mr. Badman, it would be indeed a +wonder.</p> +<p>Wise. You say true, the lier is a Captive slave of more +than the spirit of lying: and therefore this Mr. Badman, as he +was a lier from a Child, so he was also much given to <a +name="citation24b"></a><a href="#footnote24b" +class="citation">[24b]</a> pilfer and steal, so that what he +could, as we say, handsomly lay his hands on, that was counted +his own, whether they were the things of his fellow Children; or +if he could lay hold of any thing at a Neighbours house, he would +take it away; you must understand me of Trifles; for being let +but a Child he attempted no great matter, especially at +first. But yet as he grew up in strength and ripeness of +wit, so he attempted to pilfer and steal things still of more +value than at first. He took at last great pleasure in +robbing of Gardens and Orchards; and as he grew up, to steal +Pullen from the Neighbourhood: Yea, what was his <a +name="citation24c"></a><a href="#footnote24c" +class="citation">[24c]</a> Fathers, could not escape his fingers, +all was Fish that came to his Net, so hardened, at last, was he +in this mischief also.</p> +<p>Atten. You make me wonder more and more. What, +play the Thief too! What play the Thief so soon! He +could not but know, though he was but a Child, that what he took +from others, was none of his own. Besides, if his Father +was a good man, as you say, it could not be, but he must also +hear from him, that to steal was to transgress the Law of God, +and so to run the hazard of eternal Damnation.</p> +<p>Wise. His Father was not wanting to use the means to +reclaim him, often urging, as I have been told, that saying in +the Law of Moses, <a name="citation24d"></a><a +href="#footnote24d" class="citation">[24d]</a> Thou shalt not +steal: And also that, This is the Curse that goeth forth over the +face of the whole earth, for every one that stealeth shall be cut +off, &c. <a name="citation25a"></a><a href="#footnote25a" +class="citation">[25a]</a> The light of Nature also, though +he was little, must needs shew him that what he took from others, +was not his own, and that he would not willingly have been served +so himself. But all was to no purpose, let Father and +Conscience say what they would to him, he would go on, he was +resolved to go on in his wickedness.</p> +<p>Atten. But his Father would, as you intimate, sometimes +rebuke him for his wickedness; pray how would he carry it +then?</p> +<p>Wise. How! why, like to a Thief that is found. He +would stand <a name="citation25b"></a><a href="#footnote25b" +class="citation">[25b]</a> gloating, and hanging down his head in +a sullen, pouching manner, (a body might read, as we use to say, +the picture of Ill-luck in his face,) and when his Father did +demand his answer to such questions concerning his Villany, he +would grumble and mutter at him, and that should be all he could +get.</p> +<p>Atten. But you said that he would also rob his Father, +methinks that was an unnatural thing.</p> +<p>Wise. Natural or unnatural, all is one to a Thief. +Beside, you must think that he had likewise Companions to whom he +was, for the wickedness that he saw in them, more <a +name="citation25c"></a><a href="#footnote25c" +class="citation">[25c]</a> firmly knit, than either to Father or +Mother. Yea, and what had he cared if Father and Mother had +died for grief for him. Their death would have been, as he +would have counted, great release and liberty to him: For the +truth is, they and their counsel was his Bondage; yea, and if I +forget not, I have heard some say, that when he was, at times, +among his Companions, he would greatly <a +name="citation25d"></a><a href="#footnote25d" +class="citation">[25d]</a> rejoyce to think that his Parents were +old, and could not live long, and then, quoth he, I shall be mine +own man, to do what I list without their controul.</p> +<p>Atten. Then it seems he counted that robbing of his +Parents was no crime.</p> +<p>Wise. None at all, and therefore he fell directly under +that Sentence, Whoso robbeth his Father or his Mother, and saith +it is no transgression, the same is the companion of a +destroyer. And for that he set so light by them as to their +Persons and Counsels, ’twas a sign that at present he was +of a very abominable spirit, <a name="citation26a"></a><a +href="#footnote26a" class="citation">[26a]</a> and that some +Judgement waited to take hold of him in time to come.</p> +<p>Atten. But can you imagin what it was, I mean, in his +conceit (for I speak not now of the suggestions of Satan, by +which doubtless he was put on to do these things,) I say what it +should be in his conceit, that should make him think that this +his manner of pilfering and stealing was no great matter.</p> +<p>Wise. It was, for that, the things that he stole, were +small; to rob Orchards, and Gardens, and to steal Pullen, and the +like, these he counted <a name="citation26b"></a><a +href="#footnote26b" class="citation">[26b]</a> Tricks of Youth, +nor would he be beat out of it by all that his Friends could +say. They would tell him that he must not covet, or desire, +(and yet to desire, is less than to take) even any thing, the +least thing that was his Neighbours, and that if he did, it would +be a transgression of the Law; but all was one to him: what +through the wicked Talk of his Companions, and the delusion of +his own corrupt heart, he would go on in his pilfering course, +and where he thought himself secure, would talk of, and laugh at +it when he had done.</p> +<p> +<a href="images/tnb.jpg"> +<img alt= +"Take note symbol" +title= +"Take note symbol" +src="images/tns.jpg" /> +</a>Atten. Well, I heard a man once, when he was upon the +Ladder with the Rope about his Neck, confess (when ready to be +turned off by the Hangman) that that which had brought him to +that end, was his accustoming of himself, when young, to pilfer +and steal small things. To my best remembrance he told us, +that he began the trade of a Thief by stealing Pins and Points, +and therefore did forewarn all the Youth, that then were gathered +together to see him die, to take heed of beginning, though but +with little sins, because by tampering at first with little ones, +way is made for the commission of bigger.</p> +<p>Wise. Since you are entred upon Storyes, I also will +tell you one, the which, <a name="citation26d"></a><a +href="#footnote26d" class="citation">[26d]</a> though I heard it +not with mine own Ears, yet my Author I dare believe: <a +name="citation26e"></a><a href="#footnote26e" +class="citation">[26e]</a> It is concerning one old Tod, that was +hanged about Twenty years agoe, or more, at Hartford, for being a +Thief. The Story is this:</p> +<p> +<a href="images/tnb.jpg"> +<img alt= +"Take note symbol" +title= +"Take note symbol" +src="images/tns.jpg" /> +</a>At a Summer Assizes holden at Hartfor[d], while the Judge was +sitting upon the Bench, comes this old Tod into the Court, +cloathed in a green Suit, with his Leathern Girdle in his hand, +his Bosom open, and all on a dung sweat, as if he had run for his +Life; and being come in, he spake aloud as follows: <a +name="citation27"></a><a href="#footnote27" +class="citation">[27]</a> My Lord, said he, Here is the veryest +Rogue that breaths upon the face of the earth. I have been +a Thief from a Child: When I was but a little one, I gave my self +to rob Orchards, and to do other such like wicked things, and I +have continued a Thief ever since. My Lord, there has not +been a Robbery committed thus many years within so many miles if +this place, but I have either been at it, or privy to it.</p> +<p>The Judge thought the fellow was mad, but after some +conference with some of the Justices, they agreed to Indict him; +and so they did of several felonious Actions; to all which he +heartily confessed Guilty, and so was hanged with his Wife at the +same time.</p> +<p>Atten. This is a remarkable Story indeed, and you think +it is a true one.</p> +<p>Wise. It is not only remarkable, but pat to our +purpose. This Thief, like Mr. Badman, began his Trade +betimes; he began too where Mr. Badman began, even at robbing of +Orchards, and other such things, which brought him, as you may +perceive, from sin to sin, till at last it brought him to the +publick shame of sin, which is the Gallows.</p> +<p>As for the truth of this Story, the Relator told me that he +was at the same time himself in the Court, and stood within less +than two yards of old Tod, when he heard him aloud to utter the +words.</p> +<p>Atten. These two sins of lying and stealing were a bad +sign of an evil end.</p> +<p>Wise. So they were, and yet Mr. Badman came not to his +end like old Tod; Though I fear, to as bad, nay, worse than was +that death of the Gallows, though less discerned by spectators; +but more of that by and by. But you talk of these two sins +as if these were all that Mr. Badman was addicted to in his +Youth: Alas, alas, he swarmed with sins, even as a Begger does +with Vermin, and that when he was but a Boy.</p> +<p>Atten. Why what other sins was he addicted to, I mean +while he was but a Child?</p> +<p>Wise. You need not ask, to what other sins was he, but +to what other sins was he not addicted, that is, of such as +suited with his Age: for a man may safely say, that nothing that +was vile came amiss to him; if he was but capable to do it. +Indeed some sins there be that Childhood knows not how to be +tampering with; but I speak of sins that he was capable of +committing, of which I will nominate two or three more. +And,</p> +<p>First, He could not endure the <a name="citation28a"></a><a +href="#footnote28a" class="citation">[28a]</a> Lords Day, because +of the Holiness that did attend it; the beginning of that Day was +to him as if he was going to Prison, (except he could get out +from his Father and Mother, and lurk in by-holes among his +Companions, untill holy Duties were over.) Reading the +Scriptures, hearing Sermons, godly Conference, repeating of +Sermons, and Prayer, were things that he could not away with; and +therefore if his Father on such days, (as often he did, though +sometimes notwithstanding his diligence, he would be sure to give +him the slip) did keep him strictly to the observation of the +day, he would plainly shew by all carriages that he was highly +discontent therewith: he would sleep at Duties, would talk vainly +with his Brothers, and as it were, think every godly opportunity +seven times as long as it was, gruding till it was over.</p> +<p>Atten. This his abhorring of that day, was not, I think, +for the sake of the day itself: for as it is a day, it is nothing +else but as other days of the Week: But I suppose that the <a name="citation28b"></a><a href="#footnote28b" +class="citation">[28b]</a> reason of his loathing of it, was, for +that God hath put sanctity and holiness upon it; also because it +is the day above all the days of the week that ought to be spent +in holy Devotion, in remembrance of our Lords Resurrection from +the dead.</p> +<p>Wise. Yes, ’twas therefore, that he was such an +enemy to it, even because more restraint was laid upon him on +that day, from his own ways, than were possible should be laid +upon him on all others.</p> +<p>Atten. Doth not God by instituting of a day unto holy +Duties, make great proof how the hearts and inclinations of poor +people do stand to Holiness of heart, and a Conversation in +[h]oly duties?</p> +<p>Wise. <a name="citation29a"></a><a href="#footnote29a" +class="citation">[29a]</a> Yes doubtless; and a man shall shew +his Heart and his Life what they are, more by one Lords-day, than +by all the days of the week besides: And the reason is, because +on the Lords-day there is a special restraint laid upon men as to +Thoughts and Life, more than upon other days of the week +besides. Also, men are enjoyned on that day to a stricter +performance of holy Duties, and restraint of worldly business, +than upon other days they are; wherefore, if their hearts incline +not naturally to good, now they will shew it, now they will +appear what they are. The Lords Day is a kind of an Emblem +of the heavenly Sabbath above, and it makes manifest how the +heart stands to the perpetuity of Holiness, more than to be found +in a transient Duty, does.</p> +<p>On other days a man may be in and out of holy Duties, and all +in a quarter of an hour; but now, the Lords Day is, as it were, a +day that enjoyns to one perpetual Duty of Holiness: Remember that +thou keep holy the Sabbath day, <a name="citation29b"></a><a +href="#footnote29b" class="citation">[29b]</a> (which by Christ +is not abrogated, but changed, into the First of the week,) not +as it was given in particular to the Jews, but as it was +sanctified by him from the Beginning of the world; and therefore +is a greater proof of the frame and temper of a mans heart, and +does more make manifest to what he is inclined, than doth his +other performance of Duties: Therefore God puts great difference +between them that truly call (and walk in) this day as holy, and +count it Honourable, <a name="citation29c"></a><a +href="#footnote29c" class="citation">[29c]</a> upon the account +that now they have an opportunity to shew how they delight to +honour him; <a name="citation29d"></a><a href="#footnote29d" +class="citation">[29d]</a> in that they have, not only an Hour, +but a whole Day to shew it in: I say, he puts great difference +between these, and that other sort that say, When will the +Sabbath be gone, that we may be at our worldly business. <a +name="citation29e"></a><a href="#footnote29e" +class="citation">[29e]</a> The first he calleth a Blessed +man, but brandeth the other for an unsanctified worldling. +And indeed, to delight ourselves in Gods service upon his Holy +days, gives a better proof of a sanctified Nature, than to grudge +at the coming, and to be weary of the holy duties of such dayes, +as Mr. Badman did.</p> +<p>Atten. There may be something in what you say, for he +that cannot abide to keep one day holy to God, to be sure he hath +given a sufficient proof that he is an unsanctified man; and as +such, what should he do in Heaven? that being the place where a +perpetual Sabath is to be kept to God; <a +name="citation30a"></a><a href="#footnote30a" +class="citation">[30a]</a> I say, to be kept for ever and +ever. And for ought I know, one reason why one day in +seven, hath been by our Lord set apart unto holy Duties for men, +may be to give them conviction that there is enmity in the hearts +of sinners to the God of Heaven, for he that hateth Holiness, +hateth God himself. They pretend to love God, and yet love +not a holy day, and yet love not to spend that day in one +continued act of holiness to the Lord: They had as good say +nothing as to call him Lord, Lord, and yet not doe the things +that he says. And this Mr. Badman was such an one: he could +not abide this day, nor any of the Duties of it. Indeed, +when he could get from his Friends, and so <a +name="citation30b"></a><a href="#footnote30b" +class="citation">[30b]</a> spend it in all manner of idleness and +profaneness, then he would be pleased well enough: but what was +this but a turning the day into night, or other than taking an +opportunity at Gods forbidding, to follow our Callings, to solace +and satisfie our lusts and delights of the flesh. I take +the liberty to speak thus of Mr. Badman, upon a confidence of +what you, Sir, have said of him, is true.</p> +<p>Wise. You needed not to have made that Apology for your +censuring of Mr. Badman, for all that knew him, will confirm what +you said of him to be true. He could not abide either that +day, or any thing else that had the stamp or image of God upon +it. Sin, sin, and to do the thing that was naught, was that +which he delighted in, and that from a little Child.</p> +<p>Atten. I must say again, I am sorry to hear it, and that +for his own sake, and also for the sake of his Relations, who +must needs be broken to pieces with such doings as these: For, +for these things sake comes the wrath of God upon the Children of +disobedience: <a name="citation30c"></a><a href="#footnote30c" +class="citation">[30c]</a> and doubtless he must be gone to Hell, +if he died without Repentance; and to beget a Child for Hell, is +sad for Parents to think on.</p> +<p>Wise. Of his Dying, as I told you, I will give you a +Relation anon, but now we are upon his Life, and upon the Manner +of his Life in his Childhood, even of the sins that attended him +then, some of which I have mentioned already; and indeed I have +mentioned but some, for yet there are more to follow, and those +not at all inferiour to what you have already heard.</p> +<p>Atten. Pray what were they?</p> +<p>Wise. Why he was greatly given, and that while a Lad, to +grievous <a name="citation31a"></a><a href="#footnote31a" +class="citation">[31a]</a> Swearing and Cursing: yea, he then +made no more of Swearing and Cursing, than I do of telling my +fingers. Yea, he would do it without provocation +thereto. He counted it a glory to Swear and Curse, and it +was as natural to him, as to eat and drink and sleep.</p> +<p>Atten. Oh! what a young Villain was this! here is, as +the Apostle says, a yielding of Members as instruments of +unrighteousness unto sin, <a name="citation31b"></a><a +href="#footnote31b" class="citation">[31b]</a> indeed! This +is proceeding from evil to evil with a witness; This argueth that +he was a black-mouthed young Wretch indeed.</p> +<p>Wise. He was so; and yet, as I told you, he counted, +above all, this kind of sinning, to be <a +name="citation31c"></a><a href="#footnote31c" +class="citation">[31c]</a> a Badge of his Honour: He reckoned +himself a mans Fellow when he had learnt to Swear and Curse +boldly.</p> +<p>Atten. I am perswaded that many do think, as you have +said, that to Swear, is a thing that does bravely become them, +and that it is the best way for a man, when he would put +authority, or terrour into his words, to stuff them full of the +sin of Swearing.</p> +<p>Wise. You say right, else, as I am perswaded, men would +not so usually belch out their blasphemous Oaths, as they do: +they take a pride in it; they think that to swear is +Gentleman-like; and having once accustomed themselves unto it, +they hardly leave it all the days of their lives.</p> +<p>Atten. Well, but now we are upon it, pray shew me <a +name="citation31d"></a><a href="#footnote31d" +class="citation">[31d]</a> the difference between Swearing and +Cursing; for there is a difference, is there not?</p> +<p>Wise. Yes: There is a difference between Swearing and +Cursing, Swearing, vain swearing, such as young Badman accustomed +himself unto. Now vain and sinful swearing, <a +name="citation31e"></a><a href="#footnote31e" +class="citation">[31e]</a> Is a light and wicked calling of God, +&c. to witness to our vain and foolish attesting of things, +and those things are of two sorts.</p> +<p>1. Things that we swear, are, or shall be done.</p> +<p>2. Things so sworn to, true or false.</p> +<p>1. Things that we swear, are, or shall be done. +Thou swearest thou hast done such a thing, that such a thing is +so, or shall be so; for it is no matter which of these it is that +men swear about, if it be done lightly and wickedly, and +groundlesly, it is vain, because it is a sin against the Third +Commandement, which says, Thou shalt not take the Name of the +Lord thy God in vain. <a name="citation32a"></a><a +href="#footnote32a" class="citation">[32a]</a> For this is +a vain using of that Holy and Sacred Name, and so a sin for +which, without sound Repentance, there is not, nor can be rightly +expected, forgiveness.</p> +<p>Atten. Then it seems, though as to the matter of fact, a +man swears truely, yet if he sweareth lightly and groundlesly, +his Oath is evil, and he by it, under sin.</p> +<p>Wise. Yes; a man may say, <a name="citation32b"></a><a +href="#footnote32b" class="citation">[32b]</a> The Lord liveth, +and that is true, and yet in so saying, swear falsly; because he +sweareth vainly, needlesly, and without a ground. To swear +groundedly and necessarily, (which then a man does, when he +swears as being called thereto of God,) that is tolerated of the +Word: but this was none of Mr. Badmans swearing, and therefore +that which now we are not concerned about.</p> +<p>Atten. I perceive, by the Prophet, that a man may sin in +swearing to a Truth: They therefore must needs most horribly sin, +that swear to confirm their Jests and Lies; and as they think, +the better to beautifie their foolish talking.</p> +<p>Wise. They sin with an high hand; for they presume to +imagine, <a name="citation32c"></a><a href="#footnote32c" +class="citation">[32c]</a> that God is as wicked as themselves, +to wit, that he is an Avoucher of Lies to be true. For, as +I said before, to swear, is to call God to witness; and to swear +to a Lie, is to call God himself, to witness that that Lie is +true. This therefore must needs offend; for it puts the +highest affront upon the Holiness and Righteousness of God, +therefore his wrath must sweep them away. This kind of +Swearing is put in with lying, and killing, and stealing, and +committing Adultery; and therefore must not go unpunished: <a +name="citation32d"></a><a href="#footnote32d" +class="citation">[32d]</a> For if God will not hold him guiltless +that taketh his Name in vain, which a man may doe when he swears +to a truth, (as I have shewed before,) how can it be imagined, +that he should hold such guiltless, who, by Swearing, will appeal +to God, if Lies be not true, or that swear out of their frantick +and Bedlam madness. It would grieve and provoke a sober man +to wrath, if one should swear to a notorious lye, and avouch that +that man would attest it for a truth; and yet thus do men deal +with the holy God: They tell their Jestings, Tales and Lies, and +then swear by God that they are true. Now this kind of +Swearing was as common with young Badman, as it was to eat when +he was an hungred, or to go to bed when it was night.</p> +<p>Atten. I have often mused in my mind, what it should be +that should make men so common in the use of the sin of Swearing, +since those that be wise, will believe them never the sooner for +that.</p> +<p>Wise. It cannot be any thing that is good, you may be +sure; because the thing it self is abominable: <a +name="citation33a"></a><a href="#footnote33a" +class="citation">[33a]</a> 1. Therefore it must be from the +promptings of the spirit of the Devil within them. 2. +Also it flows sometimes from hellish Rage, when the tongue hath +set on fire of Hell even the whole course of nature. <a +name="citation33b"></a><a href="#footnote33b" +class="citation">[33b]</a> 3. But commonly Swearing flows +from that daring Boldness that biddeth defiance to the Law that +forbids it. 4. Swearers think also that by their +belching of their blasphemous Oaths out of their black and +polluted mouths, they shew themselves the more valiant men: +5. And imagine also, that by these outrageous kind of +villianies, they shall conquer those that at such a time they +have to do with, and make them believe their lyes to be +true. 6. They also swear frequently to get Gain +thereby, and when they meet with fools, they overcome them this +way. But if I might give advice in this matter, no Buyer +should lay out one farthing with him that is a common Swearer in +his Calling; especially with such an Oath-master that +endeavoureth to swear away his commodity to another, and that +would swear his Chapmans money into his own pocket.</p> +<p>Atten. All these causes of Swearing, so far as I can +perceive, flow from the same Root as doe the Oaths themselves, +even from a hardened and desperate heart. But pray shew me +now how wicked cursing is to be distinguished from this kind of +swearing.</p> +<p>Wise. <a name="citation34a"></a><a href="#footnote34a" +class="citation">[34a]</a> Swearing, as I said, hath immediately +to do with the Name of God, and it calls upon him to be witness +to the truth of what is said: That is, if they that swear, swear +by him. Some indeed swear by Idols, as by the Mass, by our +Lady, by Saints, Beasts, Birds, and other creatures; but the +usual way of our profane ones in England, is to swear by God, +Christ, Faith, and the like: But however, or by whatever they +swear, Cursing is distinguished from Swearing thus.</p> +<p>To <a name="citation34b"></a><a href="#footnote34b" +class="citation">[34b]</a> Curse, to Curse profanely, it is to +sentence another or our self, for, or to evil: or to wish that +some evil might happen to the person or thing under the Curse, +unjustly.</p> +<p>It is to sentence for, or to evil, (that is, without a cause): +Thus Shimei cursed David: He sentenced him for and to evil +unjustly, when he said to him, Come out, come out thou bloody +man, and thou man of Belial. The Lord hath returned upon +thee all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose stead thou hast +reigned, and the Lord hath delivered the kingdom into the hand of +Absalom thy son: and behold thou art taken in thy mischief, +because thou art a bloody man. <a name="citation34c"></a><a +href="#footnote34c" class="citation">[34c]</a></p> +<p>This David calls a grievous Curse. And behold, saith he +to Solomon his Son, thou hast with thee Shimei a Benjamite, which +cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went to +Mahanaim. <a name="citation34d"></a><a href="#footnote34d" +class="citation">[34d]</a></p> +<p>But what was this Curse? Why, First, It was a wrong +sentence past upon David; Shimei called him Bloody man, man of +Belial, when he was not. Secondly, He sentenced him to the +evil that at present was upon him, for being a bloody man, (that +is, against the house of Saul,) when that present evil overtook +David, for quite another thing.</p> +<p>And we may thus apply it to the <a name="citation34e"></a><a +href="#footnote34e" class="citation">[34e]</a> profane ones of +our times who in their rage and envy, have little else in their +mouths but a sentence against their Neighbour for, and to evil +unjustly. How common is it with many, when they are but a +little offended with one, to cry, Hang him, Damn him, +Rogue! This is both a sentencing of him for, and to evil, +and is in it self a grievous Curse.</p> +<p>2. The other kind of Cursing, is to wish that some evil +might happen to, and overtake this or that person or thing: And +this kind of Cursing, Job counted a grievous sin. I have +not suffered (says he) my mouth to sin, <a +name="citation35a"></a><a href="#footnote35a" +class="citation">[35a]</a> by wishing a curse to his soul; or +consequently, to Body or Estate. This then is a wicked +cursing, to wish that evil might either befall another or our +selves: And this kind of cursing young Badman accustomed himself +unto.</p> +<p>1. He <a name="citation35b"></a><a href="#footnote35b" +class="citation">[35b]</a> would wish that evil might befall +others; he would wish their Necks broken, or that their Brains +were out, or that the Pox, or Plague was upon them, and the like: +All which is a devilish kind of cursing, and is become one of the +common sins of our age.</p> +<p>2. He would also as often wish a Curse to himself, +saying, Would I might be hanged, or burned, or that the Devil +might fetch me, if it be not so, or the like. We count the +<a name="citation35c"></a><a href="#footnote35c" +class="citation">[35c]</a> Damme Blades to be great Swearers; but +when in their hellish fury they say, God-damme me, God perish me, +or the like, they rather curse than swear; yea, curse themselves, +and that with a Wish that Damnation might light upon themselves; +which wish and Curse of theirs, in a little time, they will see +accomplished upon them, even in Hell-fire, if they repent not of +their sins.</p> +<p>Atten. But did this young Badman accustom himself to +such filthy kind of language?</p> +<p>Wise. I think I may say, that nothing was more frequent +in his mouth, and that upon the least provocation. Yea he +was so versed in such kind of language, that neither <a +name="citation35d"></a><a href="#footnote35d" +class="citation">[35d]</a> Father, nor Mother, nor Brother, nor +Sister, nor Servant, no nor the very Cattel that his Father had, +could escape these Curses of his. I say, that even the +bruit Beasts when he drove them, or rid upon them, if they +pleased not his humour, they must be sure to partake of his +curse. <a name="citation35e"></a><a href="#footnote35e" +class="citation">[35e]</a> He would wish their Necks broke, their +Legs broke, their Guts out, or that the Devil might fetch them, +or the like: and no marvel, for he that is so hardy to wish +damnation, or other bad curses to himself, or dearest relations; +will not stick to wish evil to the silly Beast, in his +madness.</p> +<p>Atten. Well, I see still that this Badman was a +desperate villain. But pray, Sir, since you have gone thus +far, now shew me whence this evil of cursing ariseth, and also +what dishonour it bringeth to God; for I easily discern that it +doth bring damnation to the soul.</p> +<p>Wise. This evil of Cursing ariseth, in general, from the +desperate wickedness of the heart, but particularly from, <a +name="citation36a"></a><a href="#footnote36a" +class="citation">[36a]</a> <a name="citation36b"></a><a +href="#footnote36b" class="citation">[36b]</a> 1. Envie, +which is, as I apprehend, the leading sin to Witchcraft. +2. It also ariseth from Pride which was the sin of the +fallen Angels; 3. It ariseth too from Scorn and contempt of +others: 4. But for a man to curse himself, must needs arise +from desperate Madness.</p> +<p>The <a name="citation36c"></a><a href="#footnote36c" +class="citation">[36c]</a> dishonour that it bringeth to God, is +this. It taketh away from him his Authority, in whose power +it is onely, to Bless and Curse; not to Curse wickedly, as Mr. +Badman, but justly, and righteously, giving by his Curse to those +that are wicked, the due Reward of their deeds.</p> +<p>Besides, these wicked men, in their wicked cursing of their +Neighbour, &c. do even Curse God himself in his handy +work. Man is Gods Image, and to curse wickedly the Image of +God, is to curse God himself. <a name="citation36d"></a><a +href="#footnote36d" class="citation">[36d]</a> Therefore as +when men wickedly swear, they rend, and tare Gods Name, and make +him, as much as in them lies, the avoucher and approver of all +their wickedness; so he that curseth and condemneth in this sort +his Neighbour, or that wisheth him evil, curseth, condemneth, and +wisheth evil to the Image of God, and consequently judgeth and +condemneth God himself.</p> +<p>Suppose that a man should say with his mouth, I wish that the +Kings Picture was burned; would not this mans so saying, render +him as an Enemy to the Person of the King? Even so it is +with them that, by cursing, wish evil to their neighbour, or to +themselves, they contemn the Image, even the Image of God +himself.</p> +<p>Atten. But do you think that the men that do thus, do +think that they do so vilely, so abominably?</p> +<p>Wise. The question is not what men do believe concerning +their sin, but what Gods Word says of it: If Gods Word says that +Swearing and Cursing are sins, though men should count them for +Vertues, their reward will be a reward for sin, to wit, the +damnation of the soul.</p> +<p>To <a name="citation37a"></a><a href="#footnote37a" +class="citation">[37a]</a> curse another, and to swear vainly and +falsly, are sins against the Light of Nature.</p> +<p>1. To Curse is so, because, whoso curseth another, +knows, that at the same time he would not be so served +himself.</p> +<p>2. To Swear also, is a sin against the same Law: for +Nature will tell me, that I should not lie, and therefore much +less Swear to confirm it. Yea, the Heathens have looked +upon Swearing to be a solemn Ordinance of God, and therefore not +to be lightly or vainly used by men, though to confirm a matter +of truth. <a name="citation37b"></a><a href="#footnote37b" +class="citation">[37b]</a></p> +<p>Atten. But I wonder, since Curseing and Swearing are +such evils in the eyes of God, that he doth not make some +Examples to others, for their committing such wickedness.</p> +<p> +<a href="images/tnb.jpg"> +<img alt= +"Take note symbol" +title= +"Take note symbol" +src="images/tns.jpg" /> +</a>Wise. Alas! so he has, a thousand times twice told, as +may be easily gathered by any observing people in every Age and +Countrey. I could present you with several my self; but +waving the abundance that might be mentioned, I will here present +you with <a name="citation37c"></a><a href="#footnote37c" +class="citation">[37c]</a> two; One was that dreadful Judgment of +God upon one N. P. at Wimbleton in Surrey; who, after a horrible +fit of Swearing at, and Cursing of some persons that did not +please him, suddenly fell sick, and in little time died raving, +cursing and swearing.</p> +<p>But above all take that dreadful Story of Dorothy Mately an +Inhabitant of As[h]over in the County of Darby.</p> +<p> +<a href="images/tnb.jpg"> +<img alt= +"Take note symbol" +title= +"Take note symbol" +src="images/tns.jpg" /> +</a>This Dorothy Mately, saith the Relator, was noted by the +people of the Town to be a great Swearer, and Curser, and Lier, +and Thief; (just like Mr. Badman.) And the labour that she +did usually follow, was to wash the Rubbish that came forth of +the Lead Mines, and there to get sparks of Lead-Ore; and her +usual way of asserting of things, was with these kind of +Imprecations: I would I might sink into the earth if it be not +so, or I would God would make the earth open and swallow me +up. Now upon the 23. of March, 1660. this Dorothy was +washing of Ore upon the top of a steep Hill, about a quarter of a +mile from Ashover, and was there taxed by a Lad for taking of two +single Pence out of his Pocket, (for he had laid his Breeches by, +and was at work in his Drawers;) but she violently denyed it, +wishing, That the ground might swallow her up if she had them: +She also used the same wicked words on several other occasions +that day.</p> +<p>Now one George Hodgkinson of Ashover, a man of good report +there, came accidentally by where this Dorothy was, and stood +still a while to talk with her, as she was washing her Ore; there +stood also a little Child by her Tub-side, and another a distance +from her, calling aloud to her to come away; wherefore the said +George took the Girle by the hand to lead her away to her that +called her: But behold, they had not gone above ten yards from +Dorothy, but they heard her crying out for help; so looking back, +he saw the Woman, and her Tub, and Sive, twirling round, and +sinking into the ground. Then said the man, Pray to God to +pardon thy sin, for thou art never like to be seen alive any +longer. So she and her Tub twirled round, and round, till +they sunk about three yards into the Earth, and then for a while +staid. Then she called for help again, thinking, as she +said, that she should stay there. Now the man though +greatly amazed, did begin to think which way to help her, but +immediately a great stone which appeared in the Earth, fell upon +her head, and brake her Skull, and then the Earth fell in upon +her and covered her. She was afterwards digged up, and +found about four yards within ground, with the Boys two single +Pence in her pocket, but her Tub and Sive could not be found.</p> +<p> +<a href="images/tnb.jpg"> +<img alt= +"Take note symbol" +title= +"Take note symbol" +src="images/tns.jpg" /> +</a>Atten. You bring to my mind a sad story, the which I +will relate unto you. The thing is this; About a bow-shoot +from where I once dwelt, there was a blind Ale-house, and the man +that kept it had a Son whose name was Edward. This Edward +was, as it were, an half-fool, both in his words, and manner of +behaviour. To this blind Ale-house certain jovial +companions would once or twice a week come, and this Ned, (for so +they called him) his Father would entertain his guests withall; +to wit, by calling for him to make them sport by his foolish +words and gestures. So when these boon blades came to this +mans house, the Father would call for Ned: Ned therefore would +come forth; and the villain was devilishly addicted to cursing, +yea to cursing his Father and Mother, and any one else that did +cross him. And because (though he was an half-fool) he saw +that his practice was pleasing, he would do it with the more +audaciousness.</p> +<p>Well, when these brave fellows did come at their times to this +Tippling-house (as they call it) to fuddle and make merry, then +must Ned be called out; and because his Father was best +acquainted with Ned, and best knew how to provoke him, therefore +He would usually ask him such questions, or command him such +business, as would be sure to provoke him indeed. Then +would he (after his foolish manner) Curse his Father most +bitterly; at which the old man would laugh, (and so would the +rest of the guests, as at that which pleased them best) still +continuing to ask, that Ned still might be provoked to curse, +that they might still be provoked to laugh. This was the +mirth with which the old man did use to entertain his guests.</p> +<p>The curses wherewith this Ned did use to curse his father, and +at which the old man would laugh, were these, and such like: The +Devil take you; The Devil fetch you: He would also wish him +Plagues and Destructions many. Well, so it came to pass, +through the righteous Judgement of God, that Neds Wishes and +Curses were in a little time fuelled upon his Father; for not +many months passed between them after this manner, but the Devil +did indeed take him, possess him, and also in few days carried +him out of this world by death; I say, Satan did take him and +possess him: I mean, so it was judged by those that knew him, and +had to do with him in that his lamentable condition. He +could feel him like a live thing goe up and down in his body, but +when tormenting time was come (as he had often tormenting fits) +then he would lye like an hard bump in the soft place of his +chest, (I mean, I saw it so,) and so would rent and tare him, and +make him roar till he died away.</p> +<p>I told you before, that I was an ear and eye witness of what I +here say; and so I was. I have heard Ned in his Roguery, +cursing his Father, and his Father laughing thereat most +heartily; still provoking of Ned to curse, that his mirth might +be encreased. I saw his Father also, when he was possessed, +I saw him in one of his fits, and saw his flesh (as ’twas +thought) by the Devil, gathered up on an heap, about the bigness +of half in Egge; to the unutterable torture and afflict[i]on of +the old man. There was also one Freeman, (who was more than +an ordinary Doctor) sent for, to cast out this Devil; and I was +there when he attempted to do it. The manner whereof was +this. They had the possessed into an out-room, and laid him +on his belly upon a Form, with his head hanging over the Forms +end; then they bound him down thereto: which done, they set a pan +of Coals under his mouth, and put something therein which made a +great smoak; by this means (as ’twas said) to fetch out the +Devil. There therefore they kept the man till he was almost +smothered in the smoak, but no Devil came out of him; at which +Freeman was somewhat abashed, the man greatly afflicted, and I +made to go away wondering and fearing. In a little time +therefore that which possessed the man, carried him out of the +World, according to the cursed Wishes of his Son. And this +was the end of this hellish mirth.</p> +<p>Wise. These were all sad Judgements.</p> +<p>Atten. These were dreadful Judgments indeed.</p> +<p>Wise. Ai, and they look like the Threatning of that +Text, (though chiefly it concerned Judas,) As he loved cursing, +so let it come unto him; as he delighted not in blessing, so let +it be far from him. As he cloathed himself with cursing as +with a garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and as +oyl into his bones. <a name="citation40a"></a><a +href="#footnote40a" class="citation">[40a]</a></p> +<p>Atten. It is a fearful thing for Youth to be trained up +in a way of Cursing and Swearing.</p> +<p>Wise. Trained up in them! that I cannot say Mr. Badman +was, for his Father hath oft-times in my hearing, bewailed the +badness of his Children, and of this naughty Boy in +particular. I believe that the wickedness of his Children +made him (in the thoughts of it) goe many a Night with heavy +heart to bed, and with as heavy an one to rise in the +Morning. But all was one to his graceless Son, neither +wholsom counsel, nor fatherly sorrow, would make him mend his +Manners.</p> +<p>There <a name="citation40b"></a><a href="#footnote40b" +class="citation">[40b]</a> are some indeed that do train up their +Children to swear, curse, lye and steal, and great is the misery +of such poor Children whose hard hap it is to be ushered into the +world by, and to be under the tuition too of such ungodly +Parents. It had been better for such Parents, had they not +begat them, and better for such Children had they not been +born. O! methinks for a Father or a Mother to train up a +Child in that very way that leadeth to Hell and Damnation, what +thing so horrible! But Mr. Badman was not by his Parents so +brought up.</p> +<p>Atten. But methinks, since this Young Badman would not +be ruled at home, his Father should have tryed what good could +have been done of him abroad, by putting him out to some man of +his acquaintance, that he knew to be able to command him, and to +keep him pretty hard to some employ: So should he, at least, have +been prevented of time to do those wickednesses that could not be +done without time to do them in.</p> +<p>Wise. Alas, his Father did so, <a +name="citation41a"></a><a href="#footnote41a" +class="citation">[41a]</a> he put him out betimes to one of his +own Acquaintance, and entreated him of all love, that he would +take care of Son, and keep him from extravagant wayes. His +Trade also was honest and commodious; he had besides a full +Employ therein, so that this young Badman had no vacant seasons +nor idle hours yielded him by his Calling, therein to take +opportunities to do Badly: but all was one to him, as he had +begun to be vile in his Fathers house, even so he continued to be +when he was in the house of his Master.</p> +<p>Atten. I have known some Children, who though they have +been very Bad at home, yet have altered much when they have been +put out abroad; especially when they have fallen into a Family, +where the Governours thereof have made conscience of maintaining +of the Worship and Service of God therein; but perhaps that might +be wanting in Mr. Badmans Masters house.</p> +<p>Wise. Indeed some Children do greatly mend, when put +under other mens Roofs; but, as I said, this naughty boy did not +so; nor did his badness continue, because he wanted a Master that +both could and did correct it: For his <a +name="citation41b"></a><a href="#footnote41b" +class="citation">[41b]</a> Master was a very good man, a very +devout person; one that frequented the best Soul-means, that set +up the Worship of God in his Family, and also that walked himself +thereafter. He was also a man very meek and merciful, one +that did never overdrive young Badman in business, nor that kept +him at it at unseasonable hours.</p> +<p>Atten. Say you so! This is rare: I for my part can +see but few that can parallel, in these things, with Mr. Badmans +Master.</p> +<p>Wise. Nor I neither, (yet Mr. Badman had such an one;) +for, for the most past, <a name="citation42a"></a><a +href="#footnote42a" class="citation">[42a]</a> Masters are now a +days such as mind nothing but their worldly concerns, and if +Apprentices do but answer their commands therein, Soul and +Religion may go whither they will. Yea, I much fear, that +there have been many towardly Lads put out by their parents to +such Masters, that have quite undone them as to the next +world.</p> +<p>Atten. The more is the pity. But pray, now you +have touched upon this subject, shew me how many wages a Master +may be the ruin of his poor Apprentice.</p> +<p>Wise. Nay, I cannot tell you of all the wayes, yet some +of them I will mention.</p> +<p>Suppose then that a towardly Lad be put to be an Apprentice +with one that is reputed to be a Godly man, yet that Lad may be +ruined many wayes; that is, if his Master be not circumspect in +all things that respect both God and man, and that before his +Apprentice.</p> +<p>1. If <a name="citation42b"></a><a href="#footnote42b" +class="citation">[42b]</a> he be not moderate in the use of his +Apprentice; if he drives him beyond his strength; if he holds him +to work at unseasonable hours; if he will not allow him +convenient time to read the Word, to Pray, &c. This is +the way to destroy him; that is, in those tender begin[n]ings of +good thoughts, and good beginnings about spiritual things.</p> +<p>2. If he suffers his house to be scattered with profane +and wicked Books, such as stir up to lust, to wantonness, such as +teach idle, wanton, lascivious discourse, and such as has a +tendency to provoke to profane drollery and Jesting; and lastly, +such as tend to corrupt, and pervert the Doctrine of Faith and +Holiness. All these things will eat as doth a canker, and +will quickly spoil, in Youth, &c. those good beginnings that +may be putting forth themselves in them.</p> +<p>3. If there be a mixture of Servants, that is, if some +very bad be in the same place, that’s a way also to undo +such tender Lads; for they that are bad and sordid Servants, will +be often (and they have an opportunity too, to be) distilling and +fomenting of their profane and wicked words and tricks before +them, and these will easily stick in the flesh and minds of +Youth, to the corrupting of them.</p> +<p>4. If the Master have one Guise for abroad, and another +for home; that is, if his Religion hangs by in his house as his +Cloak does, and he be seldom in it, except he be abroad; this, +young beginners will take notice of, and stumble at. We +say, Hedges have eyes, and little Pitchers have ears; and indeed, +<a name="citation43a"></a><a href="#footnote43a" +class="citation">[43a]</a> Children make a greater inspection +into the Lives of Fathers, Masters, &c. than oft-times they +are aware of: And therefore should Masters be carefull, else they +may soon destroy good beginnings in their Servants.</p> +<p>5. If the Master be unconscionable in his Dealing, and +trades with lying words; or if bad Commodities be avouched to be +good, or if he seeks after unreasonable gain, or the like; his +servant sees it, and it is enough to undo him. Elies Sons +being bad before the congregation, made Men despise the +sacrifices of the Lord. <a name="citation43b"></a><a +href="#footnote43b" class="citation">[43b]</a></p> +<p>But these things by the by, only they may serve for a hint to +Masters to take heed that they take not Apprentices to destroy +their Souls. But young Badman had none of these +hinderances; <a name="citation43c"></a><a href="#footnote43c" +class="citation">[43c]</a> His father took care, and provided +well for him, as to this: He had a good Master, he wanted not +good Books, nor good Instruction, nor good Sermons, nor good +Examples, no nor good fellow-Servants neither: but all would not +doe.</p> +<p>Atten. ’Tis a wonder, that in such a Family, +amidst so many spiritual helps, nothing should take hold of his +heart! What! not good Books, nor good Instructions, nor +good Sermons, nor good Examples, nor good fellow-Servants, nor +nothing do him good!</p> +<p>Wise. You talk, he minded none of these things; nay, all +these were <a name="citation43d"></a><a href="#footnote43d" +class="citation">[43d]</a> abominable to him.</p> +<p>1. For good Books, they might lie in his Masters house +till they rotted for him, he would not regard to look into them; +but, contrary-wise, would get all the bad and abominable Books +that he could, as beastly Romances, and books full of Ribbauldry, +even such as immediately tended to set all fleshly lusts on +fire. True, he durst not be known to have any of these, to +his Master; therefore would he never let them be seen by him, but +would keep them in close places, and peruse them at such times, +as yielded him fit opportunities thereto.</p> +<p>2. For good Instruction, he liked that, much as he liked +good books; his care was to hear but little thereof, and to +forget what he heard as soon as ’twas spoken. Yea, I +have heard some that knew him then, say, that one might evidently +discern by the shew of his countenance and gestures, that good +counsel was to him like <a name="citation44a"></a><a +href="#footnote44a" class="citation">[44a]</a> little-ease, even +a continual torment to him; nor did he ever count himself at +liberty, but when farthest off of wholsom words. He would +hate them that rebuked him, and count them his deadly +enemies.</p> +<p>3. For good Example; which was frequently set him by his +Master, both in Religious and Civil matters; these, young Badman +would laugh at, and would also make a byword of them, when he +came in place where he with safety could.</p> +<p>4. His Master indeed would make him go with him to +Sermons, and that where he thought the best Preachers were, but +this ungodly young man, what shall I say, was (I think) a Master +of Art in all mischief; he had these wicked ways to hinder +himself of hearing, let the Preacher thunder never so loud.</p> +<p>1. His <a name="citation44b"></a><a href="#footnote44b" +class="citation">[44b]</a> way was, when come into the place of +hearing, to sit down in some corner, and then to fall fast +asleep.</p> +<p>2. Or else to fix his adulterous eyes upon some +beautifull Object that was in the place, and so all Sermon-while, +therewith be feeding of his fleshly lusts.</p> +<p>3. Or, if he could get near to some that he had observed +would fit his humour, he would be whispering, gigling, and +playing with them, till such time as Sermon was done.</p> +<p>Atten. Why! he was grown to a prodigious height of +wickedness.</p> +<p>Wise. He was so, and that which aggravates all, was, +this was his practice as soon as he was come to his Master, he +was as ready at all these things, as if he had, before he came to +his Master, served an Apprentiship to learn them.</p> +<p>Atten. There could not but be added (as you relate them) +Rebellion to his sin. Methinks it is as if he had said, I +will not hear, I will not regard, I will not mind good, I will +not mend, I will not turn, I will not be converted.</p> +<p> +<a href="images/tnb.jpg"> +<img alt= +"Take note symbol" +title= +"Take note symbol" +src="images/tns.jpg" /> +</a>Wise. You say true, and I know not to whom more fitly +to compare him, <a name="citation45b"></a><a href="#footnote45b" +class="citation">[45b]</a> than to that man, who when I my self +rebuked him for his wickedness, in this great huff replied; What +would the Devil do for company, if it was not for such as I.</p> +<p>Atten. Why did you ever hear any man say so.</p> +<p>Wise. Yes, that I did; and this young Badman was as like +him, as an Egg is like an Egg. Alas! the Scripture makes +mention of many that by their actions speak the same. They +say unto God, Depart from us, for we desire not the knowledge of +thy ways; Again, They refuse to hearken, and pull away their +shoulder, and stop their ears; yea, they make their hearts hard +as an Adamant-stone, lest they should hear the Law, and the words +that the Lord of Host[s] hath sent. <a name="citation45c"></a><a +href="#footnote45c" class="citation">[45c]</a> What are all +these but such as Badman, and such as the young man but now +mentioned? That young man was my Play-fellow when I was +solacing my self in my sins: I may make mention of him to my +shame; but he has a great many fellows.</p> +<p>Atten. Young Badman was like him indeed, and he trod his +steps, as if his wickedness had been his very Copy; I mean, as to +his desperateness: for had he not been a desperate one, he would +never have made you such a reply, when you was rebuking of him +for his sin. But when did you give him such a rebuke?</p> +<p>Wise. A while after God had parted him and I, by Calling +of me (as I hope) by his Grace, still leaving him in his sins; +and so far as I could ever gather, as he lived, so he died, even +as Mr. Badman did: but we will leave him, and return again to our +discourse.</p> +<p>Atten. Ha, poor obstinate sinners! doe they think that +God cannot be even with them?</p> +<p>Wise. I do not know, what they think, but I know that +God hath said, That as He cried, and they would not hear, so they +shall crie, and I will not hear, saith the Lord. <a +name="citation45d"></a><a href="#footnote45d" +class="citation">[45d]</a> Doubtless there is a time a coming, +when Mr. Badman will crie for this.</p> +<p>Atten. But I wonder that he should be so expert in +wickedness, so soon! alas, he was but a Stripling, I suppose, he +was, as yet, not Twenty.</p> +<p>Wise. No, nor Eighteen neither: but (as with Ishmael, +and with the Children that mocked the Prophet) the seeds of sin +did put forth themselves betimes in him. <a +name="citation46a"></a><a href="#footnote46a" +class="citation">[46a]</a></p> +<p>Atten. Well, he was as wicked a young man as commonly +one shall hear of.</p> +<p>Wise. You will say so, when you know all.</p> +<p>Atten. All, I think here is a great All; but if there is +more behind, pray let us hear it.</p> +<p>Wise. Why, then I will tell you, that he had not been +with his Master much above a year and a half, but he came <a +name="citation46b"></a><a href="#footnote46b" +class="citation">[46b]</a> acquainted with three young Villains +(who here shall be nameless,) that taught him to adde to his sin, +much of like kind; and he as aptly received their +Instructions. One of them was chiefly given to Uncleanness, +another to Drunkenness; and the third to Purloining, or stealing +from his Master.</p> +<p>Atten. Alas poor Wretch, he was bad enough before, but +these, I suppose, made him much worse.</p> +<p>Wise. That they made him worse you may be sure of, for +they taught him to be an Arch, a chief one in all their +wayes.</p> +<p>Atten. It was an ill hap that he ever came acqu[a]inted +with them.</p> +<p>Wise. You must rather word it thus. It <a +name="citation46c"></a><a href="#footnote46c" +class="citation">[46c]</a> was the Judgement of God that he did; +that is, he came acquainted with them, through the anger of +God. He had a good Master, and before him a good Father: By +these he had good counsel given him for Months and Years +together; but his heart was set upon mischief, he loved +wickedness more than to do good, even untill his Iniquity came to +be hateful; therefore, from the anger of God it was, that these +companions of his, and he, did at last so acquaint +together. Sayes Paul, They did not like to retain God in +their knowledge; <a name="citation46d"></a><a href="#footnote46d" +class="citation">[46d]</a> and what follows? wherefore, God gave +them over, or up to their own hearts lusts. And again, As +for such as turn aside to their own crooked wayes, the Lord shall +lead them forth with the workers of iniquity. <a +name="citation46e"></a><a href="#footnote46e" +class="citation">[46e]</a> This therefore was Gods hand +upon him, that he might be destroyed, be damned; because he +received not the love of the Truth that he might be saved. +He chose his Delusions and Deluders for him, even the company of +base men, of Fools, that he might be destroyed. <a +name="citation46f"></a><a href="#footnote46f" +class="citation">[46f]</a> <a name="citation47a"></a><a +href="#footnote47a" class="citation">[47a]</a></p> +<p>Atten. I cannot but think indeed, that it is a Great +Judgment of God for a man to be given up to the company of vile +men; for what are such but the Devils <a +name="citation47b"></a><a href="#footnote47b" +class="citation">[47b]</a> Decoyes, even those by whom he +drawes the simple into the Net? A Whoremaster, a Drunkard, +a Thiefe, what are they but the Devils baits, by which he +catcheth others?</p> +<p>Wise. You say right; but this young Badman was no simple +one, if by simple, you mean one uninstructed; for he had often +good counsel given him: but if by simple, you mean, him that is a +Fool as to the true Knowledge of, and Faith in Christ, then he +was a simple one indeed: for he chose death, rather than life, +and to live in continual opposition to God, rather than to be +Reconciled unto him; according to that saying of the wise man; +The fooles hated knowledge, and did not choose the Fear of the +Lord: <a name="citation47c"></a><a href="#footnote47c" +class="citation">[47c]</a> and what Judgement more dreadfull can +a fool be given up to, than to be delivered into the hands of +such men, that have skill to do nothing, but to ripen sin, and +hasten its finishing unto damnation? And therefore men +should be afraid of offending God, because he can in this manner +punish them for their sins. +<a href="images/tnb.jpg"> +<img alt= +"Take note symbol" +title= +"Take note symbol" +src="images/tns.jpg" /> +</a>I knew a man that once was, as I thought, hopefully awakened +about his Condition; yea, I knew two that were so awakened; but +in time they began to draw back, and to incline again to their +lusts; wherefore, God gave them up to the company of three or +four men, that in less than three years time brought them roundly +to the Gallows, where they were hanged like Dogs, because they +refused to live like honest men. <a name="citation47e"></a><a +href="#footnote47e" class="citation">[47e]</a></p> +<p>Atten. But such men do not believe, that thus to be +given up of God, is in Judgement and anger; they rather take it +to be their liberty, and do count it their happiness; they are +glad that their Cord is loosed, and that the reins are in their +neck; they are glad that they may sin without controul, and that +they may choose such company as can make them more expert in an +evil way.</p> +<p>Wise. Their Judgement is therefore so much the greater, +because thereto is added blindness of Mind, and hardness of Heart +in a wicked way. They are turned up to the way of Death, +but must not see to what place they are going: They must go as +the Ox to the slaughter, and as the Fool to the Correction of the +Stocks, <a name="citation48a"></a><a href="#footnote48a" +class="citation">[48a]</a> till a Dart strikes through their +Liver, not knowing that it is for their life. This, I say, +makes their Judgement double, they are given up of God, for a +while to sport themselves with that which will assuredly make +them mourn at last, when their flesh and their body is consumed. +<a name="citation48b"></a><a href="#footnote48b" +class="citation">[48b]</a> These are those that Peter <a +name="citation48c"></a><a href="#footnote48c" +class="citation">[48c]</a> speaks of, that shall utterly perish +in their own corruptions; these, I say, who count it pleasure to +ryot in the day-time, and that sport themselves with their own +deceivings, are, as natural bruit beasts, made to be taken and +destroyed.</p> +<p>Atten. Well, but I pray now concerning these three +Villains that were young Badmans companions: Tell me more +particularly how he carried it then.</p> +<p>Wise. How he carried it! why, he did as they. I +intimated so much before, when I said, they made him an arch, a +chief one in their ways.</p> +<p>First, He became a Frequenter of <a name="citation48d"></a><a +href="#footnote48d" class="citation">[48d]</a> Taverns and +Tippling-houses, and would stay there untill he was even as drunk +as a Beast. And if it was so, that he could not get out by +day, he would, be sure, get out by night. Yea, he became so +common a Drunkard, at last, that he was taken notice of to be a +Drunkard even by all.</p> +<p>Atten. This was Swinish, for Drunkenness, is so beastly +a sin, a sin so much against Nature, that I wonder that any that +have but the appearance of Men, can give up themselves to so +beastly (yea, worse than beastly) a thing.</p> +<p>Wise. It is a Swinish vanity indeed. I will tell +you another Story. <a name="citation48f"></a><a +href="#footnote48f" class="citation">[48f]</a> +<a href="images/tnb.jpg"> +<img alt= +"Take note symbol" +title= +"Take note symbol" +src="images/tns.jpg" /> +</a>There was a Gentleman that had a Drunkard to be his Groom, +and coming home one night very much abused with Beer, his Master +saw it. Well (quoth his Master within himself,) I will let +thee alone to night, but to morrow morning I will convince thee +that thou art worse than a Beast, by the behaviour of my +Horse. So when morning was come, he bids his man goe and +water his Horse, and so he did; but coming up to his Master, he +commands him to water him again; so the fellow rid into the water +the second time, but his masters horse would now drink no more, +so the fellow came up and told his Master. Then said his +Master, Thou drunken sot, thou art far worse than my Horse, he +will drink but to satisfie nature, but thou wilt drink to the +abuse of nature; he will drink but to refresh himself, but thou +to thy hurt and dammage; He will drink, that he may be more +serviceable to his Master, but thou, till thou art uncapable of +serving either God or Man. O thou Beast, how much art thou +worse than the horse that thou ridest on.</p> +<p>Atten. Truly I think that his Master served him right; +for in doing as he did, he shewed him plainly, as he said, that +he had not so much government of himself as his horse had of +himself, and consequently that his beast did live more according +to the Law of his nature by far, than did his man. But pray +go on with what you have further to say.</p> +<p>Wise. Why, I say, that there are <a +name="citation49a"></a><a href="#footnote49a" +class="citation">[49a]</a> four things, which if they were well +considered, would make drunkenness to be abhorred in the thoughts +of the Children of men.</p> +<p>1. It greatly tendeth to impoverish and beggar a +man. The Drunkard, says Solomon, shall come to poverty. <a +name="citation49b"></a><a href="#footnote49b" +class="citation">[49b]</a> Many that have begun the world +with Plenty, have gone out of it in Rags; through +drunkenness. Yea, many Children that have been born to good +Estates, have yet been brought to a Flail & a Rake, through +this beastly sin of their Parents.</p> +<p>2. This sin of Drunkenness, it bringeth upon the Body, +many, great, and incurable Diseases, by which Men do in little +time come to their end, and none can help them. So, because +they are overmuch wicked, therefore they dye before their time. +<a name="citation49c"></a><a href="#footnote49c" +class="citation">[49c]</a></p> +<p>3. Drunkenness, is a sin that is often times attended +with abundance of other evils. Who hath woe? Who hath +sorrow? Who hath contention? Who hath +babblings? Who hath wounds without cause? Who hath +redness of the eyes? They that tarry long at the Wine, they +that go to seek mixt wine. <a name="citation49d"></a><a +href="#footnote49d" class="citation">[49d]</a> That is, the +Drunkard.</p> +<p>4. By Drunkenness, Men do often times shorten their +dayes; goe out of the Ale-house drunk, and break their Necks +before they come home. Instances not a few might be given +of this, but this is so manifest, a man need say nothing.</p> +<p>Atten. But <a name="citation50a"></a><a +href="#footnote50a" class="citation">[50a]</a> <a +name="citation50b"></a><a href="#footnote50b" +class="citation">[50b]</a> that which is worse than all is, it +also prepares men for everlasting burnings.</p> +<p>Wise. Yea, and it so stupifies and besotts the soul, +that a man that is far gone in Drunkenness, is hardly ever +recovered to God. Tell me, when did you see an old drunkard +converted? No, no, such an one will sleep till he dies, +though he sleeps on the top of a <a name="citation50c"></a><a +href="#footnote50c" class="citation">[50c]</a> Mast, let his +dangers be never so great and Death and damnation never so near, +he will not be awaked out of his sleep. So that if a man +have any respect either to Credit, Health, Life or Salvation, he +will not be a drunken man. But the truth is, where this sin +gets the upper hand, men are, as I said before, so intoxicated +and bewitched with the seeming pleasures, and sweetness thereof; +that they have neither heart nor mind to think of that which is +better in itself; and would, if imbraced, do them good.</p> +<p>Atten. You said that drunkenness tends to poverty, yet +some make themselves rich by drunken bargains.</p> +<p>Wise. I <a name="citation50d"></a><a href="#footnote50d" +class="citation">[50d]</a> said so, because the Word says +so. And as to some mens getting thereby, that is indeed but +rare, and base: yea, and base will be the end of such +gettings. The Word of God is against such wayes, and the +curse of God will be the end of such doings. An Inheritance +may sometimes thus be hastily gotten at the beginning, but the +end thereof shall not be blessed. Hark what the Prophet +saith; Wo to him that coveteth an evil covetousness, that he may +set his nest on high. <a name="citation50e"></a><a +href="#footnote50e" class="citation">[50e]</a> Whether he +makes drunkenness, or ought else, the engine and decoy to get it; +for that man doth but consult the shame of his own house, the +spoiling of his family, and the damnation of his Soul; for that +which he getteth by working of iniquity, is but a getting by the +devices of Hell; Therefore he can be no gainer neither for +himself or family, that gains by an evil course. But this +was one of the sins that Mr. Badman was addicted to after he came +acquainted with these three fellows, nor could all that his +Master could do break him of this Beastly sin.</p> +<p>Atten. But where, since he was but an Apprentice, could +he get Money to follow this practice, for drunkenness, as you +have intimated, is a very costly sin.</p> +<p>Wise. His Master <a name="citation51a"></a><a +href="#footnote51a" class="citation">[51a]</a> paid for +all. For, (as I told you before) as he learned of these +three Villains to be a Beastly Drunkard; so he learned of them to +pilfer and steal from his Master. Sometimes he would sell +off his Masters Goods, but keep the Money, that is when he could; +also sometimes he would beguile his Master by taking out of his +Cashbox: and when he could do neither of these, he would convey +away of his Masters wares, what he thought would be least missed, +and send or carry them to such and such houses, where he knew +they would be laid up to his use, and then appoint set times +there, to meet and make merry with these fellowes.</p> +<p>Atten. This, was as bad, nay, I think, worse than the +former; for by thus doing, he did, not only run himself under the +wrath of God, but has endangered the undoing of his Master and +his Familie.</p> +<p>Wise. Sins go not alone, but follow one the other as do +the links of a Chain; he that will be a drunkard, must have money +either of his own, or of some other mans; either of his Fathers, +Mothers, Masters, or at the high-way, or some way.</p> +<p>Atten. I fear that many an honest man is undone by such +kind of servants.</p> +<p>Wise. I am of the same mind with you, but <a +name="citation51b"></a><a href="#footnote51b" +class="citation">[51b]</a> this should make the dealer the more +wary what kind of Servants he keeps, and what kind of Apprentices +he takes. It should also teach him to look well to his Shop +himself, also to take strict account of all things that are +bought and sold by his Servants. The Masters neglect herein +may embolden his servant to be bad, and may bring him too in +short time to rags and a morsel of Bread.</p> +<p>Atten. I am afraid that there is much of this kind of +pilfering among servants in these bad dayes of ours.</p> +<p>Wise. Now, while it is in my mind, I will tell you a +story. +<a href="images/tnb.jpg"> +<img alt= +"Take note symbol" +title= +"Take note symbol" +src="images/tns.jpg" /> +</a>When I was in prison, there came a woman to me that was under +a great deal of trouble. So I asked her (she being a +stranger to me) what she had to say to me. She said, she +was afraid she should be damned. I asked her the cause of +those fears. She told me that she had sometime since lived +with a Shop-keeper at Wellingborough, and had robbed his box in +the Shop several times of Money, to the value of more than now I +will say; and pray, says she, tell me what I shall do. I +told her, I would have her go to her Master, and make him +satisfaction: She said, she was afraid; I asked her why? +She said, she doubted he would hang her. I told her, that I +would intercede for her life, and would make use of other friends +too to do the like; But she told me, she durst not venture +that. Well, said I, shall I send to your Master, while you +abide out of sight, and make your peace with him, before he sees +you; and with that, I asked her her Masters name. But all +that she said in answer to this, was, Pray let it alone till I +come to you again. So away she went, and neither told me +her Masters Name, nor her own: This is about ten or twelve years +since, and I never saw her again. I tell you this story for +this cause; to confirm your fears, that such kind of servants too +many there be; and that God makes them sometimes like old Tod, of +whom mention was made before, (through the terrors that he layes +upon them) to betray themselves.</p> +<p> +<a href="images/tnb.jpg"> +<img alt= +"Take note symbol" +title= +"Take note symbol" +src="images/tns.jpg" /> +</a>I could tell you of another, that came to me with a like +relation concerning her self, and the robbing of her Mistress; +but at this time let this suffice.</p> +<p>Atten. But what was that other Villain addicted to, I +mean, young Badmans third companion?</p> +<p>Wise. Uncleanness. <a name="citation52b"></a><a +href="#footnote52b" class="citation">[52b]</a> I told you +before, but it seems you forgot.</p> +<p>Atten. Right, it was Uncleanness. Uncleanness is +also a filthy sin.</p> +<p>Wise. It is so; and yet it is one of the most reigning +sins in our day.</p> +<p>Atten. So they say, and that too among those that one +would think had more wit, even among the great ones.</p> +<p>Wise. The more is the pity: for usually Examples that +are set by them that are great and chief, <a +name="citation52c"></a><a href="#footnote52c" +class="citation">[52c]</a> spread sooner, and more universally, +then do the sins of other men; yea, and when such men are at the +head in transgressing, sin walks with a bold face through the +Land. As Jeremiah saith of the Prophets, so may it be said +of such, From them is profaneness gone forth into all the land; +that is, with bold and audacious face, Jer. 23. 15.</p> +<p>Atten. But pray let us return again to Mr. Badman and +his companions. You say one of them was very vile in the +commission of Uncleanness.</p> +<p>Wise. Yes, so I say; not but that he was a Drunkard and +also Thievish, but he was most arch in this sin of Uncleanness: +This Roguery was his Master-piece, for he was a Ringleader to +them all in the beastly sin of Whoredom. He was also best +acquainted with such houses where they were, and so could readily +lead the rest of his Gang unto them. The Strumpets also, +because they knew this young Villain, would at first discover +themselves in all their whorish pranks to those that he brought +with him.</p> +<p>Atten. That is a deadly thing: I mean, it is a deadly +thing to young men, when such beastly queans, shall, with words +and carriages that are openly tempting, discover themselves unto +them; It is hard for such to escape their Snare.</p> +<p>Wise. That is true, therefore the Wise mans counsel is +the best: Come not near the door of her house; <a +name="citation53a"></a><a href="#footnote53a" +class="citation">[53a]</a> for they are (as you say) very +tempting, as is seen by her in the Proverbs. I looked (says +the Wise man) through my casement, and beheld among the simple +ones, I discerned a young man void of understanding, passing +through the streets near her corner, and he went the way to her +house: In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark +night. And behold, there met him a Woman, with the attire +of an harlot, and subtle of heart; (<a name="citation53c"></a><a +href="#footnote53c" class="citation">[53c]</a> she is loud and +stubborn, her feet abide not in her house. Now she is +without, now she is in the street, and lieth in wait at every +corner.) So she caught him, and kiss’d him, and with +an impudent face said unto him: I have peace offerings with me; +this day have I payed my vows. Therefore came I forth to +meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found +thee. I have decked my bed with coverings of Tapestry, with +carved works, with fine Linnen of Ægypt: I have perfumed my +bed with Myrrhe, Aloes, and Cinnamon; come let us take our fill +of love untill the Morning, let us solace our selves with loves. +<a name="citation53b"></a><a href="#footnote53b" +class="citation">[53b]</a> Here was a bold Beast: And +indeed, the very eyes, hands, words and ways of such, are all +snares and bands to youthful, lustful fellows: And with these was +young Badman greatly snared.</p> +<p>Atten. This sin of Uncleanness <a +name="citation54a"></a><a href="#footnote54a" +class="citation">[54a]</a> is mightily cried out against both by +Moses, the Prophets, Christ, and his Apostles; and yet, as we +see, for all that, how men run head-long to it!</p> +<p>Wise. You have said the truth, and I will adde, that +God, to hold men back from so filthy a sin, has set such a stamp +of his Indignation upon it, and commanded such evil effects to +follow it, that were not they that use it bereft of all Fear of +God, and love to their own health, they could not but stop and be +afraid to commit it. For, besides the eternal Damnation +that doth attend such in the next world, (for these have no +Inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and of God, Ephes. 5.) the +evil effects thereof in this world are dreadfull.</p> +<p>Atten. Pray skew me some of them, that as occasion +offereth it self, I may shew them to others for their good.</p> +<p>Wise. So I will. 1. <a name="citation54b"></a><a +href="#footnote54b" class="citation">[54b]</a> It bringeth a man +(as was said of the sin before) to want and poverty; for by means +of a Whorish woman, a man is brought to a piece of bread. +The reason is, for that an Whore will not yield without hire; and +men when the Devil and Lust is in them, and God and his Fear far +away from them, will not stick, so they may accomplish their +desire, to lay their Signet, their Bracelets, and their Staff to +pledge, <a name="citation54c"></a><a href="#footnote54c" +class="citation">[54c]</a> rather than miss of the fulfilling of +their lusts. 2. Again, by this sin men diminish their +strength, and bring upon themselves, even upon the Body, a +multitude of Diseases. This King Lemuel’s Mother +warned him of. What my Son, said she, and what the son of +my womb, and what the Son of my Vows: Give not thy strength unto +women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth Kings. <a +name="citation54d"></a><a href="#footnote54d" +class="citation">[54d]</a> This sin is destructive to the +Body. Give me leave to tell you another story. +<a href="images/tnb.jpg"> +<img alt= +"Take note symbol" +title= +"Take note symbol" +src="images/tns.jpg" /> +</a>I <a name="citation54f"></a><a href="#footnote54f" +class="citation">[54f]</a> have heard of a great man that was a +very unclean person, and he had lived so long in that sin, that +he had almost lost his sight. So his Physicians were sent +for, to whom he told his to Disease; but they told him, that they +could do him no good, unless he would forbear his Women. +Nay then, said he, farewell sweet Sight. Whence observe, +that this sin, as I said, is destructive to the Body; and also, +that some men be so in love therewith, that they will have it, +though it destroy their body.</p> +<p>Atten. Paul says also, that he that sins this sin, sins +against his own Body. But what of that? he that will run +the hazard of eternal Damnation of his Soul, but he will commit +this sin, will for it run the hazard of destroying his +Body. If young Badman feared not the Damnation of his Soul, +do you think that the consideration of impairing of his Body, +would have deterred him therefrom?</p> +<p>Wise. You say true. But yet, methinks, there are +still such bad effects follow, often, upon the commission of it, +that if men would consider them, it would put, at least, a stop +to their career therein.</p> +<p>Atten. What other evil effects attend this sin?</p> +<p>Wise. Outward shame and disgrace, and that in these +particulars: <a name="citation55a"></a><a href="#footnote55a" +class="citation">[55a]</a></p> +<p>First, There often follows this foul sin, the Foul Disease, +now called by us the Pox. A disease so nauseous and +stinking, so infectious to the whole body (and so intailed to +this sin) that hardly are any common with unclean Women, but they +have more or less a touch of it to their shame.</p> +<p>Atten. That is a foul disease indeed: +<a href="images/tnb.jpg"> +<img alt= +"Take note symbol" +title= +"Take note symbol" +src="images/tns.jpg" /> +</a>I knew a man once that rotted away with it; and another that +had his Nose eaten off, and his Mouth almost quite sewed up +thereby.</p> +<p>Wise. It is a Disease, that where it is, it commonly +declares, that the cause thereof is Uncleanness. It +declares to all that behold such a man, that he is an odious, a +beastly, unclean person. This is that strange punishment +that Job speaks of, that is appointed to seize on these workers +of Iniquity. <a name="citation55c"></a><a href="#footnote55c" +class="citation">[55c]</a></p> +<p>Atten. Then it seems you think that the strange +punishment that Job there speaks of, should be the foul +disease.</p> +<p>Wise. I have thought so indeed, and that for this +reason: We see that this Disease is entailed as I may say, to +this most beastly sin, nor is there any disease so entailed to +any other sin, as this to this. That this is the sin to +which the strange Punishment is entailed, you will easily +perceive when you read the Text. I made a covenant with +mine eyes, said Job, why should I think upon a Maid? For +what portion is there (for that sin) from above, and what +Inheritance of the Almighty from on high? And then he +answers himself; Is not destruction to the wicked, and a strange +punishment to the workers of iniquity? This strange +Punishment is the Pox.</p> +<p>Also I think that this foul Disease is that which Solomon +intends, when he saith, (speaking of this unclean and beastly +creature) A wound and dishonour shall he get, and his reproach +shall not be turned away. <a name="citation56"></a><a +href="#footnote56" class="citation">[56]</a> A Punishment +Job calls it, a Wound and Dishonour, Solomon calls it; and they +both do set it as a Remark upon this sin; Job calling it a +strange punishment, and Solomon a reproach that shall not be +turned away from them that are common in it.</p> +<p>Atten. What other things follow upon the commission of +this beastly sin?</p> +<p>Wise. Why, often-times it is attended with Murder, with +the murder of the Babe begotten on the defiled bed. How +common it is for the Bastard-getter and Bastard-bearer, to +consent together to murder their Children, will be better known +at the day of Judgement; yet something is manifest now.</p> +<p>I will tell you another story. +<a href="images/tnb.jpg"> +<img alt= +"Take note symbol" +title= +"Take note symbol" +src="images/tns.jpg" /> +</a>An ancient man, one of mine acquaintance, a man of good +credit in our Countrey, had a Mother that was a Midwife: who was +mostly imployed in laying great persons. To this womans +house, upon a time, comes a brave young Gallant on horseback, to +fetch her to lay a young Lady. So she addresses herself to +go with him; wherefore, he takes her up behind him, and away they +ride in the night. Now they had not rid far, but the +Gentleman litt off his horse, and taking the old Midwife in his +arms from the horse, turned round with her several times, and +then set her up again; then he got up, and away they went till +they came at a stately house, into which he had her, and so into +a Chamber where the young Lady was in her pains: He then bid the +Midwife do her Office, and she demanded help, but he drew out his +Sword and told her, if she did not make speed to do her Office +without, she must look for nothing but death. Well, to be +short, this old Midwife laid the young Lady, and a fine sweet +Babe she had; Now there was made in a Room hard by, a very great +Fire: so the Gentleman took up the Babe, went and drew the coals +from the stock, cast the Child in, and covered it up, and there +was an end of that. So when the Midwife had done her work, +he paid her well for her pains, but shut her up in a dark room +all day, and when night came, took her up behind him again, and +carried her away, till she came almost at home; then he turned +her round, and round, as he did before, and had her to her house, +set her down, bid her Farewell, and away he went: And she could +never tell who it was.</p> +<p>This Story the Midwifes son, who was a Minister, told me; and +also protested that his mother told it him for a truth.</p> +<p>Atten. Murder doth often follow indeed, as that which is +the fruit of this sin: but sometimes God brings even these +Adulterers, and Adulteresses to shameful ends. +<a href="images/tnb.jpg"> +<img alt= +"Take note symbol" +title= +"Take note symbol" +src="images/tns.jpg" /> +</a>I heard of one, (I think, a Doctor of Physick) and his Whore, +who had had three or four Bastards betwixt them, and had murdered +them all, but at last themselves were hanged for it, in or near +to Colchester. It came out after this manner: The Whore was +so afflicted in her conscience abort it, that she could not be +quiet untill she had made it known: Thus God many times makes the +actors of wickedness their own accusers, and brings them by their +own tongues to condigne punishment for their own sins.</p> +<p>Wise. There has been many such instances, but we will +let that pass. I was once in the presence of a Woman, a +married woman, that lay sick of the sickness whereof she died; +and being smitten in her conscience for the sin of Uncleanness, +which she had often committed with other men, +<a href="images/tnb.jpg"> +<img alt= +"Take note symbol" +title= +"Take note symbol" +src="images/tns.jpg" /> +</a>I heard her (as she lay upon her Bed) cry out thus: I am a +Whore, and all my Children are Bastards: And I must go to Hell +for my sin; and look, there stands the Devil at my beds feet to +receive my Soul when I die.</p> +<p>Atten. These are sad storyes, tell no more of them now, +but if you please shew me yet some other of the evil effects of +this beastly sin.</p> +<p>Wise. This sin is such a snare to the Soul, that unless +a miracle of Grace prevents, it unavoidably perishes in the +enchanting and bewitching pleasures of it. This is manifest +by these, and such like Texts.</p> +<p>The Adulteress will hunt for the precious life. Whoso +committeth adultery with a woman, lacketh understanding, and he +that doth it destroys his own soul. <a name="citation57"></a><a +href="#footnote57" class="citation">[57]</a> An Whore is a +deep ditch, and a strange woman is a narrow pit. Her house +inclines to death, and her pathes unto the dead. None that +go in unto her return again, neither take they hold of the path +of life. She hath cast down many wounded; yea many strong +men have been slain by her, her house is the way to Hell, going +down to the Chambers of Death. <a name="citation58a"></a><a +href="#footnote58a" class="citation">[58a]</a></p> +<p>Atten. These are dreadful sayings, and do shew the +dreadful state of those that are guilty of this sin.</p> +<p>Wise. Verily so they doe. But yet that which makes +the whole more dreadful, is, That men are given up to this sin, +because they are abhorred of God, and because abhorred, therefore +they shall fall into the commission of it; and shall live +there. The mouth (that is, the flattering Lips) of a +strange woman is a deep pit, the abhorred of the Lord shall fall +therein. <a name="citation58b"></a><a href="#footnote58b" +class="citation">[58b]</a> Therefore it saith again of +such, that they have none Inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ +and of God. <a name="citation58c"></a><a href="#footnote58c" +class="citation">[58c]</a></p> +<p>Atten. Put all together, and it is a dreadful thing to +live and die in this transgression.</p> +<p>Wise. True. But suppose, that instead of all these +Judgments, this sin had attending of it all the felicities of +this life, and no bitterness, shame, or disgrace mixed with it, +yet one hour in Hell will spoil all. O! this Hell, +Hell-fire, Damnation in Hell, it is such an inconceivable +punishment, that were it but throughly believed, it would nip +this sin, with others, in the head. But here is the +mischief, those that give up themselves to these things, do so +harden themselves in Unbelief and Atheism about the things, the +punishments that God hath threatned to inflict upon the +committers of them, that at last they arrive to, almost, an +absolute and firm belief that there is no Judgment to come +hereafter: Else they would not, they could not, no not attempt to +commit this sin, by such abominable language as some do.</p> +<p> +<a href="images/tnb.jpg"> +<img alt= +"Take note symbol" +title= +"Take note symbol" +src="images/tns.jpg" /> +</a>I heard of one that should say to his Miss, when he tempted +her to the committing of this sin, If thou wilt venture thy Body, +I will venture my Soul. <a name="citation58d"></a><a +href="#footnote58d" class="citation">[58d]</a> And I my +self heard another say, when he was tempting of a Maid to commit +uncleanness with him, (it was in Olivers dayes) That if she did +prove with Child, he would tell her how she might escape +punishment, (and that was then somewhat severe,) Say (saith he) +when you come before the Judge, That you are with Child by the +Holy Ghost. +<a href="images/tnb.jpg"> +<img alt= +"Take note symbol" +title= +"Take note symbol" +src="images/tns.jpg" /> +</a>I heard him say thus, and it greatly afflicted me; I had a +mind to have accused him for it before some Magistrate; but he +was a great man, and I was poor, and young: so I let it alone, +but it troubled me very much.</p> +<p>Atten. ’Twas the most horrible thing that ever I +heard in my life. But how far off are these men from that +Spirit and Grace that dwelt in Joseph!</p> +<p>Wise. Right; when Joseph’s Mistress tempted him, +yea tempted him daily; <a name="citation59b"></a><a +href="#footnote59b" class="citation">[59b]</a> yea, she laid hold +on him, and said with her Whores forehead, Come lie with me, but +he refused: He hearkned not to lie with her, or to be with +her. Mr. Badman would have taken the opportunity.</p> +<p>And a little to comment upon this of Joseph. <a +name="citation59c"></a><a href="#footnote59c" +class="citation">[59c]</a></p> +<p>1. Here is a Miss, a great Miss, the Wife of the Captain +of the Guard, some beautiful Dame, I’le warrant you.</p> +<p>2. Here is a Miss won, and in her whorish Affections +come over to Joseph, without his speaking of a word.</p> +<p>3. Here is her unclean Desire made known; Come lie with +me, said she.</p> +<p>4. Here was a fit opportunity. There was none of +the men of the house there within.</p> +<p>5. Joseph was a young man, full of strength, and +therefore the more in danger to be taken.</p> +<p>6. This was to him, a Temptation, from her, that lasted +days.</p> +<p>7. And yet Joseph refused, 1. Her daily +Temptation; 2. Her daily Solicitation: 3. Her daily +Provocation, heartily, violently and constantly. For when +she caught him by the Garment, saying, Lie with me, he left his +Garment in her hand, and gat him out. Ay, and although +contempt, treachery, slander, accusation, imprisonment, and +danger of death followed, (for an Whore careth not what mischief +she does, when she cannot have her end) yet Joseph will not +defile himself, sin against God, and hazard his own eternal +salvation.</p> +<p>Atten. Blessed Joseph! I would thou hadst more +fellows!</p> +<p>Wise. Mr. Badman has more fellows than Joseph, else +there would not be so many Whores as there are: For though I +doubt not but that that Sex is bad enough this way, yet I verify +believe that many of them are made Whores at first by the +flatteries of Badmans fellows. Alas! there is many a woman +plunged into this sin at first even by promises of Marriage. <a +name="citation60a"></a><a href="#footnote60a" +class="citation">[60a]</a> I say, by these promises they +are flattered, yea, forced into a consenting to these Villanies, +and so being in, and growing hardened in their hearts, they at +last give themselves up, even as wicked men do, to act this kind +of wickedness with greediness. But Joseph you see, was of +another mind, for the Fear of God was in him.</p> +<p>I will, before I leave this, tell you here two notable +storyes; and I wish Mr. Badmans companions may hear of +them. They are found in Clarks Looking-glass for Sinners; +and are these.</p> +<p>Mr. Cleaver (says Mr. Clark) reports of one whom he knew, that +had committed the act of Uncleanness, whereupon he fell into such +horror of Conscience that he hanged himself; leaving it thus +written in a paper. Indeed, (saith he) I acknowledge it to be +utterly unlawful for a man to kill himself, but I am bound to act +the Magistrates part, because the punishment of this sin is +death. <a name="citation60b"></a><a href="#footnote60b" +class="citation">[60b]</a></p> +<p>Clark doth also in the same page make mention of two more, who +as they were committing Adultery in London, were immediately +struck dead with fire from Heaven, in the very Act. Their +bodyes were so found, half burnt up, and sending out a most +loathsom savour.</p> +<p>Atten. These are notable storyes indeed.</p> +<p>Wise. So they are, and I suppose they are as true as +notable.</p> +<p>Atten. Well, but I wonder, if young Badmans Master knew +him to be such a Wretch, that he would suffer him in his +house.</p> +<p>Wise. They liked one another even as <a +name="citation60c"></a><a href="#footnote60c" +class="citation">[60c]</a> fire and water doe. Young +Badmans wayes were odious to his Master, and his Masters wayes +were such as young Badman could not endure. Thus in these +two, was fulfilled that saying of the Holy Ghost: An unjust man +is an abomination to the just, and he that is upright in the way +is abomination to the wicked. <a name="citation60d"></a><a +href="#footnote60d" class="citation">[60d]</a></p> +<p>The good mans wayes, Mr. Badman could not abide, nor could the +good man abide the bad wayes of his base Apprentice. Yet +would his Master, if he could, have kept him, and also have +learnt him his trade.</p> +<p>Atten. If he could! why he might, if he would, might he +not?</p> +<p>Wise. Alas, Badman ran away <a name="citation61a"></a><a +href="#footnote61a" class="citation">[61a]</a> from him once and +twice, and would not at all be ruled. So the next time he +did run away from him, he did let him go indeed. For he +gave him no occasion to run away, except it was by holding of him +as much as he could (and that he could do but little) to good and +honest rules of life. And had it been ones own case, one +should have let him go. For what should a man do, that had +either regard to his own Peace, his Childrens Good, or the +preservation of the rest of his servants from evil, but let him +go? Had he staid, the house of Correction had been most fit +for him, but thither his Master was loth to send him, because of +the love that he bore to his Father. An house of +correction, I say, had been the fittest place for him, but his +Master let him go.</p> +<p>Atten. He ran away you say, but whither did he run?</p> +<p>Wise. Why, to one of his own trade, <a +name="citation61b"></a><a href="#footnote61b" +class="citation">[61b]</a> and also like himself. Thus the +wicked joyned hand in hand, and there he served out his time.</p> +<p>Atten. Then, sure, he had his hearts desire, when he was with +one so like himself.</p> +<p>Wise. Yes. So he had, but God gave it him in his +anger.</p> +<p>Atten. How do you mean?</p> +<p>Wise. I mean as before, that for a wicked man to be by +the Providence of God, turned out of a good mans doors, into a +wicked mans house to dwell, is a sign of the Anger of God. <a +name="citation61c"></a><a href="#footnote61c" +class="citation">[61c]</a> For God by this, and such +Judgements, says thus to such an one: Thou wicked one, thou +lovest not me, my wayes, nor my people; Thou castest my Law and +good Counsel behinde thy back: Come, I will dispose of thee in my +wrath; thou shalt be turned over to the ungodly, thou shalt be +put to school to the Devil, I will leave thee to sink and swim in +sin, till I shall visit thee with Death and Judgment. This +was therefore another Judgment that did come upon this young +Badman.</p> +<p>Atten. You have said the truth, for God by such a +Judgment as this, in effect says so indeed; for he takes them out +of the hand of the just, and binds them up in the hand of the +wicked, and whither they then shall be carried, a man may easily +imagin.</p> +<p>Wise. It is one of the saddest tokens of Gods anger that +happens to such kind of persons: And that for several reasons. <a +name="citation62a"></a><a href="#footnote62a" +class="citation">[62a]</a></p> +<p>1. Such an one, by this Judgment, is put out out of the +way, and from under the means which ordinarily are made use of to +do good to the soul. For a Family where Godliness is +professed, and practised, is Gods Ordinance, the place which he +has appointed to teach young ones the way and fear of God. <a +name="citation62b"></a><a href="#footnote62b" +class="citation">[62b]</a> Now to be put out of such a +Family into a bad, a wicked one, as Mr. Badman was, must needs be +in Judgment, and a sign of the anger of God. For in ungodly +Families men learn to forget God, to hate goodness, and to +estrange themselves from the wayes of those that are good.</p> +<p>2. In Bad Families, they have continually fresh +Examples, and also incitements to evil, and fresh encouragements +to it too. Yea moreover, in such places evil is commended, +praised, well-spoken of, and they that do it, are applauded; and +this, to be sure, is a drowning Judgement.</p> +<p>3. Such places are the very haunts and Walks of the +infernal Spirits, who are continually poysoning the Cogitations +and Minds of one or other in such Families, that they may be able +to poyson others. Therefore observe it, usually in wicked +Families, some one, or two, are more arch for wickedness then are +any other that are there. Now such are Satans +Conduit-pipes; for by them he conveighs of the spawn of Hell, +through their being crafty in wickedness, into the Ears and Souls +of their Companions. Yea, and when they have once conceived +wickedness, they travel with it, as doth a woman with Child, till +they have brought it forth; Behold, he travelleth with iniquity, +and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falshood. <a +name="citation62c"></a><a href="#footnote62c" +class="citation">[62c]</a> Some men, as here is intimated +in the Text, and as was hinted also before, have a kind of +mystical, but hellish copulation with the Devil, who is the +Father, and their Soul the Mother of sin and wickedness; and +they, so soon as they have conceived by him, finish, by bringing +forth sin, both it, and their own damnation. <a +name="citation62d"></a><a href="#footnote62d" +class="citation">[62d]</a></p> +<p>Atten. How <a name="citation63a"></a><a +href="#footnote63a" class="citation">[63a]</a> much then doth it +concern those Parents that love their Children, to see, that if +they go from them, they be put into such Families as be good, +that they may learn there betimes to eschew evil, and to follow +that which is good?</p> +<p>Wise. It doth concern them indeed; and it doth also +concern them <a name="citation63b"></a><a href="#footnote63b" +class="citation">[63b]</a> that take Children into their +Families, to take heed what Children they receive. For a +man may soon by a Bad boy, be dammaged both in his Name, Estate, +and Family, and also hindred in his Peace and peaceable pursuit +after God and godliness; I say, by one such Vermin as a wicked +and filthy Apprentice.</p> +<p>Atten. True, for one Sinner destroyeth much good, and a +poor man is better than a Lier. But many times a man cannot +help it; for such as at the beginning promise very fair, are by a +little time proved to be very Rogues, like young Badman.</p> +<p>Wise. That is true also, but when a man has done the +best he can to help it, he may with the more confidence expect +the Blessing of God to follow, or he shall have the more peace, +if things go contrary to his desire.</p> +<p>Atten. Well, but did Mr. Badman and his Master agree so +well? I mean his last Master, since they were Birds of a +Feather, I mean, since they were so well met for wickedness.</p> +<p>Wise. This second Master, was, as before I told you, bad +enough, but yet he would often fall out <a +name="citation63c"></a><a href="#footnote63c" +class="citation">[63c]</a> with young Badman his Servant, and +chide, yea and some times beat him too, for his naughty +doings.</p> +<p>Atten. What! for all he was so bad himself! This +is like the Proverb, The Devil corrects Vice.</p> +<p>Wise. I will assure you, ’tis as I say. For +you must know, that Badmans wayes suited not with his Masters +gains. Could he have done as the Damsel that we read of +Acts 16. <a name="citation63d"></a><a href="#footnote63d" +class="citation">[63d]</a> did, to wit, fill his Masters Purse +with his badness, he had certainly been his White-boy, but it was +not so with young Badman; and therefore, though his Master and he +did suit well enough in the main, yet in this and that point they +differed. Young Badman <a name="citation63e"></a><a +href="#footnote63e" class="citation">[63e]</a> was for neglecting +of his Masters business, for going to the Whore-house, for +beguiling of his Master, for attempting to debauch his Daughters, +and the like: No marvel then if they disagreed in these +points. Not so much for that his Master had an antipathy +against the fact it self, for he could do so when he was an +Apprentice; but for that his servant by his sin made spoil of his +Commodities, &c. and so damnified his Master.</p> +<p>Had (as I said before) young Badmans wickedness, had only a +tendency to his Masters advantage; as could he have sworn, lied, +cousened, cheated, and defrauded customers for his Master, (and +indeed sometimes he did so) but had that been all that he had +done, he had not had, no not a wry word from his Master: But this +was not always Mr. Badmans way.</p> +<p>Atten. That was well brought in, even the Maid that we +read of in the Acts, and the distinction was as clear betwixt the +wickedness, and wickedness of servants.</p> +<p>Wise. Alas! men that are wicked themselves, yet greatly +hate it in others, not simply because it is wickedness, but +because it opposeth their interest. Do you think that that +Maids master would have been troubled at the loss of her, if he +had not lost, with her, his gain: No, I’le warrant you; she +might have gone to the Devil for him: But when her master saw +that the hope of his gain was gone, then, then he fell to +persecuting Paul. <a name="citation64a"></a><a +href="#footnote64a" class="citation">[64a]</a> But Mr. +Badmans master did sometimes lose by Mr. Badmans sins, and then +Badman and his master were at odds.</p> +<p>Atten. Alas poor Badman! Then it seems thou +couldest not at all times please thy like.</p> +<p>Wise. No, he could not, and the reason I have told +you.</p> +<p>Atten. But do not bad Masters condemn themselves in +condemning the badness of their servants. <a +name="citation64b"></a><a href="#footnote64b" +class="citation">[64b]</a></p> +<p>Wise. Yes; <a name="citation64c"></a><a +href="#footnote64c" class="citation">[64c]</a> in that they +condemn that in another which they either have, or do allow in +themselves. And the time will come, when that very sentence +that hath gone out of their own mouths against the sins of +others, themselves living and taking pleasure in the same, shall +return with violence upon their own pates. The Lord +pronounced Judgment against Baasha, as for all his evils in +general, so for this in special, because he was like the house of +Jeroboam, and yet killed him. <a name="citation64d"></a><a +href="#footnote64d" class="citation">[64d]</a> This is Mr. +Badmans Masters case, he is like his man, and yet he beats +him. He is like his man, and yet he rails at him for being +bad.</p> +<p>Atten. But why did not young Badman run away from this +Master, as he ran away from the other?</p> +<p>Wise. He did not. And if I be not mistaken, the +reason <a name="citation65a"></a><a href="#footnote65a" +class="citation">[65a]</a> why, was this. There was +Godliness in the house of the first, and that young Badman could +not endure. For fare, for lodging, for work, and time, he +had better, and more by this Masters allowance, than ever he had +by his last; but all this would not content, because Godliness +was promoted there. He could not abide this praying, this +reading of Scriptures, and hearing, and repeating of Sermons: he +could not abide to be told of his transgressions in a sober and +Godly manner.</p> +<p>Atten. There is a great deal in the Manner of reproof, +wicked men both can, and cannot abide to hear their +transgressions spoken against.</p> +<p>Wise. There is a great deal of difference indeed. +This last Master of Mr. Badmans, would tell Mr. Badman of his +sins in Mr. Badmans own dialect; he would swear, and curse, and +damn, when he told him of his sins, and this he could bear +better, <a name="citation65b"></a><a href="#footnote65b" +class="citation">[65b]</a> than to be told of them after a godly +sort. Besides, that last Master would, when his passions +and rage was over, laugh at and make merry with the sins of his +servant Badman: And that would please young Badman well. +Nothing offended Badman but blows, and those he had but few of +now, because he was pretty well grown up. For the most part +when his Master did rage and swear, he would give him Oath for +Oath, and Curse for Curse, at least secretly, let him go on as +long as he would.</p> +<p>Atten. This was hellish living.</p> +<p>Wise. ’Twas hellish living indeed: And a man might +say, that with this Master, young Badman compleated himself <a +name="citation65c"></a><a href="#footnote65c" +class="citation">[65c]</a> yet more and more in wickedness, as +well as in his trade: for by that he came out of his time, what +with his own inclination to sin, what with his acquaintance with +his three companions, and what with this last Master, and the +wickedness he saw in him; he became a sinner in grain. I +think he had a Bastard laid to his charge before he came out of +his time.</p> +<p>Atten. Well, but it seems he did live to come out of his +time, <a name="citation66a"></a><a href="#footnote66a" +class="citation">[66a]</a> but what did he then?</p> +<p>Wise. Why, he went home to his Father, and he like a +loving and tender-hearted Father received him into his house.</p> +<p>Atten. And how did he carry it there?</p> +<p>Wise. Why, the reason why he went home, <a +name="citation66b"></a><a href="#footnote66b" +class="citation">[66b]</a> was, for Money to set up for himself, +he staied but a little at home, but that little while that he did +stay, he refrained himself <a name="citation66c"></a><a +href="#footnote66c" class="citation">[66c]</a> as well he could, +and did not so much discover himself to be base, for fear his +Father should take distaste, and so should refuse, or for a while +forbear to give him money.</p> +<p>Yet even then he would have his times, and companions, and the +fill of his lusts with them, but he used to blind all with this, +he was glad to see his old acquaintance, and they as glad to see +him, and he could not in civility but accomodate them with a +bottle or two of Wine, or a dozen or two of Drink.</p> +<p>Atten. And did the old man give him money to set up +with?</p> +<p>Wise. Yes, above two hundred pounds.</p> +<p>Atten. Therein, I think, the old man was out. Had +I been his Father, I would have held him a little at staves-end, +till I had had far better proof of his manners to be good; (for I +perceive that his Father did know what a naughty boy he had been, +both by what he used to do at home, and because he changed a good +Master for a bad, &c.) He should not therefore have +given him money so soon. What if he had pinched a little, +and gone to Journey-work for a time, that he might have known +what a penny was, by his earning of it? Then, in all +probability, he had known better how to have spent it: Yea, and +by that time perhaps, have better considered with himself, how to +have lived in the world. Ay, and who knows but he might +have come to himself with the Prodigal, and have asked God and +his Father forgiveness for the villanies that he had committed +against them. <a name="citation66d"></a><a href="#footnote66d" +class="citation">[66d]</a></p> +<p>Wise. If his Father could also have blessed this manner +of dealing to him, and have made it effectual for the ends that +you have propounded; then I should have thought as you. But +alas, alas, you talk as if you never knew, or had at this present +forgot what the bowels and compassions of a Father are. Why +did you not serve your own son so? But ’tis evident +enough, that we are better at giving good counsel to others, than +we are at taking good counsel our selves. <a +name="citation67a"></a><a href="#footnote67a" +class="citation">[67a]</a> But mine honest neighbour, +suppose that Mr. Badmans Father had done as you say, and by so +doing had driven his son to ill courses, what had he bettered +either himself or his son in so doing?</p> +<p>Atten. That’s true, but it doth not follow, that +if the Father had done as I said, the son would have done as you +suppose. But if he had done as you have supposed, what had +he done worse than what he hath done already? <a +name="citation67b"></a><a href="#footnote67b" +class="citation">[67b]</a></p> +<p>Wise. He had done bad enough, that’s true. +But suppose his Father had given him no Money, and suppose that +young Badman had taken a pett thereat, and in an anger had gone +beyond Sea, and his Father had neither seen him, nor heard of him +more. Or suppose that of a mad and headstrong stomach he +had gone to the High-way for money, and so had brought himself to +the Gallows, and his Father and Family to great contempt, or if +by so doing he had not brought himself to that end, yet he had +added to all his wickedness, such and such evils besides: And +what comfort could his Father have had in this?</p> +<p>Besides, when his Father had done for him what he could, with +desire to make him an honest man, he would then, whether his son +had proved honest or no, have laid down his head with far more +peace, than if he had taken your Counsel.</p> +<p>Atten. Nay I think I should not a been forward to have +given advice in the cause; but truly you have given me such an +account of his vilianies, that the hearing thereof has made me +angry with him.</p> +<p>Wise. In an angry mood we may soon out-shoot our selves, +but poor wretch, as he is, he is gone to his place. But, as +I said, when a good Father hath done what he can for a bad Child, +and that Child shall prove never the better, he will lie down +with far more peace, than if through severity, he had driven him +to inconveniencies.</p> +<p>I remember that I have heard of a good woman, that had (as +this old man) a bad and ungodly <a name="citation68a"></a><a +href="#footnote68a" class="citation">[68a]</a> son, and she +prayed for him, counselled him, and carried it Motherly to him +for several years together; but still he remained bad. At +last, upon a time, after she had been at prayer, as she was wont, +for his conversion, she comes to him, and thus, or to this +effect, begins again to admonish him. Son, said she, Thou +hast been and art a wicked Child, thou hast cost me many a prayer +and tear, and yet thou remainest wicked. Well, I have done +my duty, I have done what I can to save thee; now I am satisfied, +that if I shall see thee damned at the day of Judgment, I shall +be so far off from being grieved for thee, that I shall rejoyce +to hear the sentence of thy damnation at that day: And it +converted him.</p> +<p>I tell you, that if Parents carry it lovingly towards their +Children, mixing their Mercies with loving Rebukes and their +loving Rebukes with Fatherly and Motherly Compassions, they are +more likely to save their Children, than by being churlish and +severe toward them: but if they do not save them, if their mercy +doth them no good, yet it will greatly ease them at the day of +death, to consider; I have done by love as much as I could, to +save and deliver my child from Hell.</p> +<p>Atten. Well I yield. But pray let us return again +to Mr. Badman: You say, that his Father gave him a piece of money +that he might set up for himself.</p> +<p>Wise. Yes, his Father did give him a piece of money, and +he did set up, <a name="citation68b"></a><a href="#footnote68b" +class="citation">[68b]</a> and almost as soon set down again: for +he was not long set up, but by his ill managing of his matters at +home, together with his extravagant expences abroad, he was got +so far into debt, and had so little in his shop to pay, that he +was hard put to it to keep himself out of prison. But when +his Creditors understood that he was about to marry, and in a +fair way to get a rich Wife, they said among themselves, We will +not be hasty with him, if he gets a rich Wife he will pay us +all.</p> +<p>Atten. But how could he so quickly run out, for I +perceive ’twas in little time, by what you say?</p> +<p>Wise. ’Twas in little time indeed, I think he was +not above two years and a half in doing of it: but the reason <a +name="citation69a"></a><a href="#footnote69a" +class="citation">[69a]</a> is apparent; for he being a wild young +man, and now having the bridle loose before him, and being wholly +subjected to his lusts and vices, he gave himself up to the way +of his heart, and to the sight of his eye, forgetting that for +all these things God will bring him to Judgment; <a +name="citation69b"></a><a href="#footnote69b" +class="citation">[69b]</a> and he that doth thus, you may be +sure, shall not be able long to stand on his leggs.</p> +<p>Besides, he had now an addition of <a +name="citation69c"></a><a href="#footnote69c" +class="citation">[69c]</a> new companions; companions you must +think, most like himself in Manners, and so such that cared not +who sunk, if they themselves might swim. These would often +be haunting of him, and of his shop too when he was absent. +They would commonly egg him to the Ale-house, but yet make him +Jack-pay-for-all; They would be borrowing also money of him, but +take no care to pay again, except it was with more of their +company, which also he liked very well; and so his poverty came +like one that travelleth, and his want like an armed man.</p> +<p>But all the while they studied his temper; <a +name="citation69d"></a><a href="#footnote69d" +class="citation">[69d]</a> he loved to be flattered, praised and +commanded for Wit, Manhood, and Personage; and this was like +stroking him over the face. Thus they Collogued with him, +and got yet more and more into him, and so (like Horse-leaches) +they drew away that little that his father had given him, and +brought him quickly down, almost to dwell next dore to the +begger.</p> +<p>Atten. Then was the saying of the wise man fulfilled, He +that keepeth company with harlots, and a companion of fools, +shall be destroyed. <a name="citation69e"></a><a +href="#footnote69e" class="citation">[69e]</a></p> +<p>Wise. Ay, and that too, A companion of riotous persons +shameth his father; <a name="citation69f"></a><a +href="#footnote69f" class="citation">[69f]</a> For he, poor man, +had both grief and shame, to see how his son (now at his own +hand) behaved himself in the enjoyment of those good things, in +and under the lawfull use of which he might have lived to Gods +glory, his own comfort, and credit among his neighbours. +But he that followeth vain persons, shall have poverty enough. <a +name="citation69g"></a><a href="#footnote69g" +class="citation">[69g]</a> The way that he took, led him +directly into this condition; for who can expect other things of +one that follows such courses? Besides, when he was in his +Shop, he could not abide to be doing; He was naturally given to +Idleness: He loved to live high, but his hands refused to labour; +and what else can the end of such an one be, but that which the +wise man saith? The Drunkard and the Glutton shall come to +poverty, and drowsiness shall cloath a man with rags. <a +name="citation70a"></a><a href="#footnote70a" +class="citation">[70a]</a></p> +<p>Atten. But now, methinks, when he was brought thus low, +he should have considered the hand of God that was gone out +against him, and should have smote upon the breast, and have +returned.</p> +<p>Wise. Consideration, good consideration was far from +him, he was as stout and proud now, as ever in all his life, and +was as high too in the pursuit of his sin, as when he was in the +midst of his fulness; only he went now <a +name="citation70b"></a><a href="#footnote70b" +class="citation">[70b]</a> like a tyred Jade, the Devil had rid +him almost off of his leggs.</p> +<p>Atten. Well, but what did he do when all was almost +gone?</p> +<p>Wise. Two things were now his play. <a +name="citation70c"></a><a href="#footnote70c" +class="citation">[70c]</a> 1. He bore all in hand by +Swearing, and Cracking and Lying, that he was as well to pass, as +he was the first day he set up for himself, yea that he had +rather got than lost; and he had at his beck some of his +Companions that would swear to confirm it as fast as he.</p> +<p>Atten. This was double wickedness, ’twas a sin to +say it, and another to swear it.</p> +<p>Wise. That’s true, but what evil is that that he +will not doe, that is left of God, as I believe Mr. Badman +was?</p> +<p>Atten. And what was the other thing?</p> +<p>Wise. Why, that which I hinted before, he was for +looking out for a rich Wife: <a name="citation70d"></a><a +href="#footnote70d" class="citation">[70d]</a> and now I am come +to some more of his invented, devised, designed, and abominable +Roguery, such that will yet declare him to be a most desperate +sinner.</p> +<p>The thing was this: A Wife he wanted, or rather Money; for as +for a woman, he could have Whores enow at his whistle. But, +as I said, he wanted Money, and that must be got by a Wife, or no +way; nor could he so easily get a Wife neither, except he became +an Artist at the way of dissembling; nor would dissembling do +among that people that could dissemble as well as he. But +there dwelt a Maid not far from him, that was both godly, <a +name="citation70e"></a><a href="#footnote70e" +class="citation">[70e]</a> and one that had a good Portion, but +how to get her, there lay all the craft. <a +name="citation71a"></a><a href="#footnote71a" +class="citation">[71a]</a> Well, he calls a Council of some +of his most trusty and cunning Companions, <a +name="citation71b"></a><a href="#footnote71b" +class="citation">[71b]</a> and breaks his mind to them; to wit, +that he had a mind to marry: and he also told them to whom; But, +said he, how shall I accomplish my end, she is Religious, and I +am not? Then one of them made reply, saying, Since she is +Religious, you must pretend to be so likewise, and that for some +time before you go to her: Mark therefore whither she goes daily +to hear, and do you go thither also; but there you must be sure +to behave your self soberly, and make as if you liked the Word +wonderful well; stand also where she may see you, and when you +come home, be sure that you walk the street very soberly, and go +within sight of her: This done for a while, then go to her, and +first talk of how sorry you are for your sins, and shew great +love to the Religion that she is of; still speaking well of her +Preachers and of her godly acquaintance, bewailing your hard hap, +that it was not your lot to be acquainted with her and her +fellow-Professors sooner; and this is the way to get her. +Also you must write down Sermons, talk of Scriptures, and protest +that you came a wooing to her, only because she is Godly, and +because you should count it your greatest happiness if you might +but have such an one: As for her Money, slight it, it will be +never the further off, that’s the way to come soonest at +it, for she will be jealous at first that you come for her Money; +you know what she has, but make not a word about it. Do +this, and you shall see if you do not intangle the Lass.</p> +<p>Thus was the snare laid for this poor honest Maid, and she was +quickly catched in his pit.</p> +<p>Atten. Why, did he take this counsel?</p> +<p>Wise. Did he! yes, and after a while, went as boldly to +her, <a name="citation71c"></a><a href="#footnote71c" +class="citation">[71c]</a> and that under a Vizzard of Religion, +as if he had been for Honesty and Godliness, one of the most +sincere and upright-hearted in England. He observed all his +points, and followed the advice of his Counsellers, and quickly +obtained her too; for natural parts he had, he was tall, and +fair, and had plain, but very good Cloaths on his back; and his +Religion was the more easily attained; for he had seen something +in the house of his Father, and first Master, and so could the +more readily put himself into the Form and Shew thereof.</p> +<p>So he appointed his day, and went to her, as that he might +easily do, for she had neither father nor mother to oppose. +Well, when he was come, and had given her a civil Complement, <a +name="citation72a"></a><a href="#footnote72a" +class="citation">[72a]</a> to let her understand why he was come, +then he began and told her, That he had found in his heart a +great deal of love to her Person; and that, of all the Damosels +in the world he had pitched upon her, if she thought fit, to make +her his beloved wife. The reasons, as he told her, why he +had pitched upon her were, her Religious and personal +Excellencies; and therefore intreated her to take his condition +into her tender and loving consideration. As for the world, +quoth he, I have a very good trade, and can maintain my self and +Family well, while my wife sits still on her seat; I have got +thus, and thus much already, and feel money come in every day, +but that is not the thing that I aim at, ’tis an honest and +godly Wife. Then he would present her with a good Book or +two, pretending how much good he had got by them himself. +He would also be often speaking well of godly Ministers, +especially of those that he perceived she liked, and loved +most. Besides, he would be often telling of her, what a +godly Father he had, and what a new man he was also become +himself; and thus did this treacherous Dealer, deal with this +honest and good Girl, to her great grief and sorrow, as afterward +you shall hear.</p> +<p>Atten. But had the maid no friend to looke after +her?</p> +<p>Wise. Her Father and Mother were dead, and that he knew +well enough, and so she was the more easily overcome by his +naughty lying tongue. But if she had never so many friends, +she might have been beguiled by him. It is too much the +custom of young people now, to think themselves wise enough to +make their own Choyce, and that they need not ask counsel of +those that are older and also wiser then they: <a +name="citation72b"></a><a href="#footnote72b" +class="citation">[72b]</a> but this is a great fault in them, and +many of them have paid dear for it. Well, to be short, in +little time Mr. Badman obtains his desire, <a +name="citation73a"></a><a href="#footnote73a" +class="citation">[73a]</a> gets this honest Girl and her money, +is married to her, brings her home, makes a Feast, entertains her +royally, but her Portion must pay for all.</p> +<p>Atten. This was wonderfull deceitfull doings, a man +shall seldom hear of the like.</p> +<p>Wise. By this his doing, he shewed how little he feared +God, <a name="citation73b"></a><a href="#footnote73b" +class="citation">[73b]</a> and what little dread he had of his +Judgments. For all this carriage, and all these words were +by him premeditated evil, he knew he lyed, he knew he dissembled; +yea, he knew that he made use of the name of God, of Religion, +good Men, and good Books, but as a stalking-Horse, thereby the +better to catch his game. In all this his glorious pretense +of Religion, he was but a glorious painted Hypocrite, and +hypocrisie is the highest sin that a poor carnal wretch can +attain unto; it is also a sin that most dareth God, and that also +bringeth the greater damnation. Now was he a whited Wall, +now was he a painted Sepulchre; <a name="citation73c"></a><a +href="#footnote73c" class="citation">[73c]</a> now was he a grave +that appeared not; for this poor honest, godly Damosel, little +thought that both her peace, and comfort, and estate, and +liberty, and person, and all, were going to her burial, <a +name="citation73d"></a><a href="#footnote73d" +class="citation">[73d]</a> when she was going to be married to +Mr. Badman; And yet so it was, she enjoyed her self but little +afterwards; she was as if she was dead and buried, to what she +enjoyed before.</p> +<p>Atten. Certainly some wonderfull Judgment of God must +attend and overtake such wicked men as these.</p> +<p>Wise. You may be sure that they shall have Judgment to +the full, for all these things, when the day of Judgment is +come. But as for Judgment upon them in this life, it doth +not alwayes come, no not upon those that are worthy +thereof. They that tempt God are delivered, and they that +work wickedness are set up: <a name="citation73e"></a><a +href="#footnote73e" class="citation">[73e]</a> But they are +reserved to the day of wrath, and then for their wickedness, God +will repay them to their faces. <a name="citation73f"></a><a +href="#footnote73f" class="citation">[73f]</a> The wicked +is reserved to the day of destruction, they shall be brought +forth to the day of wrath; who shall declare his way to his face? +and who shall repay him what he hath done? yet shall he be +brought to the grave, and remain in the tomb. <a +name="citation73g"></a><a href="#footnote73g" +class="citation">[73g]</a> That is, ordinarily they escape +God’s hand in this life, save only a few Examples are made, +that others may be cautioned, and take warning thereby: But at +the day of Judgment they must be rebuked for their evil with the +lashes of devouring fire.</p> +<p>Atten. Can you give me no examples of Gods wrath upon +men that have acted this tragical wicked deed Mr. Badman.</p> +<p>Wise. Yes; <a name="citation74a"></a><a +href="#footnote74a" class="citation">[74a]</a> Hamor and Shechem, +and all the men of their City, for attempting to make God and +Religion the stalking-Horse to get Jacobs daughters to wife, were +together slain with the edge of the sword. A Judgment of +God upon them, no doubt, for their dissembling in that +matter. All manner of lying and dissembling is dreadfull, +but to make God and Religion a Disguise, therewith to blind thy +Dissimulation from others eyes, is highly provoking to the Divine +Majesty.</p> +<p> +<a href="images/tnb.jpg"> +<img alt= +"Take note symbol" +title= +"Take note symbol" +src="images/tns.jpg" /> +</a>I knew one that dwelt not far off from our Town, that got him +a wife as Mr. Badman got his; but he did not enjoy her long: for +one night as he was riding home (from his companions, where he +had been at a neighbouring Town) his horse threw him to the +ground, where he was found dead at break of day; frightfully and +lamentably mangled with his fall, and besmeared with his own +blood.</p> +<p>Atten. Well, but pray return again to Mr. Badman, how +did he carry it to his wife, after he was married to her?</p> +<p>Wise. Nay, let us take things along as we go. He +had not been married but a little while, but his Creditors came +upon him <a name="citation74c"></a><a href="#footnote74c" +class="citation">[74c]</a> for their money: He deferred them a +little while, but at last things were come to that point, that +pay he must, or must do worse; so he appointed them a time, and +they came for their money, and he payed them down with her money +before her eyes, for those goods that he had profusely spent +among his Whores long before, (besides the portion that his +Father gave him) to the value of two hundred pounds.</p> +<p>Atten. This beginning was bad; but what shall I say? +’twas like Mr. Badman himself. Poor woman, this was +but a bad beginning for her, I fear it filled her with trouble +enough, as I think such a beginning would have done, one, perhaps +much stronger than she.</p> +<p>Wise. Trouble, ay, you may be sure of it, but now +’twas too late to repent, <a name="citation75a"></a><a +href="#footnote75a" class="citation">[75a]</a> she should have +looked better to herself, when being wary would have done her +good; her harms may be an advantage to others, that will learn to +take heed thereby; but for her self, she must take what follows, +even such a life now as Mr. Badman her Husband will lead her, and +that will be bad enough.</p> +<p>Atten. This beginning was bad, and yet I fear it was but +the beginning of bad.</p> +<p>Wise. You may he sure, that it was but the beginning of +badness, for other evils came on apace; as for instance: it was +but a little while after he was married, <a +name="citation75b"></a><a href="#footnote75b" +class="citation">[75b]</a> but he hangs his Religion upon the +hedge, or rather dealt with it as men deal with their old +Cloaths, who cast them off, or leave them to others to wear, for +his part he would be Religious no longer.</p> +<p>Now therefore he had pulled off his Vizzard, and began to shew +himself in his old shape, a base, wicked, debauched fellow, (and +now the poor woman saw that she was betrayed indeed;) now also +his old Companions begin to flock about him, and to haunt his +house and Shop as formerly: And who with them but Mr. Badman? and +who with him again but they?</p> +<p>Now those good people that used to company with his Wife, +began to be ama[t]ed and discouraged; <a +name="citation75c"></a><a href="#footnote75c" +class="citation">[75c]</a> also he would frown and gloat upon +them, as it he abhorred the appearance of them: so that in little +time he drove all good company from her, and made her sit +solitary by herself. He also began now to go out a nights +to those Drabs <a name="citation75d"></a><a href="#footnote75d" +class="citation">[75d]</a> who were his Familiars before, with +whom he would stay somtimes till midnight, and sometimes till +almost morning, and then would come home as drunk as a Swine; and +this was the course of Mr. Badman.</p> +<p>Now, when he came home in this case, if his wife did but speak +a word to him, about where he had been, and why he had so abused +himself, though her words were spoken in never so much meekness +and love, then she was Whore, <a name="citation76a"></a><a +href="#footnote76a" class="citation">[76a]</a> and Bitch, and +Jade; and ’twas well if she miss’d his fingers and +heels. Sometimes also he would bring his Puncks home to his +house, and wo be to his wife when they were gone, if she did not +entertain them with all varieties possible, and also carry it +lovingly to them.</p> +<p>Thus this good woman was made by Badman her Husband, to +possess nothing but disappointments as to all that he had +promised her, or that she hoped to have at his hands.</p> +<p>But that that added pressing weight to all her sorrow, was, +that, as he had cast away all Religion himself, so he attempted, +if possible, to make her do so too. <a name="citation76b"></a><a +href="#footnote76b" class="citation">[76b]</a> He would not +suffer her to go out to the Preaching of the Word of Christ, nor +to the rest of his Appointments, for the health and salvation of +her Soul: he would now taunt at, and reflectingly speak of her +Preachers; <a name="citation76c"></a><a href="#footnote76c" +class="citation">[76c]</a> and would receive, yea raise scandals +of them, to her very great grief and affliction.</p> +<p>Now she scarce durst go to an honest Neighbours house, or have +a good Book in her hand; specially when he had his companions in +his house, or had got a little drink in his head. He would +also, when he perceived that she was dejected, speak tauntingly, +<a name="citation76d"></a><a href="#footnote76d" +class="citation">[76d]</a> and mockingly to her in the presence +of his Companions, calling of her his Religious Wife, his demure +Dame, and the like; also he would make a sport of her among his +wanton ones abroad.</p> +<p>If she did ask him (as sometimes she would) to let her go out +to a Sermon, he would in a currish manner reply, Keep at home, +keep at home, and look to your business, we cannot live by +hearing of Sermons. <a name="citation76e"></a><a +href="#footnote76e" class="citation">[76e]</a> If she still +urged that he would let her goe, then he would say to her, Goe if +you dare. He would also charge her with giving of what he +had to her Ministers, when, vile wretch, he had spent it on his +vain Companions before.</p> +<p>This was the life that Mr. Badmans good wife lived, within few +months after he had married her.</p> +<p>Atten. This was a disappointment indeed.</p> +<p>Wise. A disappointment indeed, as ever, I think, poor +woman had. One would think that the Knave might a little +let her have had her will, since it was nothing but to be honest, +and since she brought him so sweet, so lumping a Portion, for she +brought hundreds into his house: I say, one would think he should +have let her had her own will a little, since she desired it only +in the Service and Worship of God: but could she win him to grant +her that? no, not a bit if it would have saved her life. +True, sometimes she would steal out when he was from home, on a +Journey, or among his drunken companions, but with all privacy +imaginable; <a name="citation77a"></a><a href="#footnote77a" +class="citation">[77a]</a> and, poor woman, this advantage she +had, she carried it so to all her Neighbours, that, though many +of them were but carnal, yet they would not betray her, or tell +of her going out to the Word, if they saw it, but would rather +endeavour to hide it from Mr. Badman himself.</p> +<p>Atten. This carriage of his to her, was enough to break +her heart.</p> +<p>Wise. It was enough to do it indeed, yea it did +effectually do it. It killed her in time, yea it was all +the time a killing of her. She would often-times when she +sate by her self, thus mournfully bewail her condition: <a +name="citation77b"></a><a href="#footnote77b" +class="citation">[77b]</a> Wo is me that I sojourn in Meshech, +and that I dwell in the tents of Kedar; my soul hath long time +dwelt with him that hateth peace. <a name="citation77c"></a><a +href="#footnote77c" class="citation">[77c]</a> O what shall +be given unto thee, thou deceitful tongue? or what shall be done +unto thee, thou false tongue? I am a Woman grieved in +spirit, my Husband has bought me and sold me for his lusts: +’Twas not me, but my Money that he wanted: O that he had +had it, so I had had my liberty!</p> +<p>This she said, not of contempt of his Person, but of his +Conditions, and because she saw that by his hypocritical tongue, +he had brought her not only almost to beggery, but robbed her of +the Word of God.</p> +<p>Atten. It is a deadly thing, I see, to be unequally +yoaked with Unbelievers. If this woman had had a good +Husband, how happily might they have lived together! Such +an one would have prayed for her, taught her, and also would have +encourages her in the Faith, and ways of God: But now, poor +creature, instead of this, there is nothing but the quite +contrary.</p> +<p>Wise. It is a deadly thing indeed, and therefore, by the +Word of God his people are forbid to be joyned in marriage with +them. <a name="citation77d"></a><a href="#footnote77d" +class="citation">[77d]</a> Be not, saith it, unequally +yoaked together with unbelievers; for what fellowship hath +righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light +with darkness? And what Concord hath Christ with Belial? or +what part hath he that believeth with an Infidel? And what +agreement hath the Temple of God with Idols? <a +name="citation78a"></a><a href="#footnote78a" +class="citation">[78a]</a> There can be no agreement where +such Matches are made, even God himself hath declared the +contrary, from the beginning of the world. I (says he) will +put enmity betwixt thee and the woman, betwixt thy seed and her +seed. <a name="citation78b"></a><a href="#footnote78b" +class="citation">[78b]</a> Therefore he saith in another +place, they can mix no better than Iron and Clay. I say, +they cannot agree, they cannot be one, and therefore they should +be aware at first, and not lightly receive such into their +affections. God has often made such Matches bitter, +especially to his own. Such matches are, as God said of +Elie’s Sons that were spared, to consume the eyes, and to +grieve the heart. Oh the wailing, and lamentation that they +have made that have been thus yoaked, especially if they were +such as would be so yoaked, against their light, and good counsel +to the contrary.</p> +<p>Atten. Alas! he deluded her with his tongue, and feigned +reformation.</p> +<p>Wise. Well, well; she should have gone more warily to +work: <a name="citation78d"></a><a href="#footnote78d" +class="citation">[78d]</a> what if she had acquainted some of her +best, most knowing, and godly friends therewith? what if she had +engaged a Godly Minister or two to have talked with Mr. +Badman? Also, what if she had laid wait round about him, to +espie if he was not otherwise behind her back than he was before +her face? And besides, I verily think (since in the +multitude of Counsellors there is safety) that if she had +acquainted the Congregation with it, and desired them to spend +some time in prayer to God about it, and if she must have had +him, to have received him as to his godliness, upon the Judgment +of others, rather than her own, (she knowing them to be Godly and +Judicious, and unbiassed men) she had had more peace all her life +after; than to trust to her own poor, raw, womanish Judgment, as +she did. Love is blind, and will see nothing amiss, where +others may see an hundred faults. Therefore I say, she +should not have trusted to her own thoughts in the matter of his +Goodness.</p> +<p>As to his Person, there she was fittest to judge, because she +was to be the person pleased, but as to his Godliness, there the +Word was the fittest Judge, and they that could best understand +it, because God was therein to be pleased. I wish <a +name="citation79a"></a><a href="#footnote79a" +class="citation">[79a]</a> that all young Maidens will take heed +of being beguiled with flattering words, with feigning and lying +speeches, and take the best way to preserve themselves from being +bought and sold by wicked men, as she was; lest they repent with +her, when (as to this) repentance will do them no good, but for +their unadvisedness goe sorrowing to their graves.</p> +<p>Atten. Well, things are past with this poor woman, and +cannot be called back, let others <a name="citation79b"></a><a +href="#footnote79b" class="citation">[79b]</a> beware, by her +misfortunes, lest they also fall into her distress.</p> +<p>Wise. That is the thing that I say, let them take heed, +lest for their unadvisedness the smart, as this poor woman has +done. And ah! methinks, that they that yet are single +persons, and that are tempted to marry to such as Mr. Badman; +would, to inform, and warn themselves in this matter, before they +intangle themselves, but goe to some that already are in the +snare, and ask them how it is with them, as to the suitable, or +unsuitableness of their marriage, and desire their advice. +Surely they would ring such a peal in their ears about the +unequality, unsuitableness, disadvantages, and disquietments, and +sins that attend such marriages, that would make them beware as +long as they live. But the bird in the air, knows not the +notes of the bird in the snare, untill she comes thither herself: +Besides, to make up such marriages, Satan, and carnal Reason, and +Lust, or at least Inconsiderateness, has the chiefest hand; and +where these things bear sway, designs, though never so +destructive, will goe headlong on: and therefore I fear, that but +little warning will be taken by young Girls, at Mr. Badmans wives +affliction.</p> +<p>Atten. But are there no disswasive arguments to lay +before such, to prevent their future misery.</p> +<p>Wise. Yes: There is the Law of God, that forbiddeth +marriage with unbelievers. These kind of marriages also are +condemned even by irrational creatures. 1. It is forbidden +by the Law of God both in the Old Testament and in the New. +1. In the Old. Thou shalt not make Marriages with them; Thy +daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt +thou take unto thy son, Deut. 7. 4, 5. <a +name="citation80a"></a><a href="#footnote80a" +class="citation">[80a]</a> 2. In the New Testament it +is forbidden. Be ye not unequally yoaked together with +unbelievers; Let them marry to whom they will, only in the Lord. +<a name="citation80b"></a><a href="#footnote80b" +class="citation">[80b]</a></p> +<p>Here now is a prohibition, <a name="citation80c"></a><a +href="#footnote80c" class="citation">[80c]</a> plainly forbidding +the Believer to marry with the Unbeliever, therefore they should +not do it. Again, these unwarrantable Marriages, are, as I +may so say, condemned by irrational creatures, who will not +couple but with their own sort: Will the Sheep couple with a Dog, +the Partridge with a Crow, or the Feasant with an Owl? No, +they will strictly tye up themselves to those of their own sort +only: Yea, it sets all the world a wondring, when they see or +hear the contrary. Man only is most subject to wink at, and +allow of these unlawful mixtures of men and women; Because man +only is a sinful Beast, a sinful Bird, therefore he, above all, +will take upon him by rebellious actions to answer, or rather to +oppose and violate the Law of his God and Creator; nor shall +these, or other Interogatories, [What fellowship? what concord? +what agreement? what communion can there be in such Marriages?] +be counted of weight, or thought worth the answering by him.</p> +<p>But further. The dangers <a name="citation80d"></a><a +href="#footnote80d" class="citation">[80d]</a> that such do +commonly run themselves into, should be to others a disswasive +argument to stop them from doing the like: for besides the +distresses of Mr. Badmans wife, many that have had very hopefull +beginnings for heaven, have by vertue of the mischiefs that have +attended these unlawfull marriages, miserably and fearfully +miscarried. Soon after such marriages, Conviction (the +first step toward heaven) hath ceased; Prayer (the next step +toward Heaven) hath ceased; Hungrings and thirstings after +salvation (another step towards the Kingdom of Heaven) have +ceased. In a word, such marriages have estranged them from +the Word, from their godly and faithful Friends, and have brought +them again into carnal company, among carnal Friends, and also +into carnal Delights, where, and with whom they have in +conclusion both sinfully abode, and miserably perished.</p> +<p>And this is one reason why God hath forbidden this kind of +unequal marriages. For they, saith he, meaning the ungodly, +will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve +other Gods, so will the anger of the Lord be kindled against you, +and destroy you suddenly. <a name="citation81a"></a><a +href="#footnote81a" class="citation">[81a]</a> Now mark, +there were some in Israel, that would, notwithstanding this +prohibition, venture to marry to the Heathens and Unbelievers: +But what followed? They served their Idols, they sacrificed +their Sons and their Daughters unto Devils. Thus were they +defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own +Inventions. Therefore was the wrath of the Lord kindled +against his people, insomuch that he abhorred his own +Inheritance. <a name="citation81b"></a><a href="#footnote81b" +class="citation">[81b]</a></p> +<p>Atten. But let’s return again to Mr. Badman; had +he any Children by his wife?</p> +<p>Wise. Yes, seven.</p> +<p>Atten. I doubt they were but badly brought up.</p> +<p>Wise. One of them loved its Mother dearly, and would +constantly harken to her voice. Now that Child <a +name="citation81c"></a><a href="#footnote81c" +class="citation">[81c]</a> she had the opportunity to instruct in +the Principles of Christian Religion, and it became a very +gracious child. But that child Mr. Badman could not abide, +he would seldom afford it a pleasant word, but would scowl and +frown upon it, speak churlishly and doggedly to it, and though as +to Nature it was the most feeble of the seven, yet it oftenest +felt the weight of its Fathers fingers. Three of his +Children did directly follow his steps, and began to be as vile +as (in his youth) he was himself. The other that remained +became a kind of mungrel Professors, not so bad as their Father, +nor so good as their Mother, but were betwixt them both. +They had their Mothers Notions, and their Fathers Actions, and +were much like those that you read of in the Book of Nehemiah; +These children spake half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not +speak in the Jews Language, but according to the language of each +people. <a name="citation81d"></a><a href="#footnote81d" +class="citation">[81d]</a></p> +<p>Atten. What you say in this matter, is observable, and +if I take not my mark amiss, it often happeneth after this manner +where such unlawful Marriages are contracted.</p> +<p>Wise. It sometimes doth so, and the reason, with respect +to their Parents, is this: Where the one of the Parents is godly, +and the other ungodly and vile, (though they can agree in +begetting of Children, yet) they strive for their Children when +they are born. <a name="citation82a"></a><a href="#footnote82a" +class="citation">[82a]</a> The godly Parent strives for the +child, and by Prayers, Counsel and good Examples, labours to make +it holy in body and soul, and so fit for the Kingdom of Heaven; +but the ungodly would have it like himself, wicked and base and +sinful; and so they both give instructions accordingly: +instructions did I say? yea, and Examples too, according to their +minds. Thus the godly, as Hannah, is presenting her Samuel +unto the Lord: but the ungodly, like them that went before them, +are for offering their Children to Moloch, to an Idol, to sin, to +the Devil, and to Hell. Thus one harkeneth to the Law of +their Mother, and is preserved from destruction, but as for the +other, as their Fathers did, so do they. Thus did Mr. +Badman and his wife part some of their Children betwixt them; but +as for the other three that were as ’twere Mungrels, +betwixt both, they were like unto those that you read of in +Kings, They feared the Lord, but served their own Idols. <a +name="citation82b"></a><a href="#footnote82b" +class="citation">[82b]</a> They had, as I sail, their +Mothers Notions, and I will adde, Profession too, but their +Fathers Lusts, and something of his Life. Now their Father +did not like them, because they had their Mothers tongue; and the +Mother did not like them because they had still their Fathers +heart and life; nor were they indeed fit company for good or +bad. The Good would not trust them because they were bad, +the Bad would not trust them because they were good, viz. +The good would not trust them because they were bad in their +Lives, and the bad would not trust them because they were good in +their Words: So they were forced with Esau to joyn in affinity +with Ishmael; to wit, to look out a people that were Hypocrites +like themselves, and with them they matcht, and lived and +died.</p> +<p>Atten. Poor woman, she could not but have much +perplexity.</p> +<p>Wise. Yea, and poor Children, that ever they were sent +into the world as the fruit of the loyns, and under the +government of such a father as Mr. Badman.</p> +<p>Atten. You say right, for such children, lye, almost +under all manner of disadvantages: but we must say nothing, +because this also is the sovereign Will of God.</p> +<p>Wise. We may not by any means object against God: yet we +may talk of the advantages, and disadvantages that Children have +by having for their Parents such as are either Godly, or the +contrary.</p> +<p>Atten. You say right, we may so, and pray now, since we +are about it, speak something in brief unto it, that is, unto +this; What advantage those Children have above others, that have +for their Parents such as indeed are Godly.</p> +<p>Wise. So I will, only I must first premise these two or +three things. <a name="citation83a"></a><a href="#footnote83a" +class="citation">[83a]</a></p> +<p>1. They have not the advantage of Election for their +fathers sakes.</p> +<p>2. They are born, as others, the children of wrath, +though they come of Godly Parents.</p> +<p>3. Grace comes not unto them as an Inheritance, because +they have Godly Parents. These things premised I shall now +proceed.</p> +<p>1. The children of Godly Parents are the children of +many Prayers: they are prayed for before, and Prayed for after +they are born, and the Prayer of a godly Father and godly Mother +doth much.</p> +<p>2. They have the advantage of what restraint is +possible, from what evils their Parents see them inclinable to, +and that is a second mercy.</p> +<p>3. They have the advantage of Godly instruction, and of +being told which be, and which be not the right ways of the +Lord.</p> +<p>4. They have also those ways commended unto them, and +spoken well of in their hearing, that are good.</p> +<p>5. Such are also, what may be, kept out of evil company, +from evil Books, and from being taught the way of Swearing, +Lying, and the like, as Sabbath-breaking, and mocking at good +men, and good things, and this is a very great mercy.</p> +<p>6. They have also the benefit of a godly life set before +them doctrinally by their Parents, and that doctrine backt with a +godly and holy example: and all these are very great +advantages.</p> +<p>Now all these advantages, the children of ungodly Parents +want; <a name="citation84a"></a><a href="#footnote84a" +class="citation">[84a]</a> and so are more in danger of being +carried away with the error of the wicked. For ungodly +Parents neither Pray for their Children, nor do, nor can they +heartily instruct them; they do not after a godly manner restrain +them from evil, nor do they keep them from evil company. +They are not grieved at, nor yet do they forewarn their children +to beware of such evil actions that are abomination to God, and +to all good men. They let their children break the Sabbath, +swear, lye, be wicked and vain. They commend not to their +children an holy life, nor set a good example before their +eyes. No, they do in all things contrary: Estranging of +their children what they can, from the love of God and all good +men, so soon as they are born. Therefore it is a very great +Judgment of God upon children to be the Offspring of base and +ungodly men. <a name="citation84b"></a><a href="#footnote84b" +class="citation">[84b]</a></p> +<p>Atten. Well, but before we leave Mr. Badmans wife and +children, I have a mind, if you please, to enquire a little more +after one thing, the which I am sure you can satisfie me in.</p> +<p>Wise. What is that?</p> +<p>Atten. You said a while ago, that this Mr. Badman would +not suffer his wife to go out to hear such godly Ministers as she +liked, but said if she did, she had as good never come home any +more. Did he often carry it thus to her?</p> +<p>Wise. He did say so, he did often say so. This I +told you then, and had also then told you more, but that other +things put me out.</p> +<p>Atten. Well said, pray therefore now go on.</p> +<p>Wise. So I will. Upon a time, she was on a Lords +day for going to hear a Sermon, and Mr. Badman was unwilling <a +name="citation84c"></a><a href="#footnote84c" +class="citation">[84c]</a> she should: but she at that time, as +it seems, did put on more courage than she was wont; and +therefore, after she had spent upon him, a great many fair words +and entreaties, if perhaps she might have prevailed by them, but +all to no purpose at all: At last she said she would go, and +rendred this reason for it; I have an Husband, but also a God; my +God has commanded me, and that upon pain of damnation, to be a +continual Worshipper of him, and that in the way of his own +Appointments: I have an Husband, but also a Soul, and my Soul +ought to be more unto me, than all the world besides. This +soul of mine I will look after, care for, and (if I can) provide +it an Heaven for its habitation. You are commanded to love +me, as you love your own body, and so do I love you; <a +name="citation85a"></a><a href="#footnote85a" +class="citation">[85a]</a> but I tell you true, I preferr my Soul +before all the world, and its Salvation I will seek.</p> +<p>At this, first, <a name="citation85b"></a><a +href="#footnote85b" class="citation">[85b]</a> he gave her an +ugly wish, and then fell into a fearfull rage, and sware moreover +that if she did go, he would make both her, and all her damnable +Brotherhood (for so he was pleased to call them) to repent their +coming thither.</p> +<p>Atten. But what should he mean by that?</p> +<p>Wise. You may easily guess what he meant: he meant, he +would turn Informer, and so either weary out those that she +loved, from meeting together to Worship God; or make them pay +dearly for their so doing; the which if he did, he knew it would +vex every vein of her tender heart.</p> +<p>Atten. But do you think Mr. Badman would have been so +base?</p> +<p>Wise. Truly he had malice, and enmity enough in his +heart to do it, onely he was a Tradesman; also he knew that he +must live by his neighbours, and so he had that little wit in his +anger, that he refrained himself, and did it not. But, as I +said, he had malice and envy enough in his heart <a +name="citation85c"></a><a href="#footnote85c" +class="citation">[85c]</a> to have made him to do it, only he +thought it would worst him in his trade: yet these three things +he would be doing.</p> +<p>1. He would be putting of others on to molest and abuse +her friends.</p> +<p>2. He would be glad when he heard that any mischief +befell them.</p> +<p>3. And would laugh at her, when he saw her troubled for +them. And now I have told you Mr. Badmans way as to +this.</p> +<p>Atten. But was he not afraid of the Judgments of God, +that did fly about at that time?</p> +<p>Wise. He regarded not the Judgment nor Mercy of God, for +had he at all done that, he could not have done as he did. +But what Judgments do you mean?</p> +<p>Atten. Such Judgments, that if Mr Badman himself had +taken but sober notice of, they might have made him a hung down +his ears.</p> +<p>Wise. Why, have you heard of any such persons that the +Judgments of God have overtaken.</p> +<p>Atten. Yes, and so, I believe, have you too, though you +make so strange about it.</p> +<p>Wise. I have so indeed, to my astonishment and +wonder.</p> +<p>Atten. Pray, therefore, if you please, tell me what it +is, as to this, that you know; and then, perhaps, I may also say +something to you of the same.</p> +<p>Wise. +<a href="images/tnb.jpg"> +<img alt= +"Take note symbol" +title= +"Take note symbol" +src="images/tns.jpg" /> +</a>In <a name="citation86"></a><a href="#footnote86" +class="citation">[86]</a> our Town there was one W. S. a man of a +very wicked life; and he, when there seemed to be countenance +given to it, would needs turn Informer. Well, so he did, +and was as diligent in his business as most of them could be; he +would watch a nights, climb Trees, and range the Woods a days, if +possible, to find out the Meeters, for then they were forced to +meet in the Fields: yea, he would curse them bitterly, and swear +most fearfully what he would do to them when he found them. +Well, after he had gone on like a Bedlam in his course a while, +and had done some mischiefs to the people, he was stricken by the +hand of God, and that in this manner.</p> +<p>1. Although he had his tongue naturally at will, now he +was taken with a faultering in his speech, and could not for +weeks together speak otherwise, than just like a man that was +drunk.</p> +<p>2. Then he was taken with a drauling, or slabbering at +his mouth, which slabber sometimes would hang at his mouth well +nigh half way down to the ground.</p> +<p>3. Then he had such a weakness in the back sinews of his +Neck, that oft times he could not look up before him, unless he +clapped his hand hard upon his forehead, and held up his head +that way, by strength of hand.</p> +<p>4. After this his speech went quite away, and he could +speak no more than a Swine or a Bear. Therefore, like one +of them, he would gruntle and make an ugly noyse, according as he +was offended, or pleased, or would have any thing done, +&c.</p> +<p>In this posture he continued for the space of half a year, or +thereabouts, all the while otherwise well, and could go about his +business, save once that he had a fall from the Bell as it hangs +in our Steeple, which ’twas a wonder it did not kill him: +But after that he also walked about, till God had made him a +sufficient spectacle of his Judgment for his sin, and then on a +sudden he was stricken and dyed miserably: and so there was an +end of him and his doings.</p> +<p>I will tell you of another. +<a href="images/tnb.jpg"> +<img alt= +"Take note symbol" +title= +"Take note symbol" +src="images/tns.jpg" /> +</a>About four miles from St. Neots, there was a Gentleman had a +man, and he would needs be an Informer, and a lusty young man he +was. Well, an Informer he was, and did much distress some +people, and had perfected his Informations so effectually against +some, that there was nothing further to do, but for the +Constables to make distress on the people, that he might have the +Money or Goods; and as I heard, he hastened them much to do +it. Now while he was in the heat of his work, as he stood +one day by the Fire-side, he had (it should seem) a mind to a Sop +in the Pan, (for the Spit was then at the fire,) so he went to +make him one; but behold, a Dog (so say his own Dog) took +distaste at something, and bit his Master by the Leg; the which +bite, notwithstanding all the means that was used to cure him, +turned (as was said) to a Gangrene; however, that wound was his +death, and that a dreadful one too: for my Relator said, that he +lay in such a condition by this bite, (as the beginning) till his +flesh rotted from off him before he went out of the world. +But what need I instance in particular persons, when the +Judgement of God against this kind of people was made manifest, I +think I may say, if not in all, yet in most of the Counties in +England where such poor Creatures were. But I would, if it +had been the will of God, that neither I nor any body else, could +tell you more of these Stories: True stories, that are neither +Lye, nor Romance.</p> +<p>Atten. Well, I also heard of both these my self, and of +more too, as remarkable in their kind as these, if I had any list +to tell them: but let us leave those that are behind to others, +or to the coming of Christ, who then will justifie or condemn +them as the merit of their work shall require; or if they +repented, and found mercy, I shall be glad when I know it, for I +wish not a curse to the Soul of mine Enemy.</p> +<p>Wise. There can be no pleasure in the telling of such +stories, though to hear of them may do us a pleasure: They may +put us in mind that there is a God that judgeth in the earth, and +that doth not alwayes forget nor deferre to hear the Crye of the +destitute; They also carry along with them both Caution and +Counsel to those that are the survivors of such. Let us +tremble at the Judgements of God, and be afraid of sinning +against him, and it shall be our protection. It shall go +well with them that fear God, that fear before him.</p> +<p>Atten. Well Sir, as you have intimated, so I think we +have in this place spoken enough about these kind of men; if you +please, let us return again to Mr. Badman himself, if you have +any more to say of him.</p> +<p>Wise. More! we have yet scarce throughly begun with Any +thing that we have said. All the particulars are in +themselves so full of badness, that we have rather only looked in +them, than indeed said any thing to them: but we will pass them, +and proceed. You have heard of the sins of his Youth, of +his Apprentiship, and how he set up, and married, and what a life +he hath led his wife; and now I will tell you some more <a +name="citation88a"></a><a href="#footnote88a" +class="citation">[88a]</a> of his pranks. He had the very +knack of Knavery; had he, as I said before, been bound to serve +an Apprentiship to all these things, he could not have been more +cunning, he could not have been more artificial at it.</p> +<p>Atten. Nor perhaps so artificially neither. For as +none can teach Goodness like to God himself, so concerning Sin +and Knavery, none can teach a man it like the Devil, to whom, as +I perceive, Mr. Badman went to School from his Childhood to the +end of his life. But pray Sir, make a beginning.</p> +<p>Wise. Well so I will. You may remember that I told +you what a condition he was in for Money before he did marry, and +how he got a rich Wife, with whose Money he paid his debts: Now +when he had paid his debts, he having some Moneys left, he sets +up again <a name="citation88b"></a><a href="#footnote88b" +class="citation">[88b]</a> as briskly as ever, keeps a great +Shop, drives a great Trade, and runs again a great way into debt; +but now not into the debt of one or two, but into the debt of +many, so that at last he came to owe some thousands; and thus he +went on a good while. And to pursue his ends the better, he +began now to study to please all men, and to suit himself to any +company; he could now be as they, say as they, that is, if he +listed; and then he would list, when he perceived that by so +doing, he might either make them his Customers or Creditors for +his Commodities. If he dealt with honest men, (as with some +honest men he did) then he would be as they; talk as they, seem +to be sober as they, talk of Justice and Religion as they, and +against Debauchery as they; yea, and would too seem to shew a +dislike of them that said, did, or were otherwise than +honest.</p> +<p>Again, when he did light among those that were bad, then he +would be as they, but yet more close and cautiously, except he +were sure of his company: Then he would carry it openly, be as +they; say, Damn’em and Sink’em, as they. If +they railed on Good men, so could he; <a name="citation89"></a><a +href="#footnote89" class="citation">[89]</a> if they railed on +Religion, so could he: if they talked beastly, vainly, idlely, so +would he; if they were for drinking, swearing, whoring, or any +the like Villanies, so was he. This was now the path he +trod in, and could do all artificially, as any man alive. +And now he thought himself a perfect man, he thought he was +always a Boy till now. What think you now of Mr. +Badman?</p> +<p>Atten. Think! why, I think he was an Atheist: For no man +but an Atheist can do this. I say, it cannot be, but that +the man that is such as this Mr. Badman, must be a rank and +stinking Atheist; for he that believes that there is either God +or Devil, Heaven or Hell, or Death, and Judgment after, cannot +doe as Mr. Badman did; I mean, if he could do these things +without reluctancy and check of Conscience; yea, if he had not +sorrow and remorse for such abominable sins as these.</p> +<p>Wise. Nay, he was so far off from reluctancies and +remorse of Conscience for these things, that he counted them the +excellency of his Attainments, the quintessence of his Wit, his +rare and singular vertues, such as but few besides himself could +be the Masters of. Therefore, as for those that made boggle +and stop at things, and that could not in Conscience, and for +fear of Death and Judgement, do such things as he; he would call +them Fools and Noddies, and charge them for being frighted with +the talk of unseen Bugbears; and would encourage them, if they +would be men indeed, to labour after the attainment of this his +excellent art. He would often-times please himself <a +name="citation90a"></a><a href="#footnote90a" +class="citation">[90a]</a> with the thoughts of what he could do +in this matter, saying within himself; I can be religious, and +irreligious, I can be any thing, or nothing; I can swear, and +speak against swearing; I can lye, and speak against lying; I can +drink, wench, be unclean, and defraud, and not be troubled for +it: Now I enjoy my self, and am Master of mine own wayes, and not +they of me. This I have attained with much study, great +care, and more pains. But this his talk should be only with +himself, to his wife, who he knew durst not divulge it; or among +his Intimates, to whom he knew he might say any thing.</p> +<p>Atten. Did I call him before an Atheist? I may +call him now a Devil, or a man possessed with one, if not with +many. I think that there cannot be found in every corner +such an one as this. True, it is said of King Ahaz, that be +sinned more and more; and of Ahab, that he sold himself to work +wickedness; and of the men of Sodom, that they were sinners +exceedingly before the Lord. <a name="citation90b"></a><a +href="#footnote90b" class="citation">[90b]</a></p> +<p>Wise. An Atheist he was no doubt, if there be such a +thing as an Atheist in the world, but for all his brags of +perfection and security in his wickedness, I believe that at +times God did let down fire from Heaven into his +Conscience. True, I believe he would quickly put it out +again, and grow more desperate and wicked afterward, but this +also turned to his destruction, as afterward you may hear. <a +name="citation90c"></a><a href="#footnote90c" +class="citation">[90c]</a></p> +<p>But I am not of your mind, to think that there are but few +such in the world; except you mean as to the Degree of wickedness +unto which he had attained. For otherwise, no doubt, <a +name="citation90d"></a><a href="#footnote90d" +class="citation">[90d]</a> there is abundance of such as he: men +of the same mind, of the same principles, and of the same +conscience too, to put them into practice. Yea, I believe +that there are many that are endeavouring to attain to the same +pitch of wickedness; and all them are such as he, in the Judgment +of the Law; nor will their want of hellish wit to attain thereto, +excuse them at the day of Judgment. You know that in all +Science, some are more arch than some; and so it is in the art, +as well as in the practice of wickedness: some are two-fold, and +some seven-fold more the children of Hell than others, (and yet +all the children of Hell,) else they would all be Masters, and +none scholars in the school of wickedness. But there must +be Masters, and there must be Learners; Mr. Badman was a master +in this art, and therefore it follows that he must be an arch and +chief one in that mystery.</p> +<p>Atten. You are in the right, for I perceive that some +men, though they desire it, cannot be so arch in the practice +thereof as others, but are (as I suppose they call them) fools +and dunces to the rest, their heads and capacities will not serve +them to act and do so wickedly. But Mr. Badman wanted not a +wicked head to contrive, as well as a wicked heart to do his +wickedness.</p> +<p>Wise. True, but yet I say, such men shall at the day of +Judgment, be judged, not only for what they are, but also for +what they would be. For if the thought of foolishness is +sin, <a name="citation91a"></a><a href="#footnote91a" +class="citation">[91a]</a> doubtless the desire of foolishness is +more sin: and if the desire be more, the endeavour after it must +needs be more and more. <a name="citation91b"></a><a +href="#footnote91b" class="citation">[91b]</a> He then that +is not an artificial Atheist and Transgressor, yet if he desires +to be so, if he endeavoureth to be so, he shall be Judged and +condemned to Hell for such an one. For the Law Judgeth men, +as I said, according to what they would be. He that looketh +upon a woman to lust after her, hath committed adultery with her +already in his heart. <a name="citation91c"></a><a +href="#footnote91c" class="citation">[91c]</a> By the same +rule, he that would steal, doth steal; he that would cheat, doth +cheat; he that would swear, doth swear; and he that would commit +adultery, doth do so. For God Judgeth men according to the +working of their minds, and saith; As he thinketh, so is +he. That is, so is he in his heart, in his intentions, in +his desires, in his endeavours; and Gods Law, I say, lays hold of +the desires, intentions and endeavours, even as it lays hold of +the act of wickedness it self. <a name="citation91d"></a><a +href="#footnote91d" class="citation">[91d]</a> A man then +that desires to be as bad as Mr. Badman, (and desires to be so +wicked have many in their hearts) though he never attains to that +proficiency in wickedness as he, shall yet be Judged for as bad a +man as he, because ’twas in his desires to be such a wicked +one.</p> +<p>Atten. But this height of wickedness in Mr. Badman, will +not yet out of my mind. This hard, desperate, or what shall +I call it, diabolicall frame of heart, was in him a foundation, a +ground-work, to all acts and deeds that were evil.</p> +<p>Wise. The heart, and the desperate wickedness of it, is +the foundation and groundwork of all. Atheism, professed +and practicall, spring both out of the heart, yea and all manner +of evils besides. <a name="citation92a"></a><a +href="#footnote92a" class="citation">[92a]</a> For they be +not bad deeds that make a bad man, but he is already a bad man +that doth bad deeds. A man must be wicked before he can do +wickedness. <a name="citation92b"></a><a href="#footnote92b" +class="citation">[92b]</a> Wickedness proceedeth from the +wicked. ’Tis an evil tree that bears evil fruit, men +gather no grapes of thorns; the heart therefore must be evil, +before the man can do evil, and good before the man doth +good.</p> +<p>Atten. Now I see the reason why Mr. Badman was so base, +as to get a Wife by dissimulation, and to abuse her so like a +Villain when he had got her, it was because he was before by a +wicked heart prepared to act wickedness.</p> +<p>Wise. You may be sure of it; for from within, out of the +heart of man proccedeth evil thoughts, Adulteries, Fornications, +Murders, Thefts, Coveteousness, Wickedness, Deceit, +Lasciviousness, an evil Eye, Blasphemy, Pride, Foolishness. +All these things come from within, and defile a man. <a +name="citation92c"></a><a href="#footnote92c" +class="citation">[92c]</a> And a man, as his naughty mind +inclines him, makes use of these, or any of these, to gratifie +his lust, to promote his designs, to revenge his malice, to +enrich, or to wallow himself in the foolish pleasures and +pastimes of this life: And all these did Mr. Badman do, even to +the utmost, if either opportunity, or purse, or perfidiousness, +would help him to the obtaining of his purpose.</p> +<p>Atten. Purse! Why he could not but have Purse to +do almost what he would, having married a wife with so much +money.</p> +<p>Wise. Hold you there; some of Mr. Badmans sins were +costly, as his drinking, and whoring, and keeping other bad +company; though he was a man that had ways too many to get money, +as well as ways too many to spend it.</p> +<p>Atten. Had he then such a good Trade, for all he was +such a bad man? or was his Calling so gainfull to him, as alwayes +to keep his Purses belly full, though he was himself a great +spender?</p> +<p>Wise. No: It was not his Trade that did it, though he +had a pretty trade too. He had another way to get Money, +and that by hatfulls and pocketfulls at a time.</p> +<p>Atten. Why I trow he was no Highway man, was he?</p> +<p>Wise. I will be sparing in my speech as to that, though +some have muttered as if he could ride out now and then, about no +body but himself knew what, over night, and come home all dirty +and weary next morning. But that is not the thing I aim +at.</p> +<p>Atten. Pray let me know it, if you think it convenient +that I should.</p> +<p>Wise. I will tell you: It was this, he had an art to +Break, <a name="citation93a"></a><a href="#footnote93a" +class="citation">[93a]</a> and get hatfulls of money by +breaking.</p> +<p>Atten. But what do you mean by Mr. Badmans Breaking? you +speak mystically, do you not?</p> +<p>Wise. No, no, I speak plainly. Or, if you will +have it in plainer language, ’tis this: When Mr. Badman had +swaggered and whored away most of his wifes portion, he began to +feel that he could not much longer stand upon his legs in this +course of life, and keep up his Trade and Repute (such as he had) +in the world; but by the new Engine of Breaking. Wherefore, +upon a time, he gives a great, and sudden <a +name="citation93b"></a><a href="#footnote93b" +class="citation">[93b]</a> rush into several mens debts, to the +value of about four or five thousand pound, driving at the same +time a very great trade, by selling many things for less than +they cost him, to get him custom, therewith to blind his +Creditors eyes. His Creditors therefore feeling that he had +a great employ, and dreaming that it must needs at length turn to +a very good account to them, trusted him freely without mistrust, +and so did others too, to the value of what was mentioned +before. Well, when Mr. Badman had well feathered his Nest +with other mens goods and money, after a little time <a +name="citation93c"></a><a href="#footnote93c" +class="citation">[93c]</a> he breaks. And by and by it is +noysed abroad that Mr. Badman had shut up Shop, was gone, and +could trade no longer. Now, by that time his breaking was +come to his Creditors ears, he had by Craft and Knavery made so +sure of what he had, that his Creditors could not touch a +penny. Well, when he had done, he sends his mournfull +sugered letters to his Creditors, to let them understand what had +happened unto him, and desired them not to be severe with him; <a +name="citation94a"></a><a href="#footnote94a" +class="citation">[94a]</a> for he bore towards all men an honest +mind, and would pay so far as he was able. Now he sends his +letters by a man <a name="citation94b"></a><a href="#footnote94b" +class="citation">[94b]</a> confederate with him, who could make +both the worst, and best of Mr. Badmans case: The best for Mr. +Badman, and the worst for his Creditors. So when he comes +to them, he both bemoans them, and condoles Mr. Badmans +condition: Telling of them, that without a speedy bringing of +things to a conclusion, Mr. Badman would be able to make them no +satisfaction, but at present he both could, and would, and that +to the utmost of his power: and to that end, he desired that they +would come over to him. Well, his Creditors appoint him a +time, and come over; and he, mean while, authorizes another to +treat with them, but will not be seen himself, unless it was on a +Sunday, lest they should snap him with a Writ. So his +deputed friend treats with them about their concern with Mr. +Badman, first telling them of the great care that Mr. Badman took +to satisfie them and all men for whatsoever he ought, as far as +in him lay, and, how little he thought a while since to be in +this low condition. He pleaded also the greatness of his +Charge, the greatness of Taxes, the Badness of the times, and the +great Losses that he had by many of his customers, some of which +died in his debt, others were run away, and for many that were +alive, he never expected a farthi[n]g from them. Yet +nevertheless he would shew himself an honest man, and would pay +as far as he was able; and if they were willing to come to terms, +he would make a composition with them, (for he was not able to +pay them all.) The Creditors asked what he would give? <a +name="citation94c"></a><a href="#footnote94c" +class="citation">[94c]</a> ’Twas replyed, Half a +crown in the pound. At this they began to huff, and he to +renew his complaint and entreaty; but the Creditors would not +hear, and so for that time their meeting without success broke +up. But after his Creditors were in cool blood, and +admitting of second thoughts, and fearing lest delays should make +them lose all, they admit of a second debate, come together +again, and by many words, and great ado, they obtained five +shillings i’th’ pound. <a name="citation94d"></a><a +href="#footnote94d" class="citation">[94d]</a> So the money +was produced, Releases and Discharges drawn, signed, and sealed, +Books crossed, and all things confirmed; and then Mr. Badman can +put his head out of dores again, and be a better man than when he +shut up Shop, by several thousands of pounds.</p> +<p>Atten. And did he do thus indeed?</p> +<p>Wise, Yes, once, and again. I think he brake twice or +thrice.</p> +<p>Atten. And did he do it before he had need to do it?</p> +<p>Wise. Need! What do you mean by need? there is no +need at any time for a man to play the knave. <a +name="citation95"></a><a href="#footnote95" +class="citation">[95]</a> He did it of a wicked mind, to +defraud and beguile his Creditors: he had wherewithall of his +Father, and also by his Wife, to have lived upon, with lawfull +labour, like an honest man. He had also when he made this +wicked Break (though he had been a profuse and prodigal spender) +to have paid his creditors their own to a farthing. But had +he done so, he had not done like himself, like Mr. Badman; had +he, I say, dealt like an honest man, he had then gone out of Mr. +Badmans road. He did it therefore of a dishonest mind, and +to a wicked end; to wit, that he might have wherewithall, +howsoever unlawfully gotten, to follow his Cups and Queans, and +to live in the full swinge of his lusts, even as he did +before.</p> +<p>Atten. Why this was a meer Cheat.</p> +<p>Wise. It was a cheat indeed. This way of breaking, +it is else but a more neat way of Thieving, of picking of +pockets, of breaking open of shops, and of taking from men what +one has nothing to do with. But though it seem easie, it is +hard to learn, no man that has conscience to God or man, can ever +be his Crafts Master in this Hellish art.</p> +<p>Atten. Oh! Sirs! what a wicked man was this?</p> +<p>Wise. A wicked man indeed. By this art he could +tell how to make men send their goods to his shop, and then be +glad to take a penny for that for which he had promised before it +came thither, to give them a Groat: I say, he could make them +glad to take a Crown for a pounds worth, and a thousand for that +for which he had promised before to give them four thousand +pounds.</p> +<p>Atten. This argueth that Mr. Badman had but little +conscience.</p> +<p>Wise. This argued that Mr. Badman had No Conscience at +all; for Conscience, the least spark of a good Conscience cannot +endure this.</p> +<p>Atten. Before we go any further in Mr. Badmans matters, +let me desire you, if you please, to give me an answer to these +two questions. <a name="citation96a"></a><a href="#footnote96a" +class="citation">[96a]</a></p> +<p>1. What do you find in the Word of God against such a +practice, as this of Mr. Badmans is? <a name="citation96b"></a><a +href="#footnote96b" class="citation">[96b]</a></p> +<p>2. What would you have a man do that is in his Creditors +debt, and can neither pay him what he owes him, nor go on in a +trade any longer?</p> +<p>Wise. I will answer you as well as I can. And +first to the first of your questions. To wit, What I find +in the Word of God against such a practice, as this of Mr. +Badmans is.</p> +<p>Answ. The Word of God doth forbid this wickedness; and +to make it the more odious in our eyes, it joyns it with Theft +and Robbery: Thou shalt not, says God, defraud thy neighbour, nor +rob him. <a name="citation96c"></a><a href="#footnote96c" +class="citation">[96c]</a> Thou shalt not defraud, that is, +deceive or beguile. Now thus to break, is to defraud, +deceive and beguile; which is, as you see, forbidden by the God +of Heaven: Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, nor rob +him. It is a kind of theft and robbery, thus to defraud, +and beguile. <a name="citation96d"></a><a href="#footnote96d" +class="citation">[96d]</a> It is a wilely robbing of his +shop, and picking of his pocket: a thing odious to Reason and +Conscience, and contrary to the Law of nature. It is a +designed piece of wickedness, and therefore a double sin. A +man cannot do this great wickedness on a sudden, and through a +violent assault of Satan. He that will commit this sin, +must have time to deliberate, that by invention, he may make it +formidable, and that with lies and high dissimulations. He +that commits this wickedness, must first hatch it upon his bed, +beat his head about it, and lay his plot strong: So that to the +completing of such a wickedness, there must be adjoyned many +sins, and they too, must go hand in hand untill it be +compleated. But what saith the Scripture? <a +name="citation96e"></a><a href="#footnote96e" +class="citation">[96e]</a><a name="citation96f"></a><a +href="#footnote96f" class="citation">[96f]</a> Let no man +go beyond, and defraud his Brother in any matter, because the +Lord is the avenger of all such. But this kind of Breaking +is a going beyond my Brother; This is a compassing of him about +that I may catch him in my net; and as I said, an art to rob my +Brother, and to pick his pocket, and that with his consent. +Which doth not therefore mitigate, but so much the more greaten +and make odious the offence. For men that are thus wilily +abused cannot help themselves, they are taken in a deceitfull +net. But God will here concern himself, he will be the +avenger, he will be the avenger of all such either here or in +another world.</p> +<p>And this, the Apostle testifies again, where he saith; <a +name="citation97a"></a><a href="#footnote97a" +class="citation">[97a]</a> But he that doth wrong, shall receive +for the wrong that he hath done, and there is no respect of +persons. <a name="citation97b"></a><a href="#footnote97b" +class="citation">[97b]</a> That is, there is no man, be he +what he will, if he will be guilty of this sin, of going beyond, +of beguiling of, and doing wrong to his Brother, but God will +call him to an account for it, and will pay him with vengeance +for it too; for there is no respect of persons.</p> +<p>I might add, that this sin of wronging, of going beyond, and +defrauding of my Neighbour, it is like that first prank that the +Devil plaid with our first Parents, <a name="citation97c"></a><a +href="#footnote97c" class="citation">[97c]</a> (as the Altar that +Uriah built for Ahaz, was taken from the fashion of that that +stood at Damascus, to be the very pattern of it.) The +Serpent beguiled me, says Eve; Mr. Badman beguiles his +Creditors. The Serpent beguiled Eve with lying promises of +gain; and so did Mr. Badman beguile his Creditors. The +Serpent said one thing and meant another, when he beguiled Eve; +and so did Mr. Badman when he beguiled his Creditors.</p> +<p>That man therefore that doth thus deceive and beguile his +neighbour, imitateth the Devil; he taketh his examples from him, +and not from God, the Word, or good men: and this did Mr. +Badman.</p> +<p>And now to your second question: To wit, What I would have a +man do, that is in his Creditors debt, and that can neither pay +him, nor go on in a trade any longer? <a +name="citation97d"></a><a href="#footnote97d" +class="citation">[97d]</a></p> +<p>Answ. First of all. If this be his case, and he +knows it, let him not run one penny further in his Creditors +debt. For that cannot be done with good conscience. +He that knowes he cannot pay, and yet will run into debt; does +knowingly wrong and defraud his neighbour, and falls under that +sentence of the Word of God, The wicked borroweth and payeth not +again. Yea worse, he borrows though at the very same time +he knows that he cannot pay again. He doth also craftily +take away what is his Neighbours. That is therefore the +first thing that I would propound to such: Let him not run any +further into his Creditors debt. <a name="citation98a"></a><a +href="#footnote98a" class="citation">[98a]</a></p> +<p>Secondly, After this, let him consider, <a +name="citation98b"></a><a href="#footnote98b" +class="citation">[98b]</a> how, and by what means he was brought +into such a condition, that he could not pay his just +debts. To wit, whether it was by his own remisness in his +Calling, by living too high in Dyet or Apparel, by lending too +ravishingly that which was none of his own, to his loss; or +whether by the immediate hand and Judgment of God.</p> +<p>If by searching, he findes, that this is come upon him through +remisness in his Calling, Extravagancies in his Family, or the +like; let him labour for a sence of his sin and wickedness, <a +name="citation98c"></a><a href="#footnote98c" +class="citation">[98c]</a> for he has sinned against the Lord: +First, in his being slothfull in business, and in not providing, +to wit, of is own, by the sweat of his brows, or other honest +ways, for those of his own house. <a name="citation98d"></a><a +href="#footnote98d" class="citation">[98d]</a> And secondly +in being lavishing in Dyet and Apparel in the Family, or in +lending to others that which was none of his own. This +cannot be done with good conscience: it is both against reason +and nature, and therefore must be a sin against God. I say +therefore, if thus this debtor hath done, if ever he would live +quietly in conscience, and comfortably in his condition for the +future, let him humble himself before God, and repent of this his +wickedness. For he that is slothfull in his work, is +brother to him that is a great waster. <a +name="citation98e"></a><a href="#footnote98e" +class="citation">[98e]</a> To be slothfull and a waster +too, is to be as it were a double sinner.</p> +<p>But again, as this man should enquire into these things, so he +should also into this. How came I into this way of dealing +in which I have now miscarried? is it a way that my Parents +brought me up in, put me Apprentice to, or that by providence I +was first thrust into? or is it a way into which I have twisted +my self, as not being contented with my first lot, that by God +and my Parents I was cast into? This ought duly to be +considered. <a name="citation98f"></a><a href="#footnote98f" +class="citation">[98f]</a> And if upon search, a man shall +find that he is out of the place and Calling into which he was +put by his Parents, or the Providence of God, and has miscarried +in a new way, that through pride and dislike of his first state +he as chose rather to embrace; his miscarriage is his sin, the +fruit of his Pride, and a token of the Judgment of God upon him +for his leaving of his first state. And for this he ought, +as for the former, to be humble and penitent before the Lord.</p> +<p>But if by search, <a name="citation99a"></a><a +href="#footnote99a" class="citation">[99a]</a> he finds, that his +poverty came by none of these; if by honest search, he finds it +so, and can say with good conscience, I went not out of my place +and state in which God by his providence had put me; but have +abode with God in the calling wherein I was called, and have +wrought hard, and fared meanly, been civilly apparelled, and have +not directly, nor indirectly made away with my Creditors goods: +Then has his fall come upon him by the immediate hand of God, +whether by visible or invisible wayes. For sometimes it +comes by visible wayes, to wit, by Fire, by Thieves, by loss of +Cattel, or the wickedness of sinful dealers, &c. And +sometimes by means invisible, and then no man knows how; we only +see things are going, but cannot see by what way they go. +Well, Now suppose that a man, by an immediate hand of God is +brought to a morsel of Bread, what must he do now? <a +name="citation99b"></a><a href="#footnote99b" +class="citation">[99b]</a></p> +<p>I answer: His surest way is still to think, that this is the +fruit of some sin, though possibly not sin in the management of +his calling, yet of some other sin. God casteth away the +substance of the wicked. Therefore let him still humble +himself before his God, because his hand is upon him, and say, +What sin is this, for which this hand of God is upon me? and let +him be diligent to find it out, for some sin is the cause of this +Judgment; for God doth not willingly afflict nor grieve the +children of men. Either the heart is too much set upon the +world, or Religion is too much neglected in thy Family, or some +thing. There is a Snake in the grass, a Worm in the gourd; +some sin in thy bosom, for the sake of which God doth thus deal +with thee.</p> +<p>Thirdly, This thus done, let that man again consider thus with +himself: Perhaps God is now changing of my Condition and state in +the world; he has let me live in fashion, in fulness, and +abundance of worldly glory, and I did not to his glory improve, +as I should, that his good dispensation to me. <a +name="citation100a"></a><a href="#footnote100a" +class="citation">[100a]</a> But when I lived in full and +fat pasture, I did there lift up the heel: Therefore he will now +turn me into hard Commons, that with leanness, and hunger, and +meanness, and want, I may spend the rest of my days. But +let him do this without murmering, and repining; let him do it in +a godly manner, submitting himself to the Judgment of God. +Let the rich rejoyce in that he is made low. <a +name="citation100b"></a><a href="#footnote100b" +class="citation">[100b]</a></p> +<p>This is duty, and it may be priviledg to those that are under +this hand of God. And for thy encouragement to this hard +work, (for this is a hard work) consider of these four things. <a +name="citation100c"></a><a href="#footnote100c" +class="citation">[100c]</a></p> +<p>1. This is right lying down under Gods hand, and the way +to be exalted in Gods time: when God would have Job embrace the +Dunghill, he embraces it, and says, The Lord giveth, and the Lord +hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. <a +name="citation100d"></a><a href="#footnote100d" +class="citation">[100d]</a></p> +<p>2. Consider, That there are blessings also that attend a +low condition, more than all the world are aware of. A poor +condition has preventing mercy attending of it. The poor, +because they are poor, are not capable of sinning against God as +the rich man does.</p> +<p>3. The Poor can more clearly see himself preserved by +the providence of God than the rich, for he trusteth in the +abundance of his riches. <a name="citation100e"></a><a +href="#footnote100e" class="citation">[100e]</a></p> +<p>4. It may be God has made thee poor, because he would +make thee rich. Hearken my beloved brethren, hath not God +chosen the poor of this world, rich in Faith, and heirs of a +Kingdom which God hath promised to them that love him? <a +name="citation100f"></a><a href="#footnote100f" +class="citation">[100f]</a></p> +<p>I am perswaded, if men upon whom this hand of God is, would +thus quietly lye down, and humble themselves under it, they would +find more peace, yea, more blessing of God attending them in it, +than the most of men are aware of. But this is an hard +Chapter, and therefore I do not expect that many should either +read it with pleasure, or desire to take my counsel.</p> +<p>Having thus spoken to the Broken man, with reference to his +own self; I will now speak to him as he stands related to his +Creditors.</p> +<p>In the next place therefore, let him fall upon the most <a +name="citation101a"></a><a href="#footnote101a" +class="citation">[101a]</a> honest way of dealing with his +Creditors, and that I think must be this.</p> +<p>First, Let him timely make them acquainted with his condition, +and also do to them these three things.</p> +<p>1. Let him heartily, and unfeignedly ask them +forgiveness for the wrong that he has done them.</p> +<p>2. Let him proffer them all, and the whole all that ever +he has in the world; let him hide nothing, let him strip himself +to his raiment for them; let him not keep a Ring, a Spoon, or any +thing from them.</p> +<p>3. If none of these two will satisfie them, let him +proffer them his Body, to be at their dispose, to wit, either to +abide imprisonment their pleasure, or to be at their service, +till by labour and travel he hath made them such amends as they +in reason think fit, (only reserving something for the succour of +his poor and distressed Family out of his labour, which in +Reason, and Conscience, and Nature, he is bound also to take care +of:) Thus shall he make them what amends he is able, for +the Wrong that he hath done them in wasting and spending of their +Estates.</p> +<p>By thus doing, he submits himself to Gods rod, commits himself +to the dispose of his Providence; yea, by thus doing, he casteth +the lot of his present and future condition into the lap of his +Creditors, and leaves the whole dispose thereof to the Lord, <a +name="citation101b"></a><a href="#footnote101b" +class="citation">[101b]</a> even as he shall order and incline +their hearts to do with him. And let that be either to +forgive him; or to take that which he hath for satisfaction; or +to lay his body under affliction, this way or that, according to +Law; can he, I say, thus leave the whole dispose to God, let the +issue be what it will, that man shall have peace in his mind +afterward. And the comforts of that state, (which will be +comforts that attend Equity, Justice, and Duty,) will be more +unto him, because more according to Godliness, than can be the +comforts that are the fruits of Injustice, Fraudulency, and +Deceit. Besides, this is the way to engage God to favour +him by the sentence of his Creditors; (for He can entreat them to +use him kindly,) and he will do it when his ways are pleasing in +his sight: When a mans ways please the Lord, his enemies shall be +at peace with him; <a name="citation102a"></a><a +href="#footnote102a" class="citation">[102a]</a> And surely, for +a man to seek to make restitution for wrongs done, to the utmost +of his power, by what he is, has, and enjoys in this world, is +the best way, in that capacity, and with reference to that thing, +that a man can at this time be found active in.</p> +<p>But he that doth otherwise, abides in his sin, refuses to be +disposed of by the Providence of God, chuseth an high Estate, +though not attained in Gods way; when Gods Will is, that he +should descend into a low one: yea, he desperately saith in his +heart and actions, I will be mine own chooser, and that in mine +own way, whatever happens or follows thereupon.</p> +<p>Atten. You have said well, in my mind. But suppose +now, that Mr. Badman was here, could he not object as to what you +have said, saying, Go and teach your Brethren, that are +Professors, this lesson, for they, as I am, are guilty of +Breaking; yea I am apt to think, of that which you call my +Knavish way of breaking; to wit, of breaking before they have +need to break. But if not so, yet they are guilty of +neglect in their Calling, <a name="citation102b"></a><a +href="#footnote102b" class="citation">[102b]</a> of living +higher, both in Fare and Apparrel, than their Trade or Income +will maintain. Besides, that they do break, all the world +very well knowes, and that they have the art to plead for a +composition, is very well known to men; and that it is usual with +them, to hide their Linnen, their Plate, their Jewels, and +(’tis to be thought, sometimes Money and Goods besides,) is +as common as four eggs a penny. And thus they beguile men, +debauch their consciences, sin against their Profession, and +make, ’tis to be feared, their lusts in all this, and the +fulfilling of them, their end. I say, if Mr. Badman was +here to object thus unto you, what would be your reply?</p> +<p>Wise. What! Why I would say, I hope no Good man, +no man of good conscience, no man that either feareth God, +regardeth the credit of Religion, the peace of Gods people, or +the salvation of his own soul, will do thus.</p> +<p>Professors, such perhaps there may be, and who, upon earth can +help it? Jades there be of all colours. <a +name="citation103a"></a><a href="#footnote103a" +class="citation">[103a]</a> If men will profess, and make +their profession a stalking-Horse to beguile their neighbours of +their estates, as Mr. Badman himself did, when he beguiled her +that now is with sorrow his wife, who can help it? The +Churches of old were pestered with such, and therefore no marvel +if these perilous difficult times be so. But mark how the +Apostle words it: Nay do wrong and defraud, and that your +Brethren: Know you not, that the unrighteous shall not inherit +the Kingdom of God? Be not deceived, neither Fornicator, +nor Idolaters, nor Adulterers, nor Effeminate, nor abusers of +themselves with Mankind, nor Thieves, nor Covetous, nor +Drunkards, nor Revilers, nor Extortioners, shall inherit the +Kingdom of God. <a name="citation103b"></a><a +href="#footnote103b" class="citation">[103b]</a></p> +<p>None of these shall be saved in this state, nor shall +profession deliver them from the censure of the Godly, when they +shall be manifest such to be. But their profession we +cannot help: How can we help it, if men should ascribe to +themselves the title of Holy ones, Godly ones, Zealous ones, +Self-denying ones, or any other such glorious title? and while +they thus call themselves, they should be the veryest Rogues for +all evil, sin, and villany imaginable, who could help it? +True, they are a scandal to Religion, a grief to the honest +hearted, an offence to the world, and a stumbling stone to the +weak, and these offences have come, do come, and will come, do +what all the world can; but wo be to them through whom they come; +<a name="citation103c"></a><a href="#footnote103c" +class="citation">[103c]</a> let such professors therefore +disowned by all true Christians, and let them be reckoned among +those base men of the world which by such actions they most +resemble: They are Mr. Badmans Kindred.</p> +<p>For <a name="citation103d"></a><a href="#footnote103d" +class="citation">[103d]</a> they are a shame to Religion, I say +these slithy, rob-Shop, pick-pocket men, they are a shame to +Religion, and religious men should be ashamed of them. God +puts such an one among the Fools of the world, therefore let not +Christians put them among those that are wise for heaven. +As the Partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not, so he +that getteth riches and not by right, shall leave them in the +midst of his dayes, and at his end shall be a fool. <a +name="citation103e"></a><a href="#footnote103e" +class="citation">[103e]</a> And the man under consideration +is one of these, and therefore must look to fall by this +Judgment.</p> +<p>A professor! and practice such villianies as these! such an +one is not worthy to bear that name any longer. We may say +to such as the Prophet spake to their like, to wit, to the +rebellious that were in the house of Israel. Goe ye, serve +every man his Idols:—If ye will not hearken to the Law and +Testament of God, to lead your lives thereafter: but pollute Gods +holy name no more with your Gifts, and with your Idols. <a +name="citation104a"></a><a href="#footnote104a" +class="citation">[104a]</a></p> +<p>Goe professors, Goe; leave off profession, unless you will +lead your lives according to your profession. Better never +profess, than to make profession a stalking-horse to sin, Deceit, +to the Devil, and Hell.</p> +<p>The ground and rules of Religion allow not any such thing: +Receive us, says the Apostle, we have wronged no man, we have +corrupted no man, we have defrauded no man. <a +name="citation104b"></a><a href="#footnote104b" +class="citation">[104b]</a> Intimating, that those that are +guilty of wronging, corrupting or defrauding of any, should not +be admitted to the fellowship of Saints, no nor into the common +catalogue of Brethren with them.</p> +<p>Nor can men with all their Rhetorick, and Eloquent speaking +prove themselves fit for the Kingdom of Heaven, or men of good +conscience on earth. <a name="citation104c"></a><a +href="#footnote104c" class="citation">[104c]</a> O that +godly plea of Samuel: Behold here I am, says he, witness against +me, before the Lord, and before his Anointed, whose Oxe have I +taken, or whose Ass have I taken, or whom have I defrauded, whom +have I oppressed, <a name="citation104d"></a><a +href="#footnote104d" class="citation">[104d]</a> &c? +This was to do like a man of good conscience indeed. And in +this his Appeal, he was so justified in the consciencies of the +whole Congregation, that they could not but with one voice, as +with one mouth, break out joyntly and say, Thou hast not +defrauded us, nor oppressed us. <a name="citation104e"></a><a +href="#footnote104e" class="citation">[104e]</a></p> +<p>A Professor, and defraud, away with him! a Professor should +not owe any man any thing, but love. A professor should +provide things, not of other mens, but of his own, of his own +honest getting, and that not onely in the sight of God, but of +all men; that he may adorn the Doctrine if God our Saviour in all +things.</p> +<p>Atten. But <a name="citation105a"></a><a +href="#footnote105a" class="citation">[105a]</a> suppose God +should blow upon a Professor in his Estate, and Calling, and he +should be run out before he is aware, must he be accounted to be +like Mr. Badman, and lie under the same reproach as he?</p> +<p>Wise. No: <a name="citation105b"></a><a +href="#footnote105b" class="citation">[105b]</a> If he hath +dutifully done what he could to avoid it. It is possible +for a Ship to sink at sea, notwithstanding the most faithfull +endeavour of the most skilful Pilot under Heaven. And thus, +as I suppose, it was with the Prophet that left his wife in debt +to the hazarding the slavery of her children by the Creditors. <a +name="citation105c"></a><a href="#footnote105c" +class="citation">[105c]</a> He was no profuse man, nor one +that was given to defraud, for the Text says he feared God; yet, +as I said, he was run out more than she could pay.</p> +<p>If God would blow upon a man, who can help it? and he will do +so sometimes, <a name="citation105d"></a><a href="#footnote105d" +class="citation">[105d]</a> because he will change dispensations +with men, and because he will trye their Graces. <a +name="citation105e"></a><a href="#footnote105e" +class="citation">[105e]</a> Yea, also because he will +overthrow the wicked with his Judgments; and all these things are +seen in Job. But then the consideration of this, should bid +men have a care that they be honest, lest this comes upon them +for their sin: It should also bid them beware of launching +further into the world, than in an honest way by ordinary means +they can Godlily make their retreat; for the further in, the +greater fall. It should also teach them, to begg of God his +blessing upon their endeavours, their honest and lawfull +endeavours. And it should put them upon a diligent looking +to their steps, that if in their going they should hear the Ice +crack, they may timely goe back again.</p> +<p>These things considered, and duely put in practice, if God +will blow upon a man, then let him be content, and with Job +embrace the dunghill; let him give unto all their dues, and not +fight against the Providence of God, (but humble himself rather +under his mighty hand,) which comes to strip him naked and bare: +for he that doth otherwise, fights against God; and declares that +he is a stranger to that of Paul; I know both how to be abased, +and I know how to abound; every where, in all things, I am +instructed both to be full, and to be hungry, both to abound, and +to suffer need. <a name="citation105f"></a><a +href="#footnote105f" class="citation">[105f]</a></p> +<p>Atten. But Mr. Badman would not, I believe, have put +this difference ’twixt things feigned, and those that fall +of necessity.</p> +<p>Wise. If he will not, God will, Conscience will; and +that not thine own only, but the Consciences of all those that +have seen the way, and that have known the truth of the condition +of such an one.</p> +<p>Atten. Well: Let us at this time leave this matter, and +return again to Mr. Badman.</p> +<p>Wise. With all my heart will I proceed to give you a +relation of what is yet behind of his Life, in order to our +discourse of his Death.</p> +<p>Atten. But pray do it with as much brevity as you +can.</p> +<p>Wise. Why? are you a weary of my relating of things?</p> +<p>Atten. No. But it pleases me to hear a great deal +in few words.</p> +<p>Wise. I profess not my self an artist that way, but yet +as briefly as I can, I will pass through what of his Life is +behind; and again I shall begin with his fraudulent dealing (as +before I have shewed with his Creditors, so now) with his +Customers, and those that he had otherwise to deal withall.</p> +<p>He dealt by deceitfull Weights and Measures. <a +name="citation106"></a><a href="#footnote106" +class="citation">[106]</a> He kept weights to buy by, and +weights to sell by; measures to buy by, and measures to sell by: +those he bought by were too big, those he sold by were too +little.</p> +<p>Besides, he could use a thing called slight of hand, if he had +to do with other mens weights and measures, and by that means +make them whether he did buy or sell, yea though his Customer or +Chapman looked on, turn to his own advantage.</p> +<p>Moreover, he had the art to misreckon men in their Accounts +whether by weight, or measure, or money, and would often do it to +his worldly advantage, and their loss: What say you to Mr. Badman +now?</p> +<p>And if a question was made of his faithfull dealing, he had +his servants ready, that to his purpose he had brought up, that +would avouch and swear to his Book, or word: this was Mr. Badmans +practice; What think you of Mr. Badman now?</p> +<p>Atten. Think! Why I can think no other but that he +was a man left to himself, a naughty man; for these, as his +other, were naughty things; if the tree, as indeed it may, ought +to be judged, what it is by its fruits; then Mr. Badman must +needs be a bad Tree. But pray, for my further satisfaction, +shew me now by the Word of God, evil of this his practice: and +first of his using false Weights and Measures.</p> +<p>Wise. The evil of that! why the evil of that appears to +every eye: the Heathens, that live like Beasts and Bruits in many +things, do abominate and abhorr such wickedness as this. +Let a man but look upon these things as he goes by, and he shall +see enough in them from the light of nature to make him loath so +base a practice; although Mr. Badman loved it.</p> +<p>Atten. But shew me something out of the Word against it, +will you?</p> +<p>Wise. I will willingly do it. And first we will +look into the Old Testament: <a name="citation107a"></a><a +href="#footnote107a" class="citation">[107a]</a> You shall, saith +God there, do no unrighteousness in Judgment, in mete-yard, in +weights or in measures, a just Ballance, a just Weight, a just +Ephah, and a just Hin shall you have. <a +name="citation107b"></a><a href="#footnote107b" +class="citation">[107b]</a> This is the Law of God, and +that which all men according to the Law of the land ought to +obey. So again: Ye shall have just Ballances, and a just +Ephah, &c. <a name="citation107c"></a><a href="#footnote107c" +class="citation">[107c]</a></p> +<p>Now having shewed you the Law, I will also shew you how God +takes swerving therefrom. A false Ballance is not good; a +false Ballance is an abomination to the Lord. <a +name="citation107d"></a><a href="#footnote107d" +class="citation">[107d]</a> Some have just Weights but +false Ballances, and by vertue of those false Ballances, by their +just Weights, they deceive the Countrey: <a +name="citation107e"></a><a href="#footnote107e" +class="citation">[107e]</a> Wherefore, God first of all commands +that the Ballance be made Just: A just Ballance shalt thou +have. Else they may be, yea are, decievers, notwithstanding +their just weights.</p> +<p>Now, having commanded that men have a just Ballance, and +testifying that a false one is an abomination to the Lord, he +proceedeth also unto weight and measure.</p> +<p>Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a +small; <a name="citation107f"></a><a href="#footnote107f" +class="citation">[107f]</a> that is one to buy by, and another to +sell by, as Mr. Badman had. Thou shalt not have in thy +house divers measures, a great and a small, (and these had Mr. +Badman also) but thou shalt have a perfect and a just weight; a +perfect and a just measure shalt thou have, that thy days may be +lengthened in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. +For all that do such things, (that is, that use false Weights and +Measures) and all that do unrighteously are abomination to the +Lord. See now both how plentiful, and how punctual the +Scripture is in this matter. But perhaps it may be +objected, that all this is old Law, and therefore hath nothing to +do with us under the New Testament. (Not that I think you, +neighbour, will object thus:) Well, to this foolish objection, +let us make an Answer. First, he that makes this objection, +if he doth it to overthrow the authority of those Texts, <a +name="citation108a"></a><a href="#footnote108a" +class="citation">[108a]</a> discovereth that himself is first +cousen to Mr. Badman: For a Just man is willing to speak +reverently of those commands. That man therefore hath, I +doubt, but little conscience, if any at all that is good, that +thus objecteth against the Text: but let us look into the New +Testament, and there we shall see how Christ confirmeth the same: +Where he commandeth that men make to others good measure, +including also that they make good weight; telling such that doe +thus, or those that do it not, that they may be encouraged to do +it; Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running +over, shall men give into your bosom; for with the same measure +that ye mete withall, it shall be measured to you again: <a +name="citation108b"></a><a href="#footnote108b" +class="citation">[108b]</a> To wit, both from God and man. +For as God will shew his indignation against the false man, by +taking away even that he hath, so he will deliver up the false +man to the Oppressor, and the Extortioner shall catch from him, +as well as he hath catched from his neighbour; therefore another +Scripture saith, When thou shalt cease to deal treacherously, +they shall deal treacherously with thee. That the New +Testament also, hath an inspection into mens Trading, yea even +with their weights and measures, is evident from these general +exhortations. <a name="citation108c"></a><a href="#footnote108c" +class="citation">[108c]</a> Defraud not; lye not one to +another; let no man goe beyond his brother in any matter, for God +is the avenger of all such: whatsoever you do, do it heartily, as +unto the Lord, doing all in his name, to his glory; and the +like. All these injunctions and commandments do respect our +life and conversation among men, with reference to our dealing, +trading, and so consequently they forbid false, deceitful, yea +all doings that are corrupt.</p> +<p>Having thus in a word or two shewed you, that these things are +bad; I will next, for the conviction of those that use them, shew +you, where God saith they are to be found. <a +name="citation109a"></a><a href="#footnote109a" +class="citation">[109a]</a></p> +<p>1. They are not to be found in the house of the good and +godly man, for he, as his God, abhorrs them; but they are to be +found in the house of evil doers, <a name="citation109b"></a><a +href="#footnote109b" class="citation">[109b]</a> such as Mr. +Badmans is. Are there, saith the Prophet, yet the treasures +of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure +that is abomination? <a name="citation109c"></a><a +href="#footnote109c" class="citation">[109c]</a> Are they +there yet, notwithstanding Gods forbidding, notwithstanding Gods +tokens of anger against those that do such things? O how +loth is a wicked man to let goe a sweet, a gainful sin, when he +hath hold of it! They hold fast deceit, they refuse to let +it goe.</p> +<p>2. These deceitful Weights and Measures are not to be +found in the house of the Mercifull, but in the house of the +Cruel; in the house of them that love to oppress. <a +name="citation109d"></a><a href="#footnote109d" +class="citation">[109d]</a> The Ballances of deceit are in +his hand, he loveth to oppress. <a name="citation109e"></a><a +href="#footnote109e" class="citation">[109e]</a> He is +given to oppression and cruelty, therefore he useth such wicked +things in his calling. Yea he is a very cheat, and as was +hinted before, concerning Mr. Badmans breaking, so I say now, +concerning his using these deceitful weights and measures, it is +as bad, as base, as to take a purse, or pick a pocket; for it is +a plain robbery, it takes away from a man that which is his own, +even the price of his money.</p> +<p>3. The deceitful Weights and Measures are not to be +found in the house of such as relieve the belly, and that cover +the loyns of the poor, but of such as indeed would swallow them +up. <a name="citation109f"></a><a href="#footnote109f" +class="citation">[109f]</a> Hear ye this, ye that swallow +up the needy, and that make the poor of the land to fail, saying, +When will the new Moon be gone that we may sell corn, and the +Sabbath that we may set forth Wheat, making the Ephah small and +the Sheckle great, (making the Measure small, and the Price +great) and falsifying the Ballances by deceit, that ye may buy +the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shooes, and sell +the refuse of the Wheat. The Lord hath sworn by the +excellencie of Jacob, surely I will not forget any of their +works. <a name="citation109g"></a><a href="#footnote109g" +class="citation">[109g]</a> So detestable and vile a thing +is this in the sight of God.</p> +<p>4. God abominates the thoughts of calling of those that +use false weights and measures, by any other term than, that they +be Impure ones <a name="citation110a"></a><a href="#footnote110a" +class="citation">[110a]</a> or the like: Shall I count them pure +(saith he) with the bag of deceitful weights? <a +name="citation110b"></a><a href="#footnote110b" +class="citation">[110b]</a> no by no means, they are impure ones, +their hands are defiled, deceitful gain is in their houses, they +have gotten what they have by coveting an evil Covetousness, and +therefore must and shall be counted among the impure, among the +wicked of the world.</p> +<p>Thus you see how full and plain the Word of God is, against +this sin, and them that use it. And therefore Mr. Badman, +for that he used by these things thus to rook and cheat his +neighbours, is rightly rejected from having his Name in, and +among the catalogue of the godly.</p> +<p>Atten. But I am perswaded, that the using of these +things, and the doing by them thus deceitfully, is not counted so +great an evil by some.</p> +<p>Wise. Whether it be counted an evil or a vertue, by men, +it mattereth not; you see by the Scriptures, the Judgment of God +upon it. It was not counted an evil by Mr. Badman, nor is +it by any that still are treading in his steps. But, I say, +’tis no matter how men esteem of things, let us adhere to +the Judgment of God. And the rather, because when we our +selves have done weighing and measuring to others, then God will +weigh and measure both us and our actions. And when he doth +so, as he will do shortly, then wo be to him to whom, and of +whose actions it shall be thus said by him: Tekel, Thou art +weighed in the Ballances, and art found wanting. <a +name="citation110c"></a><a href="#footnote110c" +class="citation">[110c]</a> God will then recompense their +evil of deceiving upon their own head, when he shall shut them +out of his presence, favour, and kingdom, for ever and ever.</p> +<p>Atten. But ’tis a wonder, that since Mr. Badmans +common practice was to do thus, that some one or more did not +find him out, and blame him for this his wickedness.</p> +<p>Wise. For the generality of people, he went away clever +with his Knavery. For what with his Ballance, his false +Ballance, and good weight, and what with his slight of hand to +boot, he beguiled, sometimes a little, and sometimes more, most +that he had to deal with: Besides, those that use this naughty +trade, are either such as blind men with a shew of Religion, or +by hectoring the buyer out by words. I must confess Mr. +Badman was not so arch at the first; <a +name="citation111a"></a><a href="#footnote111a" +class="citation">[111a]</a> that is, to do it by shew of +Religion; for now he began to grow threadbare, (though some of +his brethren are arch enough this way, yea and of his sisters +too, for I told you at first that there was a great many of them, +and of them good:) but for hectoring, for swearing, for lying, if +these things would make weight and measure, they should not be +wanting to Mr. Badmans Customers.</p> +<p>Atten. Then it seems he kept good Weights, and a bad +Ballance; well that was better than that both should be bad.</p> +<p>Wise. Not at all. There lay the depth of his +deceit: <a name="citation111b"></a><a href="#footnote111b" +class="citation">[111b]</a> For if any at any time found fault, +that he used them hardly, and that they wanted their weight of +things; he would reply: Why did you not see them weighed? will +you not believe your own eyes: If you question my weights, pray +carry them whether you will, I will maintain them to be good and +just. The same he would say of his scales. So he +blinded all, by his Ballance.</p> +<p>Atten. This is cunning indeed: but as you say, there +must be also something done or said, to blind therewith, and this +I perceive Mr. Badman had.</p> +<p>Wise. Yes. He had many ways to blind, but he was +never clever at it, by making a shew of Religion, (though he +cheated his wife therewith:) for he was, especially by those that +dwelt near him, too well known to do that, though he would bungle +at it as well as he could. But there are some that are arch +villains this way; they shall to view live a whole life +Religiously, and yet shall be guilty of these most horrible sins: +And yet Religion in it self is never the worse, nor yet the true +professors of it. But as Luther says, In the name of God +begins all mischief. For Hypocrites have no other way to +bring their evils to maturity, but by using and mixing the Name +of God and Religion therewith. <a name="citation112b"></a><a +href="#footnote112b" class="citation">[112b]</a> Thus they +become whited Walls; <a name="citation112a"></a><a +href="#footnote112a" class="citation">[112a]</a> for by this +white, the white of Religion, the dirt of their actions is +hid. Thus also they become graves that appear not, and they +that goe over them, (that have to do with them) are not aware of +them, but suffer themselves to be deluded by them. Yea, if +there shall, as there will sometimes, rise a doubt in the heart +of the buyer about the weight and measure he should have, why, he +suffereth his very sences to be also deluded, by recalling of his +Chapmans Religion to mind, and thinks verily that not his good +chapman but himself is out; for he dreams not that his chapman +can deceive. But if the buyer shall find it out, and shall +make it apparent, that he is beguiled; then shall he be healed by +having amends made, and perhaps fault shall be laid upon +servants, &c. and so Master Cheat shall stand for a right +honest man in the eye of his Customer, though the next time he +shall pick his pocket again.</p> +<p>Some <a name="citation112c"></a><a href="#footnote112c" +class="citation">[112c]</a> plead Custom for their Cheat, as if +that could acquit them before the Tribunal of God: And others +say, it came to them for so much, and therefore another must take +it for so much, though there is wanting both as to weight and +measure: but in all these things there are Juggles; or if not, +such must know, <a name="citation112d"></a><a +href="#footnote112d" class="citation">[112d]</a> That that which +is altogether just, they must doe. Suppose that I be +cheated my self with a brass half-Crown, must I therefore cheat +another therewith? if this be bad in the whole, it is also bad in +the parts. Therefore however thou are dealt withall in thy +buying, yet thou must deal justly in selling, or thou sinnest +against thy soul, and art become as Mr. Badman. And know, +that a pretence to custom is nothing worth. ’Tis not +custom, but good conscience that will help at Gods Tribunal.</p> +<p>Atten. But I am perswaded, that that which is gotten by +men this way, doth them but little good.</p> +<p>Wise. I am of your mind for that, but this is not +considered by those thus minded. For if they can get it, +though they get, as we say, the Devil and all, by their getting, +yet they are content, and count that their getting is much.</p> +<p>Little good! Why do you think they consider that? +No: no more than they consider what they shall doe in the +Judgment, at the day of God Almighty, for their wrong getting of +what they get, and that is just nothing at all. <a +name="citation113a"></a><a href="#footnote113a" +class="citation">[113a]</a></p> +<p>But to give you a more direct answer. This kind of +getting, is so far off from doing them little good, that it doth +them no good at all; because thereby they lose their own souls; +What shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world, and +lose his own soul? <a name="citation113b"></a><a +href="#footnote113b" class="citation">[113b]</a> He loseth +then, he loseth greatly that getteth after this fashion. +This is the man that is penny-wise, and pound-foolish; this is he +that loseth his good Sheep for a halfpennyworth of tarr; that +loseth a soul for a little of the world. And then what doth +he get thereby, but loss and dammage? <a +name="citation113c"></a><a href="#footnote113c" +class="citation">[113c]</a> Thus he getteth, or rather +loseth about the world to come: But what doth he get in this +world, more than travel and sorrow vexation of spirit, and +disappointment? Men aim at blessedness in getting, I mean, +at temporal blessedness; but the man that thus getteth, shall not +have that. For though an Inheritance after this manner may +be hastily gotten at the beginning, yet the end thereof shall not +be blessed. They gather it indeed, and think to keep it +too, but what says Solomon? God casteth it away. The +Lord will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish, but he +casteth away the substance of the wicked.</p> +<p>The time, as I said, that they do enjoy it, it shall doe them +no good at all; but long to be sure they must not have it. +For God will either take it away in their life time, or else in +the generation following, according to that of Job: He, the +wicked, may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the +innocent shall divide the silver. <a name="citation113d"></a><a +href="#footnote113d" class="citation">[113d]</a></p> +<p>Consider that also that is written in the Proverbs: A good man +leaveth an Inheritance to his childrens children, and the wealth +of the sinner is laid up for the just. <a +name="citation113e"></a><a href="#footnote113e" +class="citation">[113e]</a> What then doth he get thereby, +that getteth by dishonest means? why he getteth Sin and Wrath, +Hell and Damnation: and now tell me how much he doth get.</p> +<p>This, I say, is his getting; so that as David says, we may be +bold to say too: I beheld the wicked in great prosperity, and +presently I cursed his habitation: for it cannot prosper with +him. Fluster and huff, and make a doe for a while he may, +but God hath determined that both he and it shall melt like +grease, and any observing man may see it so. Behold, the +unrighteous man in a way of Injustice getteth much, and loadeth +himself with thick Clay, but anon it withereth, it decayeth, and +even he, or the Generation following decline, and return to +beggery.</p> +<p>And this Mr. Badman, notwithstanding his cunning and crafty +tricks to get money, did dye, no body can tell whether worth a +farthing or no.</p> +<p>Atten. He had all the bad tricks, I think, that it was +possible for a man to have, to get money; one would think that he +should a been rich.</p> +<p>Wise. You reckon too fast, if you count these all his +bad tricks to get money: For he had more besides. <a +name="citation114a"></a><a href="#footnote114a" +class="citation">[114a]</a></p> +<p>If his customers were in his Books (as it should goe hard but +he would have them there; at least, if he thought he could make +any advantage of them,) then, then would he be sure to impose +upon them his worst, even very bad Comodity, yet set down for it +the price that the best was sold at: like those that sold the +Refuse Wheat, or the worst of the wheat; making the Sheckle +great, <a name="citation114b"></a><a href="#footnote114b" +class="citation">[114b]</a> yet hoisting up the price: This was +Mr. Badmans way. He <a name="citation114c"></a><a +href="#footnote114c" class="citation">[114c]</a> would sell goods +that cost him not the best price by far, for as much as he sold +the best of all for. He had also a trick to mingle his +comodity, that that which was bad might goe off with the less +mistrust.</p> +<p>Besides, if his customers at any time paid him money, let them +look to themselves, and to their Acquitances, for he would +usually attempt to call for that payment again, specially if he +thought that there was hopes of making a prize thereby, and then +to be sure if they could not produce good and sufficient ground +of the payment, a hundred to one but they payed it again. +Sometimes the honest Chapman would appeal to his servants for +proof of the payment of money, but they were trained up by him to +say after his mind, right or wrong: so that, relief that way, he +could get none.</p> +<p>Atten. It is a bad, yea an abominable thing for a man to +have such servants. For by such means a poor customer may +be undone and not know how to help himself. Alas! if the +master be so unconscionable, as I perceive Mr. Badman was, to +call for his money twice, and if his servant will swear that it +is a due debt, where is any help for such a man? he must sink, +there is no remedy.</p> +<p>Wise. This is very bad, but this has been a practice, +and that hundreds of years agoe. But what saith the Word of +God? I will punish all those that leap upon the threshold, +which fill their masters houses with violence and deceit. <a +name="citation115a"></a><a href="#footnote115a" +class="citation">[115a]</a> <a name="citation115b"></a><a +href="#footnote115b" class="citation">[115b]</a></p> +<p>Mr. Badman also had this art; could he get a man at advantage, +that is, if his chapman durst not go from him, or if the comodity +he wanted could not for the present be conveniently had +elsewhere; Then let him look to himself, he would surely make his +purse-strings crack; he would exact upon him without any pity or +conscience.</p> +<p>Atten. That was Extortion, was it not? I pray let +me hear your Judgment of Extortion, what it is, and when +committed?</p> +<p>Wise. Extortion <a name="citation115c"></a><a +href="#footnote115c" class="citation">[115c]</a> is a screwing +from men more than by the Law of God or men is right; and it is +committed sometimes by them in Office, about Fees, Rewards, and +the like: but ’tis most commonly committed by men of Trade, +who without all conscience, when they have the advantage, will +make a prey of their neighbour. And thus was Mr. Badman an +Extortioner; for although he did not exact, and force away, as +Bailifs and Clarks have used to doe; yet he had his +opportunities, and such cruelty to make use of them, that he +would often, in his way, be Extorting, and forcing of money out +of his Neighbours pocket. For every man that makes a prey +of his advantage upon his neighbours necessities, to force from +him more than in reason and conscience, according to the present +prizes of things such comodity is worth; may very well be called +an Extortioner, and Judged for one that hath No inheritance in +the Kingdom of God. <a name="citation115d"></a><a +href="#footnote115d" class="citation">[115d]</a></p> +<p>Atten. Well, this Badman was a sad wretch.</p> +<p>Wise. Thus you have often said before. But now we +are in discourse of this, give me leave a little to goe on. +We have a great many people in the Countrey too that live all +their dayes in the practice, and so under the guilt of Extortion: +people, alas! that think scorn to be so accounted.</p> +<p>As for Example: <a name="citation116a"></a><a +href="#footnote116a" class="citation">[116a]</a> There is a poor +body that dwells, we will suppose, so many miles from the Market; +and this man wants a Bushel of Grist, a pound of Butter, or a +Cheese for himself, his wife and poor children: But dwelling so +far from the Market, if he goes thither, he shall lose his dayes +work, which will be eight pence or ten pence dammage to him, and +that is something to a poor man. So he goeth to one of his +Masters or Dames for what he wanteth, and asks them to help him +with such a thing: Yes, say they, you may have it; but withall +they will give him a gripe, perhaps make him pay as much (or +more) for it at home, as they can get when they have carryed it +five miles to a Market, yea and that too for the Refuse of their +Commodity. But in this the Women are especially faulty, in +the sale of their Butter and Cheese, &c. Now this is a +kind of Extortion, it is a making a prey of the necessity of the +poor, it is a grinding of their faces, a buying and selling of +them.</p> +<p>But above all, your <a name="citation116b"></a><a +href="#footnote116b" class="citation">[116b]</a> Hucksters, that +buy up the poor mans Victuals by whole-sale, and sell it to him +again for unreasonable gains, by retale, and as we call it, by +piece meal; they are got into a way, after a stingeing rate, to +play their game upon such by Extortion: I mean such who buy up +Butter, Cheese, Eggs, Bacon, &c. by whole sale, and sell it +again (as they call it) by penny worths, two penny worths, a half +penny worth, or the like, to the poor, all the week after the +market is past.</p> +<p>These, though I will not condemn them all, do, many of them, +bite and pinch the poor by this kind of evil dealing. These +destroy the poor because he is poor, and that is a grievous +sin. He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, +and that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want. <a +name="citation116c"></a><a href="#footnote116c" +class="citation">[116c]</a> Therefore he saith again, Rob +not the poor because he is poor, neither oppress the afflicted in +the gate; for the Lord will plead their cause, and spoil the soul +of them that spoile them.</p> +<p>Oh that he that gripeth and grindeth the face of the poor, +would take notice of these two Scriptures! Here is +threatned the destruction of the Estate, yea and of the Soul too, +of them that oppress the poor. Their Soul we shall better +see where, and in what condition that is in, when the day of Doom +is come; but for the Estates of such, they usually quickly +moulter; and that sometimes all men, and sometimes no man knows +how.</p> +<p>Besides, these are Usurers, yea they take usury for victuals, +which thing the Lord has forbidden. <a name="citation117a"></a><a +href="#footnote117a" class="citation">[117a]</a> And +because they cannot so well do it on the Market-day, therefore +they do it, as I said, when the market is over; for then the poor +falls into their mouths, and are necessitated to have, as they +can, for their need, and they are resolved they shall pay soundly +for it. Perhaps some will find fault for my medling thus +with other folks matters, and for my thus prying into the secrets +of their iniquity. But to such I would say, since such +actions are evil, ’tis time they were hissed out of the +world. For all that doe such things, offend against God, +wrong their neighbour, and like Mr. Badman doe provoke God to +Judgment. God knows, there is abundance of deceit in the +world!</p> +<p>Wise. Deceit! Aie, but I have not told you the +thousandth part of it; nor is it my business now to rake to the +bottom of that dunghill: what would you say, if I should +anatomize some of those vile wretches called Pawn-Brokers, that +lend Money and Goods to poor people, who are by necessity forced +to such an inconvenience; and will make, by one trick or other, +the Interest of what they so lend, amount to thirty, forty, yea +sometimes fifty pound by the year; nothwithstanding the Principal +is secured by a sufficient pawn; which they will keep too at +last, if they can find any shift to cheat the wretched +borrower.</p> +<p>Atten. Say! Why such Miscreants are the pest and +Vermin of the Common-Wealth, not fit for the society of men; but +methinks by some of those things you Discoursed before, you seem +to import that it is not lawful for a man to make the best of his +own.</p> +<p>Wise. If by making the best, you mean, to sell for as +much as by hook or crook he can get for his comodity; then I say, +it is not lawful. And if I should say the contrary, I +should justifie Mr. Badman and all the rest of that Gang: but +that I never shall doe, for the Word of God condemns them. +But that it is not lawful for a man at all times, to sell his +commodity for as much as he can, I prove by these reasons. <a +name="citation118a"></a><a href="#footnote118a" +class="citation">[118a]</a></p> +<p>First, If it be lawful for me alway to sell my commodity as +dear, or for as much as I can, then ’tis lawful for me to +lay aside in my dealing with others, good conscience, to them, +and to God: but it is not lawful for me, in my dealing with +others, to lay aside good conscience, &c. Therefore it +is not lawful for me always to sell my commodity as dear, or for +as much as I can.</p> +<p>That <a name="citation118b"></a><a href="#footnote118b" +class="citation">[118b]</a> it is not lawful to lay aside good +conscience in our dealings, has already been proved in the former +part of our discourse: but that a man must lay it aside that will +sell his commodity always as dear or for as much as he can, is +plainly manifest thus.</p> +<p>1. He that will (as is mentioned afore) sell his +commodity as dear as he can, must sometimes make a prey of the +ignorance of his chapman: <a name="citation118c"></a><a +href="#footnote118c" class="citation">[118c]</a> but that he +cannot doe with a good conscience (for that is to overreach, and +to goe beyond my chapman, and is forbidden, 1 Thess. 4. 6.) +Therefore he that will sell his commodity, as afore, as dear, or +for as much as he can, must of necessity lay aside good +conscience.</p> +<p>2. He that will sell his commodity always as dear as he +can, must needs, sometimes make a prey of his neighbours +necessity; <a name="citation118d"></a><a href="#footnote118d" +class="citation">[118d]</a> but that he cannot doe with a good +conscience, (for that is to goe beyond and defraud his neighbour, +contrary to 1 Thess. 4. 6.) Therefore he that will sell his +commodity, as afore, as dear, or for as much as he can, must +needs cast off and lay aside a good conscience.</p> +<p>3. He that will (as afore) sell his commodity as dear, +or for as much as he can, must, if need be, make a prey of his +neighbours fondness; but that a man cannot doe with a good +conscience, <a name="citation119a"></a><a href="#footnote119a" +class="citation">[119a]</a> (for that is still a going beyond +him, contrary to 1 Thess. 4. 6.) Therefore, he that will +sell his commodity as dear, or for as much as he can, must needs +cast off, and lay aside good conscience.</p> +<p>The same also may be said for buying; no man may always buy as +cheap as he can, but must also use good conscience in buying; <a +name="citation119b"></a><a href="#footnote119b" +class="citation">[119b]</a> The which he can by no means use and +keep, if he buyes always as cheap as he can, and that for the +reasons urged before. For such will make a prey of the +ignorance, necessity, and fondness of their chapman, the which +they cannot doe with a good consceince.</p> +<p>When Abraham would buy a Burying-place of the Sons of Heth, +thus he said unto them. Intreat for me to Ephron the son of +Zohar, that he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he hath, +in the end his field. For as much as it is worth shall he +give it me. Gen. 23. 8, 9. <a name="citation119c"></a><a +href="#footnote119c" class="citation">[119c]</a> He would +not have it under foot, he scorned it, he abhored it: It stood +not with his Religion, Credit, nor Conscience. So also when +David, would buy a field of Ornon the Jebusite: Thus he said unto +him: Grant me the place the threshing-floor, that I may build an +Altar there unto the Lord. Thou shalt give it me for the +full price. <a name="citation119d"></a><a href="#footnote119d" +class="citation">[119d]</a> He also, as Abraham, made +conscience of this kind of dealing: he would not lie at catch to +go beyond, no not the Jebusite, but will give him his full price +for his field. For he knew that there was wickedness, as in +selling too dear so in buying too cheap, therefore he would not +do it.</p> +<p>There ought therefore to be good conscience used, as in +selling, so in buying; for ’tis also unlawful for a man to +goe beyond or to defraud his neighbour in buying; yea ’tis +unlawful to doe it in any matter, and God will plentifully avenge +that wrong: as I also before have forewarned and testified. +See also the <a name="citation119e"></a><a href="#footnote119e" +class="citation">[119e]</a> text in the margent. But,</p> +<p>Secondly, if it be lawful for me always to sell my commodity +as dear, or for as much as I can, then it is lawful for me to +deal with my neighbour without the use of <a +name="citation120a"></a><a href="#footnote120a" +class="citation">[120a]</a> charity: but it is not lawful for me +to lay aside, or to deal with my neighbour without the use of +charity, therefore it is not lawful for me always to sell my +commodity to my neighbour for as much as I can. A man in +dealing should as really design his Neighbours good, profit, and +advantage, as his own: For this is to exercise Charity in his +dealing.</p> +<p>That I should thus use, or exercise charity towards my +Neighbour in my buying and selling, &c. with him, is evident +from the general command: [Let all your things be done in +charity:] <a name="citation120b"></a><a href="#footnote120b" +class="citation">[120b]</a> But that a man cannot live in +the exercise of charity, that selleth, as afore, as dear, or that +buyeth as cheap as he can, is evident by these reasons.</p> +<p>1. He that sells his commodity as dear, or for as much +money (always) as he can, seeks himself, and himself only; (but +charity seeketh not her own, nor her own only <a +name="citation120c"></a><a href="#footnote120c" +class="citation">[120c]</a>:) So then, he that seeks +himself, and himself onely, as he that sells (as afore) as dear +as he can, does; maketh not use of, nor doth he exercise charity, +in his so dealing.</p> +<p>2. He that selleth his commodity (always) for as much as +he can get, hardeneth his heart against all reasonable entreaties +of the buyer. But he that doth so, cannot exercise charity +in his dealing; therefore it is not lawful for a man to sell his +commodity, as afore, as dear as he can.</p> +<p>Thirdly, If it be lawful for me to sell my commodity, as +afore, as dear as I can, then there can be no sin in my Trading, +how unreasonably soever I manage my calling, whether by Lying, +Swearing, Cursing, Cheating; for all this is but to sell my +commodity as dear as I can: but that there is sin in these, is +evident, therefore I may not sell my commodity always as dear as +I can. <a name="citation120d"></a><a href="#footnote120d" +class="citation">[120d]</a> <a name="citation120e"></a><a +href="#footnote120e" class="citation">[120e]</a></p> +<p>Fourthly, He that sells, as afore, as dear as he can, offereth +violence to the law of Nature: <a name="citation121b"></a><a +href="#footnote121b" class="citation">[121b]</a> for that saith, +Doe unto all men, even as ye would that they should doe unto you. +<a name="citation121a"></a><a href="#footnote121a" +class="citation">[121a]</a> Now, was the Seller a Buyer, he +would not that he of whom he buyes, should sell him always as +dear as he can; therefore he should not sell so himself, when it +is his lot to sell, and others to buy of him.</p> +<p>Fifthly, He that selleth, as afore, as dear as he can, makes +use of that instruction, that God hath not given to others, but +sealed up in his hand, <a name="citation121c"></a><a +href="#footnote121c" class="citation">[121c]</a> to abuse his +Law, and to wrong his neighbour withall: which indeed is contrary +to God. <a name="citation121d"></a><a href="#footnote121d" +class="citation">[121d]</a> God hath given thee more skill, +more knowledge and understanding in thy commodity than he hath +given to him that would buy of thee. But what! canst thou +think, that God has given thee this, that thou mightest thereby +make a prey of thy neighbour? that thou mightest thereby goe +beyond and beguile thy neighbour? No, verily; but he hath +given thee it, for his help; that thou mightest in this, be eyes +to the blind, and save thy neighbour from that dammage, that his +ignorance, or necessity, or fondness would betray him into the +hands of.</p> +<p>Sixthly, In all that a man does, he should have an eye to the +glory of God, <a name="citation121e"></a><a href="#footnote121e" +class="citation">[121e]</a> but that he cannot have that sells +his commodity always for as much as he can, for the reasons urged +before.</p> +<p>Seventhly, All that a man does, he should doe in the Name of +the Lord Jesus Christ; <a name="citation121f"></a><a +href="#footnote121f" class="citation">[121f]</a> that is, as +being commanded, and authorized to doe it by him: but he that +selleth always as dear as he can, cannot so much as pretend to +this, without horrid blaspheming of that Name, because commanded +by him to doe otherwise.</p> +<p>Eightly, and lastly, In all that a man does, he should have an +eye to the day of Judgment, and to the consideration of how his +actions will be esteemed of in that day. <a +name="citation121g"></a><a href="#footnote121g" +class="citation">[121g]</a> Therefore there is not any man +can or ought to sell always as dear as he can: unless he will, +yea he must say, in so doing, I will run the hazard of the tryal +of that day, If thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest +ought of thy neighbour, ye shall not oppress one another. <a +name="citation122a"></a><a href="#footnote122a" +class="citation">[122a]</a></p> +<p>Atten. But why doe you put in those cautionary +words? They must not sell [always] as dear, nor buy +[always] as cheap as they can: doe you not thereby intimate that +a man may sometimes do so?</p> +<p>Wise. I doe indeed intimate that somtimes the seller may +sell as dear, and the buyer buy as cheap as he can; but this is +allowable only in these cases: When he that sells is a Knave, and +lays aside all good conscience in selling; or when the buyer is a +Knave, and layes aside all good conscience in buying. If +the buyer therefore lights of a Knave, or if the seller lights of +a Knave, then let them look to themselves: but yet so, as not to +lay aside conscience, because he that thou dearest with doth so: +but how vile or base soever the chapman is, do thou keep thy +commodity at a reasonable price: or if thou buyest, offer +reasonable gain for the thing thou wouldest have: and if this +will not do with the buyer or seller, then seek thee a more +honest chapman: If thou objectest, But I have not skil to know +when a pennyworth is before me: Get some that have more skill +than thy self in that affair, and let them in that matter dispose +of thy money. But if there were no Knaves in the world, +these objections need not be made.</p> +<p>And thus, my very good neighbour, have I given you a few of my +reasons, why a man that hath it, should not always sell too dear, +nor buy as cheap as he can: but should use good Conscience to +God, and Charity to his Neighbour in both.</p> +<p>Atten. But were some men here, to hear you, I believe +they would laugh you to scorn.</p> +<p>Wise. I question not that at all, for so, <a +name="citation122b"></a><a href="#footnote122b" +class="citation">[122b]</a> Mr. Badman used to doe, when any man +told him of his faults: he used to think himself wiser than any, +and would count, as I have hinted before, that he was not arrived +to a manly spirit that did stick or boggle at any +wickedness. But let Mr. Badman and his fellowes laugh, I +will bear it, and still give them good counsel. But I will +remember also, for my further relief and comfort, that thus they +that were covetous of old, served the Son of God himself. +It is their time to laugh now, that they may mourn in time to +come. <a name="citation122c"></a><a href="#footnote122c" +class="citation">[122c]</a> And, I say again, when they +have laughed out their laugh; He that useth not good conscience +to God, and charity to his neighbour, in buying and selling, +dwells next dore to an Infidel, and is near of kin to Mr. +Badman.</p> +<p>Atten. Well, but what will you say to this question? <a +name="citation123a"></a><a href="#footnote123a" +class="citation">[123a]</a> (you know that there is no settled +price set by God upon any Commodity that is bought or sold under +the Sun; but all things that we buy and sell, do ebbe and flow, +as to price, like the Tide:) How (then) shall a man of a +tender conscience doe, neither to wrong the seller, buyer, nor +himself, in buying and selling of commodities?</p> +<p>Wise. This Question is thought to be frivolous by all +that are of Mr. Badmans way; ’tis also difficult in it +self: yet I will endeavour to shape you an Answer, <a +name="citation123b"></a><a href="#footnote123b" +class="citation">[123b]</a> and that first to the matter of the +question; to wit, How a Tradesman should, in Trading, keep a good +conscience; (A buyer or seller either.) Secondly, How he +should prepare himself to this work, and live in the practice of +it.</p> +<p>For the first: He <a name="citation123c"></a><a +href="#footnote123c" class="citation">[123c]</a> must observe +what hath been said before, to wit, he must have conscience to +God, charity to his neighbour; and I will add, much moderation in +dealing. Let him therefore keep within the bounds of the +affirmative of those eight reasons that before were urged to +prove, that men ought not in their Dealing, but to do Justly and +mercifully ’twixt man and man; and then there will be no +great fear of wronging the seller, buyer, or himself.</p> +<p>But particularly to prepare, or instruct a man to this +work:</p> +<p>1. Let the Tradesman or others consider, that there is +not that in great Gettings, and in abundance, which the most of +men do suppose: For all that a man has over and above what serves +for his present necessity and supply, serves only to feed the +lusts of the eye. For what good is there to the owners +thereof, save the beholding of them with their eyes? <a +name="citation123d"></a><a href="#footnote123d" +class="citation">[123d]</a> Men also, many times, in +getting of riches, get therewith a snare to their soul: <a +name="citation123e"></a><a href="#footnote123e" +class="citation">[123e]</a> But few get good by getting of +them. But this consideration, Mr. Badman could not +abide.</p> +<p>2. Consider, that the getting of wealth dishonestly (as +he does, that getteth it without good conscience and charity to +his neighbour,) is a great offender against God. Hence he +says, I have smitten mine hands at thy dishonest gain, which thou +hast made. <a name="citation124a"></a><a href="#footnote124a" +class="citation">[124a]</a> It is a manner of speech that +shews anger in the very making of mention of the Crime. +Therefore,</p> +<p>3. Consider, that a little honestly gotten, though it +may yield thee but a dinner of herbs at a time, will yield more +peace therewith, than will a stalled Ox, ill gotten. Better +is a little with righteousness, than great revenues without +right. <a name="citation124b"></a><a href="#footnote124b" +class="citation">[124b]</a></p> +<p>4. Be thou confident, that Gods eyes are upon all thy +wayes, and that he pondereth all thy goings, and also that he +marks them, writes them down, and seals them up in a bag, against +the time to come. <a name="citation124c"></a><a +href="#footnote124c" class="citation">[124c]</a></p> +<p>5. Be thou sure that thou remembrest, that thou knowest +not the day of thy death. Remember also, that when death +comes, God will give thy substance, for the which thou hast +laboured, and for the which perhaps thou hast hazarded thy soul, +to one, thou knowest not who, nor whether he shall be a wise man +or a fool. And then, what profit hath he that laboureth for +the wind? <a name="citation124d"></a><a href="#footnote124d" +class="citation">[124d]</a></p> +<p>Besides, thou shalt have nothing that thou mayest so much as +carry away in thine hand. Guilt shall goe with thee, if +thou hast got it dishonestly, and they also to whom thou shalt +leave it, shall receive it to their hurt.</p> +<p>These things duly considered, and made use of by thee to the +preparing of thy heart to thy calling of buying or selling; I +come in the next place to shew thee how thou shouldest live in +the practick part of this art. Art thou to buy or sell?</p> +<p>1. If thou sellest, do not commend; if thou buyest, do +not dispraise, any otherwise, but to give the thing that thou +hast to do with, its just value and worth; for thou canst not do +otherwise knowingly, but of a covetous and wicked mind. +Wherefore else are comodities over-valued by the Seller, and also +under-valued by the Buyer. It is naught, it is naught, says +the buyer, but when he hath got his bargain he boasteth thereof. +<a name="citation124e"></a><a href="#footnote124e" +class="citation">[124e]</a> What hath this man done now but +lyed in the dispraising of his bargain? and why did he dispraise +it, but of a covetous mind, to wrong and beguile the seller?</p> +<p>2. Art thou a seller, and do things grow dear? set not +thy hand to help, or hold them up higher; this cannot be done +without wickedness neither; for this is a making of the sheckle +great: <a name="citation125a"></a><a href="#footnote125a" +class="citation">[125a]</a> Art thou a buyer, and do things grow +dear? use no cunning or deceitful language to pull them down: for +that cannot be done but wickedly too. What then shall we +do? will you say. Why I answer: Leave things to the +providence of God, and do thou with moderation submit to his +hand. But since, when they are growing dear, the hand that +upholds the price, is, for the time, more strong than that which +would pull it down; That being the hand of the seller, who loveth +to have it dear, specially if it shall rise in his hand: +therefore I say, do thou take heed, and have not a hand in +it. The which thou mayest have to thine own and thy +neighbours hurt, these three ways:</p> +<p>1. By crying out scarcity, scarcity, beyond the truth +and state of things: especially take heed of doing of this by way +of a prognostick for time to come. ’Twas for <a +name="citation125b"></a><a href="#footnote125b" +class="citation">[125b]</a> this for which he was trodden to +death in the gate of Samaria, that you read of in the book of +Kings. This sin has a double evil in it. 1. It +belieth the present blessing of God amongst us: and, 2. It +undervalueth the riches of his goodness, which can make all good +things to abound towards us.</p> +<p>2. This wicked thing may be done by hoarding up, when +the hunger and Necessity of the poor calls for it. Now that +God may shew his dislike against this, he doth, as it were, +license the people to curse such an hoarder up. He that +withholdeth corn, the people shall curse him, but blessing shall +be upon the head of him that selleth it. <a +name="citation125c"></a><a href="#footnote125c" +class="citation">[125c]</a></p> +<p>3. But if things will rise, do thou be grieved; Be also +moderate in all thy sellings, and be sure let the poor have a +pennyworth, and sell thy Corn to those in necessity: <a +name="citation125d"></a><a href="#footnote125d" +class="citation">[125d]</a> Which then thou wilt do, when thou +shewest mercy to the poor in thy selling to him, and when thou +for his sake, because he is poor, undersellest the market. +This is to buy and sell with good conscience: thy buyer thou +wrongest not, thy Conscience thou wrongest not, thy self thou +wrongest not, for God will surely recompense thee.</p> +<p>I have spoken concerning Corn, but thy duty is, to let thy +moderation in all things be known unto all men, the Lord is at +hand. <a name="citation125e"></a><a href="#footnote125e" +class="citation">[125e]</a></p> +<p>Atten. Well, Sir, now I have heard enough of Mr. Badmans +naughtiness, pray now proceed to his Death.</p> +<p>Wise. Why Sir, the Sun is not so low, we have yet three +hours to night.</p> +<p>Atten. Nay; I am not in any great hast, but I thought +you had even now done with his Life.</p> +<p>Wise. Done! no, I have yet much more to say.</p> +<p>Atten. Then he has much more wickedness than I thought +he had.</p> +<p>Wise. That may be. But let us proceed: This Mr. +Badman, added to all his wickedness this, He was a very proud +man, a Very proud man. <a name="citation126a"></a><a +href="#footnote126a" class="citation">[126a]</a> He was +exceeding proud and haughty in mind; He looked, that what he +said, ought not, must not be contradicted or opposed. He +counted himself as wise as the wisest in the Countrey, as good as +the best, and as beautiful as he that had most of it. He +took great delight in praising of himself, and as much in the +praises that others gave him. He could not abide that any +should think themselves above him, or that their wit or personage +should by others be set before his. <a name="citation126b"></a><a +href="#footnote126b" class="citation">[126b]</a> He had +scarce a fellowly carriage for his equals. But for those +that were of an inferior ranck, he would look over them in great +contempt. And if at any time he had any remote occasion of +having to do with them, he would shew great height, and a very +domineering spirit. So that in this it may be said that +Solomon gave a characteristical note of him, when he said: Proud +and haughty scorner is his name, who dealeth in proud wrath. <a +name="citation126c"></a><a href="#footnote126c" +class="citation">[126c]</a> He never thought his Dyet well +enough dressed, his Cloathes fine enough made, or his Praise +enough refined.</p> +<p>Atten. This Pride, is a sin that sticks as close to +nature I think, as most sins. There is Uncleanness and +Pride, I know not of any two gross sins that stick closer to men +then they. They have, as I may call it, an interest in +Nature; it likes them because they most suit its lusts and +fancies: and therefore no marvel though Mr. Badman was tainted +with pride, since he had so wickedly given up himself to work all +iniquity with greediness.</p> +<p>Wise. You say right; Pride, is a sin that sticks close +to Nature, <a name="citation126d"></a><a href="#footnote126d" +class="citation">[126d]</a> and is one of the first follies +wherein it shews it self to be polluted. For even in +Childhood, even in little children, Pride will first of all shew +it self; it is a hasty, an early appearance of the sin of the +soul. It, as I may say, is that corruption that strives for +predominancy in the heart, and therefore usually comes out +first. But though children are so incident to it, yet +methinks those of more years, should be ashamed thereof. I +might at the first have begun with Mr. Badmans Pride, only I +think it is not the Pride in Infancy, that begins to make a +difference betwixt one and another, as did, and do those +wherewith I began my relation of his life: therefore I passed it +over, but now, since he had no more consideration of himself, and +of his vile and sinful state, but to be proud when come to years; +I have taken the occasion in this place to make mention of his +pride.</p> +<p>Atten. But pray, if you can remember them, tell me of +some places of Scripture that speak against pride. I the +rather desire this, because that pride is now a reigning sin, and +I happen sometimes to fall into the company of them that in my +conscience are proud, very much, and I have a mind also to tell +them of their sin; now when I tell them of it, unless I bring +Gods word too, I doubt they will laugh me to scorn.</p> +<p>Wise. Laugh you to scorn! the Proud man will laugh you +to scorn, bring to him what Text you can, except God shall smite +him in his conscience by the Word: Mr. Badman did use to serve +them so that did use to tell him of his: and besides, when you +have said what you can, they will tell you they are not proud, +and that you are rather the proud man, else you would not judge, +nor so malapertly meddle with other mens matters as you do. +Nevertheless, since you desire it, I will mention two or three +texts: They are these. Pride and arrogancy do I hate. +A mans pride shall bring him low. And he shall bring down +their pride. And all the proud, and all that do wickedly +shall be as stubble, and the day that comes shall burn them up. +<a name="citation127"></a><a href="#footnote127" +class="citation">[127]</a> This last, is a dreadful Text; +it is enough to make a proud man shake: God, saith he, will make +the proud ones as stubble; that is, as fuel for the fire, and the +day that cometh shall be like a burning oven, and that day shall +burn them up, saith the Lord. But Mr. Badman could never +abide to hear pride spoken against, nor that any should say of +him, He is a proud man.</p> +<p>Atten. What should be the reason of that?</p> +<p>Wise. He did not tell me the reason; but I suppose it to +be that which is common to all vile persons. They love this +Vice, but care not to bear its name. <a +name="citation128a"></a><a href="#footnote128a" +class="citation">[128a]</a> The Drunkard loves the sin, but +loves not to be called a drunkard. The Thief loveth to +steal, but cannot abide to be called a thief, the whore loveth to +commit uncleanness, but loveth not to be called a Whore; And so +Mr. Badman loved to be proud, but could not abide to be called a +proud man. The sweet of sin, is desirable to polluted and +corrupted man, but the name thereof, is a blot in his +Scutcheon.</p> +<p>Atten. ’Tis true that you have said: but pray how +many sorts of pride are there?</p> +<p>Wise. There are two sorts of Pride; <a +name="citation128b"></a><a href="#footnote128b" +class="citation">[128b]</a> Pride of Spirit, and Pride of +Body. The first of these is thus made mention of in the +Scriptures. Every one that is proud in heart is abomination +to the Lord. <a name="citation128c"></a><a href="#footnote128c" +class="citation">[128c]</a> A high look, and a proud heart, +and the plowing of the wicked is sin. The patient in spirit +is better than the proud in spirit. Bodily pride these +Scriptures mention. In that day the Lord shall take away +the bravery of their tinckling ornaments about their feet, and +their cauls, and their round tires like the Moon, the chains, and +the bracelets, and the mufflers, the bonnets, and the ornaments +of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the +ear-rings, the rings, and the Nose-jewels: <a +name="citation128d"></a><a href="#footnote128d" +class="citation">[128d]</a> The changable suits of Apparell, and +the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping pins, the glasses, +and the fine linnen, and the hoods and the vails. By these +expressions it is evident that there is Pride of Body, as well as +Pride of Spirit, and that both are sin, and so abominable to the +Lord. But these Texts Mr. Badman could never abide to read, +they were to him as Micaiah was to Ahab, they never spake good of +him, but evil.</p> +<p>Atten. I suppose that it was not Mr. Badmans case alone +even to maligne those Texts that speak against their vices: For I +believe, that most ungodly men, (where the Scriptures are) have a +secret antipathy against those words of God that do most plainly +and fully rebuke them for their sins. <a +name="citation128e"></a><a href="#footnote128e" +class="citation">[128e]</a></p> +<p>Wise. That is out of doubt, and by that antipathy, they +shew, that sin and Satan are more welcome to them than are the +wholesome instructions of life and godliness.</p> +<p>Atten. Well, but not to goe off from our discourse of +Mr. Badman. You say he was proud: but will you shew me now +some symptoms of one that is proud?</p> +<p>Wise. Yes, that I will: And first I will shew you some +symptoms of Pride of Heart. <a name="citation129a"></a><a +href="#footnote129a" class="citation">[129a]</a> Pride of +heart, is seen by outward things, as Pride of Body in general, is +a sign of pride of heart; for all proud gestures of the body flow +from Pride of heart: therefore Solomon saith; There is a +generation, O how lofty are their eyes, and their eye-lids are +lifted up: <a name="citation129b"></a><a href="#footnote129b" +class="citation">[129b]</a> And again; There is that exalteth +their gate, their going. <a name="citation129c"></a><a +href="#footnote129c" class="citation">[129c]</a> Now these +lofty eyes, and this exalting of the gate, is a sign of a Proud +heart: for both these actions come from the heart: for out of the +heart comes Pride, in all the visible appearances of it. <a +name="citation129d"></a><a href="#footnote129d" +class="citation">[129d]</a> But more particularly:</p> +<p>1. Heart Pride is discovered <a +name="citation129e"></a><a href="#footnote129e" +class="citation">[129e]</a> by a stretched out Neck, and by +mincing as they go. For the wicked, the Proud, have a proud +Neck, a proud Foot, a proud Tongue, by which this their going is +exalted. This is that which makes them look scornfully, +speak ruggedly, and carry it huffingly among their +Neighbours.</p> +<p>2. A proud heart, is a persecuting one: The wicked +through his pride doth persecute the poor. <a +name="citation129f"></a><a href="#footnote129f" +class="citation">[129f]</a></p> +<p>3. A prayerless man is a proud man. <a +name="citation129g"></a><a href="#footnote129g" +class="citation">[129g]</a></p> +<p>4. A contentious man is a proud man. <a +name="citation129h"></a><a href="#footnote129h" +class="citation">[129h]</a></p> +<p>5. The disdainful man is a proud man. <a +name="citation129i"></a><a href="#footnote129i" +class="citation">[129i]</a></p> +<p>6. The man that oppresses his neighbour is a proud man. +<a name="citation129j"></a><a href="#footnote129j" +class="citation">[129j]</a></p> +<p>7. He that hearkeneth not to Gods Word with reverence +and fear, is a proud man. <a name="citation129k"></a><a +href="#footnote129k" class="citation">[129k]</a></p> +<p>8. And he that calls the proud happy, is, be sure, a +proud man. All these are proud in heart, and this their +pride of heart doth thus discover it self. <a +name="citation129l"></a><a href="#footnote129l" +class="citation">[129l]</a> <a name="citation129m"></a><a +href="#footnote129m" class="citation">[129m]</a></p> +<p>As to bodily <a name="citation129n"></a><a +href="#footnote129n" class="citation">[129n]</a> pride, it is +discovered, that is, something of it, by all the particulars +mentioned before; for though they are said to be symptoms of +pride of heart, yet they are symptoms of that pride, by their +shewing of themselves in the Body. You know diseases that +are within, are seen oft-times by outward and visible Signs, yet +by them very signs even the outside is defiled also. So all +those visible signs of heart-pride, are signs of bodily pride +also. But to come to more outward signs: The putting on of +Gold, and Pearls, and costly array; the pleating of the hair, the +following of fashions, the seeking by gestures to imitate the +proud, either by speech, looks, dresses, goings, or other fools +baubles, (of which at this time the world is full) all these, and +many more, are signs, as of a proud heart, so of bodily pride +also. <a name="citation130b"></a><a href="#footnote130b" +class="citation">[130b]</a></p> +<p>But Mr. Badman would not allow, by any means, that this should +be called Pride, <a name="citation130c"></a><a +href="#footnote130c" class="citation">[130c]</a> but rather +neatness, handsomness, comeliness, cleanliness, &c. neither +would he allow that following of fashions was any thing else, but +because he would not be proud, singular, and esteemed fantastical +by his neighbours.</p> +<p>Atten. But I have been told, that when some have been +rebuked for their pride, they have turned it again upon the +brotherhood of those by whom they have been rebuked: saying, +Physician heal thy Friends, look at home, among your Brotherhood, +even among the wisest of you, and see if you your selves be +clear, even you professors: for who is prouder than you +professors? scarcesly the Devil himself.</p> +<p>Wise. My heart akes at this answer, because there is too +much cause for it. <a name="citation130d"></a><a +href="#footnote130d" class="citation">[130d]</a> This very +Answer would Mr. Badman give his wife, when she (as she would +sometimes) reproved him for his pride: We shall have, says he, +great amendments in living now, for the Devil is turned a +corrector of vice: For no sin reigneth more in the world, quoth +he, than pride among professors. And who can contradict +him? let us give the Devil his due, the thing is too apparent for +any man to deny.</p> +<p>And I doubt not but the same answer is ready in the mouths of +Mr. Badmans friends; for they may and do see pride display it +self in the Apparel and carriages of professors; one may say, +almost as much, as among any people in the Land, the more is the +pity. Ay, and I fear that even their Extravagancies in +this, hath hardened the heart of many a one, as I perceive it did +somewhat the heart of Mr. Badman himself.</p> +<p>For mine own part, I have seen many my self, and those +Church-members too, so deckt and bedaubed with their Fangles and +Toyes, and that when they have been at the solemn Appointments of +God, in the way of his Worship, that I have wondred with what +face such painted persons could sit in the place where they were +without swounding. But certainly the holiness of God, and +also the pollution of themselves by sin, must needs be very far +out of the minds of such people, what profession soever they +make.</p> +<p>I have read of an Whores forehead, <a +name="citation131a"></a><a href="#footnote131a" +class="citation">[131a]</a> and I have read of +christian-shamefacedness; I have read of costly array, and of +that which becometh women professing Godliness, with good works; +<a name="citation131b"></a><a href="#footnote131b" +class="citation">[131b]</a> <a name="citation131c"></a><a +href="#footnote131c" class="citation">[131c]</a> but if I might +speak, I know what I know, and could say, and yet do no wrong, +that which would make some professors stink in their places; <a +name="citation131d"></a><a href="#footnote131d" +class="citation">[131d]</a> but now I forbear.</p> +<p>Atten. Sir, you seem to be greatly concerned at this, +but what I shall say more? it is whispered, that some good +Ministers have countenanced their people in their light and +wanton Apparrel, yea have pleaded for their Gold, and Pearls, and +costly array, &c.</p> +<p>Wise. I know not what they have pleaded for, but +’tis easily seen that they tolerate, or at least wise, wink +and connive at such things, both in their Wives and +Children. And so from the Prophets of Jerusalem is +profaneness gone forth into all the land. <a +name="citation131e"></a><a href="#footnote131e" +class="citation">[131e]</a> And when the hand of the Rulers +are chief in a trespass, who can keep their people from being +drowned in that trespass?</p> +<p>Atten. This is a lamentation, and must stand for a +lamentation.</p> +<p>Wise. So it is, and so it must. And I will add, it +is a shame, it is a reproach, it is a stumbling-block to the +blind; <a name="citation131f"></a><a href="#footnote131f" +class="citation">[131f]</a> for though men be as blind as Mr. +Badman himself, yet they can see the foolish lightness that must +needs be the bottom of all these apish and wanton +extravagancies. But many have their excuses ready; to wit, +their Parents, their Husbands, and their breeding calls for it, +and the like: yea, the examples of good people prompt them to it: +but all these will be but the Spiders webb, when the thunder of +the Word of the great God shall rattle from Heaven against them, +as it will at Death or Judgment; but I wish it might do it +before. But alas! these excuses are but bare pretences, +these proud ones love to have it so. I once talked with a +Maid, by way of reproof, for her fond and gaudy garment. +But she told me, +<a href="images/tnb.jpg"> +<img alt= +"Take note symbol" +title= +"Take note symbol" +src="images/tns.jpg" /> +</a>The Tailor would make it so: when alas, poor proud Girle, she +gave order to the Taylor so to make it. Many make Parents, +and Husbands, and Taylors, &c. the Blind to others, but their +naughty hearts, and their giving of way thereto, that is the +original cause of all these evils.</p> +<p>Atten. Now you are speaking of the cause of pride, pray +shew me yet further why pride is now so much in request? <a +name="citation132b"></a><a href="#footnote132b" +class="citation">[132b]</a></p> +<p>Wise. I will shew you what I think are the reasons of +it.</p> +<p>1. The first is, <a name="citation132c"></a><a +href="#footnote132c" class="citation">[132c]</a> Because such +persons are led by their own hearts, rather than by the Word of +God. I told you before, that the original fountain of pride +is the heart. For out of the heart comes pride; it is +therefore because they are led by their hearts, which naturally +tends to lift them up in pride. This pride of heart, tempts +them, and by its deceits overcometh them; <a +name="citation132d"></a><a href="#footnote132d" +class="citation">[132d]</a> yea it doth put a bewitching vertue +into their Peacocks feathers, and then they are swallowed up with +the vanity of them.</p> +<p>2. Another reason why professors are so proud, (for +those we are talking of now) is because they are more apt to take +example of those that are of the World, than they are to take +example of those that are Saints indeed. Pride is of the +world. For all that is of the world, the lusts of the +flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, are not of +the Father but of the world. <a name="citation132e"></a><a +href="#footnote132e" class="citation">[132e]</a> Of the +world therefore Professors learn to be proud. But they +should not take them for example. It will be objected, No, +nor your saints neither, for you are as proud as others: Well, +let them take shame that are guilty. But when I say, +professors should take example for their life by those that are +saints indeed, I mean as Peter says: They should take example of +those that were in old time, the saints; for saints of old time +were the best, therefore to these he directeth us for our +pattern. Let the wives conversation be chast, and also +coupled with fear. Whose adorning, saith Peter, let it not +be that outward adorning, of pleating the hair, and of wearing of +gold, or of putting on of Apparel: but let it be the hidden man +of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament +of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great +price. For after this manner, in the old time, the holy +women also who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in +subjection to their own husbands. <a name="citation132f"></a><a +href="#footnote132f" class="citation">[132f]</a></p> +<p>3. Another reason is, <a name="citation133a"></a><a +href="#footnote133a" class="citation">[133a]</a> Because they +have forgotten the pollution of their Nature. For the +remembrance of that, must needs keep us humble, and being kept +humble, we shall be at a distance from pride. The proud and +the humble are set in opposition; (God resisteth the proud, but +giveth grace to the humble.) And can it be imagined, that a +sensible Christian should be a proud one; sence of baseness tends +to lay us low, not to lift us up with pride; not with pride of +Heart, nor pride of Life: But when a man begins to forget what he +is, then he, if ever, begins to be proud.</p> +<p>Methinks it is one of the most senceless and ridiculous things +in the world, that a man should be proud of that which is given +him on purpose to cover the shame of his nakedness with.</p> +<p>4. Persons that are proud, have gotten God and his +Holiness out of their sight. <a name="citation133b"></a><a +href="#footnote133b" class="citation">[133b]</a> If God was +before them, as he is behind their back; And if they saw him in +his holiness, as he sees them in their sins and shame, they would +take but little pleasure in their apish Knacks. The +Holiness of God makes the Angels cover their faces, crumbles +Christians, when they behold it, into dust and ashes: <a +name="citation133c"></a><a href="#footnote133c" +class="citation">[133c]</a> and as his Majesty is, such is his +Word; Therefore they abuse it, that bring it to countenance +pride.</p> +<p>Lastly, <a name="citation133d"></a><a href="#footnote133d" +class="citation">[133d]</a> But what can be the end of those that +are proud, in the decking of themselves after their antick +manner? why are they for going with their Bulls-foretops, with +their naked shoulders, and Paps hanging out like a Cows bag? why +are they for painting their faces, for stretching out their +necks, and for putting of themselves into all the Formalities +which proud Fancy leads them to? Is it because they would +honour God? because they would adorn the Gospel? because they +would beautifie Religion, and make sinners to fall in love with +their own salvation? No, no. It is rather to please +their lusts, to satisfie their wild and extravagant fancies; and +I wish none doth it to stir up lust in others, to the end they +may commit uncleanness with them. I believe, whatever is +their end, this is one of the great designes of the Devil: and I +believe also, that Satan has drawn more into the sin of +uncleanness, by the spangling shew of fine cloaths, than he could +possibly have drawn unto it, without them. I wonder what it +was, that of old was called the Attire of an Harlot: certainly it +could not be more bewitching and tempting than are the garments +of many professors this day.</p> +<p>Atten. I like what you say very well, and I wish that +all the proud Dames in England that profess, were within the +reach and sound of your words.</p> +<p>Wise. What I have said, I believe is true, but as for +the proud Dames in England that profess, they have Moses and the +Prophets, and if they will not hear them, how then can we hope +that they should recieve good by such a dull sounding Ramshorn as +I am? However, I have said my mind, and now if you will, we +will proceed to some other of Mr. Badmans doings.</p> +<p>Atten. No: pray before you shew me any thing else of Mr. +Badman, shew me yet more particularly the evil effects of this +sin of Pride.</p> +<p>Wise. With all my heart, I will answer your request. <a +name="citation134a"></a><a href="#footnote134a" +class="citation">[134a]</a></p> +<p>1. <a name="citation134b"></a><a href="#footnote134b" +class="citation">[134b]</a> Then: ’Tis pride that +makes poor Man so like the Devil in Hell, that he cannot in it be +known to be the Image and similitude of God. The Angels +when they became Devils, ’twas through their being lifted +or puffed up with pride. ’Tis pride also that lifteth +or puffeth up the heart of the sinner, and so makes him to bear +the very image of the Devil.</p> +<p>2. <a name="citation134c"></a><a href="#footnote134c" +class="citation">[134c]</a> Pride makes a man so odious in +the sight of God, that he shall not, must not come nigh his +Majesty. Though the Lord be high, yet hath he respect to +the lowly, but the proud he knows afar off. Pride sets God +and the Soul at a distrance; pride will not let a man come nigh +God, nor God will not let a proud man come nigh unto him: Now +this is a dreadful thing.</p> +<p>3. <a name="citation134d"></a><a href="#footnote134d" +class="citation">[134d]</a> As pride sets, so it keeps God +and the Soul at a distance. God resisteth the proud; +resists, that is, he opposes him, he thrusts him from him, he +contemneth his person and all his performances. Come in to +Gods Ordinances, the proud man may; but come into his presence, +have communion with him, or blessing from him, he shall +not. For the high God doth resist him. <a +name="citation135a"></a><a href="#footnote135a" +class="citation">[135a]</a></p> +<p>4. <a name="citation135b"></a><a href="#footnote135b" +class="citation">[135b]</a> The Word saith, that The Lord +will destroy the House of the proud. He will destroy his +House; it may be understood, he will destroy him and his. +So he destroyed proud Pharaoh, so he destroyed proud Corah, and +many others.</p> +<p>5. <a name="citation135c"></a><a href="#footnote135c" +class="citation">[135c]</a> Pride, where it comes, and is +entertained, is a certain forerunner of some Judgment that is not +far behind. When pride goes before, shame and destruction +will follow after. When pride cometh, then cometh +shame. Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit +before a fall.</p> +<p>6. <a name="citation135d"></a><a href="#footnote135d" +class="citation">[135d]</a> Persisting in pride makes the +condition of a poor man as remediless as is that of the Devils +themselves.</p> +<p>And this I fear was Mr. Badmans condition, and that was the +reason that he died so as he did; as I shall shew you anon.</p> +<p>But what need I thus talk of the particular actions, or rather +prodigious sins of Mr. Badman, when his whole Life and all his +actions, went as it were to the making up one massie body of sin? +<a name="citation135e"></a><a href="#footnote135e" +class="citation">[135e]</a> Instead of believing that there +was a God, his Mouth, his Life and Actions declared, that he +believed no such thing. His transgression said within my +heart, that there was no fear of God before his eyes. <a +name="citation135f"></a><a href="#footnote135f" +class="citation">[135f]</a> <a name="citation135g"></a><a +href="#footnote135g" class="citation">[135g]</a> Instead of +honouring of God, and of giving glory to him for any of his +Mercies, or under any of his good Providences towards him (for +God is good to all, and lets his Sun shine, and his Rain fall +upon the unthankful and unholy,) he would ascribe the glory to +other causes. If they were Mercies, he would ascribe them +(if the open face of the providence did not give him the lye) to +his own wit, labour, care, industry, cunning, or the like: if +they were Crosses, he would ascribe them, or count them the +offspring of Fortune, ill Luck, Chance, the ill mannagement of +matters, the ill will of neighbours, or to his wifes being +Religious, and spending, as he called it, too much time in +Reading, Praying, or the like. It was not in his way to +acknowledge God, (that is, graciously) or his hand in +things. But, as the Prophet saith; Let favour be skewed to +the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness. <a +name="citation136a"></a><a href="#footnote136a" +class="citation">[136a]</a> And again, They returned not to +him that smote them, nor did they seek the Lord of hosts. <a +name="citation136b"></a><a href="#footnote136b" +class="citation">[136b]</a> This was Mr. Badmans temper, +neither Mercies nor Judgment would make him seek the Lord. +Nay, as another Scripture sayes, he would not see the works of +God, nor regard the operations of his hands either in mercies or +in Judgments. <a name="citation136c"></a><a href="#footnote136c" +class="citation">[136c]</a> But further, when by Providence +he has been cast under the best Means for his soul, (for, as was +shewed before, he having had a good master, and before him a good +father, and after all a good wife, and being sometimes upon a +Journey, and cast under the hearing of a good Sermon, as he would +sometimes for novelties sake go to hear a good Preacher;) he was +always without heart to make use thereof: In this land of +righteousness he would deal unjustly, and would not behold the +majesty of the Lord.</p> +<p>Instead of reverencing the Word, <a name="citation136g"></a><a +href="#footnote136g" class="citation">[136g]</a> when he heard it +preached, read, or discoursed of, he would sleep, talk of other +Business, or else object against the authority, harmony, and +wisdom of the Scriptures. Saying, How do you know them to +be the Word of God? how do you know that these sayings are +true? The Scriptures, he would say, were as a Nose of Wax, +and a man may turn them whithersoever he lists: one Scripture +says one thing, and another sayes the quite contrary; Besides, +they make mention of a thousand imposibilities; they are the +cause of all dissensions and discords that are in the Land: +Therefore you may (would he say) still think what you will, but +in my mind they are best at ease that have least to do with +them.</p> +<p>Instead of loving and honouring of them that did bear in their +Foreheads the Name, and in their Lives the Image of Christ, they +should be his Song, <a name="citation136h"></a><a +href="#footnote136h" class="citation">[136h]</a> the matter of +his Jests, and the objects of his slanders. He would either +make a mock at their sober deportment, their gracious language, +quiet behaviour, or else desperately swear that they did all in +deceit and hypocrisie. He would endeavour to render godly +men as odious and contemptable as he could; any lyes that were +made by any, to their disgrace, those he would avouch for truth, +and would not endure to be controlled. He was much like +those that the prophet speaks of, that would sit and slander his +mothers son; <a name="citation137a"></a><a href="#footnote137a" +class="citation">[137a]</a> yea, he would speak reproachfully of +his wife, though his conscience told him, and many would +testifie, that she was a very vertuous woman. He would also +raise slanders of his wives friends himself, affirming that their +doctrine tended to lasciviousness, and that in their assemblies +they acted and did unbeseeming men and women, that they committed +uncleanness, &c. He was much like those that affirmed +the Apostle should say, Let us do evil that good may come: <a +name="citation137b"></a><a href="#footnote137b" +class="citation">[137b]</a> Or like those of whom it is thus +written: Report, say they, and we will report it. <a +name="citation137c"></a><a href="#footnote137c" +class="citation">[137c]</a> And if he could get any thing +by the end that had scandal in it, if it did but touch +professors, how falsely soever reported; Oh! then he would glory, +laugh, and be glad, and lay it upon the whole party: Saying, Hang +them Rogues, there is not a barrel better Herring of all the holy +Brotherhood of them: Like to like, quoth the Devil to the +Collier, this is your precise Crew. And then he would send +all home with a curse.</p> +<p>Atten. If those that make profession of Religion be +wise, Mr. Badmans watchings and words will make them the more +wary and careful in all things.</p> +<p>Wise. You say true. For when we see men do watch +for our halting, and rejoyce to see us stumble and fall, it +should make us so much abundance the more careful. <a +name="citation137d"></a><a href="#footnote137d" +class="citation">[137d]</a></p> +<p>I do think it was as delightful to Mr. Badman to hear, raise, +and tell lies, and lying stories of them that fear the Lord, as +it was for him to go to bed when a weary. But we will at +this time let these things pass. For as he was in these +things bad enough, so he added to these, many more the like.</p> +<p>He was an <a name="citation137e"></a><a href="#footnote137e" +class="citation">[137e]</a> angry, wrathfull, envious man, a man +that knew not what meekness or gentleness meant, nor did he +desire to learn. His natural temper was to be surly, +huffie, and rugged, and worse; and he so gave way to his temper, +as to this, that it brought him to be furious and outrageous in +all things, specially against goodness it self, and against other +things too, when he was displeased. <a name="citation138a"></a><a +href="#footnote138a" class="citation">[138a]</a></p> +<p>Atten. Solomon saith, He is a fool that rageth.</p> +<p>Wise. He doth so; and sayes moreover, That anger rests +in the bosom of fools. <a name="citation138b"></a><a +href="#footnote138b" class="citation">[138b]</a> And truly, +if it be a sign of a Fool to have anger rest in his bosom, then +was Mr. Badman, notwithstanding the conceit that he had of his +own abilities, a Fool of no small size.</p> +<p>Atten. Fools are mostly most wise in their own eyes.</p> +<p>Wise. True. But I was a saying, that if it be a +sign that a man is a Fool, when Anger rests in his bosom; Then +what is it a sign of, think you, when Malice and Envy rests +there? For to my knowledge Mr. Badman was as malicious and +as envious a man as commonly you can hear of.</p> +<p>Atten. Certainly, malice and envy flow <a +name="citation138c"></a><a href="#footnote138c" +class="citation">[138c]</a> from pride and arrogancy, and they +again from ignorance, and ignorance from the Devil; And I +thought, that since you spake of the pride of Mr. Badman before, +we should have something of these before we had done.</p> +<p>Wise. Envy flows from Ignorance indeed. And this +Mr. Badman was so envious an one, where he set against, that he +would swell with it, as a Toad, as we say, swells with +poyson. He whom he maligned, might at any time even read +envy in his face wherever he met with him, or in whatever he had +to do with him.</p> +<p>His envy was so rank and strong, that if it at any time turned +its head against a man, it would hardly ever be pulled in again: +He would watch over that man to do him mischief, as the Cat +watches over the Mouse to destroy it; yea, he would wait seven +years, but he would have an opportunity to hurt him, and when he +had it, he would make him feel the weight of his Envy.</p> +<p>Envy is a devilish thing, the Scripture intimates that none +can stand before it. A stone is heavy, and the sand +weighty, but a fools wrath is heavier than them both. Wrath +is cruel, and anger is outrageous, but who can stand before envy? +<a name="citation138d"></a><a href="#footnote138d" +class="citation">[138d]</a> <a name="citation138e"></a><a +href="#footnote138e" class="citation">[138e]</a></p> +<p>This Envy, for the foulness of it, is reckoned <a +name="citation138f"></a><a href="#footnote138f" +class="citation">[138f]</a> among the foulest Villanies that are, +as adultery, murder, drunkenness, revellings, witchcrafts, +heresies, seditions, &c. Yea, it is so malignant a +corruption, that it rots the very bones of him in whom it +dwells. A sound heart is life to the flesh, but envy the +rottenness of the bones. <a name="citation139a"></a><a +href="#footnote139a" class="citation">[139a]</a></p> +<p>Atten. This Envy is the very Father and Mother of a +great many hideous and prodigious wickednesses: I say, it is the +very <a name="citation139b"></a><a href="#footnote139b" +class="citation">[139b]</a> Father and Mother of them; it both +besets them, and also nourishes them up, till they come to their +cursed maturity in the bosom of him that entertains them.</p> +<p>Wise. You have given it a very right description, in +calling of it the Father and Mother of a great many other +prodigious wickednesses: for it is so venomous and vile a thing, +that it puts the whole course of Nature out of order, and makes +it fit for nothing but confusion, and a hold for every evil +thing. For where envy and strife is, there is confusion, and +every evil work. <a name="citation139c"></a><a +href="#footnote139c" class="citation">[139c]</a> Wherefore, +I say, you have rightly called it, The very Father and Mother of +a great many other sins. And now for our further +edification, I will reckon up some of the births of Envy.</p> +<p>1. Envy, as I told you before, it rotteth the very bones +of him that entertains it. And, <a +name="citation139d"></a><a href="#footnote139d" +class="citation">[139d]</a></p> +<p>2. As you have also hinted, it is heavier than a Stone, +than Sand; yea, and I will add, It falls like a Mill-stone upon +the head. Therefore,</p> +<p>3. It kills him that throws it, and him at whom it is +thrown. Envy slayeth the silly one. <a +name="citation139e"></a><a href="#footnote139e" +class="citation">[139e]</a> That is, him in whom it +resides, and him who is its object.</p> +<p>4. ’Twas that also that slew Jesus Christ himself; +for his adversaries persecuted him through their envy. <a +name="citation139f"></a><a href="#footnote139f" +class="citation">[139f]</a> <a name="citation139g"></a><a +href="#footnote139g" class="citation">[139g]</a></p> +<p>5. Envy was that by vertue of which Joseph was sold by +his Brethren into Egypt: <a name="citation139h"></a><a +href="#footnote139h" class="citation">[139h]</a></p> +<p>6. ’Tis envy that hath the hand in making of +variance among Gods Saints. <a name="citation139i"></a><a +href="#footnote139i" class="citation">[139i]</a></p> +<p>7. ’Tis envy in the hearts of Sinners, that +stirres them up to thrust Gods Ministers out of their coasts.</p> +<p>8. What shall I say? ’Tis envy that is the +very Nursery of whisperings, debates, backbitings, slanders, +reproaches, murders, &c.</p> +<p>’Tis not possible to repeat all the particular fruits of +this sinfull root. Therefore, it is no marvel that Mr. +Badman was such an ill natured man, for the great roots of all +manner of wickedness were in him, unmortified, unmaimed, +untouched.</p> +<p>Atten. But it is <a name="citation140a"></a><a +href="#footnote140a" class="citation">[140a]</a> a rare case, +even this of Mr. Badman, that he should never in all his life be +touched with remorse for his ill-spent life.</p> +<p>Wise. Remorse, I cannot say he ever had, if by remorse +you mean repentance for his evils. Yet twice I remember he +was under some trouble of mind about his condition: <a +name="citation140b"></a><a href="#footnote140b" +class="citation">[140b]</a> Once when he broke his legg as he +came home drunk from the Ale-house; and another time when he fell +sick, and thought he should die: Besides these two times, I do +not remember any more.</p> +<p>Atten. Did he break his legg then?</p> +<p>Wise. Yes: Once, as he came home drunk from the +Ale-house.</p> +<p>Atten. Pray how did he break it?</p> +<p>Wise. Why upon a time he was at an Ale-house, that +wicked house, about two or three miles from home, and having +there drank hard the greatest part of the day, when night was +come, he would stay no longer, but calls for his horse, gets up, +and like a Madman (as drunken persons usually ride) away he goes, +as hard as horse could lay legs to the ground. Thus he rid, +till coming to a dirty place, where his horse flouncing in, fell, +threw his master, and with his fall broke his legg: so there he +lay. <a name="citation140c"></a><a href="#footnote140c" +class="citation">[140c]</a> But you would not think how he +<a name="citation140d"></a><a href="#footnote140d" +class="citation">[140d]</a> swore at first. But after a +while, he comeing to himself, and feeling by his pain, and the +uselesness of his legg, what case he was in, and also fearing +that this bout might be his death; he began to crie out after the +manner of such; <a name="citation140e"></a><a +href="#footnote140e" class="citation">[140e]</a> Lord help me, +Lord have mercy upon me, good God deliver me, and the like. +So there he lay, till some came by, who took him up, carried him +home, where he lay for some time, before he could go abroad +again.</p> +<p>Atten. And then, you say, he called upon God.</p> +<p>Wise. He cryed out in his pain, and would say, O God, +and O Lord, help me: but whether it was that his sin might be +pardoned, and his soul saved, or whether to be rid of his pain, I +will not positively determine; though I fear it was but for the +last; <a name="citation141a"></a><a href="#footnote141a" +class="citation">[141a]</a> because, when his pain was gone, and +he had got hopes of mending, even before he could go abroad, he +cast off prayer, and began his old game; to wit, to be as bad as +he was before. He then would send for his old companions; +his Sluts also would come to his house to see him, and with them +he would be, as well as he could for his lame leg, as vicious as +they could be for their hearts.</p> +<p>Atten. ’Twas a wonder he did not break his +neck.</p> +<p>Wise. His neck had gone instead of his leg, but that God +was long-suffering towards him; he had deserved it ten thousand +times over. There have been many, as I have heard, and as I +have hinted to you before, that have taken their Horses when +drunk, as he; but they have gone from the pot to the grave; for +they have broken their necks ’twixt the Ale-house and +home. +<a href="images/tnb.jpg"> +<img alt= +"Take note symbol" +title= +"Take note symbol" +src="images/tns.jpg" /> +</a>One hard by us also drunk himself dead; he drank, and dyed in +his drink.</p> +<p>Atten. ’Tis a sad thing to dye drunk.</p> +<p>Wise. So it is: But yet I wonder that no more do +so. For considering the heinousness of that sin, and with +how many other sins it is accompanied, <a +name="citation141c"></a><a href="#footnote141c" +class="citation">[141c]</a> as with oaths, blasphemies, lyes, +revellings, whoreings, brawlings, &c. it is a wonder to me, +that any that live in that sin should escape such a blow from +heaven that should tumble them into their graves. Besides, +when I consider also how, when they are as drunk as beasts, they, +without all fear of danger, will ride like Bedlams and mad men, +even as if they did dare God to meddle with them if he durst, for +their being drunk: I say, I wonder that he doth not withdraw his +protecting providences from them, and leave them to those Dangers +and Destructions that by their sin they have deserved, and that +by their Bedlam madness they would rush themselves into: only I +consider again, that he has appointed a day wherein he will +reckon with them, <a name="citation141d"></a><a +href="#footnote141d" class="citation">[141d]</a> and doth also +commonly make Examples of some, to shew that he takes notice of +their sin, abhorrs their way, and will count with them for it at +the set time.</p> +<p>Atten. It is worthy of our remark, to take notice how +God, to shew his dislike of the sins of men, strikes some of them +down with a blow; as the breaking of Mr. Badmans legg, for +doubtless that was a stroak from heaven.</p> +<p>Wise. It is worth our remark indeed. It was an +open stroak, it fell upon him while he was in the height of his +sin: And it looks much like to that in Job; Therefore he knoweth +their works, and overturneth them in the night, so that they are +destroyed. He striketh them as wicked men in the open sight +of others: <a name="citation142a"></a><a href="#footnote142a" +class="citation">[142a]</a> Or as the Margent reads it, in the +place of beholders. He layes them with his stroak in the +place of beholders. There was <a name="citation142b"></a><a +href="#footnote142b" class="citation">[142b]</a> Mr. Badman laid, +his stroak was taken notice of by every one: his broken legg was +at this time the Town-talk. Mr. Badman has broken his legg, +sayes one: How did he break it? sayes another: As he came home +drunk from such an Ale-house, said a third; A Judgment of God +upon him, said a fourth. This his sin, his shame, and +punishment, are all made conspicuous to all that are about +him. I will here tell you another story or two.</p> +<p>I have read in Mr. Clark’s Looking-glass for Sinners; <a +name="citation142c"></a><a href="#footnote142c" +class="citation">[142c]</a> That upon a time, a certain drunken +fellow boasted in his Cups, that there was neither Heaven nor +Hell; also he said, He believed, that man had no Soul, and that +for his own part, he would sell his soul to any that would buy +it. Then did one of his companions buy it of him for a cup +of Wine; and presently the Devil in mans shape bought it of that +man again at the same price; and so in the presence of them all +laid hold on this Soul-seller, and carried him away through the +Air, so that he was never more heard of.</p> +<p>In pag. 148, he tells us also: That there was one at +Salisbury, in the midst of his health drinking and carousing in a +Tavern; and he drank a health to the Devil, saying, That if the +Devil would not come and pledge him, he would not believe that +there was either God or Devil. Whereupon his companions +stricken with fear, hastened out of the room: and presently +after, hearing a hideous noise, and smelling a stinking savour, +the Vintner ran up into the chamber; and coming in, he missed his +Guest, and found the window broken, the Iron barr in it bowed, +and all bloody: But the man was never heard of afterwards.</p> +<p>Again, in pag. 149. he tells us of a Bailiff of Hedly: Who +upon a Lords Day being drunk at Melford, got upon his horse, to +ride through the streets, saying, That his horse would carry him +to the Devil: and presently his horse threw him, and broke his +neck. These things are worse than the breaking of Mr. +Badmans Leg, and should be a caution to all of his friends that +are living, lest they also fall by their sin into these sad +Judgements of God.</p> +<p>But, as I said, Mr. Badman quickly forgot all, his conscience +was choaked, before his legg was healed. And therefore, +before he was well of the fruit of one sin, he tempts God to send +another Judgment to seize upon him: And so he did quickly +after. For not many months after his legg was well, he had +a very dangerous fit of sickness, insomuch that now he began to +think he must dye in very deed. <a name="citation143a"></a><a +href="#footnote143a" class="citation">[143a]</a></p> +<p>Atten. Well, and what did he think and do then?</p> +<p>Wise. He thought he must go to Hell; this I know, for he +could not forbear but say so. <a name="citation143b"></a><a +href="#footnote143b" class="citation">[143b]</a> To my best +remembrance, he lay crying out all one night for fear, and at +times he would so tremble, that he would make the very bed shake +under him. <a name="citation143c"></a><a href="#footnote143c" +class="citation">[143c]</a> But, Oh! how the thoughts of +Death, of Hell-fire, and of eternal Judgment, did then wrack his +conscience. Fear might be seen in his face, and in his +tossings to and fro: It might also be heard in his words, and be +understood by his heavy groans. He would often cry, I am +undone, I am undone; my vile life has undone me.</p> +<p>Atten. Then his former atheistical thoughts and +principles, were too weak now to support him from the fears of +eternal damnation.</p> +<p>Wise. Aie! they were too weak indeed. They may +serve to stifle conscience, when a man is in the midst of his +prosperity, and to harden the heart against all good counsel when +a man is left of God, and given up to his reprobate mind: <a +name="citation143d"></a><a href="#footnote143d" +class="citation">[143d]</a> But alas, atheistical thoughts, +Notions and Opinions, must shrink and melt away, when God sends, +yea comes with sickness to visit the soul of such a sinner for +his sin. There was a man dwelt about 12 miles off from us, +that had so trained up himself in his atheistical Notions, that +at last he attempted to write a book against Jesus Christ, and +against the divine Authority of the Scriptures. (But I +think it was not printed:) Well, after many days God struck +him with sickness, whereof he dyed. So, being sick, and +musing upon his former doings, the Book that he had written came +into his mind, and with it such a sence of his evil in writing of +it, that it tore his Conscience as a Lyon would tare a Kid. +He lay therefore upon his death-bed in sad case, <a +name="citation144a"></a><a href="#footnote144a" +class="citation">[144a]</a> and much affliction of conscience: +some of my friends also went to see him; and as they were in his +chamber one day, he hastily called for Pen Ink and Paper, which +when it was given him, he took it and writ to this purpose. + +<a href="images/tnb.jpg"> +<img alt= +"Take note symbol" +title= +"Take note symbol" +src="images/tns.jpg" /> +</a>I, such an one, in such a Town, must goe to Hell-fire, for +writing a Book against Jesus Christ, and against the Holy +Scriptures: And would also have leaped out of the window of his +house to have killed himself, but was by them prevented of that: +so he dyed in his bed, such a death as it was. ’Twill +be well if others take warning by him.</p> +<p>Atten. This is a remarkable story.</p> +<p>Wise. ’Tis as true as remarkable; I had it from +them that I dare believe, who also themselves were eye and ear +witnesses; and also that catcht him in their arms, and saved him +when he would have leaped out of his chamber-window, to have +destroyed himself.</p> +<p>Atten. Well, you have told me what were Mr. Badmans +thoughts (now, being sick) of his condition; pray tell me also +what he then did when he was sick?</p> +<p>Wise. Did! he did many things, which I am sure he never +thought to have done, and which, to be sure, was not looked for +of his wife and children.</p> +<p>In this fit of sickness, his Thoughts were quite altered about +his wife; I say his Thoughts, so far as could be judged by his +words and carriages to her. <a name="citation144c"></a><a +href="#footnote144c" class="citation">[144c]</a> For now +she was his good wife, his godly wife, his honest wife, his duck, +and dear, and all. Now he told her, that she had the best +of it, she having a good Life to stand by her, while his +debaucheries and ungodly Life did always stare him in the +face. Now he told her, the counsel that she often gave him, +was good; though he was so bad as not to take it.</p> +<p>Now he would hear her talk to him, and he would lie sighing by +her while she so did. Now he would bid her pray for him, +that he might be delivered from Hell. <a +name="citation145a"></a><a href="#footnote145a" +class="citation">[145a]</a></p> +<p>He would also now consent, that some of her good Ministers +might come to him to comfort him; and he would seem to shew them +kindness when they came, for he would treat them kindly with +words, and hearken diligently to what they said, only he did not +care that they should talk much of his ill spent life, because +his conscience was clogged with that already; he cared not now to +see his old companions, the thoughts of them was a torment to +him: and now he would speak kindly to that child of his that took +after its mothers steps, though he could not at all abide it +before.</p> +<p>He also desired the prayers of good people, that God of his +mercy would spare him a little longer, promising that if God +would but let him recover this once, what a new, what a penitent +man he would be toward God, and what a loving husband he would be +to his wife: what liberty he would give her, yea how he would goe +with her himself to hear her Ministers, and how they should go +hand in hand in the way to heaven together.</p> +<p>Atten. Here was a fine shew of things; I’le +warrant you, his wife was glad for this.</p> +<p>Wise. His wife! Aie, and a many good people +besides: it was noysed all over the Town, <a +name="citation145b"></a><a href="#footnote145b" +class="citation">[145b]</a> what a great change there was wrought +upon Mr. Badman; how sorry he was for his sins, how he began to +love his wife, how he desired good men should pray to God to +spare him; and what promises he now made to God in his sickness, +that if ever he should raise him from his sick bed to health +again, what a new penitent man he would be towards God, and what +a loving husband to his good wife.</p> +<p>Well, ministers prayed, and good people rejoyced, thinking +verily that they now had gotten a man from the Devil; nay, some +of the weaker sort did not stick to say that God had began a work +of Grace in his heart; and his wife, poor woman, <a +name="citation145c"></a><a href="#footnote145c" +class="citation">[145c]</a> you cannot think how apt she was to +believe it so; she rejoyced, and she hoped as she would have +it. But, alas! alas! in little time things all proved +otherwise.</p> +<p>After he had kept his Bed a while, his distemper began to +abate, and he to feel himself better, so he in little time was so +finely mended, that he could walk about the house, and also +obtained a very fine stomach to his food: <a +name="citation146a"></a><a href="#footnote146a" +class="citation">[146a]</a> and now did his wife and her good +friends stand gaping, to see Mr. Badman fulfill his promise of +becoming new towards God, and loving to his wife: but the +contrary only shewed it self. For so soon as ever he had +hopes of mending, and found that his strength began to renew, his +trouble began to goe off his heart, and he grew as great a +stranger to his frights and fears, as if he had never had +them.</p> +<p>But verily, I am apt to think, that one reason of his no more +regarding, or remembring of his sick-bed fears, and of being no +better for them, was, some words that the Doctor that supplied +him with Physick said to him when he was mending. For as +soon as Mr. Badman began to mend, the Doctor comes and sits him +down by him in his house, and there fell into discourse with him +about the nature of his disease; and among other things they +talked of Badmans trouble, and how he would cry out, tremble, and +express his fears of going to Hell when his sickness lay pretty +hard upon him. To which the Doctor replyed: <a +name="citation146b"></a><a href="#footnote146b" +class="citation">[146b]</a> That those fears and Out-cries did +arise from the height of his distemper, for that disease was +often attended with lightness of the head, by reason the sick +party could not sleep, and for that the vapours disturbed the +brain: But you see Sir, quoth he, that so soon as you got sleep +and betook your self to rest, you quickly mended, and your head +settled, and so those frenzies left you.</p> +<p>And was it so indeed, thought Mr. Badman; was my troubles, +only the effects of my distemper, and because ill vapours got up +into my brain? Then surely, since my Physician was my +Saviour, my Lust again shall be my God. So he never minded +Religion more, but betook him again to the world, his lusts and +wicked companions: And there was an end of Mr. Badmans +Conversion.</p> +<p>Atten. I thought, (as you told me of him) that this +would be the result of the whole; for I discerned by your +relating of things, that the true symptoms of conversion were +wanting in him, and that those that appeared to be any thing like +them, were only such as the reprobates may have.</p> +<p>Wise. You say right, for there wanted in him, when he +was most sensible, a sence of the pollution of his Nature; he +only had guilt for his sinful actions, the which Cain, and +Pharaoh, and Saul, and Judas, those reprobates, have had before +him. <a name="citation147a"></a><a href="#footnote147a" +class="citation">[147a]</a></p> +<p>Besides, the great things that he desired, were, to be +delivered from going to Hell, (and who would willingly?) and that +his life might be lengthened in this world. We find not by +all that he said or did, that Jesus Christ the Saviour was +desired by him, from a sence of his need of his Righteousness to +cloath him, and of his Spirit to sanctifie him. <a +name="citation147b"></a><a href="#footnote147b" +class="citation">[147b]</a></p> +<p>His own strength was whole in him, he saw nothing of the +treachery of his own heart; for had he, he would never have been +so free to make promises to God of amendment. He would +rather have been afraid, that if he had mended, he should have +turned with the dog to his vomit, and have begged prayers of +Saints, and assistance from heaven upon that account, that he +might have been kept from doing so.</p> +<p>’Tis true he did beg prayers of good people, and so did +Pharaoh of Moses and Aaron, and Simon Magus of Simon Peter. <a +name="citation147c"></a><a href="#footnote147c" +class="citation">[147c]</a></p> +<p>His mind also seemed to be turned to his wife and child; but +alas! ’twas rather from conviction that God had given him +concerning their happy estate over his, than for that he had any +true love to the work of God that was in them. True, some +shews of kindness he seemed to have for them, and so had rich +Dives, when in Hell, to his five brethren that were yet in the +world; yea he had such love, as to wish them in Heaven, that they +might not come thither to be tormented. <a +name="citation147d"></a><a href="#footnote147d" +class="citation">[147d]</a></p> +<p>Atten. Sick-bed Repentance is seldom good for any +thing.</p> +<p>Wise. You <a name="citation147e"></a><a +href="#footnote147e" class="citation">[147e]</a> say true, it is +very rarely good for any thing indeed. Death is unwelcom to +Nature, and usually when sickness and death visit the sinner; the +first taking of him by the shoulder, and the second standing at +the Bed-chamber door to receive him; then the sinner begins to +look about him, and to bethink with himself, These will have me +away before God; and I know that my Life has not been as it +should, how shall I do to appear before God! Or if it be +more the sence of the punishment, and the place of the punishment +of sinners, that also is starting to a defiled conscience, now +rouzed by deaths lumbring at the door.</p> +<p>And hence usually is sick-bed Repentance, and the matter of +it: To wit, to be saved from Hell, and from Death, and that God +will restore again to health till they mend; concluding that it +is in their power to mend, as is evident by their large and +lavishing promises to do it.</p> +<p>I have known many, that, when they have been sick, have had +large measures of this kind of Repentance, and while it has +lasted, the noyse and sound thereof, has made the Town to ring +again: but alas! how long has it lasted? oft-times scarce so long +as untill the party now sick has been well. It has passed +away like a mist or a vapour, it has been a thing of no +continuance. But this kind of Repentance is by God compared +to the howling of a dog. And they have not cried unto me +with their heart, when they howled upon their bed. <a +name="citation148a"></a><a href="#footnote148a" +class="citation">[148a]</a></p> +<p>Atten. Yet one may see, by this, the desperateness of +mans heart: <a name="citation148b"></a><a href="#footnote148b" +class="citation">[148b]</a> for what is it but desperate +wickedness, to make promise to God of amendment, if he will but +spare them; and yet so soon as they are recovered (or quickly +after,) fall to sin as they did before, and never to regard their +promise more.</p> +<p>Wise. It is a sign of desperateness indeed; yea, of +desperate madness. For surely, they must needs think, that +God took notice of their promise, that he heard the words that +they spake, <a name="citation148c"></a><a href="#footnote148c" +class="citation">[148c]</a> and that he hath laid them up against +the time to come; and will then bring out, and testifie to their +faces, that they flattered him with their mouth, and lyed unto +him with their tongue, <a name="citation148d"></a><a +href="#footnote148d" class="citation">[148d]</a> when they lay +sick, to their thinking, upon their death-bed, and promised him +that if he would recover them they would repent and amend their +ways. But thus, as I have told you, Mr. Badman did. +He made great promises that he would be a New man, that he would +leave his sins, and become a Convert, that he would love, &c. +his godly wife, &c. Yea many fine words had Mr. Badman +in his sickness, but no good actions when he was well.</p> +<p>Atten. And how did his good wife take it, when she saw +that he had no Amendment, but that he returned with the Dog to +his vomit, to his old courses again?</p> +<p>Wise. Why it <a name="citation149a"></a><a +href="#footnote149a" class="citation">[149a]</a> broke her heart, +it was a worse disappointment to her than the cheat that he gave +her in marriage: At least she laid it more to heart, and could +not so well grapple with it. You must think that she had +put up many a prayer to God for him before, even all the time +that he had carried it so badly to her, and now when he was so +affrighted in his sickness, and so desired that he might live and +mend, poor woman, she thought that the time was come for God to +answer her prayers; nay, she did not let with gladness, to +whisper it out amongst her Friends, that ’twas so: but when +she saw her self disappointed by her husbands turning Rebel +again, she could not stand up under it, but falls into a +languishing distemper, and in a few weeks gave up the Ghost.</p> +<p>Atten. Pray how did she dye?</p> +<p>Wise. Die! she dyed bravely; full of comfort of the +faith of her Interest in Christ, and by him, of the world to +come: she had many brave Expressions in her sickness, and gave to +those that came to visit her many signs of her salvation; the +thoughts of the Grave, but specially of her Rising again, were +sweet thoughts to her. She would long for Death, because +she knew it would be her Friend. She behaved her self like +to some that were making of them ready to go meet their +Bridegroom. <a name="citation149b"></a><a href="#footnote149b" +class="citation">[149b]</a> Now, said she, I am going to +rest from my sorrows, my sighs, my tears, my mournings and +complaints: I have heretofore longed to be among the Saints, but +might by no means be suffered to goe, but now I am going, (and no +man can stop me) to the great Meeting, to the general Assembly, +and Church of the first-born which are written in Heaven. <a +name="citation149c"></a><a href="#footnote149c" +class="citation">[149c]</a> There I shall have my hearts +desire; there I shall worship without Temptation or other +impediment; there I shall see the face of my Jesus, whom I have +loved, whom I have served, and who now, I know, will save my +soul. <a name="citation149d"></a><a href="#footnote149d" +class="citation">[149d]</a> I have prayed often for my +husband, that he might be converted, but there has been no answer +of God in that matter; Are my prayers lost? are they forgotten? +are they thrown over the barr? No; they are hanged upon the +horns of the golden Altar, and I must have the benefit of them my +self, that moment that I shall enter into the gates, in at which +the righteous Nation that keepeth truth shall enter: I say, I +shall have the benefit of them. I can say as holy David; I +say, I can say of my husband, as he could of his enemies. +As for me, when they were sick my cloathing was of sack-cloth, I +humbled my soul with fasting, and my prayer returned into my +bosom. <a name="citation150a"></a><a href="#footnote150a" +class="citation">[150a]</a> My prayers are not lost, my +tears are yet in God’s bottle; I would have had a Crown, +and Glory for my husband, and for those of my children that +follow his steps; but so far as I can see yet, I must rest in the +hope of having all my self.</p> +<p>Atten. Did she talk thus openly?</p> +<p>Wise. No; this she spake but to one or two of her most +intimate acquaintance, who were permitted to come and see her, +when she lay languishing upon her death-bed.</p> +<p>Atten. Well, but pray go on in your relation, this is +good: I am glad to hear it, this is as a cordial to my heart +while we sit thus talking under this tree.</p> +<p>Wise. When she drew near her end, she called for her +husband, and when he was come to her, she told him, <a +name="citation150b"></a><a href="#footnote150b" +class="citation">[150b]</a> That now he and she must part, and +said she, God knows, and thou shalt know, that I have been a +loving, faithful Wife unto thee; my prayers have been many for +thee; and as for all the abuses that I have received at thy hand, +those I freely and heartily forgive, and still shall pray for thy +conversion, even as long as I breathe in this world. But +husband, I am going thither, where no bad man shall come, and if +thou dost not convert, thou wilt never see me more with comfort; +let not my plain words offend thee: I am thy dying wife, and of +my faithfulness to thee, would leave this Exhortation with thee: +Break off thy sins, fly to God for mercy while mercies gate +stands open; remember, that the day is coming, when thou, though +now lusty and well, must lye at the gates of death, as I do: And +what wilt thou then do, if thou shalt be found with a naked soul, +to meet with the Cherubims with their flaming swords? yea, what +wilt thou then do, if Death and Hell shall come to visit thee, +and thou in thy sins, and under the Curse of the Law?</p> +<p>Atten. This was honest and plain: but what said Mr. +Badman to her?</p> +<p>Wise. He did what he could to divert her talk, <a +name="citation151a"></a><a href="#footnote151a" +class="citation">[151a]</a> by throwing in other things; he also +shewed some kind of pity to her now, and would ask her, What she +would have? and with various kind of words put her out of her +talk; for when she see that she was not regarded, she fetcht a +deep sigh, and lay still. So he went down, and then she +called for her Children, and began to talk to them. And +first she spake to those that were rude, <a +name="citation151b"></a><a href="#footnote151b" +class="citation">[151b]</a> and told them the danger of dying +before they had grace in their hearts. She told them also, +that Death might be nearer them than they were aware of; and bid +them look, when they went through the Church-yard again, if there +was not little graves there. And, ah children, said she, +will it not be dreadful to you, if we only shall meet at the day +of Judgment, and then part again, and never see each other +more? And with that she wept, the Children (also) wept; so +she held on her discourse: Children, said she, I am going from +you, I am going to Jesus Christ, and with him there is neither +sorrow, nor sighing, nor pain, nor tears, nor death. <a +name="citation151c"></a><a href="#footnote151c" +class="citation">[151c]</a> Thither would I have you go +also, but I can neither carry you, nor fetch you thither; but if +you shall turn from your sins to God, and shall beg mercy at his +hands by Jesus Christ, you shall follow me, and shall, when you +dye, come to the place where I am going, that blessed place of +Rest: and then we shall be for ever together, beholding the face +of our Redeemer, to our mutual and eternal joy. So she bid +them remember the words of a dying mother when she was cold in +her grave, and themselves were hot in their sins, if perhaps her +words might put check to their vice, and that they might remember +and turn to God.</p> +<p>Then they all went down; but her <a name="citation151d"></a><a +href="#footnote151d" class="citation">[151d]</a> Darling, to wit, +the child that she had most love for, because it followed her +ways. So she addressed her self to that. Come to me, +said she, my sweet child, thou art the child of my joy: I have +lived to see thee a Servant of God; thou shalt have eternal +life. I, my sweet heart, shall goe before, and thou shalt +follow after; if thou shalt hold the beginning of thy confidence +stedfast to the end. <a name="citation152a"></a><a +href="#footnote152a" class="citation">[152a]</a> When I am +gone, do thou still remember my words, love thy Bible, follow my +Ministers, deny ungodliness still, and if troublous times shall +come, set an higher price upon Christ, his Word and Wayes, and +the testimony of a good conscience, than upon all the world +besides. Carry it kindly and dutifully to thy Father, but +choose none of his ways. If thou mayest, goe to service, +choose that, rather than to stay at home; but then be sure to +choose a service where thou mayest be helped forwards in the way +to heaven; and that thou mayest have such a service, speak to my +Minister, he will help thee, if possible, to such an one.</p> +<p>I would have thee also, my dear child, to love thy Brothers +and Sisters, but learn none of their naughty tricks. Have +no fellowship with the unfruitfull works of darkness, but rather +reprove them. <a name="citation152b"></a><a href="#footnote152b" +class="citation">[152b]</a> Thou hast Grace, they have +none: do thou therefore beautifie the way of salvation before +their eyes, by a godly life, and conformable conversation to the +revealed will of God, that thy Brothers and Sisters may see and +be the more pleased with the good wayes of the Lord.</p> +<p>If thou shalt live to marry, take heed of being served as I +was; that is, of being beguiled with fair words, and the +flatteries of a lying tongue. But first be sure of +godliness. Yea, as sure as it is possible for one to be in +this world: trust not thine own eyes, nor thine own Judgment; I +mean as to that persons godliness that thou art invited to +marry. Ask counsel of good men, and do nothing therein, if +he lives, without my Ministers advice. I have also my self +desired him to look after thee. Thus she talked to her +children, and gave them counsel, and after she had talked to this +a little longer, she kiss’d it, and bid it go down.</p> +<p>Well, in short, her time drew on, and the day that she must +die. So she <a name="citation152c"></a><a +href="#footnote152c" class="citation">[152c]</a> died with a soul +full of Grace, an heart full of comfort, and by her death ended a +life full of trouble. Her husband made a Funerall for her, +perhaps because he was glad he was rid of her, but we will leave +that to be manifest at Judgment.</p> +<p>Atten. This Woman died well: And now we are talking of +the dying of Christians, I will tell you a story of one that died +some time since in our Town. The man was a godly old +Puritan, for so the godly were called in time past. This +man after a long, and godly life, fell sick, of the sickness, +whereof he died. And as he lay drawing on, the woman that +looked to him thought she heard Musick, and that the sweetest +that ever she heard in her life, which also continued untill he +gave up the Ghost: +<a href="images/tnb.jpg"> +<img alt= +"Take note symbol" +title= +"Take note symbol" +src="images/tns.jpg" /> +</a>now when his soul departed from him, the Musick seemed to +withdraw and to go further and further off from the house, and so +it went untill the sound was quite gone out of hearing.</p> +<p>Wise. What do you think that might be?</p> +<p>Atten. For ought I know, the melodious Notes of Angels, +that were sent of God to fetch him to Heaven.</p> +<p>Wise. I cannot say but that God goes out of his Ordinary +Road with us poor mortals sometimes. I cannot say this of +this woman, but yet she had better musick in her heart than +sounded in this womans ears.</p> +<p>Atten. I believe so; but pray tell me, did any of her +other children hearken to her words, so as to be bettered in +their souls thereby?</p> +<p>Wise. One of them did, <a name="citation153b"></a><a +href="#footnote153b" class="citation">[153b]</a> and became a +very hopefull young man: but for the rest I can say nothing.</p> +<p>Atten. And what did Badman do after his wife was +dead?</p> +<p>Wise. Why even as he did before, he scarce mourned a +fortnight for her, and his mourning then was, I doubt, more in +fashion than in heart.</p> +<p>Atten. Would he not sometimes talk of his Wife, when she +was dead?</p> +<p>Wise. Yes, when the fit took him, and could commend her +too extremely; saying, she was a good, godly, vertuous +woman. But this is not a thing to be wondred at: It is +common with wicked men, to hate Gods Servants while alive, and to +commend them when they are dead. So served the Pharisees +the Prophets: Those of the Prophets that were dead, they +commended; and those of them that were alive they condemned. <a +name="citation153c"></a><a href="#footnote153c" +class="citation">[153c]</a></p> +<p>Atten. But did not Mr. Badman marry again quickly?</p> +<p>Wise. No, not a good while after: and when he was asked +the reason, he would make this slighty answer, Who would keep a +Cow of their own, that can have a quart of milk for a penny? <a +name="citation154a"></a><a href="#footnote154a" +class="citation">[154a]</a> Meaning, Who would be at the +charge to have a Wife, that can have a Whore when he +listeth? So villanous, so abominable did he continue after +the death of his wife. Yet at last there was one was too +hard for him. For, getting of him to her upon a time, and +making of him sufficiently drunk, she was so cunning as to get a +promise of marriage of him, and so held him to it, and forced him +to marry her. <a name="citation154b"></a><a href="#footnote154b" +class="citation">[154b]</a> And she, as the saying is, was +as good as he, <a name="citation154c"></a><a href="#footnote154c" +class="citation">[154c]</a> at all his vile and ranting tricks: +she had her companions as well as he had his, and she would meet +them too at the Tavern and Ale-house, more commonly than he was +aware of. To be plain, she was a very Whore, and had as +great resort came to her, where time and place was appointed, as +any of them all. Aie, and he smelt it too, but could not +tell how to help it. For if he began to talk, she could lay +in his dish the whores that she knew he haunted, and she could +fit him also with cursing and swearing, for she would give him +Oath for Oath, and Curse for Curse.</p> +<p>Atten. What kind of oaths would she have?</p> +<p>Wise. Why damn her, and sink her, and the like.</p> +<p>Atten. These are provoking things.</p> +<p>Wise. So they are: but God doth not altogether let such +things goe unpunished in this life. Something of this I +have shewed you already, and will here give you one or two +Instances more.</p> +<p>There lived, saith one, <a name="citation154d"></a><a +href="#footnote154d" class="citation">[154d]</a> in the year +1551. in a city of Savoy, a man who was a monstrous Curser and +Swearer, and though he was often admonished and blamed for it, +yet would he by no means mend his manners. At length a +great plague happening in the City, he withdrew himself into a +Garden, where being again admonished to give over his wickedness, +he hardned his heart more, Swearing, Blaspheming God, and giving +himself to the Devil: And immediately the Devil snatched him up +suddenly, his wife and kinswoman looking on, and carried him +quite away. The Magistrates advertised hereof, went to the +place and examined the Woman, who justified the truth of it.</p> +<p>Also at Oster in the Dutchy of Magalapole, (saith Mr. Clark) a +wicked Woman, used in her cursing to give herself body and soul +to the Devil, and being reproved for it, still continued the +same; till (being at a Wedding-Feast) the Devil came in person, +and carried her up into the Air, with most horrible outcries and +roarings: And in that sort carried her round about the Town, that +the Inhabitants were ready to dye for fear: And by and by he tore +her in four pieces, leaving her four quarters in four several +high-wayes; and then brought her Bowels to the Marriage-feast, +and threw them upon the Table before the Maior of the Town, +saying, Behold, these dishes of meat belong to thee, whom the +like destruction waiteth for, if thou dost not amend thy wicked +life.</p> +<p>Atten. Though God forbears to deal thus with all men +that thus rend and tare his Name, and that immediate Judgments do +not overtake them; yet he makes their lives by other Judgments +bitter to them, does he not?</p> +<p>Wise. Yes, yes. And for proof, I need goe no +further than to this Badman and his wife; for their railing, and +cursing, and swearing ended not in words: They would fight and +fly at each other, and that like Cats and Dogs. But it must +be looked upon as the hand and Judgment of God upon him for his +villany; he had an honest woman before, but she would not serve +his turn, and therefore God took her away, and gave him one as +bad as himself. Thus that measure that he meted to his +first wife, this last did mete to him again. And this is a +punishment, wherewith sometimes God will punish wicked men. +So said Amos to Amaziah: Thy wife shall be an Harlot in the City. +<a name="citation155"></a><a href="#footnote155" +class="citation">[155]</a> With this last wife Mr. Badman +lived a pretty while; but, as I told you before, in a most sad +and hellish manner. And now he would bewail his first wifes +death: not of love that he had to her Godliness, for that he +could never abide, but for that she used alwayes to keep home, +whereas this would goe abroad; his first wife was also honest, +and true to that Relation, but this last was a Whore of her Body: +The first woman loved to keep things together, but this last +would whirl them about as well as he: The first would be silent +when he chid, and would take it patiently when he abused her, but +this would give him word for word, blow for blow, curse for +curse; so that now Mr. Badman had met with his match: <a +name="citation156a"></a><a href="#footnote156a" +class="citation">[156a]</a> God had a mind to make him see the +baseness of his own life, in the wickedness of his wives. <a +name="citation156b"></a><a href="#footnote156b" +class="citation">[156b]</a> But all would not do with Mr. +Badman, he would be Mr. Badman still: This Judgment did not work +any reformation upon him, no, not to God nor man.</p> +<p>Atten. I warrant you that Mr. Badman thought when his +wife was dead, that next time he would match far better.</p> +<p>Wise. What he thought I cannot tell, but he could not +hope for it in this match. For here he knew himself to be +catcht, he knew that he was by this woman intangled, and would +therefore have gone back again, but could not. He knew her, +I say, to be a Whore before, and therefore could not promise +himself a happy life with her. For he or she that will not +be true to their own soul, will neither be true to husband nor +wife. And he knew that she was not true to her own soul, +and therefore could not expect she should be true to him but +Solomon says, An whore is a deep pit, and Mr. Badman found it +true. For when she had caught him in her pit, she would +never leave him till she had got him to promise her Marriage; and +when she had taken him so far, she forced him to marry +indeed. And after that, they lived that life that I have +told you.</p> +<p>Atten. But did not the neighbours take notice of this +alteration that Mr. Badman had made?</p> +<p>Wise. Yes; and many of his Neighbours, yea, many of +those that were carnal said, <a name="citation156c"></a><a +href="#footnote156c" class="citation">[156c]</a> ’Tis a +righteous Judgment of God upon him, for his abusive carriage and +language to his other wife: for they were all convinced that she +was a vertuous woman, and he, vile wretch, had killed her, I will +not say, with, but with the want of kindness.</p> +<p>Atten. And how long I pray did they live thus +together?</p> +<p>Wise. Some fourteen or sixteen years, even untill +(though she also brought somthing with her) they had sinned all +away, and parted as poor as Howlets. <a +name="citation156d"></a><a href="#footnote156d" +class="citation">[156d]</a> And, in reason, how could it be +otherwise? he would have his way, and she would have hers; he +among his companions, and she among hers; he with his Whores, and +she with her Rogues; and so they brought their Noble to +Nine-pence.</p> +<p>Atten. Pray of what disease did Mr. Badman die, for now +I perceive we are come up to his death?</p> +<p>Wise. I cannot so properly say that he died of one +disease, <a name="citation157a"></a><a href="#footnote157a" +class="citation">[157a]</a> for there were many that had +consented, and laid their heads together to bring him to his +end. He was dropsical, he was consumptive, he was +surfeited, was gouty, and, as some say, he had a tang of the Pox +in his bowels. Yet the Captain of all these men of death +that came against him to take him away, was the Consumption, for +’twas that that brought him down to the grave.</p> +<p>Atten. Although I will not say, but the best men may die +of a consumption, a dropsie, or a surfeit; yea, that these may +meet upon a man to end him: yet I will say again, that many times +these diseases come through mans inordinate use of things. +Much drinking brings dropsies, consumptions, surfeits, and many +other diseases; and I doubt, that Mr. Badman’s death did +come by his abuse of himself in the use of lawfull and unlawfull +things. I ground this my sentence upon that report of his +life that you at large have given me.</p> +<p>Wise. I think verily that you need not call back your +sentence; for ’tis thought by many, that by his Cups and +his Queans he brought himself to this his destruction: he was not +an old man when he dyed, nor was he naturally very feeble, but +strong, and of a healthy complexion: Yet, as I said, he moultered +away, and went, when he set a going, rotten to his Grave. +And that which made him stink when he was dead, I mean, that made +him stink in his Name and Fame, was, that he died with a spice of +the foul disease upon him: A man whose life was full of sin, and +whose death was without repentance.</p> +<p>Atten. These were blemishes sufficient to make him stink +indeed.</p> +<p>Wise. They were so, and they did do it. No man +could speak well of him when he was gone. <a +name="citation157b"></a><a href="#footnote157b" +class="citation">[157b]</a> His Name rotted above ground, +as his Carkass rotted under. And this is according to the +saying of the wise man: The memory of the just is blessed, but +the name of the wicked shall rot. <a name="citation157c"></a><a +href="#footnote157c" class="citation">[157c]</a></p> +<p>This Text, in both the parts of it, was fulfilled upon him and +the woman that he married first. For her Name still did +flourish, though she had been dead almost seventeen years; but +his began to stink and rot, before he had been buried seventeen +dayes.</p> +<p>Atten. That man that dieth with a life full of sin, and +with an heart void of repentance, although he should die of the +most Golden disease (if there were any that might be so called) I +will warrant him his Name shall stink, and that in Heaven and +Earth.</p> +<p>Wise. You say true; and therefore doth the name of Cain, +Pharaoh, Saul, Judas, and the Pharisees, though dead thousands of +years agoe, stink as fresh in the nostrils of the world as if +they were but newly dead.</p> +<p>Atten. I do fully acquiesce with you in this. But, +Sir, since you have charged him with dying impenitent, pray let +me see how you will prove it: <a name="citation158a"></a><a +href="#footnote158a" class="citation">[158a]</a> not that I +altogether doubt it, because you have affirmed it, but yet I love +to have proof for what men say in such weighty matters.</p> +<p>Wise. When I said, he died without repentance, I meant, +so far as those that knew him, could judge, when they compared +his Life, the Word, and his Death together.</p> +<p>Atten. Well said, they went the right way to find out +whether he had, that is, did manifest that he had repentance or +no. Now then shew me how they did prove he had none?</p> +<p>Wise. So I will: And first, <a +name="citation158b"></a><a href="#footnote158b" +class="citation">[158b]</a> this was urged to prove it. He +had not in all the time of his sickness, a sight and sence of his +sins, but was as secure, and as much at quiet, as if he had never +sinned in all his life.</p> +<p>Atten. I must needs confess that this is a sign he had +none. For how can a man repent of that of which he hath +neither sight nor sence? But ’tis strange that he had +neither sight nor sence of sin now, when he had such a sight and +sence of his evil before: I mean when he was sick before.</p> +<p>Wise. He was, as I said, as secure now, as if he had +been as sinless as an Angel; though all men knew what a sinner he +was, for he carried his Sins in his Forehead. His debauched +Life was read and known of all men; but his Reputation was read +and known of no man; for, as I said, he had none. And for +ought I know, the reason he had no sence of his sins now, was +because he profited not by that sence that he had of them +before. He liked not to retain that knowledge of God then, +that caused his sins to come to remembrance: Therefore God gave +him up now to a reprobate mind, to hardness and stupidity of +Spirit; and so was that Scripture fulfilled upon him, He hath +blinded their eyes. And that, Let their eyes be darkned +that they may not see. <a name="citation159a"></a><a +href="#footnote159a" class="citation">[159a]</a> Oh! for a +man to live in sin, and to go out of the world without Repentance +for it, is the saddest Judgement that can overtake a man.</p> +<p>Atten. But, Sir, although both you and I have consented +that <a name="citation159b"></a><a href="#footnote159b" +class="citation">[159b]</a> without a sight and sence of sin +there can be no Repentance, yet that is but our bare Say-so; let +us therefore now see if by the Scripture we can make it good.</p> +<p>Wise. That is easily done. The three thousand that +were converted, (Acts the second,) repented not, till they had +sight and sence of their sins: <a name="citation159c"></a><a +href="#footnote159c" class="citation">[159c]</a> Paul repented +not till he had sight and sence of his sins: the Jailor repented +not till he had sight and sence of his sins: nor could +they. For of what should a man repent? The Answer is, +of Sin. What is it to Repent of sin? The answer is, +To be sorry for it, to turn from it. <a +name="citation159d"></a><a href="#footnote159d" +class="citation">[159d]</a> But how can a man be sorry for +it, that has neither sight nor sence of it. David did, not +only commit sins, but abode impenitent for them, untill Nathan +the Prophet was sent from God to give him a sight and sence of +them; <a name="citation159e"></a><a href="#footnote159e" +class="citation">[159e]</a> and then, but not till then, he +indeed repented of them. Job, in order to his Repentance, +cries unto God, Shew me wherefore thou contendest with me. +And again, That which I see not teach thou me, I have born +chastisement, I will not offend any more: <a +name="citation159f"></a><a href="#footnote159f" +class="citation">[159f]</a> That is, not in what I know, for I +will repent of it; nor yet in what I know not, when thou shalt +shew me it.</p> +<p>Also Ephraims Repentance was after he was turned to the sight +and sence of his sins, and after he was instructed about the evil +of them. <a name="citation159g"></a><a href="#footnote159g" +class="citation">[159g]</a></p> +<p>Atten. These are good testimonies of this truth, and doe +(if matter of fact, with which Mr. Badman is charged, be true), +prove indeed that he did not repent, but as he lived, so he dyed +in his sin: For without Repentance a man is sure to dye in his +sin; for they will lie down in the dust with him, <a +name="citation160a"></a><a href="#footnote160a" +class="citation">[160a]</a> rise at the Judgement with him, hang +about his Neck like Cords and Chains when he standeth at the +Barre of Gods Tribunal, and goe with him too when he goes away +from the Judgment-seat, with a Depart from me ye cursed into +everlasting fire, prepared for the Devil and his Angels; and +there shall fret and gnaw his Conscience, because they will be to +him a never-dying worm. <a name="citation160b"></a><a +href="#footnote160b" class="citation">[160b]</a></p> +<p>Wise. You say well, and I will add a word or two more to +what I have said: Repentance, as it is not produced without a +sight and sence of sin, so every sight and sence of sin cannot +produce it: I mean, every sight and sence of sin cannot <a +name="citation160c"></a><a href="#footnote160c" +class="citation">[160c]</a> produce that Repentance, that is +Repentance unto salvation; repentance never to be repented +of. For it is yet fresh before us, that Mr. Badman had a +sight and sence of sin, in that fit of sickness that he had +before, but it dyed without procuring any such godly fruit; as +was manifest by his so soon returning with the Dog to his +Vomit. Many people think also that Repentance stands in +Confession of sin only, but they are very much mistaken: For +Repentance, as was said before, is a being sorry for, and a +turning from transgression to God by Jesus Christ. Now, if +this be true, that every sight and sence of sin will not produce +Repentance, then Repentance cannot be produced there where there +is no sight and sence of sin. That every sight and sence of +sin will not produce repentance, to wit, the godly repentance +that we are speaking of, is manifest in Cain, Pharaoh, Saul and +Judas, who all of them had sence, great sence of sin, but none of +them repentance unto life.</p> +<p>Now I conclude, that Mr. Badman did die impenitent, and so a +death most miserable.</p> +<p>Atten. But pray now, before we conclude our discourse of +Mr. Badman, give me another proof of his dying in his sins.</p> +<p>Wise. Another proof is this. <a +name="citation160d"></a><a href="#footnote160d" +class="citation">[160d]</a> He did not desire a sight and +sence of sins, that he might have repentance for them. Did +I say he did not desire it, I will add, he greatly desired to +remain in his security: and that I shall prove by that which +follows. First, he could not endure that any man, now, +should talk to him of his sinfull life, and yet that was the way +to beget a sight and sence of sin, and so of repentance from it +in his soul. But, I say, he could not endure such +discourse. Those men that did offer to talk unto him of his +ill-spent Life, they were as little welcome to him in the time of +his last sickness, as was Elijah when he went to meet with Ahab, +as he went down to take possession of Naboths Vineyard. +Hast thou found me, said Ahab, O mine enemy? <a +name="citation161a"></a><a href="#footnote161a" +class="citation">[161a]</a> So would Mr. Badman say in his +heart to and of those that thus did come to him, though indeed +they came even of love, to convince him of his evil life, that he +might have repented thereof, and have obtained mercy.</p> +<p>Atten. Did good men then goe to see him in his last +sickness?</p> +<p>Wise. Yes: Those that were his first wifes acquaintance, +they went to see him, and to talk with, and to him, if perhaps he +might now, at last, bethink himself, and cry to God for +mercy.</p> +<p>Atten. They did well to try now at last if they could +save his soul from Hell: But pray how can you tell that he did +not care for the company of such?</p> +<p>Wise. Because of the differing Carriage that he had for +them, from what he had when his old carnal companions came to see +him: When his old Campanions came to see him, he would stir up +himself as much as he could both by words and looks, to signifie +they were welcome to him; he would also talk with them freely, +and look pleasantly upon them, though the talk of such could be +none other but such as David said, carnal men would offer to him, +when they came to visit him in his sickness: If he comes to see +me, says he, he speaketh vanity, his heart gathereth iniquity to +itself. <a name="citation161b"></a><a href="#footnote161b" +class="citation">[161b]</a> But these kind of talks, I say, +Mr. Badman better brooked, than he did the company of better +men.</p> +<p>But I will more particularly give you a Character <a +name="citation161c"></a><a href="#footnote161c" +class="citation">[161c]</a> of his carriage to good men (and good +talk) when they came to see him.</p> +<p>1. When they were come, he would seem to fail in his +spirits at the sight of them.</p> +<p>2. He would not care to answer them to any of those +questions that they would at times put to him, to feel what sence +he had of sin, death, Hell, and Judgment: But would either say +nothing, or answer them by way of evasion, or else by telling of +them he was so weak and spent that he could not speak much.</p> +<p>3. He would never shew forwardness to speak to, or talk +with them, but was glad when they held their tongues. He +would ask them no question about his state and another world, or +how he should escape that damnation that he had deserved.</p> +<p>4. He had got a haunt at last to bid his wife and +keeper, when these good people attempted to come to see him, to +tell them that he was asleep or inclining to sleep, or so weak +for want thereof, that he could not abyde any noyse. And so +they would serve them time after time, till at last they were +discouraged from coming to see him any more.</p> +<p>5. He was so hardned, now, in this time of his sickness, +that he would talk, when his companions came unto him, to the +disparagement of those good men (and of their good doctrine too) +that of love did come to see him, and that did labour to convert +him.</p> +<p>6. When these good men went away from him, he would +never say, Pray when will you be pleased to come again, for I +have a desire to more of your company, and to hear more of your +good instruction? No not a word of that, but when they were +going would scarce bid them drink, or say, Thank you for your +good company, and good instruction.</p> +<p>7. His talk in his sickness with his companions, would +be of the World, as Trades, Houses, Lands, great Men, great +Titles, great places, outward Prosperity, or outward Adversity, +or some such carnal thing.</p> +<p>By all which I conclude, that he did not desire a sence and +sight of his sin, that he might repent and be saved.</p> +<p>Atten. It must needs be so as you say, if these things +be true that you have asserted of him. And I do the rather +believe them, because I think you dare not tell a lie of the +dead.</p> +<p>Wise. I was one of them that went to him, and that +beheld his carriage and manner of way, and this is a true +relation of it that I have given you.</p> +<p>Atten. I am satisfied. But pray if you can, shew +me now by the Word, what sentence of God doth pass upon such +men?</p> +<p>Wise. Why, the man that is thus averse to repentance, +that desires not to hear of his sins, that he might repent and be +saved; is said to be a man that saith unto God, Depart from me, +for I desire not the knowledge of thy wayes. <a +name="citation163a"></a><a href="#footnote163a" +class="citation">[163a]</a> He is a man that sayes in his +heart and with his actions, I have loved strangers, (sins) and +after them I will goe. He is a man that shuts his eyes, +stops his ears, and that turneth his spirit against God. +Yea he is the man that is at enmity with God, and that abhorres +him with his soul. <a name="citation163b"></a><a +href="#footnote163b" class="citation">[163b]</a></p> +<p>Atten. What other signe can you give me that Mr. Badman +died without repentance?</p> +<p>Wise. Why, he did never heartily cry to God for mercy +all the time of his affliction. <a name="citation163c"></a><a +href="#footnote163c" class="citation">[163c]</a> True, when +sinking fits, stitches, or pains took hold upon him, then he +would say as other carnal men use to do, Lord help me, Lord +strengthen me, Lord deliver me, and the like: But to cry to God +for mercy, that he did not, but lay, as I hinted before, as if he +never had sinned.</p> +<p>Atten. That is another bad sign indeed; for crying to +God for mercy, is one of the first signs of repentance. +When Paul lay repenting of his sin, upon his bed, the Holy Ghost +said of him, Behold he prayes. <a name="citation163d"></a><a +href="#footnote163d" class="citation">[163d]</a> But he +that hath not the first signs of repentance, ’tis a sign he +hath none of the other, and so indeed none at all. I do not +say, but there may be crying, where there may be no sign of +repentance. They cryed, says David, to the Lord, but he +answered them not; <a name="citation163e"></a><a +href="#footnote163e" class="citation">[163e]</a> but that he +would have done, if their cry had been the fruit of +repentance. But, I say, if men may cry, and yet have no +repentance, be sure, they have none, that cry not at all. +It is said in Job, They cry not when he bindeth them; <a +name="citation163f"></a><a href="#footnote163f" +class="citation">[163f]</a> that is, because they have no +repentance; no repentance, no cryes; false repentance, false +cryes; true repentance, true cryes.</p> +<p>Wise. I know that it is as possible for a man to forbear +crying that hath repentance, as it is for a man to forbear +groaning that feeleth deadly pain. He that looketh into the +Book of Psalms, (where repentance is most lively set forth even +in its true and proper effects,) shall there find, that crying, +strong crying, hearty crying, great crying, and uncessant crying, +hath been the fruits of repentance: (But none of this had this +Mr. Badman, therefore he dyed in his sins.)</p> +<p>That Crying is an inseparable effect of repentance, is seen in +these Scriptures. Have mercy upon me, O God, according to +the multitude of thy tender mercies, blot out my +transgressions. O Lord, rebuke me not in thine anger, +neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. Have mercy upon +me, O Lord, for I am weak. O Lord, heal me for my bones are +vexed. My soul is also vexed, but thou, O Lord, how long: +Return, O Lord, deliver my soul: O save me for thy mercies sake: +O Lord, rebuke me not in thy wrath, neither chasten me in thy hot +displeasure; for thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand +presseth me sore. There is no soundness in my flesh, +because of thine anger, neither is there any rest in my bones, +because of my sin. For mine iniquities are gone over mine +head, as an heavy burthen, they are too heavy for me. My +wounds stink and are corrupt; because of my foolishness. I +am troubled, I am bowed down greatly, I goe mourning all the day +long. My loyns are filled with a loathsom disease, and +there is no soundness in my flesh. I am feeble, and sore +broken, I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart. +<a name="citation164a"></a><a href="#footnote164a" +class="citation">[164a]</a></p> +<p>I might give you a great number more of the holy sayings of +good men, whereby they express how they were, what they felt, and +whether they cryed or no, when repentance was wrought in +them. Alas, alas, it is as possible for a man, when the +pangs of Guilt are upon him to forbear praying, as it is for a +woman when pangs of travel are upon her to forbear crying. +If all the world should tell me that such a man hath repentance, +yet if he is not a praying man, I should not be perswaded to +believe it.</p> +<p>Atten. I know no reason why you should: for there is +nothing can demonstrate that such a man hath it. But pray +Sir, what other sign have you, by which you can prove that Mr. +Badman died in his sins, and so in a state of damnation?</p> +<p>Wise. I have this to prove it. <a +name="citation164b"></a><a href="#footnote164b" +class="citation">[164b]</a> Those who were his old sinfull +companions in the time of his health, were those whose company +and carnal talk he most delighted in, in the time of his +sickness. I did occasionally hint this before, but now I +make it an argument of his want of grace: for where there is +indeed a work of Grace in the heart, that work doth not only +change the heart, thoughts and desires, but the conversation +also; yea conversation and company too. When Paul had a +work of grace in his soul, he assayed to Joyn himself to the +Disciples. He was for his old companions in their +abominations no longer: he was now a Disciple, and was for the +company of Disciples. And he was with them coming in and +going out in Jerusalem. <a name="citation165a"></a><a +href="#footnote165a" class="citation">[165a]</a></p> +<p>Atten. I thought something when I heard you make mention +of it before. Thought I, this is a shrewd sign that he had +not grace in his heart. Birds of a feather, thought I, will +flock together: If this man was one of Gods children, he would +heard with Gods children, his delight would be with, and in the +company of Gods children. As David said, I am a companion +of all them that fear thee, and of them that keep thy precepts. +<a name="citation165b"></a><a href="#footnote165b" +class="citation">[165b]</a></p> +<p>Wise. You say well, for what fellowship hath he that +believeth with an Infidel? And although it be true, that +all that joyn to the godly are not godly, yet they that shall +inwardly choose the company of the ungodly and open profane, +rather than the company of the godly, as Mr. Badman did; surely +are not godly men, but profane. He was, as I told you, out +of his element, when good men did come to visit him, but then he +was where he would be, when he had his vain companions about +him. Alas! grace, as I said, altereth all, heart, life, +company, and all; for by it the heart and man is made new: and a +new heart, a new man, must have objects of delight that are new, +and like himself: Old things are passed away; Why? For all +things are become new. <a name="citation165c"></a><a +href="#footnote165c" class="citation">[165c]</a> Now if all +things are become new, to wit, heart, mind, thoughts, desires, +and delights, it followeth by consequence that the company must +be answerable: hence it is said, That they that believed were +together; that they went to their own company; that they were +added to the Church; that they were of one heart and of one soul; +<a name="citation165d"></a><a href="#footnote165d" +class="citation">[165d]</a> and the like. Now if it be +objected that Mr. Badman was sick, and so could not goe to the +godly, yet he had a tongue in his head, and could, had he had an +heart, have spoken to some to call or send for the godly to come +to him. Yea, he would have done so; yea the company of all +others, specially his fellow sinners, would, even in every +appearance of them before him, have been a burden and a grief +unto him. His heart and affection standing bent to good, +good companions would have suited him best. But his +Companions were his old Associates, his delight was in them, +therefore his heart and soul were yet ungodly.</p> +<p>Atten. Pray how was he when he drew near his end? for I +perceive that what you say of him now, hath reference to him, and +to his actions, at the beginning of his sickness? Then he +could endure company, and much talk; besides, perhaps then he +thought he should recover and not die, as afterwards he had cause +to think, when he was quite wasted with pining sickness, when he +was at the graves mouth. But how was he, I say, when he was +(as we say) at the graves mouth, within a step of death? when he +saw, and knew, and could not but know, that shortly he must dye, +and appear before the Judgment of God?</p> +<p>Wise. Why <a name="citation166a"></a><a +href="#footnote166a" class="citation">[166a]</a> there was not +any other alteration in him, than what was made by his disease +upon his body: sickness, you know, will alter the body, also +pains and stitches will make men groan; but for his mind he had +no alteration there. His mind was the same, his heart was +the same. He was the self-same Mr. Badman still: not onely +in Name but Conditions, and that to the very day of his death: +yea, so far as could be gathered to the very moment in which he +died.</p> +<p>Atten. Pray how was he in his death? was Death strong +upon him? or did he dye with ease, quietly?</p> +<p>Wise. As quietly as a <a name="citation166b"></a><a +href="#footnote166b" class="citation">[166b]</a> Lamb. +There seemed not to be in it, to standers by, so much as a strong +struggle of Nature: and as for his Mind, it seemed to be wholly +at quiet. But pray why do you ask me this question?</p> +<p>Atten. Not for mine own sake, but for others. For +there is such <a name="citation166c"></a><a href="#footnote166c" +class="citation">[166c]</a> an opinion as this among the +ignorant: That if a man dies, as they call it, like a Lamb, that +is, quietly, and without that consternation of mind that others +shew in their death, they conclude, and that beyond all doubt, +that such an one is gone to Heaven, and is certainly escaped the +wrath to come.</p> +<p>Wise. There is no Judgment to be made by a quiet death, +of the Eternal state of him that so dieth. Suppose one man +should die quietly, another should die suddenly, and a third +should die under great consternation of spirit; no man can Judge +of their eternall condition by the manner of any of these kinds +of deaths. He that dies quietly, suddenly, or under +consternation of spirit, may goe to Heaven, or may goe to Hell; +no man can tell whether a man goes, by any such manner of +death. The <a name="citation167a"></a><a +href="#footnote167a" class="citation">[167a]</a> Judgment +therefore that we make of the eternall condition of a man must be +gathered from another consideration: To wit, Did the man die in +his sins? did he die in unbelief? did he die before he was born +again? then he is gone to the Devil and hell, though he died +never so quietly. Again, Was the man a good man? had he +faith and holiness? was he a lover and a Worshipper of God by +Christ, according to his Word? Then he is gone to God and +Heaven, how suddenly, or in what consternation of mind soever he +died: But Mr. Badman was naught, his life was evil, his wayes +were evil; evil to his end: he therefore went to Hell and to the +Devil, how quietly soever he died.</p> +<p>Indeed there is, in some cases, a Judgment to be made of a +mans eternal condition by the manner of the death he dieth. <a +name="citation167b"></a><a href="#footnote167b" +class="citation">[167b]</a> As suppose now a man should +murder himself, or live a wicked life, and after that die in +utter despair; these men without doubt do both of them goe to +Hell. And here I will take an occasion to speak of two of +Mr. Badmans Brethren, (for you know I told you before that he had +Brethren,) and of the manner of their death. One of them +killed himself, and the other after a wicked life died in utter +despair. Now I should not be afraid to conclude of both +these, that they went by, and through their death to hell.</p> +<p>Atten. Pray tell me concerning the first, how he made +away himself?</p> +<p>Wise. Why, he took a knife and cut his own Throat, and +immediately gave up the Ghost and died. Now what can we +judge of such a mans condition; since the Scripture saith, No +murderer hath eternall life, &c. but that it must be +concluded, that such an one is gone to Hell. He was a +murderer, a Self-murderer; and he is the worst murderer, one that +slays his own body and soul: nor doe we find mention made of any +but cursed ones that doe such kind of deeds. I say, no +mention made in holy Writ of any others, but such, that murder +themselves.</p> +<p>And this is the sore Judgment of God upon men, when God shall, +for the sins of such, give them up to be their own Executioners, +or rather to execute his Judgment and Anger upon +themselves. And let me earnestly give this Caution to +sinners. Take heed, Sirs, break off your sins, lest God +serves you as he served Mr. Badmans Brother: That is, lest he +gives you up to be your own Murderers.</p> +<p>Atten. Now you talk of this. +<a href="images/tnb.jpg"> +<img alt= +"Take note symbol" +title= +"Take note symbol" +src="images/tns.jpg" /> +</a>I did once know a man, a Barber, that took his own Raisor, +and cut his own Throat, and then put his head out of his +Chamber-window, to shew the neighbours what he had done, and +after a little while died.</p> +<p>Wise. +<a href="images/tnb.jpg"> +<img alt= +"Take note symbol" +title= +"Take note symbol" +src="images/tns.jpg" /> +</a>I can tell you a more dreadful thing than this: I mean as to +the manner of doing the fact. <a name="citation168c"></a><a +href="#footnote168c" class="citation">[168c]</a> There was +about twelve years since, a man that lived at Brafield by +Northampton, (named John Cox) that murdered himself; the manner +of his doing of it was thus. He was a poor man, and had for +some time been sick (and the time of his sickness was about the +beginning of Hay-time;) and taking too many thoughts how he +should live afterwards, if he lost his present season of work, he +fell into deep despair about the world, and cryed out to his wife +the morning before he killed himself, saying, We are +undone. But quickly after, he desired his wife to depart +the room, Because, said he, I will see if I can get any rest; so +she went out: but he instead of sleeping, quickly took his +Raisor, and therewith cut up a great hole in his side, out of +which he pulled, and cut off some of his guts, and threw them, +with the blood up and down the Chamber. But this not +speeding of him so soon as he desired, he took the same Raisor +and therewith cut his own throat. His wife then hearing of +him sigh and fetch his wind short, came again into the room to +him, and seeing what he had done, she ran out and called in some +Neighbours, who came to him where he lay in a bloody manner, +frightfull to behold. Then said one of them to him, Ah! +John, what have you done? are you not sorry for what you have +done? He answered roughly, ’Tis too late to be +sorry. Then said the same person to him again, Ah! John, +pray to God to forgive thee this bloody act of thine. At +the hearing of which Exhortation, he seemed much offended, and in +angry manner said, Pray! and with that flung himself away to the +wall, and so after a few gasps died desperately. When he +had turned him of his back, to the wall, the blood ran out of his +belly as out of a boul, and soaked quite through the bed to the +boards, and through the chinks of the boards it ran pouring down +to the ground. Some said, that when the neighbours came to +see him, he lay groaping with his hand in his bowels, reaching +upward, as was thought, that he might have pulled or cut out his +heart. ’Twas said also, that some of his Liver had +been by him torn out and cast upon the boards, and that many of +his guts hung out of the bed on the side thereof. But I +cannot confirm all particulars; but the general of the story, +with these circumstances above mentioned, is true; I had it from +a sober and credible person, who himself was one that saw him in +this bloody state, and that talked with him, as was hinted +before.</p> +<p>Many other such dreadful things might be told you, but these +are enough, and too many too, if God in his wisdom had thought +necessary to prevent them.</p> +<p>Atten. This is a dreadful Story: and I would to God that +it might be a warning to others to instruct them to fear before +God, and pray, lest he gives them up to doe as John Cox hath +done. For surely self-murderers cannot goe to Heaven: and +therefore, as you have said, he that dieth by his own hands, is +certainly gone to Hell. But speak a word or two of the +other man you mentioned.</p> +<p>Wise. What? of a wicked man dying in Despair?</p> +<p>Atten. Yes, of a wicked man dying in despair.</p> +<p>Wise. Well then: <a name="citation169a"></a><a +href="#footnote169a" class="citation">[169a]</a> This Mr. Badmans +other Brother was a very wicked man, both in Heart and Life; I +say in Heart, because he was so in Life, nor could anything +reclaim him; neither good Men, good Books, good Examples, nor +Gods Judgements. Well, after he had lived a great while in +his sins, God smote with a sickness of which he died. Now +in his sickness his Conscience began to be awakened, and he began +to roar out of his ill-spent Life, insomuch that the Town began +to ring of him. Now when it was noysed about, many of the +Neighbours came to see him, and to read by him, as is the common +way with some; but all that they could doe, +<a href="images/tnb.jpg"> +<img alt= +"Take note symbol" +title= +"Take note symbol" +src="images/tns.jpg" /> +</a>could not abate his terror, but he would lie in his Bed +gnashing of his teeth, and wringing of his wrists, concluding +upon the Damnation of his Soul, and in that horror and despair he +dyed; not calling upon God, but distrusting in his Mercy, and +Blaspheming of his Name.</p> +<p>Atten. This brings to my mind a man that a Friend of +mine told me of. +<a href="images/tnb.jpg"> +<img alt= +"Take note symbol" +title= +"Take note symbol" +src="images/tns.jpg" /> +</a>He had been a wicked liver; so when he came to die, he fell +into despair, and having concluded that God had no mercy for him +he addressed himself to the Devil for favour, saying, Good Devil +be good unto me.</p> +<p>Wise. This is almost like Saul, who being forsaken of +God, went to the Witch of Endor, and so to the Devil for help. <a +name="citation170a"></a><a href="#footnote170a" +class="citation">[170a]</a> But alas, should I set my self +to collect these dreadful Stories, it would be easie in little +time to present you with hundreds of them: But I will conclude as +I began; They that are their own Murderers, or that die in +Despair, after they have lived a life of wickedness, do surely go +to Hell.</p> +<p>And here I would put in a Caution: Every one that dieth under +consternation of spirit; that is, under amazement and great fear, +do not therefore die in Despair: For a good man may have this for +his bands in his death, and yet go to Heaven and Glory. +For, as I said before, He that is a good man, a man that hath +Faith and Holiness, a lover and Worshipper of God by Christ, +according to his Word, may die in consternation of spirit: for +Satan will not be wanting to assault good men upon their +death-bed, but they are secured by the Word and Power of God; +yea, and are also helped, though with much agony of spirit, to +exercise themselves in Faith and Prayer, the which he that dieth +in Despair, can by no means doe. But let us return to Mr. +Badman, and enter further Discourse of the manner of his +Death.</p> +<p>Atten. I think you and I are both of a mind; for just +now I was thinking to call you back to him also. And pray +now, since it is your own motion to return again to him, let us +discourse a little more of his quiet and still death.</p> +<p>Wise. With all my heart. You know we were speaking +before of the manner of Mr. Badmans death: <a +name="citation171a"></a><a href="#footnote171a" +class="citation">[171a]</a> How that he dyed very stilly and +quietly; upon which you made observation, that the common people +conclude, that if a man dyes quietly, and as they call it, like a +Lamb, he is certainly gone to Heaven: when alas, if a wicked man +dyes quietly, if a man that has all his dayes lived in notorious +sin, dyeth quietly; his quiet dying is so far off from being a +sign of his being saved, that it is an uncontrollable proof of +his damnation. This was Mr. Badmans case, he lived wickedly +even to the last, and then went quietly out of the world: +therefore Mr. Badman is gone to Hell.</p> +<p>Att. Well, but since you are upon it, and also so +confident in it, to wit, that a man that lives a wicked life till +he dyes, and then dyes quietly, is gone to Hell; let me see what +shew of proof you have for this your opinion.</p> +<p>Wise. My first argument is drawn from the Necessity of +repentance: No man can be saved except he repents, nor can he +repent that sees not, that knows not that he is a sinner, and he +that knows himself to be a sinner, will, I will warrant him, be +molested for the time by that knowledge. <a +name="citation171b"></a><a href="#footnote171b" +class="citation">[171b]</a> This, as it is testified by all +the Scriptures, so it is testified by Christian experience. +He that knows of himself to be a sinner, is molested, especially +if that knowledge comes not to him untill he is cast upon his +death-bed; molested, I say, before he can dye quietly. Yea, +he is molested, dejected and cast down, he is also made to cry +out, to hunger and thirst after mercy by Christ, and if at all he +shall indeed come to die quietly, I mean with that quietness that +is begotten by Faith and Hope in Gods mercy (to the which Mr. +Badman and his brethren were utter strangers,) his quietness is +distinguished by all Judicious observers, by what went before it, +by what it flows from, and also by what is the fruit thereof.</p> +<p>I must confess I am no admirer of sick-bed repentance, for I +think verily it is seldom <a name="citation171c"></a><a +href="#footnote171c" class="citation">[171c]</a> good for any +thing: but I say, he that hath lived in sin and profaneness all +his dayes, as Mr. Badman did, and yet shall dye quietly, that is, +without repentance steps in ’twixt his life and death, he +is assuredly gone to Hell, and is damned.</p> +<p>Atten. This does look like an argument indeed; for +Repentance must come, or else we must goe to Hell-fire: and if a +lewd liver shall (I mean that so continues till the day of his +death), yet goe out of the world quietly, ’tis a sign that +he died without repentance, and so a sign that he is damned.</p> +<p>Wise. I am satisfied in it, for my part, and that from +the Necessity, and Nature of repentance. It is necessary, +because God calls for it, and will not pardon sin without it: +Except ye repent ye shall all likewise perish. This is that +which God hath said, and he will prove but a fool-hardy man that +shall yet think to goe to Heaven and glory without it. +Repent, for the Ax is laid to the root of the tree, every tree +therefore that bringeth not forth good fruit, (but no good fruit +can be where there is not sound repentance) shall be hewn down, +and cast into the fire. <a name="citation172a"></a><a +href="#footnote172a" class="citation">[172a]</a> This was +Mr. Badmans case, he had attending of him a sinfull life, and +that to the very last, and yet dyed quietly, that is, without +repentance; he is gone to Hell and is damned. For the +Nature of repentance, I have touched upon that already, and +shewed, that it never was where a quiet death is the immediate +companion of a sinfull life; and therefore Mr. Badman is gone to +Hell.</p> +<p>Secondly, <a name="citation172b"></a><a href="#footnote172b" +class="citation">[172b]</a> My second argument is drawn from that +blessed Word of Christ, While the strong man armed keeps the +house, his goods are in peace, till a stronger than he comes: but +the strong man armed kept Mr. Badmans house, that is, his heart, +and soul, and body, for he went from a sinfull life quietly, out +of this world: the stronger did not disturb by intercepting with +sound repentance, betwixt his sinful life and his quiet death: +Therefore Mr. Badman is gone to Hell.</p> +<p>The strong man armed is the Devil, and quietness is his +security. The Devil never fears losing of the sinner, if he +can but keep him quiet: can he but keep him quiet in a sinfull +life, and quiet in his death, he is his own. Therefore he +saith, his goods are in peace; that is, out of danger. +There is no fear of the Devils losing such a soul, I say, because +Christ, who is the best Judge in this matter, saith, his goods +are in peace, in quiet, and out of danger.</p> +<p>Atten. This is a good one too; <a +name="citation173a"></a><a href="#footnote173a" +class="citation">[173a]</a> for doubtless, peace and quiet with +sin, is one of the greatest signs of a damnable state.</p> +<p>Wise. So it is. Therefore, when God would shew the +greatness of his anger against sin and sinners in one word, he +saith, They are joyned to Idols, let them alone. <a +name="citation173b"></a><a href="#footnote173b" +class="citation">[173b]</a> Let them alone, that is, +disturb them not; let them goe on without controll; let the Devil +enjoy them peaceably, let him carry them out of the world +unconverted quietly. This is one of the sorest of +Judgments, and bespeaketh the burning anger of God against +sinfull men. See also when you come home, the fourteenth +Verse of the Chapter last mentioned in the Margent: I will not +punish your daughters when they commit Whoredom. I will let +them alone, they shall live and dye in their sins. But,</p> +<p>Thirdly, My third argument <a name="citation173c"></a><a +href="#footnote173c" class="citation">[173c]</a> is drawn from +that saying of Christ: He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened +their hearts; that they should not see with their eyes, nor +understand with their hearts, and be converted, and I should heal +them. <a name="citation173d"></a><a href="#footnote173d" +class="citation">[173d]</a></p> +<p>There are three things that I will take notice of from these +words.</p> +<p>1. The first is, That there can be no conversion to God +where the eye is darkned, and the heart hardened. The eye +must first be made to see, and the heart to break and relent +under and for sin, or else there can be no conversion. He +hath blinded their eyes, and hardned their hearts, lest they +should see, and understand and (So) be converted. And this +was clearly Mr. Badmans case, he lived a wicked life, and also +died with his eyes shut, and heart hardened, as is manifest, in +that a sinful life was joyned with a quiet death; and all for +that he should not be converted, but partake of the fruit of his +sinfull life in Hell fire.</p> +<p>2. The second thing that I take notice of from these +words is, That this is a dispensation and manifestation of Gods +anger against a man for his sin. When God is angry with +men, I mean, when he is so angry with them, this among many is +one of the Judgments that he giveth them up unto, to wit, to +blindness of mind, and hardness of heart, which he also suffereth +to accompany them till they enter in at the gates of death. +And then, and there, and not short of then and there, their eyes +come to be opened. Hence it is said of the rich man +mentioned in Luke, He dyed, and in Hell he lifted up his eyes: <a +name="citation174a"></a><a href="#footnote174a" +class="citation">[174a]</a> Implying that he did not lift them up +before: He neither saw what he had done, nor whither he was +going, till he came to the place of execution, even into +Hell. He died asleep in his soul; he dyed bespotted, +stupified, and so consequently for quietness, like a Child or +Lamb, even as Mr. Badman did: this was a sign of Gods anger; he +had a mind to damn him for his sins, and therefore would not let +him see nor have an heart to repent for them, lest he should +convert, and his damnation, which God had appointed, should be +frustrate: lest they should be converted, and I should heal +them.</p> +<p>3. The third thing that I take notice of from hence, is, +That a sinfull life and a quiet death annexed to it, is the +ready, the open, the beaten, the common high-way to Hell: there +is no surer sign of Damnation, than for a man to dye quietly +after a sinfull life. I do not say that all wicked men, +that are molested at their death with a sence of sin and fears of +Hell, do therefore goe to Heaven, (for some are also made to see, +and are left to despair (not converted by seeing) that they might +go roaring out of this world to their place:) But I say, +there is no surer sign of a mans Damnation, than to dye quietly +after a sinful life; than to sin, and dye with his eyes shut; +than to sin, and dye with an heart that cannot repent. He +hath blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, that they +should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart; +(no, not so long as they are in this world) lest they should see +with their eyes, and understand with their heart, and should be +converted, and I should heal them. <a name="citation174b"></a><a +href="#footnote174b" class="citation">[174b]</a></p> +<p>God has a Judgment for wicked men; God will be even with +wicked men: God knows how to reserve the ungodly to the day of +Judgment to be punished: <a name="citation174c"></a><a +href="#footnote174c" class="citation">[174c]</a> And this is one +of his wayes by which he doth it. Thus it was with Mr. +Badman.</p> +<p>4. Fourthly, <a name="citation174d"></a><a +href="#footnote174d" class="citation">[174d]</a> It is said in +the Book of Psalms, concerning the wicked, There is no bands in +their death, but their strength is firm. By no bands, he +means no troubles, no gracious chastisements, no such corrections +for sin as fall to be the Lot of Gods people for theirs; yea, +that many times falls to be theirs, at the time of their +death. Therefore he adds concerning the wicked, They are +not troubled (then) like other men, neither are they plagued like +other men; but go as securely out of the world, as if they had +never sinned against God, and put their own souls into danger of +damnation. There is no band in their death. They seem +to go unbound, and set at liberty, out of this world, though they +have lived notoriously wicked all their dayes in it. The +Prisoner that is to dye at the Gallows for his wickedness, must +first have his Irons knock’t off his legs; so he seems to +goe most at liberty, when indeed he is going to be executed for +his transgressions. Wicked men also have no bands in their +death, they seem to be more at liberty when they are even at the +Wind-up of their sinfull life, than at any time besides.</p> +<p>Hence you shall have them boast of their Faith and Hope in +Gods Mercy, when they lye upon their death-bed; yea, you shall +have them speak as confidently of their salvation, as if they had +served God all their dayes: when the truth is, the bottom of this +their boasting is, because they have no bands in their death.</p> +<p>Their sin and base life comes not into their mind to correct +them, and bring them to repentance; but presumptuous thoughts, +and an hope and faith of the Spiders (the Devils) making, +possesseth their soul, to their own eternal undoing. <a +name="citation175a"></a><a href="#footnote175a" +class="citation">[175a]</a></p> +<p>Hence wicked mens hope, is said to dye, not before, but with +them; they give up the Ghost together. And thus did Mr. +Badman. His sins and his hope went with him to the Gate, +but there his hope left him, because it dyed there; but his sins +went in with him, to be a worm to gnaw him in his conscience for +ever and ever.</p> +<p>The opinion therefore of the common people concerning this +kind of dying, is <a name="citation175b"></a><a +href="#footnote175b" class="citation">[175b]</a> frivolous and +vain; for Mr. Badman died like a Lamb, or as they call it, like a +Chrisom child, quietly and without fear. I speak not this +with reference to the strugling of nature with death, but as to +the strugling of the conscience with the Judgment of God. I +know that Nature will struggle with death. I have seen a +Dog and Sheep dye hardly: And thus may a wicked man doe, because +there is an antipathy betwixt nature and death. But even +while, even then, when Death and Nature are strugling for +mastery, the soul, the conscience, may be as besotted, as +benummed, as senceless and ignorant of its miserable state, as +the block or bed on which the sick lyes: And thus they may dye +like a Chrisom child in shew, but indeed like one who by the +Judgment of God is bound over to eternal damnation; and that also +by the same Judgment is kept from seeing what they are, and +whither they are going, till they plunge down among the +flames.</p> +<p>And as it is a very great Judgment of God on wicked men that +so dye, (for it cuts them off from all possibility of repentance, +and so of salvation) <a name="citation176a"></a><a +href="#footnote176a" class="citation">[176a]</a> so it is as +great a Judgment upon those that are their companions that +survive them. For by the manner of their death, they dying +so quietly, so like unto chrisom children, as they call it, they +are hardened, and take courage to go on in their course.</p> +<p>For comparing their life with their death, their sinful cursed +lives with their child-like, Lamb-like death, they think that all +is well, that no damnation is happened to them; Though they lived +like Devils incarnate, yet they dyed like harmless ones. +There was no whirl-wind, no tempest, no band, nor plague in their +death: They dyed as quietly as the most godly of them all, and +had as great faith and hope of salvation, and would talk as +boldly of salvation as if they had assurance of it. But as +was their hope in life, so was their death: Their hope was +without tryal, because it was none of Gods working, and their +death was without molestation, because so was the Judgment of God +concerning them.</p> +<p>But I say, at this their survivors take heart to tread their +steps, and to continue to live in the breach of the Law of God; +yea they carry it statelily in their villanies; for so it follows +in the Psalm. There is no bands in their death, but their +strength is firm, &c. Therefore pride compasseth them +(the survivors) about as a chain, violence covereth them as a +garment. <a name="citation176b"></a><a href="#footnote176b" +class="citation">[176b]</a> Therefore they take courage to +do evil, therefore they pride themselves in their iniquity. +Therefore, Wherefore? Why, because their fellows died, +after they had lived long in a most profane and wicked life, as +quietly and as like to Lambs, as if they had been innocent.</p> +<p>Yea, they are bold, by seeing this, to conclude, that God, +either does not, or will not take notice of their sins. +They speak wickedly, they speak loftily. They speak +wickedly of sin, for that they make it better than by the Word it +is pronounced to be. They speak wickedly concerning +oppression, that they commend, and count it a prudent act. +They also speak loftily: They set their mouth against the +Heavens, &c. And they say, How doth God know, and is +there knowledge in the most High? And all this, so far as I +can see, ariseth in their hearts from the beholding of the quiet +and lamb-like death of their companions. <a +name="citation177a"></a><a href="#footnote177a" +class="citation">[177a]</a></p> +<p>Behold these are the ungodly that prosper in the world, <a +name="citation177b"></a><a href="#footnote177b" +class="citation">[177b]</a> (that is, by wicked ways) they +increase in riches.</p> +<p>This therefore is a great Judgment of God, both upon that man +that dyeth in his sins, and also upon his companion that +beholdeth him so to dye. He sinneth, he dyeth in his sins, +and yet dyeth quietly. What shall his companion say to +this? What Judgment shall he make how God will deal with +him, by beholding the lamb-like death of his companion? Be +sure, he cannot, as from such a sight say, Wo be to me, for +Judgment is before him: He cannot gather, that sin is a dreadful +and a bitter thing, by the child-like death of Mr. Badman. +But must rather, if he judgeth according to what he sees, or +according to his corrupted reason, conclude with the wicked ones +of old, That every one that doth evil, is good in the sight of +the Lord, and he delighteth in them; or where is the God of +Judgment? <a name="citation177c"></a><a href="#footnote177c" +class="citation">[177c]</a></p> +<p>Yea, this is enough to puzzle the wisest man. David +himself, was put to a stand, by beholding the quiet death of +ungodly men. Verily, sayes he, I have cleansed my heart in +vain, and have washed my hands in innocency. Psal. 73. +13. They, to appearance fare better by far than I: Their +eyes stand out with fatness, they have more than heart can wish; +But all the day long have I been plagued, and chastned every +morning. This, I say, made David wonder, yea, and Job and +Jeremiah too: But he goeth into the Sanctuary, and then he +understands their end, nor could he understand it before. I +went into the Sanctuary of God: What place was that? why there +where he might enquire of God, and by him be resolved of this +matter: Then, says he, understood I their end. Then I saw, +that thou hast set them in slippery places, and that thou castest +them down to destruction. Castest them down, that is, +suddenly, or as the next words say, As in a moment they are +utterly consumed with terrors: which terrors did not cease them +on their sick-bed, for they had no bands in their death. +The terrors therefore ceased them there, where also they are +holden in them for ever. This he found out, I say, but not +without great painfulness, grief and pricking in his reins: so +deep, so hard and so difficult did he find it, rightly to come to +a determination in this matter.</p> +<p>And indeed, this is a deep Judgment of God towards ungodly +sinners; it is enough to stagger a whole world, only the Godly +that are in the world have a Sanctuary to go to, where the Oracle +and Word of God is, by which his Judgements, and a reason of many +of them are made known to, and understood by them.</p> +<p>Atten. Indeed this is a staggering dispensation. +It is full of the wisdom and anger of God. And I believe, +as you have said, that it is full of Judgment to the world. +Who would have imagined, that had not known Mr. Badman, and yet +had seen him die, but that he had been a man of an holy life and +conversation, since he died so stilly, so quietly, so like a Lamb +or Chrisom child? Would they not, I say, have concluded, +that he was a righteous man? or that if they had known him and +his life, yet to see him die so quietly, would they not have +concluded that he had made his peace with God? Nay further, +if some had known that he had died in his sins, and yet that he +died so like a Lamb, would they not have concluded, that either +God doth not know our sins, or that he likes them; or that he +wants power, or will, or heart, or skill to punish them; since +Mr. Badman himself went from a sinfull life so quietly, so +peaceably, and so like a Lamb as he did?</p> +<p>Wise. Without controversie, this is an heavy judgment of +God upon wicked men; (Job 21. 23) one goes to Hell in peace, +another goes to Hell in trouble; one goes to Hell being sent +thither by his own hands; another goes to Hell, being sent +thither by the hand of his companion; one goes thither with his +eyes shut, and another goes thither with his eyes open; one goes +thither roaring, and another goes thither boasting of Heaven and +Happiness all the way he goes: One goes thither like Mr. Badman +himself, and others go thither as did his Brethren. But +above all, Mr. Badmans death, as to the manner of dying, is the +fullest of Snares and Traps to wicked men; therefore they that +die as he, are the greatest stumble to the world: They goe, and +goe, they go on peaceably from Youth to old Age, and thence to +the Grave, and so to Hell, without noyse: They goe as an Ox to +the slaughter, and as a fool to the correction of the Stocks; +that is, both sencelesly and securely. O! but being come at +the gates of Hell! O! but when they see those gates set +open for them: O! but when they see that that is their home, and +that they must go in thither, then their peace and quietness +flies away for ever: Then they roar like Lions, yell like +Dragons, howl like Dogs, and tremble at their Judgment, as do the +Devils themselves. Oh! when they see they must shoot the +Gulf and Throat of Hell! when they shall see that Hell hath shut +her ghastly Jaws upon them! when they shall open their eyes, and +find themselves within the belly and bowels of Hell! then they +will mourn, and weep, and hack, and gnash their teeth for +pain. But this must not be (or if it must, yet very rarely) +till they are gone out of the sight and hearing of those mortals +whom they do leave behind them alive in the world.</p> +<p>Atten. Well, my good Neighbour Wiseman, I perceive that +the Sun grows low, and that you have come to a conclusion with +Mr. Badmans Life and Death; and therefore I will take my leave of +you. Only first, let me tell you, I am glad that I have met +with you to day, and that our hap was to fall in with Mr. Badmans +state. I also thank you for your freedom with me, in +granting of me your reply to all my questions: I would only beg +your Prayers; that God will give me much grace, that I may +neither live nor die as did Mr. Badman.</p> +<p>Wise. My good Neighbour Attentive, I wish your welfare +in Soul and Body; and if ought that I have said of Mr. Badmans +Life and-Death, may be of Benefit unto you, I shall be heartily +glad; only I desire you to thank God for it, and to pray heartily +for me, that I with you may be kept by the Power of God through +Faith unto Salvation.</p> +<p>Atten. Amen. Farewell.</p> +<p>Wise. I wish you heartily Farewell.</p> +<h2>MARGIN NOTES</h2> +<p><i>General note</i>. When Mr. Badman was printed much of +the text was annotated with notes in the margins. These are +unlike our modern footnotes in that they may apply to a range of +text rather than at a single point. However, in this +Project Gutenberg eText it has not been possible to reproduce the +margin notes as such and hence they have been turned into +footnotes.—DP.</p> +<p><a name="footnote1a"></a><a href="#citation1a" class="footnote">[1a]</a> Not included in this Project +Gutenberg eText as we have already released “The Holy +War.”—DP.</p> +<p><a name="footnote1b"></a><a href="#citation1b" class="footnote">[1b]</a> In this Project Gutenberg eText +italics have been dropped as they are excessive but otherwise the +text, complete with capitalisation, punctuation, spelling etc., +is as in the edition transcribed.—DP.</p> +<p><a name="footnote20a"></a><a href="#citation20a" class="footnote">[20a]</a> Original sin is the root of +Actual transgressions.</p> +<p><a name="footnote20b"></a><a href="#citation20b" class="footnote">[20b]</a> Mark 7.</p> +<p><a name="footnote21a"></a><a href="#citation21a" class="footnote">[21a]</a> Job 11. 12. Ezek. +16. Exod. 13. 13. Chap. 34. 20.</p> +<p><a name="footnote21b"></a><a href="#citation21b" class="footnote">[21b]</a> Rom. 5.</p> +<p><a name="footnote21c"></a><a href="#citation21c" class="footnote">[21c]</a> Badman addicted to Lying from a +child.</p> +<p><a name="footnote21d"></a><a href="#citation21d" class="footnote">[21d]</a> A Lie knowingly told +demonstrates that the heart is desperately hard.</p> +<p><a name="footnote22a"></a><a href="#citation22a" class="footnote">[22a]</a> The Lyers portion. Rev. +21. 8. 27. Chap. 22. 15.</p> +<p><a name="footnote22b"></a><a href="#citation22b" class="footnote">[22b]</a> Prov. 22. 15. Chap. 23. +13, 14.</p> +<p><a name="footnote22c"></a><a href="#citation22c" class="footnote">[22c]</a> Joh. 8. 44.</p> +<p><a name="footnote22d"></a><a href="#citation22d" class="footnote">[22d]</a> The Devils Brat.</p> +<p><a name="footnote22e"></a><a href="#citation22e" class="footnote">[22e]</a> Acts 5. 3, 4.</p> +<p><a name="footnote22f"></a><a href="#citation22f" class="footnote">[22f]</a> The Father and Mother of a +Lie.</p> +<p><a name="footnote23a"></a><a href="#citation23a" class="footnote">[23a]</a> Mark.</p> +<p><a name="footnote23b"></a><a href="#citation23b" +class="footnote">[23b]</a> Some will tell a Lie for a Peny +profit.</p> +<p><a name="footnote23c"></a><a href="#citation23c" +class="footnote">[23c]</a> An Example for Lyers. Acts +5.</p> +<p><a name="footnote24a"></a><a href="#citation24a" +class="footnote">[24a]</a> A Spirit of Lying accompanyed +with other sins.</p> +<p><a name="footnote24b"></a><a href="#citation24b" +class="footnote">[24b]</a> Badman given to pilfer.</p> +<p><a name="footnote24c"></a><a href="#citation24c" +class="footnote">[24c]</a> Badman would rob his Father.</p> +<p><a name="footnote24d"></a><a href="#citation24d" +class="footnote">[24d]</a> Exod. 20. 15.</p> +<p><a name="footnote25a"></a><a href="#citation25a" +class="footnote">[25a]</a> Zech. 5. 3.</p> +<p><a name="footnote25b"></a><a href="#citation25b" +class="footnote">[25b]</a> Jer. 2. 26. How Badman did +use to carry it when his Father used to chide him for his +sins.</p> +<p><a name="footnote25c"></a><a href="#citation25c" +class="footnote">[25c]</a> Badman more firmly knit to his +Companions than either to Father or Mother.</p> +<p><a name="footnote25d"></a><a href="#citation25d" +class="footnote">[25d]</a> Badman would rejoyce to think +that his Parents death were at hand.</p> +<p><a name="footnote26a"></a><a href="#citation26a" +class="footnote">[26a]</a> 1 Sam. 2. 25.</p> +<p><a name="footnote26b"></a><a href="#citation26b" class="footnote">[26b]</a> Badman counted his thieving no +great matter.</p> +<p><a name="footnote26d"></a><a href="#citation26d" class="footnote">[26d]</a> The Story of old Tod.</p> +<p><a name="footnote26e"></a><a href="#citation26e" +class="footnote">[26e]</a> Young Thieves takes notice.</p> +<p><a name="footnote27"></a><a href="#citation27" class="footnote">[27]</a> Old Tod began his way to the +Gallows by robbing of Orchards and the like.</p> +<p><a name="footnote28a"></a><a href="#citation28a" class="footnote">[28a]</a> Badman could not abide the Lords +Day.</p> +<p><a name="footnote28b"></a><a href="#citation28b" class="footnote">[28b]</a> Why Badman could not abide the +Lords Day.</p> +<p><a name="footnote29a"></a><a href="#citation29a" +class="footnote">[29a]</a> God proves the heart what it is, +by instituting of the Lords day, and setting it apart to his +service.</p> +<p><a name="footnote29b"></a><a href="#citation29b" +class="footnote">[29b]</a> Gen. 2. 2. Exod. 31. 13, +14, 15, 16, 17. Mar. 16. 1. Acts 20. 7. 1 Cor. +16. 1, 2. Mar. 2. 27, 28. Revel. 1. 10.</p> +<p><a name="footnote29c"></a><a href="#citation29c" +class="footnote">[29c]</a> Isa. 5. 8, 13.—Could not +see where this fits in the text.—DP.</p> +<p><a name="footnote29d"></a><a href="#citation29d" +class="footnote">[29d]</a> Chap. 56. 2.</p> +<p><a name="footnote29e"></a><a href="#citation29e" +class="footnote">[29e]</a> Amos 8. 5.</p> +<p><a name="footnote30a"></a><a href="#citation30a" +class="footnote">[30a]</a> Heb. 4. 9.</p> +<p><a name="footnote30b"></a><a href="#citation30b" +class="footnote">[30b]</a> How Badman did use to spend the +Lords Day.</p> +<p><a name="footnote30c"></a><a href="#citation30c" +class="footnote">[30c]</a> Ephes. 5. 6.</p> +<p><a name="footnote31a"></a><a href="#citation31a" +class="footnote">[31a]</a> Badman given to Swearing and +Cursing.</p> +<p><a name="footnote31b"></a><a href="#citation31b" +class="footnote">[31b]</a> Rom. 6. 13.</p> +<p><a name="footnote31c"></a><a href="#citation31c" +class="footnote">[31c]</a> Swearing and Cursing a badge of +Mr. Badmans honour.</p> +<p><a name="footnote31d"></a><a href="#citation31d" +class="footnote">[31d]</a> Difference betwixt Swearing and +Cursing.</p> +<p><a name="footnote31e"></a><a href="#citation31e" +class="footnote">[31e]</a> What Swearing is.</p> +<p><a name="footnote32a"></a><a href="#citation32a" +class="footnote">[32a]</a> Exod. 20. 7.</p> +<p><a name="footnote32b"></a><a href="#citation32b" +class="footnote">[32b]</a> A man may sin in swearing to a +truth. Jer. 5. 2.</p> +<p><a name="footnote32c"></a><a href="#citation32c" +class="footnote">[32c]</a> He that swears to a Lie, +concludes that God is as wicked as himself.</p> +<p><a name="footnote32d"></a><a href="#citation32d" +class="footnote">[32d]</a> Zech. 5. 3. Jer. 7. +9. Hos. 4. 2, 3.</p> +<p><a name="footnote33a"></a><a href="#citation33a" +class="footnote">[33a]</a> Six Causes of vain Swearing.</p> +<p><a name="footnote33b"></a><a href="#citation33b" +class="footnote">[33b]</a> Jam. 3. 6, 7, 8, 9.</p> +<p><a name="footnote34a"></a><a href="#citation34a" +class="footnote">[34a]</a> How Cursing is distinguished +from Swearing.</p> +<p><a name="footnote34b"></a><a href="#citation34b" +class="footnote">[34b]</a> Of Cursing, what it is.</p> +<p><a name="footnote34c"></a><a href="#citation34c" +class="footnote">[34c]</a> 2 Sam. 16. 6, 7, 8.</p> +<p><a name="footnote34d"></a><a href="#citation34d" +class="footnote">[34d]</a> 1 King. 2. 8.</p> +<p><a name="footnote34e"></a><a href="#citation34e" +class="footnote">[34e]</a> How the profane ones of our +times Curse.</p> +<p><a name="footnote35a"></a><a href="#citation35a" +class="footnote">[35a]</a> Job 30. 31.</p> +<p><a name="footnote35b"></a><a href="#citation35b" +class="footnote">[35b]</a> Badmans way of Cursing.</p> +<p><a name="footnote35c"></a><a href="#citation35c" +class="footnote">[35c]</a> The Damme Blade.</p> +<p><a name="footnote35d"></a><a href="#citation35d" +class="footnote">[35d]</a> Badman would curse his Father, +&c.</p> +<p><a name="footnote35e"></a><a href="#citation35e" +class="footnote">[35e]</a> Badman would curse his Fathers +Cattel.</p> +<p><a name="footnote36a"></a><a href="#citation36a" +class="footnote">[36a]</a> Job 15. Eccles. 7. 22.</p> +<p><a name="footnote36b"></a><a href="#citation36b" +class="footnote">[36b]</a> Four causes of Cursing.</p> +<p><a name="footnote36c"></a><a href="#citation36c" +class="footnote">[36c]</a> The dishonour it brings to +God.</p> +<p><a name="footnote36d"></a><a href="#citation36d" +class="footnote">[36d]</a> Jam. 3. 9.</p> +<p><a name="footnote37a"></a><a href="#citation37a" +class="footnote">[37a]</a> Swearing and Cursing, are sins +against the light of Nature.</p> +<p><a name="footnote37b"></a><a href="#citation37b" +class="footnote">[37b]</a> Gen. 31.</p> +<p><a name="footnote37c"></a><a href="#citation37c" +class="footnote">[37c]</a> Examples of Gods anger against +them that Swear and Curse.</p> +<p><a name="footnote40a"></a><a href="#citation40a" +class="footnote">[40a]</a> Psal. 109. 17,18.</p> +<p><a name="footnote40b"></a><a href="#citation40b" +class="footnote">[40b]</a> A grievous thing to bring up +Children wickedly.</p> +<p><a name="footnote41a"></a><a href="#citation41a" +class="footnote">[41a]</a> Badman put to be an +Apprentice.</p> +<p><a name="footnote41b"></a><a href="#citation41b" +class="footnote">[41b]</a> Young Badmans Master, and his +qualifications.</p> +<p><a name="footnote42a"></a><a href="#citation42a" +class="footnote">[42a]</a> A bad Master, a bad thing.</p> +<p><a name="footnote42b"></a><a href="#citation42b" +class="footnote">[42b]</a> How many ways a Master may be +the ruin of an Apprentice.</p> +<p><a name="footnote43a"></a><a href="#citation43a" +class="footnote">[43a]</a> Children are great observers of +what older folks doe.</p> +<p><a name="footnote43b"></a><a href="#citation43b" +class="footnote">[43b]</a> 1 Sam. 2.</p> +<p><a name="footnote43c"></a><a href="#citation43c" +class="footnote">[43c]</a> Badman had all advantages to be +good, but continued Badman still.</p> +<p><a name="footnote43d"></a><a href="#citation43d" +class="footnote">[43d]</a> All good things abominable to +Badman.</p> +<p><a name="footnote44a"></a><a href="#citation44a" +class="footnote">[44a]</a> Good counsel to Badman like +Little-Ease. Prov. 9. 8. Chap. 15. 12.</p> +<p><a name="footnote44b"></a><a href="#citation44b" +class="footnote">[44b]</a> How Badman used to behave +himself at Sermons.</p> +<p><a name="footnote45b"></a><a href="#citation45b" +class="footnote">[45b]</a> The desperate words of one H. S. +who once was my Companion. He was own bother to Ned, of +whom you read before.</p> +<p><a name="footnote45c"></a><a href="#citation45c" +class="footnote">[45c]</a> Job 21. 14. Zech. 1. 11, +12, 13.</p> +<p><a name="footnote45d"></a><a href="#citation45d" +class="footnote">[45d]</a> Zech. 7. 13.</p> +<p><a name="footnote46a"></a><a href="#citation46a" +class="footnote">[46a]</a> Gen. 21. 9, 10. 2 King. 2. +23, 24.</p> +<p><a name="footnote46b"></a><a href="#citation46b" +class="footnote">[46b]</a> Badmans Acquaintance.</p> +<p><a name="footnote46c"></a><a href="#citation46c" +class="footnote">[46c]</a> A Sign of Gods Anger.</p> +<p><a name="footnote46d"></a><a href="#citation46d" +class="footnote">[46d]</a> Rom. 1. 28.</p> +<p><a name="footnote46e"></a><a href="#citation46e" +class="footnote">[46e]</a> Psal. 125. 5.</p> +<p><a name="footnote46f"></a><a href="#citation46f" +class="footnote">[46f]</a> 2 Thess. 2. 10, 11, 12.</p> +<p><a name="footnote47a"></a><a href="#citation47a" +class="footnote">[47a]</a> Prov. 12. 20.</p> +<p><a name="footnote47b"></a><a href="#citation47b" +class="footnote">[47b]</a> The Devils Decoys.</p> +<p><a name="footnote47c"></a><a href="#citation47c" +class="footnote">[47c]</a> Prov. 1. 29.</p> +<p><a name="footnote47e"></a><a href="#citation47e" +class="footnote">[47e]</a> This was done at Bedford.</p> +<p><a name="footnote48a"></a><a href="#citation48a" +class="footnote">[48a]</a> Prov. 7. 12, 13.</p> +<p><a name="footnote48b"></a><a href="#citation48b" +class="footnote">[48b]</a> Prov. 5. 11.</p> +<p><a name="footnote48c"></a><a href="#citation48c" +class="footnote">[48c]</a> 2 Pet. 2. 12, 13.</p> +<p><a name="footnote48d"></a><a href="#citation48d" +class="footnote">[48d]</a> Badman becomes a frequenter of +Taverns.</p> +<p><a name="footnote48f"></a><a href="#citation48f" +class="footnote">[48f]</a> A Story for a Drunkard.</p> +<p><a name="footnote49a"></a><a href="#citation49a" +class="footnote">[49a]</a> Four evils attend +drunkenness.</p> +<p><a name="footnote49b"></a><a href="#citation49b" +class="footnote">[49b]</a> Prov. 23. 20, 21.</p> +<p><a name="footnote49c"></a><a href="#citation49c" +class="footnote">[49c]</a> Eccles. 7. 17.</p> +<p><a name="footnote49d"></a><a href="#citation49d" +class="footnote">[49d]</a> Prov. 23. 29, 30.</p> +<p><a name="footnote50a"></a><a href="#citation50a" +class="footnote">[50a]</a> 1 Cor. 6. 10.</p> +<p><a name="footnote50b"></a><a href="#citation50b" +class="footnote">[50b]</a> The fifth evil the worst.</p> +<p><a name="footnote50c"></a><a href="#citation50c" +class="footnote">[50c]</a> Prov. 23. 34, 35.</p> +<p><a name="footnote50d"></a><a href="#citation50d" +class="footnote">[50d]</a> An Objection answered.</p> +<p><a name="footnote50e"></a><a href="#citation50e" +class="footnote">[50e]</a> Habak. 2, 9, 10, 11, 12. +Ver. 5, 15.</p> +<p><a name="footnote51a"></a><a href="#citation51a" +class="footnote">[51a]</a> Badmans Masters Purse paid for +his drunkenness.</p> +<p><a name="footnote51b"></a><a href="#citation51b" +class="footnote">[51b]</a> A Caution for Masters.</p> +<p><a name="footnote52b"></a><a href="#citation52b" +class="footnote">[52b]</a> Badmans third companion addicted +to Uncleanness.</p> +<p><a name="footnote52c"></a><a href="#citation52c" +class="footnote">[52c]</a> Sins of great men dangerous.</p> +<p><a name="footnote53a"></a><a href="#citation53a" +class="footnote">[53a]</a> Prov. 5. 8.</p> +<p><a name="footnote53b"></a><a href="#citation53b" +class="footnote">[53b]</a> Chap. 7. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, +13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18.</p> +<p><a name="footnote53c"></a><a href="#citation53c" +class="footnote">[53c]</a> Signs of a whore.</p> +<p><a name="footnote54a"></a><a href="#citation54a" +class="footnote">[54a]</a> The sin of Uncleanness cried out +against.</p> +<p><a name="footnote54b"></a><a href="#citation54b" +class="footnote">[54b]</a> What evils attend this +sin. Prov. 6. 26.</p> +<p><a name="footnote54c"></a><a href="#citation54c" +class="footnote">[54c]</a> Gen. 38. 18.</p> +<p><a name="footnote54d"></a><a href="#citation54d" +class="footnote">[54d]</a> Prov. 31. 1, 2.</p> +<p><a name="footnote54f"></a><a href="#citation54f" +class="footnote">[54f]</a> A Story for unclean persons to +take notice of.</p> +<p><a name="footnote55a"></a><a href="#citation55a" +class="footnote">[55a]</a> More evils attend this sin.</p> +<p><a name="footnote55c"></a><a href="#citation55c" +class="footnote">[55c]</a> Job 31. 1, 2, 3.</p> +<p><a name="footnote56"></a><a href="#citation56" +class="footnote">[56]</a> Prov. 6. 33.</p> +<p><a name="footnote57"></a><a href="#citation57" +class="footnote">[57]</a> Prov. 6. 26.</p> +<p><a name="footnote58a"></a><a href="#citation58a" +class="footnote">[58a]</a> Chap. 23. 27. +Prov. 2. 18, 19. Chap. 7. 25, 26, 27.</p> +<p><a name="footnote58b"></a><a href="#citation58b" +class="footnote">[58b]</a> Prov. 22. 14.</p> +<p><a name="footnote58c"></a><a href="#citation58c" +class="footnote">[58c]</a> Ephes. 5. 5.</p> +<p><a name="footnote58d"></a><a href="#citation58d" +class="footnote">[58d]</a> Desperate words.</p> +<p><a name="footnote59b"></a><a href="#citation59b" +class="footnote">[59b]</a> Gen. 39. 10.</p> +<p><a name="footnote59c"></a><a href="#citation59c" +class="footnote">[59c]</a> Of chaste Joseph.</p> +<p><a name="footnote60a"></a><a href="#citation60a" +class="footnote">[60a]</a> Many are made whores by promises +of Marriage, &c.</p> +<p><a name="footnote60b"></a><a href="#citation60b" +class="footnote">[60b]</a> Clarks Looking-glass for +Sinners, Chap. 2. Pag. 12.</p> +<p><a name="footnote60c"></a><a href="#citation60c" +class="footnote">[60c]</a> Badman and his Master abhor one +another.</p> +<p><a name="footnote60d"></a><a href="#citation60d" +class="footnote">[60d]</a> Prov. 29. 27.</p> +<p><a name="footnote61a"></a><a href="#citation61a" +class="footnote">[61a]</a> Young Badman runs away from his +Master.</p> +<p><a name="footnote61b"></a><a href="#citation61b" +class="footnote">[61b]</a> He gets a new Master like +himself.</p> +<p><a name="footnote61c"></a><a href="#citation61c" +class="footnote">[61c]</a> A sign of Gods anger upon young +Badman.</p> +<p><a name="footnote62a"></a><a href="#citation62a" +class="footnote">[62a]</a> Demonstration of Gods anger +towards him.</p> +<p><a name="footnote62b"></a><a href="#citation62b" +class="footnote">[62b]</a> Gen. 18. 18, 19.</p> +<p><a name="footnote62c"></a><a href="#citation62c" +class="footnote">[62c]</a> Psal. 7. 14.</p> +<p><a name="footnote62d"></a><a href="#citation62d" +class="footnote">[62d]</a> Jam. 1. 15.</p> +<p><a name="footnote63a"></a><a href="#citation63a" +class="footnote">[63a]</a> It concerns Parents to put their +Children into good Families.</p> +<p><a name="footnote63b"></a><a href="#citation63b" +class="footnote">[63b]</a> Masters should also beware what +Servants they entertain.</p> +<p><a name="footnote63c"></a><a href="#citation63c" +class="footnote">[63c]</a> Young Badman and his second +Master cannot agree.</p> +<p><a name="footnote63d"></a><a href="#citation63d" +class="footnote">[63d]</a> Acts 16. 16.</p> +<p><a name="footnote63e"></a><a href="#citation63e" +class="footnote">[63e]</a> Reasons of their +disagreeing.</p> +<p><a name="footnote64a"></a><a href="#citation64a" +class="footnote">[64a]</a> Acts 16. 17, 18, 19, 20.</p> +<p><a name="footnote64b"></a><a href="#citation64b" +class="footnote">[64b]</a> Ro. 14. 22.</p> +<p><a name="footnote64c"></a><a href="#citation64c" +class="footnote">[64c]</a> Bad Masters condemn themselves +when they for badness beat their Bad servants.</p> +<p><a name="footnote64d"></a><a href="#citation64d" +class="footnote">[64d]</a> 1 King. 16. 7.</p> +<p><a name="footnote65a"></a><a href="#citation65a" +class="footnote">[65a]</a> Why young Badman did not run +away from this Master though he did beat him.</p> +<p><a name="footnote65b"></a><a href="#citation65b" +class="footnote">[65b]</a> Why Badman could bear his last +Masters reproof better than he could the first.</p> +<p><a name="footnote65c"></a><a href="#citation65c" +class="footnote">[65c]</a> By what means Badman came to be +compleated in his wickedness.</p> +<p><a name="footnote66a"></a><a href="#citation66a" +class="footnote">[66a]</a> Badman out of his time.</p> +<p><a name="footnote66b"></a><a href="#citation66b" +class="footnote">[66b]</a> He goes home to his Father.</p> +<p><a name="footnote66c"></a><a href="#citation66c" +class="footnote">[66c]</a> He refrains himself for +Money.</p> +<p><a name="footnote66d"></a><a href="#citation66d" +class="footnote">[66d]</a> Severity what it inclines +to.</p> +<p><a name="footnote67a"></a><a href="#citation67a" +class="footnote">[67a]</a> We are better at giving then +taking good Counsel.</p> +<p><a name="footnote67b"></a><a href="#citation67b" +class="footnote">[67b]</a> This is to be considered.</p> +<p><a name="footnote68a"></a><a href="#citation68a" +class="footnote">[68a]</a> A good woman and her bad +son.</p> +<p><a name="footnote68b"></a><a href="#citation68b" +class="footnote">[68b]</a> Mr. Badman sets up for himself, +and quickly runs to the lands end.</p> +<p><a name="footnote69a"></a><a href="#citation69a" +class="footnote">[69a]</a> The reason of his runing +out.</p> +<p><a name="footnote69b"></a><a href="#citation69b" +class="footnote">[69b]</a> Eccle. 11, 9.</p> +<p><a name="footnote69c"></a><a href="#citation69c" +class="footnote">[69c]</a> New companions.</p> +<p><a name="footnote69d"></a><a href="#citation69d" +class="footnote">[69d]</a> Mr. Badmans temper.</p> +<p><a name="footnote69e"></a><a href="#citation69e" +class="footnote">[69e]</a> Pro. 29. 3. Chap. 13. +20.</p> +<p><a name="footnote69f"></a><a href="#citation69f" +class="footnote">[69f]</a> Pro. 28. 7.</p> +<p><a name="footnote69g"></a><a href="#citation69g" +class="footnote">[69g]</a> Pro. 28. 19.</p> +<p><a name="footnote70a"></a><a href="#citation70a" +class="footnote">[70a]</a> Pro. 23. 21.</p> +<p><a name="footnote70b"></a><a href="#citation70b" +class="footnote">[70b]</a> His Behaviour under his +decays.</p> +<p><a name="footnote70c"></a><a href="#citation70c" +class="footnote">[70c]</a> How he covered his decayes.</p> +<p><a name="footnote70d"></a><a href="#citation70d" +class="footnote">[70d]</a> Badman is for a rich Wife.</p> +<p><a name="footnote70e"></a><a href="#citation70e" +class="footnote">[70e]</a> Badman has a godly Maid in his +eye.</p> +<p><a name="footnote71a"></a><a href="#citation71a" +class="footnote">[71a]</a> He seeks to get her, why, and +how.</p> +<p><a name="footnote71b"></a><a href="#citation71b" +class="footnote">[71b]</a> He calls his Companions +together, and they advise him how to get her.</p> +<p><a name="footnote71c"></a><a href="#citation71c" +class="footnote">[71c]</a> Badman goes to the Damosel as +his Counsel advised him.</p> +<p><a name="footnote72a"></a><a href="#citation72a" +class="footnote">[72a]</a> Badmans complement, his lying +complement.</p> +<p><a name="footnote72b"></a><a href="#citation72b" +class="footnote">[72b]</a> Neglect of Counsel about +marriage dangerous.</p> +<p><a name="footnote73a"></a><a href="#citation73a" +class="footnote">[73a]</a> Badman obtains his desire, is +married, &c.</p> +<p><a name="footnote73b"></a><a href="#citation73b" +class="footnote">[73b]</a> His carriage judged ungodly and +wicked.</p> +<p><a name="footnote73c"></a><a href="#citation73c" +class="footnote">[73c]</a> Mat. 23.</p> +<p><a name="footnote73d"></a><a href="#citation73d" +class="footnote">[73d]</a> The great alteration that +quickly happened to Badmans wife.</p> +<p><a name="footnote73e"></a><a href="#citation73e" +class="footnote">[73e]</a> Mala. 3. 15.</p> +<p><a name="footnote73f"></a><a href="#citation73f" +class="footnote">[73f]</a> Expectation of Judgment is for +such things.</p> +<p><a name="footnote73g"></a><a href="#citation73g" +class="footnote">[73g]</a> Job. 21. 30, 31, 32.</p> +<p><a name="footnote74a"></a><a href="#citation74a" +class="footnote">[74a]</a> An example of Gods anger on such +as have heretofore committed this sin of Mr. Badman. Gen +34.</p> +<p><a name="footnote74c"></a><a href="#citation74c" +class="footnote">[74c]</a> After Badman is married, his +Creditors come upon him, and his wives Portion pays for that +which his whores were feasted with before he was married.</p> +<p><a name="footnote75a"></a><a href="#citation75a" +class="footnote">[75a]</a> Now she reaps the fruits of her +unadvisedness.</p> +<p><a name="footnote75b"></a><a href="#citation75b" +class="footnote">[75b]</a> Now Badman has got him a wife by +Religion, he hangs it by as a thing out of use, and entertains +his old Companions.</p> +<p><a name="footnote75c"></a><a href="#citation75c" +class="footnote">[75c]</a> He drives good company from his +wife.</p> +<p><a name="footnote75d"></a><a href="#citation75d" +class="footnote">[75d]</a> He goes to his Whores.</p> +<p><a name="footnote76a"></a><a href="#citation76a" +class="footnote">[76a]</a> He rails at his wife.</p> +<p><a name="footnote76b"></a><a href="#citation76b" +class="footnote">[76b]</a> He seeks to force his wife from +her Religion.</p> +<p><a name="footnote76c"></a><a href="#citation76c" +class="footnote">[76c]</a> He mocks at her Preachers.</p> +<p><a name="footnote76d"></a><a href="#citation76d" +class="footnote">[76d]</a> He mocks his wife in her +dejections.</p> +<p><a name="footnote76e"></a><a href="#citation76e" +class="footnote">[76e]</a> He refuses to let her go out to +good company.</p> +<p><a name="footnote77a"></a><a href="#citation77a" +class="footnote">[77a]</a> She gets out sometimes by +stealth.</p> +<p><a name="footnote77b"></a><a href="#citation77b" class="footnote">[77b]</a> Her repentance and +complaint.</p> +<p><a name="footnote77c"></a><a href="#citation77c" class="footnote">[77c]</a> Psal. 120</p> +<p><a name="footnote77d"></a><a href="#citation77d" class="footnote">[77d]</a> The evil of being unequally +yoaked together.</p> +<p><a name="footnote78a"></a><a href="#citation78a" class="footnote">[78a]</a> 2 Cor. 6. 13.</p> +<p><a name="footnote78b"></a><a href="#citation78b" +class="footnote">[78b]</a> Gen. 3. 15.</p> +<p><a name="footnote78c"></a><a href="#citation78c" class="footnote">[78c]</a> Deut. 2. 43. (This +doesn’t exist but is as given in the text. DP)</p> +<p><a name="footnote78d"></a><a href="#citation78d" +class="footnote">[78d]</a> Good counsel to those godly +maids that are to marry.</p> +<p><a name="footnote79a"></a><a href="#citation79a" class="footnote">[79a]</a> A caution to young women.</p> +<p><a name="footnote79b"></a><a href="#citation79b" +class="footnote">[79b]</a> Let Mr. Badmans wife be your +Example.</p> +<p><a name="footnote80a"></a><a href="#citation80a" class="footnote">[80a]</a> Deut. 7. 4, 5. (Rather +unnecessary footnote. DP)</p> +<p><a name="footnote80b"></a><a href="#citation80b" class="footnote">[80b]</a> 1 Cor. 7. 39. 2 Cor. 6. +14, 15, 16.</p> +<p><a name="footnote80c"></a><a href="#citation80c" class="footnote">[80c]</a> Rules for those that are to +marry.</p> +<p><a name="footnote80d"></a><a href="#citation80d" class="footnote">[80d]</a> If you love your Souls take +heed.</p> +<p><a name="footnote81a"></a><a href="#citation81a" class="footnote">[81a]</a> Duet 7.</p> +<p><a name="footnote81b"></a><a href="#citation81b" class="footnote">[81b]</a> Psal. 106. 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, +40.</p> +<p><a name="footnote81c"></a><a href="#citation81c" class="footnote">[81c]</a> Badmans Children that he had by +this good woman.</p> +<p><a name="footnote81d"></a><a href="#citation81d" class="footnote">[81d]</a> Nehem. 13. 24.</p> +<p><a name="footnote82a"></a><a href="#citation82a" class="footnote">[82a]</a> How the ungodly Father and godly +Mother doe strive for the Children that God doth give them.</p> +<p><a name="footnote82b"></a><a href="#citation82b" +class="footnote">[82b]</a> 2 King. 17.</p> +<p><a name="footnote83a"></a><a href="#citation83a" class="footnote">[83a]</a> The advantages that Children +have, whose Parents are both godly.</p> +<p><a name="footnote84a"></a><a href="#citation84a" class="footnote">[84a]</a> The disadvantages that the +Children of ungodly Parents have.</p> +<p><a name="footnote84b"></a><a href="#citation84b" class="footnote">[84b]</a> Job 30. 8.</p> +<p><a name="footnote84c"></a><a href="#citation84c" class="footnote">[84c]</a> A contest betwixt Mr. Badman and +his wife.</p> +<p><a name="footnote85a"></a><a href="#citation85a" class="footnote">[85a]</a> Ephes. 5. 28.</p> +<p><a name="footnote85b"></a><a href="#citation85b" class="footnote">[85b]</a> With what weapons Badman did +deal with his wife.</p> +<p><a name="footnote85c"></a><a href="#citation85c" class="footnote">[85c]</a> Mr. Badmans heart discovered as +to its enmity against the friends of his wife.</p> +<p><a name="footnote86"></a><a href="#citation86" class="footnote">[86]</a> Mark</p> +<p><a name="footnote88a"></a><a href="#citation88a" +class="footnote">[88a]</a> New discourse of Mr. Badman.</p> +<p><a name="footnote88b"></a><a href="#citation88b" class="footnote">[88b]</a> Mr. Badman plays a new +prank.</p> +<p><a name="footnote89"></a><a href="#citation89" class="footnote">[89]</a> Mr. Badmans perfection.</p> +<p><a name="footnote90a"></a><a href="#citation90a" class="footnote">[90a]</a> How Mr. Badman came to enjoy +himself.</p> +<p><a name="footnote90b"></a><a href="#citation90b" class="footnote">[90b]</a> 2 Chron. 28. 22. 1 King +21. 25. Gen. 13. 13.</p> +<p><a name="footnote90c"></a><a href="#citation90c" class="footnote">[90c]</a> Job 21. 17.</p> +<p><a name="footnote90d"></a><a href="#citation90d" class="footnote">[90d]</a> There are abundance like Mr. +Badman.</p> +<p><a name="footnote91a"></a><a href="#citation91a" class="footnote">[91a]</a> Pro. 24. 9.</p> +<p><a name="footnote91b"></a><a href="#citation91b" class="footnote">[91b]</a> He that would be bad is bad.</p> +<p><a name="footnote91c"></a><a href="#citation91c" class="footnote">[91c]</a> Matt 5. 28.</p> +<p><a name="footnote91d"></a><a href="#citation91d" class="footnote">[91d]</a> Pro. 23. 7. Mat. 5. +Rom. 7. 7.</p> +<p><a name="footnote92a"></a><a href="#citation92a" class="footnote">[92a]</a> A bad heart makes a bad man.</p> +<p><a name="footnote92b"></a><a href="#citation92b" class="footnote">[92b]</a> 1 Sam. 24. 13. Mat. 7. 16, +17, 18.</p> +<p><a name="footnote92c"></a><a href="#citation92c" class="footnote">[92c]</a> Mar. 7. 20, 21, 22, 23.</p> +<p><a name="footnote93a"></a><a href="#citation93a" class="footnote">[93a]</a> Mr. Badman had an art to break, +and to get money that way.</p> +<p><a name="footnote93b"></a><a href="#citation93b" class="footnote">[93b]</a> How he managed things in order +to his breaking.</p> +<p><a name="footnote93c"></a><a href="#citation93c" class="footnote">[93c]</a> He breaks.</p> +<p><a name="footnote94a"></a><a href="#citation94a" class="footnote">[94a]</a> Mr. Badmans suger words to his +Creditors.</p> +<p><a name="footnote94b"></a><a href="#citation94b" class="footnote">[94b]</a> Badmans friend.</p> +<p><a name="footnote94c"></a><a href="#citation94c" class="footnote">[94c]</a> What Mr. Badman propounds to his +Creditors.</p> +<p><a name="footnote94d"></a><a href="#citation94d" class="footnote">[94d]</a> They at last agree, and Mr. +Badman gains by breaking.</p> +<p><a name="footnote95"></a><a href="#citation95" class="footnote">[95]</a> There is no plea for his +dishonesty.</p> +<p><a name="footnote96a"></a><a href="#citation96a" class="footnote">[96a]</a> An answer to two questions.</p> +<p><a name="footnote96b"></a><a href="#citation96b" class="footnote">[96b]</a> 1. Q[u]estion.</p> +<p><a name="footnote96c"></a><a href="#citation96c" class="footnote">[96c]</a> Levit. 19. 13.</p> +<p><a name="footnote96d"></a><a href="#citation96d" class="footnote">[96d]</a> The hainousness of this sin.</p> +<p><a name="footnote96e"></a><a href="#citation96e" class="footnote">[96e]</a> 1 Thess. 4. 6.</p> +<p><a name="footnote96f"></a><a href="#citation96f" class="footnote">[96f]</a> fair warning.</p> +<p><a name="footnote97a"></a><a href="#citation97a" class="footnote">[97a]</a> Colos. 3. 25.</p> +<p><a name="footnote97b"></a><a href="#citation97b" class="footnote">[97b]</a> Fair warning again.</p> +<p><a name="footnote97c"></a><a href="#citation97c" class="footnote">[97c]</a> He that designedly commits this +sin is like the Devil.</p> +<p><a name="footnote97d"></a><a href="#citation97d" class="footnote">[97d]</a> 2. Question.</p> +<p><a name="footnote98a"></a><a href="#citation98a" class="footnote">[98a]</a> How those that are Banckrupts +should deal with their consciences.</p> +<p><a name="footnote98b"></a><a href="#citation98b" class="footnote">[98b]</a> Good advice.</p> +<p><a name="footnote98c"></a><a href="#citation98c" class="footnote">[98c]</a> Rom. 12. 11.</p> +<p><a name="footnote98d"></a><a href="#citation98d" class="footnote">[98d]</a> 1 Tim. 5. 8.</p> +<p><a name="footnote98e"></a><a href="#citation98e" class="footnote">[98e]</a> Pro. 18. 9.</p> +<p><a name="footnote98f"></a><a href="#citation98f" class="footnote">[98f]</a> Good counsel again.</p> +<p><a name="footnote99a"></a><a href="#citation99a" class="footnote">[99a]</a> How to find that thy decay came +by the Judgment of God, or by thy miscarriage.</p> +<p><a name="footnote99b"></a><a href="#citation99b" class="footnote">[99b]</a> Another question.</p> +<p><a name="footnote99c"></a><a href="#citation99c" class="footnote">[99c]</a> Pro. 10. 3. 1 Pet. 5. +6.</p> +<p><a name="footnote99d"></a><a href="#citation99d" class="footnote">[99d]</a> Lam. 3. 33.</p> +<p><a name="footnote100a"></a><a href="#citation100a" class="footnote">[100a]</a> Good advice again. Deut. +32. 15.</p> +<p><a name="footnote100b"></a><a href="#citation100b" class="footnote">[100b]</a> James 1. 9, 10.</p> +<p><a name="footnote100c"></a><a href="#citation100c" class="footnote">[100c]</a> Consider four things.</p> +<p><a name="footnote100d"></a><a href="#citation100d" class="footnote">[100d]</a> Job 1. 21. Chap. 2. +8.</p> +<p><a name="footnote100e"></a><a href="#citation100e" class="footnote">[100e]</a> Psal. 49. 6.</p> +<p><a name="footnote100f"></a><a href="#citation100f" class="footnote">[100f]</a> Jam. 2. 5.</p> +<p><a name="footnote101a"></a><a href="#citation101a" class="footnote">[101a]</a> Honest dealing with +Creditors.</p> +<p><a name="footnote101b"></a><a href="#citation101b" class="footnote">[101b]</a> Pro. 16. 33.</p> +<p><a name="footnote102a"></a><a href="#citation102a" class="footnote">[102a]</a> Jer. 15. 10, 11. Pro. 16. +7.</p> +<p><a name="footnote102b"></a><a href="#citation102b" class="footnote">[102b]</a> A heavy blot upon Religion.</p> +<p><a name="footnote103a"></a><a href="#citation103a" class="footnote">[103a]</a> If Knaves will make profession +their cloak to be vile, who can help it?</p> +<p><a name="footnote103b"></a><a href="#citation103b" class="footnote">[103b]</a> 1 Cor. 6. 8, 9, 10. 2 +Tim. 3. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.</p> +<p><a name="footnote103c"></a><a href="#citation103c" class="footnote">[103c]</a> Matt. 18. 6, 7, 8.</p> +<p><a name="footnote103d"></a><a href="#citation103d" class="footnote">[103d]</a> Let such be disowned of all +good men.</p> +<p><a name="footnote103e"></a><a href="#citation103e" class="footnote">[103e]</a> Jer. 17. 11.</p> +<p><a name="footnote104a"></a><a href="#citation104a" class="footnote">[104a]</a> Ezek. 20. 38, 39.</p> +<p><a name="footnote104b"></a><a href="#citation104b" class="footnote">[104b]</a> 2 Cor. 7. 2.</p> +<p><a name="footnote104c"></a><a href="#citation104c" class="footnote">[104c]</a> Mar. 10. 19.</p> +<p><a name="footnote104d"></a><a href="#citation104d" class="footnote">[104d]</a> 1 Sam. 12. 3.</p> +<p><a name="footnote104e"></a><a href="#citation104e" class="footnote">[104e]</a> Ver. 4.</p> +<p><a name="footnote105a"></a><a href="#citation105a" class="footnote">[105a]</a> A question.</p> +<p><a name="footnote105b"></a><a href="#citation105b" class="footnote">[105b]</a> An answer.</p> +<p><a name="footnote105c"></a><a href="#citation105c" class="footnote">[105c]</a> 2 King. 4. 1, 2.</p> +<p><a name="footnote105d"></a><a href="#citation105d" class="footnote">[105d]</a> Hag. 1. 9.</p> +<p><a name="footnote105e"></a><a href="#citation105e" class="footnote">[105e]</a> God does sometimes blow upon +his own people. How they should doe at that time.</p> +<p><a name="footnote105f"></a><a href="#citation105f" class="footnote">[105f]</a> Philip. 4. 12.</p> +<p><a name="footnote106"></a><a href="#citation106" class="footnote">[106]</a> More of Mr. Badmans fraudulent +dealing. He used deceitful weights and scales.</p> +<p><a name="footnote107a"></a><a href="#citation107a" class="footnote">[107a]</a> Levit. 19. 35, 36.</p> +<p><a name="footnote107b"></a><a href="#citation107b" class="footnote">[107b]</a> Of Just weights and +measures.</p> +<p><a name="footnote107c"></a><a href="#citation107c" class="footnote">[107c]</a> Ezek. 45. 10.</p> +<p><a name="footnote107d"></a><a href="#citation107d" class="footnote">[107d]</a> Pro. 20. 23. Chap. 11. +1.</p> +<p><a name="footnote107e"></a><a href="#citation107e" class="footnote">[107e]</a> The evil of deceitful Balances, +Weights and Measures.</p> +<p><a name="footnote107f"></a><a href="#citation107f" class="footnote">[107f]</a> Deut. 25. 13, 14, 15, 16.</p> +<p><a name="footnote108a"></a><a href="#citation108a" class="footnote">[108a]</a> The Old and New Law commands +all men to be honest and upright in their weights and +measures.</p> +<p><a name="footnote108b"></a><a href="#citation108b" class="footnote">[108b]</a> Luke 6. 88.</p> +<p><a name="footnote108c"></a><a href="#citation108c" class="footnote">[108c]</a> Pat Scriptures for our +purpose.</p> +<p><a name="footnote109a"></a><a href="#citation109a" class="footnote">[109a]</a> Where false weights and +measures are to be found.</p> +<p><a name="footnote109b"></a><a href="#citation109b" class="footnote">[109b]</a> 1. With evil doers.</p> +<p><a name="footnote109c"></a><a href="#citation109c" class="footnote">[109c]</a> Mic. 6. 10.</p> +<p><a name="footnote109d"></a><a href="#citation109d" class="footnote">[109d]</a> 2. With the merciless and +Oppressors.</p> +<p><a name="footnote109e"></a><a href="#citation109e" class="footnote">[109e]</a> Hos. 12. 7.</p> +<p><a name="footnote109f"></a><a href="#citation109f" class="footnote">[109f]</a> 3. With such as would +swallow up the poor.</p> +<p><a name="footnote109g"></a><a href="#citation109g" class="footnote">[109g]</a> Amos 8. 4, 5, 6, 7.</p> +<p><a name="footnote110a"></a><a href="#citation110a" class="footnote">[110a]</a> 4. With impure ones.</p> +<p><a name="footnote110b"></a><a href="#citation110b" class="footnote">[110b]</a> Mic. 6. 11.</p> +<p><a name="footnote110c"></a><a href="#citation110c" class="footnote">[110c]</a> Dan. 5. 27.</p> +<p><a name="footnote111a"></a><a href="#citation111a" class="footnote">[111a]</a> How Mr. Badman did cheat, and +hide his cheating.</p> +<p><a name="footnote111b"></a><a href="#citation111b" class="footnote">[111b]</a> Good Weights and a bad Ballance +a deep piece of Knavery.</p> +<p><a name="footnote112a"></a><a href="#citation112a" class="footnote">[112a]</a> Mat. 23.</p> +<p><a name="footnote112b"></a><a href="#citation112b" class="footnote">[112b]</a> A cloak of Religion to blind +Mr. Cheats Knavery.</p> +<p><a name="footnote112c"></a><a href="#citation112c" class="footnote">[112c]</a> Some plead Custom to cheat.</p> +<p><a name="footnote112d"></a><a href="#citation112d" class="footnote">[112d]</a> Deut. 16. 20.</p> +<p><a name="footnote113a"></a><a href="#citation113a" class="footnote">[113a]</a> They get nothing that cozen and +cheat.</p> +<p><a name="footnote113b"></a><a href="#citation113b" class="footnote">[113b]</a> Mar. 9.</p> +<p><a name="footnote113c"></a><a href="#citation113c" class="footnote">[113c]</a> Prov. 10. 3. Jer. 15. +13. Chap. 17. 3.</p> +<p><a name="footnote113d"></a><a href="#citation113d" class="footnote">[113d]</a> Job 27. 17.</p> +<p><a name="footnote113e"></a><a href="#citation113e" class="footnote">[113e]</a> Pro. 13. 22.</p> +<p><a name="footnote114a"></a><a href="#citation114a" class="footnote">[114a]</a> More of Mr. Badmans Bad +tricks.</p> +<p><a name="footnote114b"></a><a href="#citation114b" class="footnote">[114b]</a> Amos 8.</p> +<p><a name="footnote114c"></a><a href="#citation114c" class="footnote">[114c]</a> Another art to cheat +withall.</p> +<p><a name="footnote115a"></a><a href="#citation115a" class="footnote">[115a]</a> Zeph. 1. 9.</p> +<p><a name="footnote115b"></a><a href="#citation115b" class="footnote">[115b]</a> Servants observe these +words.</p> +<p><a name="footnote115c"></a><a href="#citation115c" class="footnote">[115c]</a> Of Extortion.</p> +<p><a name="footnote115d"></a><a href="#citation115d" class="footnote">[115d]</a> 1 Cor. 6. 9, 10.</p> +<p><a name="footnote116a"></a><a href="#citation116a" class="footnote">[116a]</a> Who are Extortioners.</p> +<p><a name="footnote116b"></a><a href="#citation116b" class="footnote">[116b]</a> Hucksters.</p> +<p><a name="footnote116c"></a><a href="#citation116c" class="footnote">[116c]</a> Pro. 22. 16, 22.</p> +<p><a name="footnote117a"></a><a href="#citation117a" class="footnote">[117a]</a> Deut. 23. 19.</p> +<p><a name="footnote118a"></a><a href="#citation118a" class="footnote">[118a]</a> Whether it be lawful for a man +to make the best of his own. Proved in negative by 8 +reasons.</p> +<p><a name="footnote118b"></a><a href="#citation118b" class="footnote">[118b]</a> Good conscience must be used in +selling.</p> +<p><a name="footnote118c"></a><a href="#citation118c" class="footnote">[118c]</a> We must not make a prey of our +neighbours Ignorance.</p> +<p><a name="footnote118d"></a><a href="#citation118d" class="footnote">[118d]</a> Nor of his Neighbours +Necessity.</p> +<p><a name="footnote119a"></a><a href="#citation119a" class="footnote">[119a]</a> Nor of his Fondness of our +commodity.</p> +<p><a name="footnote119b"></a><a href="#citation119b" class="footnote">[119b]</a> We must use good conscience in +buying.</p> +<p><a name="footnote119c"></a><a href="#citation119c" class="footnote">[119c]</a> Gen. 23. 8, 9.</p> +<p><a name="footnote119d"></a><a href="#citation119d" class="footnote">[119d]</a> 1 Chron. 21, 22. 24.</p> +<p><a name="footnote119e"></a><a href="#citation119e" class="footnote">[119e]</a> Levit. 25. 14.</p> +<p><a name="footnote120a"></a><a href="#citation120a" class="footnote">[120a]</a> Charity must be used in our +dealings.</p> +<p><a name="footnote120b"></a><a href="#citation120b" class="footnote">[120b]</a> 1 Cor. 16. 14.</p> +<p><a name="footnote120c"></a><a href="#citation120c" class="footnote">[120c]</a> 1 Cor. 13.</p> +<p><a name="footnote120d"></a><a href="#citation120d" class="footnote">[120d]</a> Ephes. 4. 25.</p> +<p><a name="footnote120e"></a><a href="#citation120e" class="footnote">[120e]</a> There may be and is sin in +trading.</p> +<p><a name="footnote121a"></a><a href="#citation121a" class="footnote">[121a]</a> Matt. 7. 12.</p> +<p><a name="footnote121b"></a><a href="#citation121b" class="footnote">[121b]</a> A man in trading must not offer +violence to the Law of nature.</p> +<p><a name="footnote121c"></a><a href="#citation121c" class="footnote">[121c]</a> Job. 37. 7.</p> +<p><a name="footnote121d"></a><a href="#citation121d" class="footnote">[121d]</a> We must not abuse the Gift we +have in the knowledge of earthly things.</p> +<p><a name="footnote121e"></a><a href="#citation121e" class="footnote">[121e]</a> 1 Cor. 10. 13. +(Don’t see where this fits into text. DP)</p> +<p><a name="footnote121f"></a><a href="#citation121f" class="footnote">[121f]</a> An eye to the glory of God in +all we should have.</p> +<p><a name="footnote121g"></a><a href="#citation121g" class="footnote">[121g]</a> Colo. 3. 17.</p> +<p><a name="footnote121h"></a><a href="#citation121h" class="footnote">[121h]</a> Acts, 24. 15, 16.</p> +<p><a name="footnote122a"></a><a href="#citation122a" class="footnote">[122a]</a> Levit. 25. 14.</p> +<p><a name="footnote122b"></a><a href="#citation122b" class="footnote">[122b]</a> Badman used to laugh at them +that told him of his faults.</p> +<p><a name="footnote122c"></a><a href="#citation122c" class="footnote">[122c]</a> Luke. 16. 13, 14, 15. +Chap. 6. 25.</p> +<p><a name="footnote123a"></a><a href="#citation123a" class="footnote">[123a]</a> A question.</p> +<p><a name="footnote123b"></a><a href="#citation123b" class="footnote">[123b]</a> An answer.</p> +<p><a name="footnote123c"></a><a href="#citation123c" class="footnote">[123c]</a> Preparations to be a good +dealer.</p> +<p><a name="footnote123d"></a><a href="#citation123d" class="footnote">[123d]</a> Eccle. 5. 10, 11.</p> +<p><a name="footnote123e"></a><a href="#citation123e" class="footnote">[123e]</a> 1 Tim. 6. 7, 8, 9.</p> +<p><a name="footnote124a"></a><a href="#citation124a" class="footnote">[124a]</a> Ezek. 22. 13.</p> +<p><a name="footnote124b"></a><a href="#citation124b" class="footnote">[124b]</a> Pro. 15. 17. Chap 16. +8. 1 Sam. 2. 5. Pro. 5. 21.</p> +<p><a name="footnote124c"></a><a href="#citation124c" class="footnote">[124c]</a> Job 14. 17.</p> +<p><a name="footnote124d"></a><a href="#citation124d" class="footnote">[124d]</a> Eccles. 5. 13, 14, 15.</p> +<p><a name="footnote124e"></a><a href="#citation124e" class="footnote">[124e]</a> Prov. 20. 14.</p> +<p><a name="footnote125a"></a><a href="#citation125a" class="footnote">[125a]</a> Amos 8. 5.</p> +<p><a name="footnote125b"></a><a href="#citation125b" class="footnote">[125b]</a> A Judgment of God. 2 +King. 7.</p> +<p><a name="footnote125c"></a><a href="#citation125c" class="footnote">[125c]</a> Pro. 11. 26.</p> +<p><a name="footnote125d"></a><a href="#citation125d" class="footnote">[125d]</a> Isa. 58. 6, 7, 8.</p> +<p><a name="footnote125e"></a><a href="#citation125e" class="footnote">[125e]</a> Philip. 4. 5.</p> +<p><a name="footnote126a"></a><a href="#citation126a" class="footnote">[126a]</a> Mr. Badman a very proud +man.</p> +<p><a name="footnote126b"></a><a href="#citation126b" class="footnote">[126b]</a> Of pride in general.</p> +<p><a name="footnote126c"></a><a href="#citation126c" class="footnote">[126c]</a> Pro. 21. 24.</p> +<p><a name="footnote126d"></a><a href="#citation126d" class="footnote">[126d]</a> Pride sticks close to +nature.</p> +<p><a name="footnote127"></a><a href="#citation127" class="footnote">[127]</a> Pro. 8. 13. Chap. 29. +23. Isa. 25. 11. Mal. 4. 1.</p> +<p><a name="footnote128a"></a><a href="#citation128a" class="footnote">[128a]</a> Proud men do not love to be +called proud.</p> +<p><a name="footnote128b"></a><a href="#citation128b" class="footnote">[128b]</a> Two sorts of pride.</p> +<p><a name="footnote128c"></a><a href="#citation128c" class="footnote">[128c]</a> Pro. 16. 5. Chap. 21. +4. Eccle. 7. 8.</p> +<p><a name="footnote128d"></a><a href="#citation128d" class="footnote">[128d]</a> Isa. 3. 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, +22.</p> +<p><a name="footnote128e"></a><a href="#citation128e" class="footnote">[128e]</a> Wicked men do hate that word +that reproves their vice.</p> +<p><a name="footnote129a"></a><a href="#citation129a" class="footnote">[129a]</a> Signes of a proud man in +general.</p> +<p><a name="footnote129b"></a><a href="#citation129b" class="footnote">[129b]</a> Pro. 30. 13.</p> +<p><a name="footnote129c"></a><a href="#citation129c" class="footnote">[129c]</a> Pro. 17. 19.</p> +<p><a name="footnote129d"></a><a href="#citation129d" class="footnote">[129d]</a> Mar. 7.</p> +<p><a name="footnote129e"></a><a href="#citation129e" class="footnote">[129e]</a> In particular.</p> +<p><a name="footnote129f"></a><a href="#citation129f" class="footnote">[129f]</a> Psal. 10. 2.</p> +<p><a name="footnote129g"></a><a href="#citation129g" class="footnote">[129g]</a> Psal. 10. 4.</p> +<p><a name="footnote129h"></a><a href="#citation129h" class="footnote">[129h]</a> Pro. 13. 10.</p> +<p><a name="footnote129i"></a><a href="#citation129i" class="footnote">[129i]</a> Psal. 119. 51.</p> +<p><a name="footnote129j"></a><a href="#citation129j" class="footnote">[129j]</a> Ver. 122.</p> +<p><a name="footnote129k"></a><a href="#citation129k" class="footnote">[129k]</a> Jer. 13. 17.</p> +<p><a name="footnote129l"></a><a href="#citation129l" class="footnote">[129l]</a> Chap. 43. 2.</p> +<p><a name="footnote129m"></a><a href="#citation129m" class="footnote">[129m]</a> Mal. 3. 15.</p> +<p><a name="footnote129n"></a><a href="#citation129n" class="footnote">[129n]</a> Of outward pride.</p> +<p><a name="footnote130a"></a><a href="#citation130a" class="footnote">[130a]</a> 1 Tim. 2. 2. (Don’t +see where this fits in the text.—DP)</p> +<p><a name="footnote130b"></a><a href="#citation130b" class="footnote">[130b]</a> 1 Pet. 3. 3, 4, 5.</p> +<p><a name="footnote130c"></a><a href="#citation130c" class="footnote">[130c]</a> Mr. Badman was not for having +pride called pride.</p> +<p><a name="footnote130d"></a><a href="#citation130d" class="footnote">[130d]</a> Professors guilty of the sin of +pride.</p> +<p><a name="footnote131a"></a><a href="#citation131a" class="footnote">[131a]</a> Jer. 3. 3.</p> +<p><a name="footnote131b"></a><a href="#citation131b" class="footnote">[131b]</a> 1 Tim. 2. 9.</p> +<p><a name="footnote131c"></a><a href="#citation131c" class="footnote">[131c]</a> 1 Pet. 3. 1, 2, 3.</p> +<p><a name="footnote131d"></a><a href="#citation131d" +class="footnote">[131d]</a> Jer. 23. 15.</p> +<p><a name="footnote131e"></a><a href="#citation131e" class="footnote">[131e]</a> Ezra. 9. 2.</p> +<p><a name="footnote131f"></a><a href="#citation131f" class="footnote">[131f]</a> Pride in professors a shame and +stumbling-block to the world.</p> +<p><a name="footnote132b"></a><a href="#citation132b" class="footnote">[132b]</a> Why pride is in such +request.</p> +<p><a name="footnote132c"></a><a href="#citation132c" class="footnote">[132c]</a> 1 Reason. Mar. 7. 22, +23.</p> +<p><a name="footnote132d"></a><a href="#citation132d" class="footnote">[132d]</a> Obad. 3.</p> +<p><a name="footnote132e"></a><a href="#citation132e" class="footnote">[132e]</a> 1 Joh. 2. 16.</p> +<p><a name="footnote132f"></a><a href="#citation132f" class="footnote">[132f]</a> 1 Pet. 3. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.</p> +<p><a name="footnote133a"></a><a href="#citation133a" class="footnote">[133a]</a> 3 Reason.</p> +<p><a name="footnote133b"></a><a href="#citation133b" class="footnote">[133b]</a> 4 Reason.</p> +<p><a name="footnote133c"></a><a href="#citation133c" class="footnote">[133c]</a> Isa. 6.</p> +<p><a name="footnote133d"></a><a href="#citation133d" class="footnote">[133d]</a> 5 Reason.</p> +<p><a name="footnote134a"></a><a href="#citation134a" class="footnote">[134a]</a> The evil effects of the sin of +Pride.</p> +<p><a name="footnote134b"></a><a href="#citation134b" class="footnote">[134b]</a> 1 Evil effect. 1 Tim. 3. +6.</p> +<p><a name="footnote134c"></a><a href="#citation134c" class="footnote">[134c]</a> 2 Evil effect. Psal. 138. +9.</p> +<p><a name="footnote134d"></a><a href="#citation134d" class="footnote">[134d]</a> 3 Evil effect.</p> +<p><a name="footnote135a"></a><a href="#citation135a" class="footnote">[135a]</a> Jam. 4. 6.</p> +<p><a name="footnote135b"></a><a href="#citation135b" class="footnote">[135b]</a> 4 Evil effect. Pro. +16. 25.</p> +<p><a name="footnote135c"></a><a href="#citation135c" class="footnote">[135c]</a> 5 Evil effect. Pro. 11. +2. Prov. 16. 8.</p> +<p><a name="footnote135d"></a><a href="#citation135d" class="footnote">[135d]</a> 6 Evil effect. 1 Tim. 3. +6.</p> +<p><a name="footnote135e"></a><a href="#citation135e" class="footnote">[135e]</a> A general character of Mr. +Badman.</p> +<p><a name="footnote135f"></a><a href="#citation135f" class="footnote">[135f]</a> Psalm. 36. 1.</p> +<p><a name="footnote135g"></a><a href="#citation135g" class="footnote">[135g]</a> A brief relation of Mr. Badmans +ways.</p> +<p><a name="footnote136a"></a><a href="#citation136a" class="footnote">[136a]</a> Isa. 26. 10.</p> +<p><a name="footnote136b"></a><a href="#citation136b" class="footnote">[136b]</a> Isa. 9. 13.</p> +<p><a name="footnote136c"></a><a href="#citation136c" class="footnote">[136c]</a> Isa. 26. 11.</p> +<p><a name="footnote136d"></a><a href="#citation136d" class="footnote">[136d]</a> Psal. 29. 5. (Cannot see +where this fits in the text.—DP)</p> +<p><a name="footnote136e"></a><a href="#citation136e" class="footnote">[136e]</a> Pro. 17. 6. (Cannot see +where this fits in the text.—DP)</p> +<p><a name="footnote136f"></a><a href="#citation136f" class="footnote">[136f]</a> Isa. 26. 10.</p> +<p><a name="footnote136g"></a><a href="#citation136g" class="footnote">[136g]</a> Mr. Badmans judgment of the +Scriptures.</p> +<p><a name="footnote136h"></a><a href="#citation136h" class="footnote">[136h]</a> Good men Mr. Badmans song.</p> +<p><a name="footnote137a"></a><a href="#citation137a" class="footnote">[137a]</a> Psal. 50. 19. 20.</p> +<p><a name="footnote137b"></a><a href="#citation137b" class="footnote">[137b]</a> Rom. 3. 7, 8.</p> +<p><a name="footnote137c"></a><a href="#citation137c" class="footnote">[137c]</a> Jer. 23. 10.</p> +<p><a name="footnote137d"></a><a href="#citation137d" class="footnote">[137d]</a> When the wicked watch, Gods +people should be wary.</p> +<p><a name="footnote137e"></a><a href="#citation137e" class="footnote">[137e]</a> Badman an angry, envious +man.</p> +<p><a name="footnote138a"></a><a href="#citation138a" class="footnote">[138a]</a> Pro. 14. 16.</p> +<p><a name="footnote138b"></a><a href="#citation138b" class="footnote">[138b]</a> Eccle. 7. 9.</p> +<p><a name="footnote138c"></a><a href="#citation138c" class="footnote">[138c]</a> Whence Envy flows.</p> +<p><a name="footnote138d"></a><a href="#citation138d" class="footnote">[138d]</a> Pro. 27. 3, 4.</p> +<p><a name="footnote138e"></a><a href="#citation138e" class="footnote">[138e]</a> Envie the worst of the +four.</p> +<p><a name="footnote138f"></a><a href="#citation138f" class="footnote">[138f]</a> Gal. 5. 19, 20.</p> +<p><a name="footnote139a"></a><a href="#citation139a" class="footnote">[139a]</a> Pro. 14. 30.</p> +<p><a name="footnote139b"></a><a href="#citation139b" class="footnote">[139b]</a> Envy is the father and mother +of a many wickednesses.</p> +<p><a name="footnote139c"></a><a href="#citation139c" class="footnote">[139c]</a> Jam. 3. 14, 15.</p> +<p><a name="footnote139d"></a><a href="#citation139d" class="footnote">[139d]</a> Some of the births of Envy.</p> +<p><a name="footnote139e"></a><a href="#citation139e" class="footnote">[139e]</a> Job. 5. 2.</p> +<p><a name="footnote139f"></a><a href="#citation139f" class="footnote">[139f]</a> Matt. 27. 18.</p> +<p><a name="footnote139g"></a><a href="#citation139g" class="footnote">[139g]</a> Mar. 15. 10.</p> +<p><a name="footnote139h"></a><a href="#citation139h" class="footnote">[139h]</a> Acts 7. 9.</p> +<p><a name="footnote139i"></a><a href="#citation139i" class="footnote">[139i]</a> Isa. 11. 13.</p> +<p><a name="footnote139j"></a><a href="#citation139j" class="footnote">[139j]</a> Acts 13. 14. (Cannot see +where this fits in the text.—DP)</p> +<p><a name="footnote140a"></a><a href="#citation140a" class="footnote">[140a]</a> A rare thing.</p> +<p><a name="footnote140b"></a><a href="#citation140b" class="footnote">[140b]</a> Mr. Badman under some trouble +of mind.</p> +<p><a name="footnote140c"></a><a href="#citation140c" class="footnote">[140c]</a> Mr. Badman brake his legg.</p> +<p><a name="footnote140d"></a><a href="#citation140d" class="footnote">[140d]</a> He swears.</p> +<p><a name="footnote140e"></a><a href="#citation140e" class="footnote">[140e]</a> He prays.</p> +<p><a name="footnote141a"></a><a href="#citation141a" class="footnote">[141a]</a> It has no good effect upon +him.</p> +<p><a name="footnote141c"></a><a href="#citation141c" class="footnote">[141c]</a> How many sins do accompany +drunkenness.</p> +<p><a name="footnote141d"></a><a href="#citation141d" class="footnote">[141d]</a> Acts 17. 30, 31, 32.</p> +<p><a name="footnote142a"></a><a href="#citation142a" class="footnote">[142a]</a> Job 34. 24, 25, 26.</p> +<p><a name="footnote142b"></a><a href="#citation142b" class="footnote">[142b]</a> An open stroak.</p> +<p><a name="footnote142c"></a><a href="#citation142c" class="footnote">[142c]</a> pag. 41.</p> +<p><a name="footnote143a"></a><a href="#citation143a" class="footnote">[143a]</a> Mr. Badman fallen sick.</p> +<p><a name="footnote143b"></a><a href="#citation143b" class="footnote">[143b]</a> His conscience is wounded.</p> +<p><a name="footnote143c"></a><a href="#citation143c" class="footnote">[143c]</a> He cryes out in his +sickness.</p> +<p><a name="footnote143d"></a><a href="#citation143d" class="footnote">[143d]</a> His Atheism will not help him +now.</p> +<p><a name="footnote144a"></a><a href="#citation144a" class="footnote">[144a]</a> A dreadful example of Gods +anger.</p> +<p><a name="footnote144c"></a><a href="#citation144c" class="footnote">[144c]</a> What Mr. Badman did more when +he was sick.</p> +<p><a name="footnote145a"></a><a href="#citation145a" class="footnote">[145a]</a> Great alteration made in Mr. +Badman.</p> +<p><a name="footnote145b"></a><a href="#citation145b" class="footnote">[145b]</a> The Town-talk of Mr. Badmans +change.</p> +<p><a name="footnote145c"></a><a href="#citation145c" class="footnote">[145c]</a> His wife is comforted.</p> +<p><a name="footnote146a"></a><a href="#citation146a" class="footnote">[146a]</a> Mr. Badman recovers and returns +to his old course.</p> +<p><a name="footnote146b"></a><a href="#citation146b" class="footnote">[146b]</a> Ignorant physicians kill souls +while they cure bodyes.</p> +<p><a name="footnote147a"></a><a href="#citation147a" class="footnote">[147a]</a> Gen. 4. 13. 14. Exo. 9. +27. 1 Sam. 15. 24. Matt. 27. 3, 4, 5.</p> +<p><a name="footnote147b"></a><a href="#citation147b" class="footnote">[147b]</a> The true symptoms of conversion +wanting in all Mr. Badmans sence of sin and desires of mercy.</p> +<p><a name="footnote147c"></a><a href="#citation147c" class="footnote">[147c]</a> Exo. 19. 28. Acts 8. +24.</p> +<p><a name="footnote147d"></a><a href="#citation147d" class="footnote">[147d]</a> Luke 16. 27, 28.</p> +<p><a name="footnote147e"></a><a href="#citation147e" class="footnote">[147e]</a> Of sick-bed repentance, and +that it is to be suspected.</p> +<p><a name="footnote148a"></a><a href="#citation148a" class="footnote">[148a]</a> Hos. 7. 14.</p> +<p><a name="footnote148b"></a><a href="#citation148b" class="footnote">[148b]</a> A sign of the desperateness of +mans heart.</p> +<p><a name="footnote148c"></a><a href="#citation148c" class="footnote">[148c]</a> Deut. 1. 34, 35.</p> +<p><a name="footnote148d"></a><a href="#citation148d" class="footnote">[148d]</a> Psal. 78. 34, 35, 36, 37.</p> +<p><a name="footnote149a"></a><a href="#citation149a" class="footnote">[149a]</a> Mr. Badmans wifes heart is +broken.</p> +<p><a name="footnote149b"></a><a href="#citation149b" class="footnote">[149b]</a> Her Christian speech.</p> +<p><a name="footnote149c"></a><a href="#citation149c" class="footnote">[149c]</a> Heb. 12. 22, 23, 24.</p> +<p><a name="footnote149d"></a><a href="#citation149d" class="footnote">[149d]</a> Her talk to her friends. +(Don’t see how this relates to the text. DP)</p> +<p><a name="footnote150a"></a><a href="#citation150a" class="footnote">[150a]</a> Ps. 35. 13.</p> +<p><a name="footnote150b"></a><a href="#citation150b" class="footnote">[150b]</a> Her talk to her husband.</p> +<p><a name="footnote151a"></a><a href="#citation151a" class="footnote">[151a]</a> He diverts her discourse.</p> +<p><a name="footnote151b"></a><a href="#citation151b" class="footnote">[151b]</a> Her speech to her children that +were rude.</p> +<p><a name="footnote151c"></a><a href="#citation151c" class="footnote">[151c]</a> Rev. 7. 16. Chap. 21. 3, +4.</p> +<p><a name="footnote151d"></a><a href="#citation151d" class="footnote">[151d]</a> Her speech to her darling.</p> +<p><a name="footnote152a"></a><a href="#citation152a" class="footnote">[152a]</a> Heb. 3. 14.</p> +<p><a name="footnote152b"></a><a href="#citation152b" class="footnote">[152b]</a> Ephes. 5. 11.</p> +<p><a name="footnote152c"></a><a href="#citation152c" class="footnote">[152c]</a> Her death.</p> +<p><a name="footnote153b"></a><a href="#citation153b" class="footnote">[153b]</a> One of her children converted +by her dying words.</p> +<p><a name="footnote153c"></a><a href="#citation153c" class="footnote">[153c]</a> Mat. 23.</p> +<p><a name="footnote154a"></a><a href="#citation154a" class="footnote">[154a]</a> Mr. Badmans base language.</p> +<p><a name="footnote154b"></a><a href="#citation154b" class="footnote">[154b]</a> He marryes again, and how he +got this last wife.</p> +<p><a name="footnote154c"></a><a href="#citation154c" class="footnote">[154c]</a> What she was, and how they +lived.</p> +<p><a name="footnote154d"></a><a href="#citation154d" class="footnote">[154d]</a> Clarks Looking Glass.</p> +<p><a name="footnote155"></a><a href="#citation155" class="footnote">[155]</a> Amo. 7. 16, 17.</p> +<p><a name="footnote156a"></a><a href="#citation156a" class="footnote">[156a]</a> He is punished in his last wife +for his bad carriages towards his first.</p> +<p><a name="footnote156b"></a><a href="#citation156b" class="footnote">[156b]</a> He is not at all the +better.</p> +<p><a name="footnote156c"></a><a href="#citation156c" class="footnote">[156c]</a> None did pity him for his +sorrow, but looked upon it as a just reward.</p> +<p><a name="footnote156d"></a><a href="#citation156d" class="footnote">[156d]</a> Badman and this last wife part +as poor as Howlets.</p> +<p><a name="footnote157a"></a><a href="#citation157a" class="footnote">[157a]</a> Mr Badmans sickness and +diseases of which he died.</p> +<p><a name="footnote157b"></a><a href="#citation157b" class="footnote">[157b]</a> Badmans name stinks when he is +dead.</p> +<p><a name="footnote157c"></a><a href="#citation157c" class="footnote">[157c]</a> Pro. 10. 7.</p> +<p><a name="footnote158a"></a><a href="#citation158a" class="footnote">[158a]</a> That Mr. Badman dies impenitent +is proved.</p> +<p><a name="footnote158b"></a><a href="#citation158b" class="footnote">[158b]</a> 1 Proof that he died +impenitent.</p> +<p><a name="footnote159a"></a><a href="#citation159a" class="footnote">[159a]</a> Isa. 6. Ro. 11.</p> +<p><a name="footnote159b"></a><a href="#citation159b" class="footnote">[159b]</a> No sence of sin, no repentance +proved.</p> +<p><a name="footnote159c"></a><a href="#citation159c" class="footnote">[159c]</a> Acts 2. Chap. 9. +Chap. 16.</p> +<p><a name="footnote159d"></a><a href="#citation159d" class="footnote">[159d]</a> Psal. 38. 18.</p> +<p><a name="footnote159e"></a><a href="#citation159e" class="footnote">[159e]</a> 2 Sam. 12.</p> +<p><a name="footnote159f"></a><a href="#citation159f" class="footnote">[159f]</a> Job 10. 2. Chap. 34. +32.</p> +<p><a name="footnote159g"></a><a href="#citation159g" class="footnote">[159g]</a> Jer. 31. 18, 19, 20.</p> +<p><a name="footnote160a"></a><a href="#citation160a" class="footnote">[160a]</a> Job 20. 11. Prov. 5. +22.</p> +<p><a name="footnote160b"></a><a href="#citation160b" class="footnote">[160b]</a> Matt. 25. Isa. 66. +24. Mar. 9. 44.</p> +<p><a name="footnote160c"></a><a href="#citation160c" class="footnote">[160c]</a> Every sight and sence of sin +cannot produce repentance.</p> +<p><a name="footnote160d"></a><a href="#citation160d" class="footnote">[160d]</a> 2 proof that he died +impenitent.</p> +<p><a name="footnote161a"></a><a href="#citation161a" class="footnote">[161a]</a> 1 King. 21. 17, 18, 19, +20, 21.</p> +<p><a name="footnote161b"></a><a href="#citation161b" class="footnote">[161b]</a> Psal. 41. 6.</p> +<p><a name="footnote161c"></a><a href="#citation161c" class="footnote">[161c]</a> How Badman carried it to good +men when they came to visit him in his last sickness.</p> +<p><a name="footnote163a"></a><a href="#citation163a" class="footnote">[163a]</a> Job. 21. 14.</p> +<p><a name="footnote163b"></a><a href="#citation163b" class="footnote">[163b]</a> Jer. 2. 25. Zech. 7. 11, +12. Acts. 28. 26, 27.</p> +<p><a name="footnote163c"></a><a href="#citation163c" class="footnote">[163c]</a> 3 Proof that he died +impenitent.</p> +<p><a name="footnote163d"></a><a href="#citation163d" class="footnote">[163d]</a> Acts 9. 11.</p> +<p><a name="footnote163e"></a><a href="#citation163e" class="footnote">[163e]</a> Psal. 18. 14.</p> +<p><a name="footnote163f"></a><a href="#citation163f" class="footnote">[163f]</a> Job 36. 13.</p> +<p><a name="footnote164a"></a><a href="#citation164a" class="footnote">[164a]</a> Psal. 51. 1. Psal. 6. 1, +2, 3, 4. Psal. 38.</p> +<p><a name="footnote164b"></a><a href="#citation164b" class="footnote">[164b]</a> 4 Proof that he died +impenitent.</p> +<p><a name="footnote165a"></a><a href="#citation165a" class="footnote">[165a]</a> Acts. 9. 26. 28.</p> +<p><a name="footnote165b"></a><a href="#citation165b" class="footnote">[165b]</a> Psal. 119. 63.</p> +<p><a name="footnote165c"></a><a href="#citation165c" class="footnote">[165c]</a> 2 Cor. 5. 17.</p> +<p><a name="footnote165d"></a><a href="#citation165d" class="footnote">[165d]</a> Acts. 4. 32, 33. Chap. 2. +44, 45, 46, 47.</p> +<p><a name="footnote166a"></a><a href="#citation166a" class="footnote">[166a]</a> How Mr. Badman was when near +his End.</p> +<p><a name="footnote166b"></a><a href="#citation166b" class="footnote">[166b]</a> He died like a Lamb.</p> +<p><a name="footnote166c"></a><a href="#citation166c" class="footnote">[166c]</a> The opinion of the Ignorant +about his manner of dying.</p> +<p><a name="footnote167a"></a><a href="#citation167a" class="footnote">[167a]</a> How we must judge whether men +dye well or no.</p> +<p><a name="footnote167b"></a><a href="#citation167b" class="footnote">[167b]</a> When we may judge of a mans +eternal state by the manner of his death.</p> +<p><a name="footnote168c"></a><a href="#citation168c" class="footnote">[168c]</a> The story of John Cox.</p> +<p><a name="footnote169a"></a><a href="#citation169a" class="footnote">[169a]</a> Of dying in Despair.</p> +<p><a name="footnote170a"></a><a href="#citation170a" class="footnote">[170a]</a> 1 Sam. 28.</p> +<p><a name="footnote170b"></a><a href="#citation170b" class="footnote">[170b]</a> Psal. 73. 4. (Don’t +see where this fits into the text.—DP)</p> +<p><a name="footnote171a"></a><a href="#citation171a" class="footnote">[171a]</a> Further discourse of Mr. +Badmans death.</p> +<p><a name="footnote171b"></a><a href="#citation171b" class="footnote">[171b]</a> He that after a sinfull life +dies quietly, that is, without repentance, goes to Hell. 1 +Proof</p> +<p><a name="footnote171c"></a><a href="#citation171c" class="footnote">[171c]</a> Sick-bed repentance seldom good +for any thing.</p> +<p><a name="footnote172a"></a><a href="#citation172a" class="footnote">[172a]</a> Luke 13. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, +7.</p> +<p><a name="footnote172b"></a><a href="#citation172b" class="footnote">[172b]</a> 2 Proof.</p> +<p><a name="footnote173a"></a><a href="#citation173a" class="footnote">[173a]</a> Peace in a sinfull state is a +sign of damnation.</p> +<p><a name="footnote173b"></a><a href="#citation173b" class="footnote">[173b]</a> Hos 4. 17.</p> +<p><a name="footnote173c"></a><a href="#citation173c" class="footnote">[173c]</a> 3 Proof.</p> +<p><a name="footnote173d"></a><a href="#citation173d" class="footnote">[173d]</a> Joh. 12. 40.</p> +<p><a name="footnote174a"></a><a href="#citation174a" class="footnote">[174a]</a> Luk. 16. 22.</p> +<p><a name="footnote174b"></a><a href="#citation174b" class="footnote">[174b]</a> Rom. 2. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. +Acts 28. 26, 27.</p> +<p><a name="footnote174c"></a><a href="#citation174c" class="footnote">[174c]</a> 2 Pet. 2.</p> +<p><a name="footnote174d"></a><a href="#citation174d" class="footnote">[174d]</a> 4 Proof. Psal. 73. 4, 5, +6.</p> +<p><a name="footnote175a"></a><a href="#citation175a" class="footnote">[175a]</a> Job 8. 13, 14.</p> +<p><a name="footnote175b"></a><a href="#citation175b" class="footnote">[175b]</a> A frivolous opinion.</p> +<p><a name="footnote176a"></a><a href="#citation176a" class="footnote">[176a]</a> When a wicked man dyes in his +sins quietly, it is a Judgment of God upon his wicked +beholder.</p> +<p><a name="footnote176b"></a><a href="#citation176b" class="footnote">[176b]</a> Ver. 6.</p> +<p><a name="footnote177a"></a><a href="#citation177a" class="footnote">[177a]</a> Ver. 8. 9, 10, 11.</p> +<p><a name="footnote177b"></a><a href="#citation177b" class="footnote">[177b]</a> Vers. 12.</p> +<p><a name="footnote177c"></a><a href="#citation177c" class="footnote">[177c]</a> Mala. 2. 17.</p> + + + +<div style='display:block; margin-top:4em'>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE LIFE AND DEATH OF MR BADMAN ***</div> +<div style='text-align:left'> + +<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'> +Updated editions will replace the previous one—the old editions will +be renamed. +</div> + +<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'> +Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright +law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, +so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United +States without permission and without paying copyright +royalties. 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BADMAN + + + + +NOTE + + + +The Life and Death of Mr Badman was published by John Bunyan in +1680, two years after the First Edition of the First Part of The +Pilgrim's Progress. In the opening sentence of his preface he +tells us it was intended by him as the counterpart or companion +picture to the Allegory. But whatever his own intentions may have +been, the Public of his own time seem to have declined to accept +the book in this capacity. Indeed, another writer, who signs +himself T. S., undertook to complete Bunyan's Allegory for him, in +a book in size and type closely resembling it, and entitled The +Second Part of the Pilgrim's Progress . . . exactly Described under +the Similitude of a Dream. It was printed for Jho. Malthus at the +Sun in the Poultry, and published in 1683. So far as is known, +only one copy of this book is now in existence, the copy which was +formerly in the library of the poet Southey and now in that of the +Baptist Union. Upon this Bunyan seems to have changed his purpose, +so far as The Life and Death of Mr Badman was concerned, and on the +first of January, 1685, published the story of Christiana and her +Children as his own Second Part of The Pilgrim's Progress. + +The work before us, therefore, now stands apart by itself. In its +composition Bunyan seems to have been greatly influenced, so far as +form is concerned, by a book which his wife brought with her on her +marriage, and which, as he tells us in his Grace Abounding, they +read together. It was entitled The Plaine Man's Pathway to Heaven: +By Arthur Dent, Preacher of the Word of God at South Shoobury in +Essex. The eleventh impression, the earliest now known, is dated +1609. Both books are in dialogue form, and in each case the +dialogue is supposed to be carried on through one long day. +Bunyan's Mr Wiseman, like Dent's Theologus, holds forth instructive +discourse, while the Mr Attentive of the former, like the +Philagathus of the latter, listens and draws on his teacher by +friendly questionings. There is not in Bunyan's conference, as +there is in Dent's, an Asunetus, who plays the part of an ignorant +man to come out enlightened and convinced at last, or an Antilegon, +who carps and cavils all the way; and there is not in Dent's book +what there is in Bunyan's, a biographical narrative connecting the +various parts of the dialogue; but the groundwork of each is the +same--a searching manifestation and exposure of the nature and +evils of various forms of immorality. + +Bunyan's book came out in 1680, and was published by Nathaniel +Ponder, who was also the publisher of The Pilgrim's Progress. A +third edition appeared in 1696, but as no copy of the second +edition is known to exist, no date can be assigned to it. In 1684 +Johannes Boekholt, a publisher in Amsterdam, obtained leave of the +State to issue a Dutch translation, with the title Het Leven en +Sterben van Mr Quaat. This edition was illustrated by five copper- +plate engravings, executed by Jan Luiken, the eminent Dutch +engraver, who also illustrated The Pilgrim's Progress the following +year. In 1782 a Welsh version, translated by T. Lewys, was +published at Liverpool with the title: Bywyd a Marwolaeth yr +annuwiol dan enw Mr Drygddyn. A Gaelic version also was published +at Inverness in 1824, entitled Beath agus Bas Mhr Droch-duine. + +The present edition {1a} has been reprinted from a copy of the +first issue, lent by the Trustees of the Bunyan Church at Bedford, +and the proofs read with a second copy of the same issue, in the +library of the British Museum. For convenience of reading, as in +other issues of this series of CAMBRIDGE ENGLISH CLASSICS, the old +type forms of j, s, u, etc. have been made uniform with those in +general modern use; but neither the spelling (including the use of +capitals and italics) nor the punctuation has been altered, save as +specified. Effect has been given to the errata noted by Bunyan +himself, and printed on page 15 of this issue. + +The text of this edition of Bunyan's Holy War {1b} is a careful +reproduction of the First Edition of 1682. It is not certain that +there was any further authentic reprint in Bunyan's life-time. For +though both in the Bodleian and the British Museum there is a copy +purporting to be a second edition, and bearing date 1684, it is +difficult to resist the impression that they are pirated copies, +similar to those of which Nathaniel Ponder complained so bitterly +in the case of The Pilgrim's Progress. For both paper and +typography are greatly inferior to those of the first edition; some +of Bunyan's most characteristic marginalia are carelessly omitted; +Bunyan's own title--'The Holy War made by Shaddai upon Diabolus for +the regaining of the Metropolis of the World'--is altered to the +feebler and more commonplace form--'The Holy War made by Christ +upon the Devil for the Regaining of Man'; and, further, when a new +edition was issued in 1696, the alterations and omissions of 168 4 +were ignored, and a simple reprint made of the first edition of +1682. + +J. B. {1c} +9 October, 1905. + + + +THE AUTHOR TO THE READER + + + +Courteous Reader, + +I was considering with my self, what I had written concerning the +Progress of the Pilgrim from this World to Glory; and how it had +been acceptable to many in this Nation: It came again into my mind +to write, as then, of him that was going to Heaven, so now, of the +Life and Death of the Ungodly, and of their travel from this world +to Hell. The which in this I have done, and have put it, as thou +seest, under the Name and Title of Mr. Badman, a Name very proper +for such a Subject: I have also put it into the form of a +Dialogue, that I might with more ease to my self, and pleasure to +the Reader, perform the work. + +And although, as I said, I have put it forth in this method, yet +have I as little as may be, gone out of the road of mine own +observation of things. Yea, I think I may truly say, that to the +best of my remembrance, all the things that here I discourse of, I +mean as to matter of fact, have been acted upon the stage of this +World, even many times before mine eyes. + +Here therefore, courteous Reader, I present thee with the Life and +Death of Mr. Badman indeed: Yea, I do trace him in his Life, from +his Childhood to his Death; that thou mayest, as in a Glass, behold +with thine own eyes, the steps that take hold of Hell; and also +discern, while thou art reading of Mr. Badmans Death, whether thou +thy self art treading in his path thereto. + +And let me entreat thee to forbear Quirking and Mocking, for that I +say Mr. Badman is dead; but rather gravely enquire concerning thy +self by the Word, whether thou art one of his Linage or no: For +Mr. Badman has left many of his Relations behind him; yea, the very +World is overspread with his Kindred. True, some of his Relations, +as he, are gone to their place, and long home, but thousands of +thousands are left behind; as Brothers, Sisters, Cousens, Nephews, +besides innumerable of his Friends and Associates. + +I may say, and yet speak nothing but too much truth in so saying, +that there is scarce a Fellowship, a Community, or Fraternity of +men in the World, but some of Mr. Badmans Relations are there: yea +rarely can we find a Family or Houshold in a Town, where he has not +left behind him either Brother, Nephew or Friend. + +The Butt therefore, that at this time I shoot at, is wide; and +'twill be as impossible for this Book to go into several Families, +and not to arrest some, as for the Kings Messenger to rush into an +house full of Traitors, and find none but honest men there. + +I cannot but think that this shot will light upon many, since our +fields are so full of this Game; but how many it will kill to Mr. +Badmans course, and make alive to the Pilgrims Progress, that is +not in me to determine; this secret is with the Lord our God only, +and he alone knows to whom he will bless it to so good and so +blessed an end. However, I have put fire to the Pan, and doubt not +but the report will quickly be heard. + +I told you before, that Mr. Badman had left many of his Friends and +Relations behind him, but if I survive them (as that's a great +question to me) I may also write of their lives: However, whether +my life be longer or shorter, this is my Prayer at present, that +God will stir up Witnesses against them, that may either convert or +confound them; for wherever they live, and roll in their +wickedness, they are the Pest and Plague of that Countrey. + +England shakes and totters already, by reason of the burden that +Mr. Badman and his Friends have wickedly laid upon it: Yea, our +Earth reels and staggereth to and fro like a Drunkard, the +transgression thereof is heavy upon it. + +Courteous Reader, I will treat thee now, even at the Door and +Threshold of this house, but only with this Intelligence, that Mr. +Badman lies dead within. Be pleased therefore (if thy leisure will +serve thee) to enter in, and behold the state in which he is laid, +betwixt his Death-bed and the Grave. He is not buried as yet, nor +doth he stink, as is designed he shall, before he lies down in +oblivion. + +Now as others have had their Funerals solemnized, according to +their Greatness and Grandure in the world, so likewise Mr. Badman, +(forasmuch as he deserveth not to go down to his grave with +silence) has his Funeral state according to his deserts. + +Four things are usual at great mens Funerals, which we will take +leave, and I hope without offence, to allude to, in the Funeral of +Mr. Badman. + +First, They are sometimes, when dead, presented to their Friends, +by their compleatly wrought Images, as lively as by cunning mens +hands they can be; that the remembrance of them may be renewed to +their survivors, the remembrance of them and their deeds: And this +I have endeavoured to answer in my discourse of Mr. Badman; and +therefore I have drawn him forth in his featours and actions from +his Childhood to his Gray hairs. Here therefore thou hast him +lively set forth as in Cutts; both as to the minority, flower, and +seniority of his Age, together with those actions of his life, that +he was most capable of doing, in, and under those present +circumstances of time, place, strength; and the opportunities that +did attend him in these. + +Secondly, There is also usual at great mens Funerals, those Badges +and Scutcheons of their honour, that they have received from their +Ancestors, or have been thought worthy of for the deeds and +exploits they have done in their life: And here Mr. Badman has +his, but such as vary from all men of worth, but so much the more +agreeing with the merit of his doings: They all have descended in +state, he only as an abominable branch. His deserts are the +deserts of sin, and therefore the Scutcheons of honour that he has, +are only that he died without Honour, and at his end became a fool. +Thou shalt not be joyned with them in burial.--The seed of evil +doers shall never be renowned. + +The Funeral pomp therefore of Mr. Badman, is to wear upon his +Hearse the Badges of a dishonourable and wicked life; since his +bones are full of the sins of his Youth, which shall lye down, as +Job sayes, in the dust with him: nor is it fit that any should be +his Attendants, now at his death, but such as with him conspired +against their own souls in their life; persons whose transgressions +have made them infamous to all that have or shall know what they +have done. + +Some notice therefore I have also here in this little discourse +given the Reader, of them who were his Confederates in his life, +and Attendants at his death; with a hint, either of some high +Villany committed by them, as also of those Judgments that have +overtaken and fallen upon them from the just and revenging hand of +God. All which are things either fully known by me, as being eye +and ear-witness thereto, or that I have received from such hands, +whose relation as to this, I am bound to believe. And that the +Reader may know them from other things and passages herein +contained, I have pointed at them in the Margent, as with a finger +thus: {2a} + +Thirdly, The Funerals of persons of Quality have been solemnized +with some suitable Sermon at the time and place of their Burial; +but that I am not come to as yet, having got no further than to Mr. +Badmans death: but for as much as he must be buried, after he hath +stunk out his time before his beholders, I doubt not but some such +that we read are appointed to be at the burial of Gog, will do this +work in my stead; such as shall leave him neither skin nor bone +above ground, but shall set a sign by it till the buriers have +buried it in the Valley of Hamon-gog, Ezek. 39. + +Fourthly, At Funerals there does use to be Mourning and +lamentation, but here also Mr. Badman differs from others; his +Familiars cannot lament his departure, for they have not sence of +his damnable state; they rather ring him, and sing him to Hell in +the sleep of death, in which he goes thither. Good men count him +no loss to the world, his place can well be without him, his loss +is only his own, and 'tis too late for him to recover that dammage +or loss by a Sea of bloody tears, could he shed them. Yea, God has +said, he will laugh at his destruction, who then shall lament for +him, saying, Ah! my brother. He was but a stinking Weed in his +life; nor was he better at all in his death: such may well be +thrown over the wall without sorrow, when once God has plucked them +up by the roots in his wrath. + +Reader, If thou art of the race, linage, stock or fraternity of Mr. +Badman, I tell thee before thou readest this Book, thou wilt +neither brook the Author nor it, because he hath writ of Mr. Badman +as he has. For he that condemneth the wicked that die so, passeth +also the sentence upon the wicked that live. I therefore expect +neither credit of, nor countenance from thee, for this Narration of +thy kinsmans life. + +For thy old love to thy Friend, his wayes, doings, &c. will stir up +in thee enmity rather, in thy very heart, against me. I shall +therefore incline to think of thee, that thou wilt rent, burn, or +throw it away in contempt: yea and wish also, that for writing so +notorious a truth, some mischief may befall me. I look also to be +loaded by thee with disdain, scorn and contempt; yea that thou +shouldest railingly and vilifyingly say, I lye, and am a +bespatterer of honest mens lives and deaths. For Mr. Badman, when +himself was alive, could not abide to be counted a Knave (though +his actions told all that went by, that indeed he was such an one:) +How then should his brethren, that survive him, and that tread in +his very steps, approve of the sentence that by this Book is +pronounced against him? Will they not rather imitate Corah, +Dathan, and Abiram's friends, even rail at me for condemning him, +as they did at Moses for doing execution? + +I know 'tis ill pudling in the Cockatrices den, and that they run +hazards that hunt the Wild-Boar. The man also that writeth Mr. +Badmans life, had need to be fenced with a Coat of Mail, and with +the Staffe of a Spear, for that his surviving friends will know +what he doth: but I have adventured to do it, and to play, at this +time, at the hole of these Asps; if they bite, they bite; if they +sting, they sting. Christ sends his Lambs in the midst of Wolves, +not to do like them, but to suffer by them for bearing plain +testimony against their bad deeds: But had one not need to walk +with a Guard, and to have a Sentinel stand at ones door for this? +Verily, the flesh would be glad of such help; yea, a spiritual man, +could he tell how to get it. Acts 23. But I am stript naked of +these, and yet am commanded to be faithful in my servi[c]e for +Christ. Well then, I have spoken what I have spoken, and now come +on me what will, Job 13. 13. True, the Text sayes, Rebuke a +scorner, and he will hate thee; and that, He that reproveth a +wicked man, getteth himself a Blot and Shame; but what then? Open +rebuke is better than secret love; and he that receives it, shall +find it so afterwards. + +So then, whether Mr. Badmans friends shall rage or laugh at what I +have writ, I know that the better end of the staffe is mine. My +endeavour is to stop an hellish Course of Life, and to save a soul +from death, (Jam. 5.) and if for so doing, I meet with envy from +them, from whom in reason I should have thanks, I must remember the +man in the dream, that cut his way through his armed enemies, and +so got into the beauteous Palace; I must, I say, remember him, and +do my self likewise. + +Yet four things I will propound to the consideration of Mr. Badmans +friends, before I turn my back upon them. + +1. Suppose that there be an Hell in very deed, not that I do +question it, any more than I do whether there be a Sun to shine; +but I suppose it for argument sake, with Mr. Badmans friends; I +say, suppose there be an Hell, and that too, such an one as the +Scripture speaks of, one at the remotest distance from God and Life +eternall, one where the Worm of a guilty Conscience never dyes, and +where the fire of the Wrath of God is not quenched. + +Suppose, I say, that there is such an Hell, prepared of God (as +there is indeed) for the body and soul of the ungodly World after +this life, to be tormented in: I say, do but with thy self suppose +it, and then tell me, Is it not prepared for thee, thou being a +wicked man? Let thy conscience speak, I say, is it not prepared +for thee, thou being an ungodly man? And dost thou think, wast +thou there now, that thou art able to wrestle with the Judgment of +God? Why then do the fallen Angers tremble there? thy hands cannot +be strong, nor can thy heart endure, in that day when God shall +deal with thee: Ezek. 22. 14. + +2. Suppose that some one that is now a soul in Hell for sin, was +permitted to come hither again to dwell; and that they had a grant +also, that upon amendment of life, next time the dye, to change +that place for Heaven ant Glory; what sayest thou, O wicked man? +would such an one (thinkest thou) run again into the same course of +life as before, and venture the damnation that for sin he had +already been in? Would he choose again to lead that cursed life +that afresh would kindle the flames of Hell upon him, and that +would bind him up under the heavy wrath of God? O! he would not, +he would not; the sixteenth of Luke insinuates it: yea Reason it +self, awake, would abhorr it, and tremble at such a thought. + +3. Suppose again, that thou that livest and rollest in thy sin, +and that as yet hast known nothing but the pleasure thereof, +shouldst be by an angel conveyed to some place where with +convenience, from thence thou mightest have a view of Heaven and +Hell; of the Joyes of the one, and the torments of the other; I +say, suppose that from thence thou mightest have such a view +thereof, as would convince thy reason, that both Heaven and Hell, +are such realities as by the Word they are declared to be; wouldest +thou (thinkest thou) when brought to thy home again, chuse to thy +self thy former life, to wit, to return to thy folly again? No; if +belief of what thou sawest, remained with thee, thou wouldest eat +Fire and Brimstone first. + +4. I will propound again. Suppose that there was amongst us such +a Law, (and such a Magistrate to inflict the penalty,) That for +every open wickedness committed by thee, so much of thy flesh +should with burning Pincers be plucked from thy Bones: Wouldest +thou then go on in thy open way of Lying, Swearing, Drinking and +Whoring, as thou with delight doest now? Surely, surely, No: The +fear of the punishment would make thee forbear; yea, would make +thee tremble, even then when thy lusts were powerfull, to think +what a punishment thou wast sure to sustain, so soon as the +pleasure was over. But Oh! the folly, the madness, the desperate +madness that is in the hearts of Mr. Badmans friends, who in +despite of the threatnings of an holy and sin revenging God, and of +the outcries and warnings of all good men; yea, that will in +despite of the groans and torments of those that are now in Hell +for sin, (Luk. 16. 24. 28.) go on in a sinfull course of life; yea, +though every sin is also a step of descent, down to that infernal +Cave. O how true is that saying of Solomon, The heart of the sons +of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they +live, and after that they go to the dead, Eccles. 9. 3. To the +dead! that is, to the dead in Hell, to the damned dead; the place +to which those that have dyed Bad men are gone, and that those that +live Bad men are like to go to, when a little more sin, like +stollen waters, hath been imbibed by their sinful souls. + +That which has made me publish this Book is, + +1. For that wickedness like a flood is like to drown our English +world: it begins already to be above the tops of mountains; it has +almost swallowed up all; our Youth, our Middle age, Old age, and +all, are almost carried away of this flood. O Debauchery, +Debauchery, what hast thou done in England! Thou hast corrupted +our Young men, and hast made our Old men beasts; thou hast +deflowered our Virgins, and hast made Matrons Bawds. Thou hast +made our earth to reel to and fro like a drunkard; 'tis in danger +to be removed like a Cottage, yea, it is, because transgression is +so heavy upon it, like to fall and rise no more. Isa. 24. 20. + +O! that I could mourn for England, and for the sins that are +committed therein, even while I see that without repentance, the +men of Gods wrath are about to deal with us, each having his +slaughtering weapon in his hand: (Ezek. 9. 1, 2.) Well, I have +written, and by Gods assistance shall pray, that this flood may +abate in England: and could I but see the tops of the Mountains +above it, I should think that these waters were abating. + +2. It is the duty of those that can, to cry out against this +deadly plague, yea, to lift up their voice as with a Trumpet +against it; that men may he awakened about it, flye from it, as +from that which is the greatest of evils. Sin pull'd Angels out of +Heaven, pulls men down to Hell, and overthroweth Kingdoms. Who, +that sees an house on fire, will not give the Allarum to them that +dwell therein? who that sees the Land invaded, will not set the +Beacons on a fame? Who, that sees the Devils, as roaring Lyons, +continually devouring souls, will not make an Out-cry? But above +all, when we see sin, sinful sin, a swallowing up a Nation, sinking +of a Nation, and bringing its Inhabitants to temporal, spiritual, +and eternal ruine, shall we not cry out, and cry, They are drunk, +but not with Wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink; they +are intoxicated with the deadly poyson of sin, which will, if its +malignity be not by wholsom means allayed, bring Soul and Body, and +Estate and Countrey, and all, to ruin and destruction? + +3. In and by this my Out-cry, I shall deliver my self from the +ruins of them that perish: for a man can do no more in this +matter, I mean a man in my capacity, than to detect and condemn the +wickedness, warn the evil doer of the Judgment, and fly therefrom +my self. But Oh! that I might not only deliver my self! Oh that +many would hear, and turn at this my cry, from sin! that they may +be secured from the death and Judgment that attend it. + +Why I have handled the matter in this method, is best known to my +self: and why I have concealed most of the Names of the persons +whose sins or punishments I here and there in this Book make +relation of, is, + +1. For that neither the sins nor Judgments were all alike open; +the sins of some, were committed, and the Judgments executed for +them only in a corner. Not to say that I could not learn some of +their names; for could I, I should not have made them publick, for +this reason. + +2. Because I would not provoke those of their Relations that +survive them; I would not justly provoke them, and yet, as I think, +I should, should I have intailed their punishment to their sins, +and both to their names, and so have turned them into the world. + +3. Nor would I lay them under disgrace and contempt, which would, +as I think, unavoidably have happened unto them had I withall +inserted their Names. + +As for those whose Names I mention, their crimes or Judgments were +manifest; publick almost as any thing of that nature that happeneth +to mortal men. Such therefore have published their own shame by +their sin, and God, his anger, by taking of open vengeance. + +As Job sayes, God has strook them as wicked men in the open sight +of others, Job 34. 26. So that I cannot conceive, since their sin +and Judgment was so conspicuous, that my admonishing the world +thereof, should turn to their detriment: For the publishing of +these things, are, so far as Relation is concerned, intended for +remembrancers: That they may also bethink themselves, repent and +turn to God, lest the Judgments for their sins should prove +hereditary. For the God of Heaven hath threatned to visit the +iniquity of the fathers upon the children, if they hate him, to the +third and fourth generation, Exod. 20. 5. + +Nebuchadnezzars punishment for his pride being open, (for he was +for his sin, driven from his Kingly dignity, and from among men +too, to eat grass like an Ox, and to company with the beasts,) +Daniel did not stick to tell Belshazzar his son to his face +thereof; nor to publish it that it might be read and remembred by +the generations to come. The same may be said of Judas and +Ananias, &c. for their sin and punishment were known to all the +dwellers at Jerusalem, Acts 1. Chap. 5. + +Nor is it a sign but of desperate impenitence and hardness of +heart, when the offspring or relations of those who have fallen by +open, fearfull and prodigious Judgments, for their sin, shall +overlook, forget, pass by, or take no notice of such high outgoings +of God against them and their house. Thus Daniel aggravates +Belshazzars crime, for that he hardened his heart in pride, though +he knew that for that very sin and transgression his father was +brought down from his height, and made to be a companion for Asses. +And thou his son, O Belshazzar, sayes he, hast not humbled thy +heart, though thou knewest all this. Dan. 5. A home reproof +indeed, but home is most fit for an open and continued-in +transgression. + +Let those then that are the Offspring or relations of such, who by +their own sin, and the dreadfull Judgments of God, are made to +become a sign, (Deut. 16. 9, 10.) having been swept, as dung, from +off the face of the earth, beware, lest when Judgment knocks at +their door, for their sins, as it did before at the door of their +Pregenitors, it falls also with as heavy a stroak as on them that +went before them: Lest, I say, they in that day, instead of +finding mercy, find for their high, daring, and Judgment- +affronting-sins, Judgment without mercy. + +To conclude, let those that would not dye Mr. Badmans death, take +heed of Mr. Badmans wayes: for his wayes bring to his end; +Wickedness will not deliver him that is given to it; though they +should cloak all with a Profession of Religion. + +If it was a transgression of Old, for a man to wear a Womans +Apparel, surely it is a transgression now for a sinner to wear a +Christian Profession for a Cloak. Wolves in Sheeps Cloathing swarm +in England this day: Wolves both as to Doctrine, and as to +Practice too. Some men make a Profession, I doubt, on purpose that +they may twist themselves into a Trade; and thence into an Estate; +yea, and if need be, into an Estate Knavishly, by the ruins of +their Neighbour: let such take heed, for those that do such things +have the greater damnation. + +Christian, make thy Profession shine by a Conversation according to +the Gospel: Or else thou wilt damnifie Religion, bring scandal to +thy Brethren, and give offence to the Enemies; and 'twould be +better that a Millstone was hanged about thy neck, and that thou, +as so adorned, wast cast into the bottom of the Sea, than so to do. + +Christian, a Profession according to the Gospel, is, in these +dayes, a rare thing; seek then after it, put it on, and keep it +without spot; and (as becomes thee) white, and clean, and thou +shalt be a rare Christian. + +The Prophecy of the last times is, that professing men (for so I +understand the Text) s[h]all be, many of them, base; (2 Tim. 3.) +but continue thou in the things that thou hast learned, not of +wanton men, not of licentious times, but of the Word and Doctrine +of God, that is according to Godliness; and thou shalt walk with +Christ in white. + +Now God Almighty give his people Grace, not to hate or malign +Sinners nor yet to choose any of their wayes, but to keep +themselves pure from the blood of all men, by speaking and doing +according to that Name and those Rules that they profess to know, +and love; for Jesus Christs sake. + +John Bunyan. + + + +Books lately Printed for and Sold by Nathaniel Ponder at the +Peacock in the Poultrey, neer the Church. + + + +Biblia Sacra, sive Testamentum Vetus, ab Im. Tremellio & Fr. Junio +ex Hebraeo Latine redditum. Et Testamentum Novum a Theod. Beza e +Graeco in Latinum versum. Argumentis Capitum additis versibusque +singulis distinctis, & seorsum expressis. 12 [degree sign]. + +[Greek text], Or, A Declaration of the Glorious Mystery of the +Person of Christ, God and Man. With the Infinite Wisdom, Love and +Power of God in the contrivance and constitution thereof. As also +of the Grounds and Reasons of his Incarnation, the nature of his +Ministry in Heaven, the present State of the Church above thereon, +and the Use of his Person in Religion. With an Account and +Vindication of the Honour, Worship, Faith, Love, and Obedience due +unto him, in and from the Church. By John Owen, D.D. + +Divine Breathings: or a Manual of practical Contemplations, in one +Century: Tending to promote Gospel-Principles, and a good +Conversation in Christ. Comprizing in brief many of those great +Truths that are to be known and practised by a Christian. By T.S. + +Youth's Comedy, or the Souls Tryals and Triumph: a Dramatick Poem. +With Divers Meditations intermixt upon several Subjects. Set forth +to help and encourage those that are seeking a Heavenly Country. +By the Author of Youth's Tragedy. + +A Treatise of the Fear of God: shewing what it is, and how +distinguished from that which is not so. Also Whence it comes. +Who has it. What are the Effects. And What the Priviledges of +those that have it in their hearts. By John Bunyan. + +The Tragical History of Jetzer: Or, a Faithful Narrative of the +Feigned Visions, Counterfeit Revelations, and false Miracles of the +Dominican Fathers of the Covent of Bern in Switzerland, to +Propagate their Superstitions. For which Horrid Impieties, the +Prior, Sub-Prior, Lecturer, and Receiver of the said Covent were +Burnt at a Stake, Anno Dom. 1509. Collected From the Records of +the said City by the Care of Sir William Waller, Knight. +Translated from his French Copy by an Impartial Pen, and now made +Publick for the Information of English Protestants, who may hence +learn, that Catholicks will stick at no Villanies which may Advance +their Designs, nor at any Perjuries that may Conceal them. With an +Epistle, wherein are some soft and gentle Reflections upon the +Lying, Dying Speeches of the Jesuites lately Executed at Tyburn. +The Second Edition. + +The Pilgrims Progress from this World to that which is to come: +Delivered in the Similitude of a Dream. By John Bunyan. This +fourth Impression hath the Authors Picture and many Additions. + +There is now in the Press, and will be suddenly published, An +Exposition on the 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10th Chapters on the Hebrews: +Being a Third Volume. By John Owen, D.D. + + +ERRATA. + + +Page 127. line 8. for amated read amazed, p. 149. l. 15. for +herbaps r. perhaps, p. 162. l. 3, & 4. for diababolical r. +diabolical, p. 287. l. 9. for, for r. so, p. 304. for reputation r. +repentance. + + + +THE LIFE AND DEATH OF MR. BADMAN +Presented to the World in a Familiar DIALOGUE +Betwixt { Mr. WISEMAN, + { And, + { Mr. ATTENTIVE. + + + +Wiseman. + +Good morrow my good Neighbour, Mr. Attentive; whither are you +walking so early this morning? methinks you look as if you were +concerned about something more than ordinary. Have you lost any of +your Cattel, or what is the matter? + +Attentive. Good Sir, Good morrow to you, I have not as yet lost +ought, but yet you give a right ghess of me, for I am, as you say, +concerned in my heart, but 'tis because of the badness of the +times. And Sir, you, as all our Neighbours know, are a very +observing man, pray therefore what do you think of them? + +Wise. Why? I think, as you say, to wit, that they are bad times, +and bad they will be, untill men are better: for they are bad men +that make bad times; if men therefore would mend, so would the +times. 'Tis a folly to look for good dayes, so long as sin is so +high, and those that study its nourishment so many. God bring it +down, and those that nourish it to Repentance, and then my good +Neighbour, you will be concerned, not as you are now: Now you are +concerned because times are so bad; but then you will be so, 'cause +times are so good: Now you are concerned so as to be perplexed, +but then you will be concerned so as to lift up your voice with +shouting; for I dare say, could you see such dayes they would make +you shout. + +Atten. Ai, so they would, such times I have prayed for, such times +I have longed for: but I fear they'l be worse before they be +better. + +Wise. Make no Conclusions, man: for he that hath the hearts of +men in his hand, can change them from worse to better, and so bad +times into good. God give long life to them that are good, and +especially to those of them that are capable of doing him service +in the world. The Ornament and Beauty of this lower World, next to +God and his Wonders, are the men that spangle and shine in +godliness. + +Now as Mr. Wiseman said this, he gave a great sigh. + +Atten. Amen. Amen. But why, good Sir, do you sigh so deeply? is +it for ought else than that for the which as you have perceived, I +my self am concerned? + +Wise. I am concerned with you, for the badness of the times; but +that was not the cause of that sigh, of the which, as I see, you +take notice. I sighed at the remembrance of the death of that man +for whom the Bell tolled at our Town yesterday. + +Atten. Why? I trow, Mr. Goodman your Neighbour is not dead. +Indeed I did hear that he had been sick. + +Wise. No, no, it is not he. Had it been he, I could not but have +been concerned, but yet not as I am concerned now. If he had died, +I should only have been concerned for that the world had lost a +Light: but the man that I am concerned for now, was one that never +was good, therefore such an one who is not dead only, but damned. +He died that he might die, he went from Life to Death, and then +from Death to Death, from Death Natural to death Eternal. And as +he spake this, the water stood in his eyes. + +Atten. Indeed, to goe from a death-bed to Hell is a fearful thing +to think on. But good Neighbour Wiseman, be pleased to tell me who +this man was, and why you conclude him so miserable in his death? + +Wise. Well, if you can stay, I will tell you who he was, and why I +conclude thus concerning him. + +Atten. My leisure will admit me to stay, and I am willing to hear +you out. And I pray God your discourse may take hold on my heart, +that I may be bettered thereby. So they agreed to sit down under a +tree: Then Mr. Wiseman proceeded as followeth. + +Wise. The man that I mean, is one Mr. Badman; he has lived in our +Town a great while, and now, as I said, he is dead. But the reason +of my being so concerned at his death, is, not for that he was at +all related to me, or for that any good conditions died with him, +for he was far from them, but for that, as I greatly fear, he hath, +as was hinted before, died two deaths at once. + +Atten. I perceive what you mean by two deaths at once; and to +speak truth, 'tis a fearfull thing thus to have ground to think of +any: for although the death of the ungodly and sinners is laid to +heart but of few, yet to die in such a state, is more dreadful and +fearful than any man can imagine. Indeed if a man had no Soul, if +his state was not truely Immortal, the matter would not be so much; +but for a man to be so disposed of by his Maker, as to be appointed +a sensible being for ever, and for him too to fall into the hands +of revenging Justice, that will be always, to the utmost extremity +that his sin deserveth, punishing of him in the dismal dungeon of +Hell, this must needs be unutterably sad, and lamentable. + +Wise. There is no man, I think, that is sensible of the worth of +one Soul, but must, when he hears of the death of unconverted men, +be stricken with sorrow and grief: because, as you said well, that +mans state is such, that he has a sensible being for ever. For +'tis sense that makes punishment heavy. But yet sense is not all +that the Damned have, they have sense and reason too; so then, as +Sense receiveth punishment with sorrow because it feels, and bleeds +under the same, so by Reason, and the exercise thereof, in the +midst of torment, all present Affliction is aggravated, and that +three manner of wayes: + +1. Reason will consider thus with himself; For what am I thus +tormented? and will easily find 'tis for nothing but that base and +filthy thing, Sin; and now will Vexation be mixed with Punishment, +and that will greatly heighten the Affliction. + +2. Reason will consider thus with himself. How long must this be +my state? And will soon return to himself this Answer: This must +be my state for ever and ever. Now this will greatly increase the +torment. + +3. Reason will consider thus with himself; What have I lost more +than present ease and quiet by my sins that I have committed? And +will quickly return himself this answer: I have lost Communion +with God, Christ, Saints and Angels, and a share in Heaven and +eternal Life: And this also must needs greaten the misery of poor +damned souls. And this is the case of Mr. Badman. + +Atten. I feel my heart even shake at the thoughts of coming into +such a state. Hell! who knows that is yet alive, what the torments +of Hell are? This word Hell gives a very dreadful sound. + +Wise. Ai, so it does in the ears of him that has a tender +Conscience. But if, as you say, and that truly, the very Name of +Hell, is so dreadful, what is the Place it self, and what are the +Punishments that are there inflicted, and that without the least +intermission, upon the Souls of damned men, for ever and ever. + +Atten. Well, but passing this; my leisure will admit me to stay, +and therefore pray tell me what it is that makes you think that Mr. +Badman is gone to Hell. + +Wise. I will tell you. But first do you know which of the Badmans +I mean? + +Atten. Why was there more of them than one? + +Wise. O, yes, a great many, both Brothers and Sisters, and yet all +of them the Children of a godly Parent, the more a great deal is +the pity. + +Atten. Which of them therefore was it that died. + +Wise. The eldest, old in years, and old in sin; but the sinner +that dies an hundred years old shall be accursed. + +Atten. Well, but what makes you think he is gone to Hell? + +Wise. His wicked life, and fearful death, specially since the +Manner of his death was so corresponding with his life. + +Atten. Pray let me know the manner of his death, if your self did +perfectly know it. + +Wise. I was there when he died: But I desire not to see another +such man (while I live) die in such sort as he did. + +Atten. Pray therefore let me hear it. + +Wise. You say you have leisure and can stay, and therefore, if you +please, we will discourse even orderly of him. First, we will +begin with his Life, and then proceed to his Death: Because a +relation of the first may the more affect you, when you shall hear +of the second. + +Atten. Did you then so well know his Life? + +Wise. I knew him of a Child. I was a man, when he was but a boy, +and I made special observation of him from first to last. + +Atten. Pray then let me hear from you an account of his Life; but +be as brief as you can, for I long to hear of the manner of his +death. + +Wise. I will endeavour to answer your desires, and first, I will +tell you, that from a Child he was very bad: his very beginning +was ominous, and presaged that no good end, was, in likelyhood, to +follow thereupon. There were several sins that he was given to, +when but a little one, that manifested him to be notoriously +infected with Or[i]ginal corruption; for I dare say he learned none +of them of his Father or Mother; nor was he admitted to go much +abroad among other Children, that were vile, to learn to sin of +them: Nay, contrariwise, if at any time he did get abroad amongst +others, he would be as the Inventer of bad words, and an example in +bad actions. To them all he used to be, as we say, the Ring- +leader, and Master-sinner from a Childe. + +Atten. This was a bad Beginning indeed, and did demonstrate that +he was, as you say, polluted, very much polluted with Original +Corruption. For to speak my mind freely, I do confess, that it is +mine opinion, that Children come polluted with sin into the World, +and that oft-times the sins of their youth, especially while they +are very young, are rather by vertue of Indwelling sin, than by +examples that are set before them by others. Not but that they +learn to sin by example too, but Example is not the root, but +rather the Temptation unto wickedness. The root is sin within; for +from within, out of the heart of man proceedeth sin. {20a} {20b} + +Wise. I am glad to hear that you are of this opinion, and to +confirm what you have said by a few hints from the Word. Man in +his birth is compared to an Ass, (an unclean Beast) and to a +wretched Infant in its blood: besides, all the first-born of old +that were offered unto the Lord, were to be redeemed at the age of +a month, and that was before they were sinners by imitation. The +Scripture also affirmeth, {21a} that by the sin of one, Judgement +came upon all; and renders this reason, for that all have sinned: +nor is that Objection worth a rush, That Christ by his death hath +taken away Original Sin. First, Because it is Scriptureless. +Secondly, Because it makes them incapable of Salvation by Christ; +for none but those that in their own Persons are sinners, are to +have Salvation by him. Many other things might be added, but +between persons so well agreed as you and I are, these may suffice +at present: but when an Antagonist comes to deal with us about +this matter, then we have for him often other strong Arguments, if +he be an Antagonist worth the taking notice of. {21b} + +Atten. But, as was hinted before, he used to be the Ring-leading +Sinner, or the Master of mischief among other children; yet these +are but Generals; pray therefore tell me in Particular which were +the sins of his Childhood. + +Wise. I will so. When he was but a Child, he was so addicted to +Lying, {21c} that his Parents scarce knew when to believe he spake +true; yea, he would invent, tell, and stand to the Lyes that he +invented and told, and that with such an audacious face, that one +might even read in his very countenance the symptoms of an hard and +desperate heart this way. + +Atten. This was an ill beginning indeed, and argueth that he began +to harden himself in sin betimes. For a lye cannot be knowingly +told and stood in, (and I perceive that this was his manner of way +in Lying) but he must as it were force his own heart into it. Yea, +he must make his heart {21d} hard, and bold to doe it: Yea, he +must be arrived to an exceeding pitch of wickedness thus to doe, +since all this he did against that good education, that before you +seemed to hint, he had from his Father and Mother. + +Wise. The want of good Education, as you have intimated, is many +times a cause why Children doe so easily, so soon, become bad; +especially when there is not only a want of that, but bad Examples +enough, as, the more is the pity, there is in many Families; by +vertue of which poor Children are trained up in Sin, and nursed +therein for the Devil and Hell. But it was otherwise with Mr. +Badman, for to my knowledge, this his way of Lying, was a great +grief to his Parents, for their hearts were much dejected at this +beginning of their Son; nor did there want Counsel and Correction +from them to him, if that would have made him better. He wanted +not to be told, in my hearing, and that over and over and over, +That all Lyars should have their part in the Lake that burns with +fire and brimstone; and that whosoever loveth and maketh a lye, +should not have any part in the new and heavenly Jerusalem: {22a} +But all availed nothing with him; when a fit, or an occasion to +lie, came upon him, he would invent, tell, and stand to his Lie (as +steadfastly as if it had been the biggest of truths,) that he told, +and that with that hardening of his heart and face, that it would +be to those that stood by, a wonder. Nay, and this he would doe +when under the rod of correction which is appointed by God for +Parents to use, that thereby they might keep their Children from +Hell. {22b} + +Atten. Truly it was, as I said, a bad beginning, he served the +Devil betimes; yea he became a Nurse to one of his {22c} Brats, for +a spirit of Lying is the Devils Brat, {22d} for he is a Liar and +the Father of it. + +Wise. Right, he is the Father of it indeed. A Lie is begot by the +Devil, as the Father, and is brought forth by the wicked heart, as +the Mother: wherefore another Scripture also saith, Why hath Satan +filled thy heart to lye, {22e} &c. Yea, he calleth the heart that +is big with a lye, an heart that hath Conceived, that is, by the +Devil. Why hast thou conceived this thing in thy heart, thou hast +not lied unto men, but unto God. True, his lye was a lye of the +highest nature, but every lye hath the {22f} same Father and Mother +as had the lie last spoken of. For he is a lier, and the Father of +it. A lie then is the Brat of Hell, and it cannot {23a} be in the +heart before the person has committed a kind of spiritual Adultery +with the Devil. That Soul therefore that telleth a known lie, has +lien with, and conceived it by lying with the Devil, the only +Father of lies. For a lie has only one Father and Mother, the +Devil and the Heart. No marvel therefore if the hearts that hatch +and bring forth Lies, be so much of complexion with the Devil. +Yea, no marvel though God and Christ have so bent their Word +against lyers: a lyer is weded to the Devil himself. + +Atten. It seems a marvellous thing in mine eyes, that since a lye +is the Offspring of the devill, and since a lye brings the soul to +the very den of Devils, to wit, the dark dungeon of hell; that men +should be so desperately wicked as to accustom themselves to so +horrible a thing. + +Wise. It seems also marvellous to me, specially when I observe for +how little a matter some men will study, contrive, make and tell a +lye. You shall have some that will lye it over and over, and that +for a peny {23b} profit. Yea, lye and stand in it, although they +know that they lye: yea, you shall have some men that will not +stick to tell lye after lye, though themselves get nothing thereby; +They will tell lyes in their ordinary discourse with their +Neighbours, also their News, their Jests, and their Tales must +needs be adorned with lyes; or else they seem to bear no good sound +to the ear, nor shew much to the fancie of him to whom they are +told. But alas, what will these lyers doe, when, for their lyes +they shall be tumbled down into hell, to that Devil that did beget +those lyes in their heart, and so be tormented by fire and +brimstone, with him, and that for ever and ever, for their lyes? + +Atten. Can you not give one some example of Gods Judgements upon +lyers, that one may tell them to lyers when one hears them lye, if +perhaps they may by the hearing thereof, be made afraid, and +ashamed to lye. + +Wise. Examples! why, {23c} Saphira and his wife are examples +enough to put a stop, one would think, to a spirit addicted +thereto, for they both were stricken down dead for telling a lye, +and that by God himself, in the midst of a company of people. But +if Gods threatning of Liers with Hell-fire, and with the loss of +the Kingdom of Heaven, will not prevail with them to leave off to +lie and make lies, it cannot be imagined that a relation of +temporal Judgements that have swept liers out of the World +heretofore, should do it. Now, as I said, this Lying was one of +the first sins that Mr. Badman was addicted to, and he could make +them and tell them fearfully. + +Atten. I am sorry to hear this of him, and so much the more +because, as I fear, this sin did not reign in him {24a} alone; for +usually one that is accustomed to lying, is also accustomed to +other evils besides, and if it were not so also with Mr. Badman, it +would be indeed a wonder. + +Wise. You say true, the lier is a Captive slave of more than the +spirit of lying: and therefore this Mr. Badman, as he was a lier +from a Child, so he was also much given to {24b} pilfer and steal, +so that what he could, as we say, handsomly lay his hands on, that +was counted his own, whether they were the things of his fellow +Children; or if he could lay hold of any thing at a Neighbours +house, he would take it away; you must understand me of Trifles; +for being let but a Child he attempted no great matter, especially +at first. But yet as he grew up in strength and ripeness of wit, +so he attempted to pilfer and steal things still of more value than +at first. He took at last great pleasure in robbing of Gardens and +Orchards; and as he grew up, to steal Pullen from the +Neighbourhood: Yea, what was his {24c} Fathers, could not escape +his fingers, all was Fish that came to his Net, so hardened, at +last, was he in this mischief also. + +Atten. You make me wonder more and more. What, play the Thief +too! What play the Thief so soon! He could not but know, though +he was but a Child, that what he took from others, was none of his +own. Besides, if his Father was a good man, as you say, it could +not be, but he must also hear from him, that to steal was to +transgress the Law of God, and so to run the hazard of eternal +Damnation. + +Wise. His Father was not wanting to use the means to reclaim him, +often urging, as I have been told, that saying in the Law of Moses, +{24d} Thou shalt not steal: And also that, This is the Curse that +goeth forth over the face of the whole earth, for every one that +stealeth shall be cut off, &c. {25a} The light of Nature also, +though he was little, must needs shew him that what he took from +others, was not his own, and that he would not willingly have been +served so himself. But all was to no purpose, let Father and +Conscience say what they would to him, he would go on, he was +resolved to go on in his wickedness. + +Atten. But his Father would, as you intimate, sometimes rebuke him +for his wickedness; pray how would he carry it then? + +Wise. How! why, like to a Thief that is found. He would stand +{25b} gloating, and hanging down his head in a sullen, pouching +manner, (a body might read, as we use to say, the picture of Ill- +luck in his face,) and when his Father did demand his answer to +such questions concerning his Villany, he would grumble and mutter +at him, and that should be all he could get. + +Atten. But you said that he would also rob his Father, methinks +that was an unnatural thing. + +Wise. Natural or unnatural, all is one to a Thief. Beside, you +must think that he had likewise Companions to whom he was, for the +wickedness that he saw in them, more {25c} firmly knit, than either +to Father or Mother. Yea, and what had he cared if Father and +Mother had died for grief for him. Their death would have been, as +he would have counted, great release and liberty to him: For the +truth is, they and their counsel was his Bondage; yea, and if I +forget not, I have heard some say, that when he was, at times, +among his Companions, he would greatly {25d} rejoyce to think that +his Parents were old, and could not live long, and then, quoth he, +I shall be mine own man, to do what I list without their controul. + +Atten. Then it seems he counted that robbing of his Parents was no +crime. + +Wise. None at all, and therefore he fell directly under that +Sentence, Whoso robbeth his Father or his Mother, and saith it is +no transgression, the same is the companion of a destroyer. And +for that he set so light by them as to their Persons and Counsels, +'twas a sign that at present he was of a very abominable spirit, +{26a} and that some Judgement waited to take hold of him in time to +come. + +Atten. But can you imagin what it was, I mean, in his conceit (for +I speak not now of the suggestions of Satan, by which doubtless he +was put on to do these things,) I say what it should be in his +conceit, that should make him think that this his manner of +pilfering and stealing was no great matter. + +Wise. It was, for that, the things that he stole, were small; to +rob Orchards, and Gardens, and to steal Pullen, and the like, these +he counted {26b} Tricks of Youth, nor would he be beat out of it by +all that his Friends could say. They would tell him that he must +not covet, or desire, (and yet to desire, is less than to take) +even any thing, the least thing that was his Neighbours, and that +if he did, it would be a transgression of the Law; but all was one +to him: what through the wicked Talk of his Companions, and the +delusion of his own corrupt heart, he would go on in his pilfering +course, and where he thought himself secure, would talk of, and +laugh at it when he had done. + +Atten. Well, {26c} I heard a man once, when he was upon the Ladder +with the Rope about his Neck, confess (when ready to be turned off +by the Hangman) that that which had brought him to that end, was +his accustoming of himself, when young, to pilfer and steal small +things. To my best remembrance he told us, that he began the trade +of a Thief by stealing Pins and Points, and therefore did forewarn +all the Youth, that then were gathered together to see him die, to +take heed of beginning, though but with little sins, because by +tampering at first with little ones, way is made for the commission +of bigger. + +Wise. Since you are entred upon Storyes, I also will tell you one, +the which, {26d} though I heard it not with mine own Ears, yet my +Author I dare believe: {26e} It is concerning one old Tod, that +was hanged about Twenty years agoe, or more, at Hartford, for being +a Thief. The Story is this: + +At {27a} a Summer Assizes holden at Hartfor[d], while the Judge was +sitting upon the Bench, comes this old Tod into the Court, cloathed +in a green Suit, with his Leathern Girdle in his hand, his Bosom +open, and all on a dung sweat, as if he had run for his Life; and +being come in, he spake aloud as follows: {27b} My Lord, said he, +Here is the veryest Rogue that breaths upon the face of the earth. +I have been a Thief from a Child: When I was but a little one, I +gave my self to rob Orchards, and to do other such like wicked +things, and I have continued a Thief ever since. My Lord, there +has not been a Robbery committed thus many years within so many +miles if this place, but I have either been at it, or privy to it. + +The Judge thought the fellow was mad, but after some conference +with some of the Justices, they agreed to Indict him; and so they +did of several felonious Actions; to all which he heartily +confessed Guilty, and so was hanged with his Wife at the same time. + +Atten. This is a remarkable Story indeed, and you think it is a +true one. + +Wise. It is not only remarkable, but pat to our purpose. This +Thief, like Mr. Badman, began his Trade betimes; he began too where +Mr. Badman began, even at robbing of Orchards, and other such +things, which brought him, as you may perceive, from sin to sin, +till at last it brought him to the publick shame of sin, which is +the Gallows. + +As for the truth of this Story, the Relator told me that he was at +the same time himself in the Court, and stood within less than two +yards of old Tod, when he heard him aloud to utter the words. + +Atten. These two sins of lying and stealing were a bad sign of an +evil end. + +Wise. So they were, and yet Mr. Badman came not to his end like +old Tod; Though I fear, to as bad, nay, worse than was that death +of the Gallows, though less discerned by spectators; but more of +that by and by. But you talk of these two sins as if these were +all that Mr. Badman was addicted to in his Youth: Alas, alas, he +swarmed with sins, even as a Begger does with Vermin, and that when +he was but a Boy. + +Atten. Why what other sins was he addicted to, I mean while he was +but a Child? + +Wise. You need not ask, to what other sins was he, but to what +other sins was he not addicted, that is, of such as suited with his +Age: for a man may safely say, that nothing that was vile came +amiss to him; if he was but capable to do it. Indeed some sins +there be that Childhood knows not how to be tampering with; but I +speak of sins that he was capable of committing, of which I will +nominate two or three more. And, + +First, He could not endure the {28a} Lords Day, because of the +Holiness that did attend it; the beginning of that Day was to him +as if he was going to Prison, (except he could get out from his +Father and Mother, and lurk in by-holes among his Companions, +untill holy Duties were over.) Reading the Scriptures, hearing +Sermons, godly Conference, repeating of Sermons, and Prayer, were +things that he could not away with; and therefore if his Father on +such days, (as often he did, though sometimes notwithstanding his +diligence, he would be sure to give him the slip) did keep him +strictly to the observation of the day, he would plainly shew by +all carriages that he was highly discontent therewith: he would +sleep at Duties, would talk vainly with his Brothers, and as it +were, think every godly opportunity seven times as long as it was, +gruding till it was over. + +Atten. This his abhorring of that day, was not, I think, for the +sake of the day itself: for as it is a day, it is nothing else but +as other days of the Week: But I suppose it were, think every +godly as it was, grudging till it that day, was not, I think) as it +is a day, it is nothing of the Week: But I suppose that the {28b} +reason of his loathing of it, was, for that God hath put sanctity +and holiness upon it; also because it is the day above all the days +of the week that ought to be spent in holy Devotion, in remembrance +of our Lords Resurrection from the dead. + +Wise. Yes, 'twas therefore, that he was such an enemy to it, even +because more restraint was laid upon him on that day, from his own +ways, than were possible should be laid upon him on all others. + +Atten. Doth not God by instituting of a day unto holy Duties, make +great proof how the hearts and inclinations of poor people do stand +to Holiness of heart, and a Conversation in [h]oly duties? + +Wise. {29a} Yes doubtless; and a man shall shew his Heart and his +Life what they are, more by one Lords-day, than by all the days of +the week besides: And the reason is, because on the Lords-day +there is a special restraint laid upon men as to Thoughts and Life, +more than upon other days of the week besides. Also, men are +enjoyned on that day to a stricter performance of holy Duties, and +restraint of worldly business, than upon other days they are; +wherefore, if their hearts incline not naturally to good, now they +will shew it, now they will appear what they are. The Lords Day is +a kind of an Emblem of the heavenly Sabbath above, and it makes +manifest how the heart stands to the perpetuity of Holiness, more +than to be found in a transient Duty, does. + +On other days a man may be in and out of holy Duties, and all in a +quarter of an hour; but now, the Lords Day is, as it were, a day +that enjoyns to one perpetual Duty of Holiness: Remember that thou +keep holy the Sabbath day, {29b} (which by Christ is not abrogated, +but changed, into the First of the week,) not as it was given in +particular to the Jews, but as it was sanctified by him from the +Beginning of the world; and therefore is a greater proof of the +frame and temper of a mans heart, and does more make manifest to +what he is inclined, than doth his other performance of Duties: +Therefore God puts great difference between them that truly call +(and walk in) this day as holy, and count it Honourable, {29c} upon +the account that now they have an opportunity to shew how they +delight to honour him; {29d} in that they have, not only an Hour, +but a whole Day to shew it in: I say, he puts great difference +between these, and that other sort that say, When will the Sabbath +be gone, that we may be at our worldly business. {29e} The first +he calleth a Blessed man, but brandeth the other for an +unsanctified worldling. And indeed, to delight ourselves in Gods +service upon his Holy days, gives a better proof of a sanctified +Nature, than to grudge at the coming, and to be weary of the holy +duties of such dayes, as Mr. Badman did. + +Atten. There may be something in what you say, for he that cannot +abide to keep one day holy to God, to be sure he hath given a +sufficient proof that he is an unsanctified man; and as such, what +should he do in Heaven? that being the place where a perpetual +Sabath is to be kept to God; {30a} I say, to be kept for ever and +ever. And for ought I know, one reason why one day in seven, hath +been by our Lord set apart unto holy Duties for men, may be to give +them conviction that there is enmity in the hearts of sinners to +the God of Heaven, for he that hateth Holiness, hateth God himself. +They pretend to love God, and yet love not a holy day, and yet love +not to spend that day in one continued act of holiness to the Lord: +They had as good say nothing as to call him Lord, Lord, and yet not +doe the things that he says. And this Mr. Badman was such an one: +he could not abide this day, nor any of the Duties of it. Indeed, +when he could get from his Friends, and so {30b} spend it in all +manner of idleness and profaneness, then he would be pleased well +enough: but what was this but a turning the day into night, or +other than taking an opportunity at Gods forbidding, to follow our +Callings, to solace and satisfie our lusts and delights of the +flesh. I take the liberty to speak thus of Mr. Badman, upon a +confidence of what you, Sir, have said of him, is true. + +Wise. You needed not to have made that Apology for your censuring +of Mr. Badman, for all that knew him, will confirm what you said of +him to be true. He could not abide either that day, or any thing +else that had the stamp or image of God upon it. Sin, sin, and to +do the thing that was naught, was that which he delighted in, and +that from a little Child. + +Atten. I must say again, I am sorry to hear it, and that for his +own sake, and also for the sake of his Relations, who must needs be +broken to pieces with such doings as these: For, for these things +sake comes the wrath of God upon the Children of disobedience: +{30c} and doubtless he must be gone to Hell, if he died without +Repentance; and to beget a Child for Hell, is sad for Parents to +think on. + +Wise. Of his Dying, as I told you, I will give you a Relation +anon, but now we are upon his Life, and upon the Manner of his Life +in his Childhood, even of the sins that attended him then, some of +which I have mentioned already; and indeed I have mentioned but +some, for yet there are more to follow, and those not at all +inferiour to what you have already heard. + +Atten. Pray what were they? + +Wise. Why he was greatly given, and that while a Lad, to grievous +{31a} Swearing and Cursing: yea, he then made no more of Swearing +and Cursing, than I do of telling my fingers. Yea, he would do it +without provocation thereto. He counted it a glory to Swear and +Curse, and it was as natural to him, as to eat and drink and sleep. + +Atten. Oh! what a young Villain was this! here is, as the Apostle +says, a yielding of Members as instruments of unrighteousness unto +sin, {31b} indeed! This is proceeding from evil to evil with a +witness; This argueth that he was a black-mouthed young Wretch +indeed. + +Wise. He was so; and yet, as I told you, he counted, above all, +this kind of sinning, to be {31c} a Badge of his Honour: He +reckoned himself a mans Fellow when he had learnt to Swear and +Curse boldly. + +Atten. I am perswaded that many do think, as you have said, that +to Swear, is a thing that does bravely become them, and that it is +the best way for a man, when he would put authority, or terrour +into his words, to stuff them full of the sin of Swearing. + +Wise. You say right, else, as I am perswaded, men would not so +usually belch out their blasphemous Oaths, as they do: they take a +pride in it; they think that to swear is Gentleman-like; and having +once accustomed themselves unto it, they hardly leave it all the +days of their lives. + +Atten. Well, but now we are upon it, pray shew me {31d} the +difference between Swearing and Cursing; for there is a difference, +is there not? + +Wise. Yes: There is a difference between Swearing and Cursing, +Swearing, vain swearing, such as young Badman accustomed himself +unto. Now vain and sinful swearing, {31e} Is a light and wicked +calling of God, &c. to witness to our vain and foolish attesting of +things, and those things are of two sorts. + +1. Things that we swear, are, or shall be done. + +2. Things so sworn to, true or false. + +1. Things that we swear, are, or shall be done. Thou swearest +thou hast done such a thing, that such a thing is so, or shall be +so; for it is no matter which of these it is that men swear about, +if it be done lightly and wickedly, and groundlesly, it is vain, +because it is a sin against the Third Commandement, which says, +Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vain. {32a} +For this is a vain using of that Holy and Sacred Name, and so a sin +for which, without sound Repentance, there is not, nor can be +rightly expected, forgiveness. + +Atten. Then it seems, though as to the matter of fact, a man +swears truely, yet if he sweareth lightly and groundlesly, his Oath +is evil, and he by it, under sin. + +Wise. Yes; a man may say, {32b} The Lord liveth, and that is true, +and yet in so saying, swear falsly; because he sweareth vainly, +needlesly, and without a ground. To swear groundedly and +necessarily, (which then a man does, when he swears as being called +thereto of God,) that is tolerated of the Word: but this was none +of Mr. Badmans swearing, and therefore that which now we are not +concerned about. + +Atten. I perceive, by the Prophet, that a man may sin in swearing +to a Truth: They therefore must needs most horribly sin, that +swear to confirm their Jests and Lies; and as they think, the +better to beautifie their foolish talking. + +Wise. They sin with an high hand; for they presume to imagine, +{32c} that God is as wicked as themselves, to wit, that he is an +Avoucher of Lies to be true. For, as I said before, to swear, is +to call God to witness; and to swear to a Lie, is to call God +himself, to witness that that Lie is true. This therefore must +needs offend; for it puts the highest affront upon the Holiness and +Righteousness of God, therefore his wrath must sweep them away. +This kind of Swearing is put in with lying, and killing, and +stealing, and committing Adultery; and therefore must not go +unpunished: {32d} For if God will not hold him guiltless that +taketh his Name in vain, which a man may doe when he swears to a +truth, (as I have shewed before,) how can it be imagined, that he +should hold such guiltless, who, by Swearing, will appeal to God, +if Lies be not true, or that swear out of their frantick and Bedlam +madness. It would grieve and provoke a sober man to wrath, if one +should swear to a notorious lye, and avouch that that man would +attest it for a truth; and yet thus do men deal with the holy God: +They tell their Jestings, Tales and Lies, and then swear by God +that they are true. Now this kind of Swearing was as common with +young Badman, as it was to eat when he was an hungred, or to go to +bed when it was night. + +Atten. I have often mused in my mind, what it should be that +should make men so common in the use of the sin of Swearing, since +those that be wise, will believe them never the sooner for that. + +Wise. It cannot be any thing that is good, you may be sure; +because the thing it self is abominable: {33a} 1. Therefore it +must be from the promptings of the spirit of the Devil within them. +2. Also it flows sometimes from hellish Rage, when the tongue hath +set on fire of Hell even the whole course of nature. {33b} 3. But +commonly Swearing flows from that daring Boldness that biddeth +defiance to the Law that forbids it. 4. Swearers think also that +by their belching of their blasphemous Oaths out of their black and +polluted mouths, they shew themselves the more valiant men: 5. +And imagine also, that by these outrageous kind of villianies, they +shall conquer those that at such a time they have to do with, and +make them believe their lyes to be true. 6. They also swear +frequently to get Gain thereby, and when they meet with fools, they +overcome them this way. But if I might give advice in this matter, +no Buyer should lay out one farthing with him that is a common +Swearer in his Calling; especially with such an Oath-master that +endeavoureth to swear away his commodity to another, and that would +swear his Chapmans money into his own pocket. + +Atten. All these causes of Swearing, so far as I can perceive, +flow from the same Root as doe the Oaths themselves, even from a +hardened and desperate heart. But pray shew me now how wicked +cursing is to be distinguished from this kind of swearing. + +Wise. {34a} Swearing, as I said, hath immediately to do with the +Name of God, and it calls upon him to be witness to the truth of +what is said: That is, if they that swear, swear by him. Some +indeed swear by Idols, as by the Mass, by our Lady, by Saints, +Beasts, Birds, and other creatures; but the usual way of our +profane ones in England, is to swear by God, Christ, Faith, and the +like: But however, or by whatever they swear, Cursing is +distinguished from Swearing thus. + +To {34b} Curse, to Curse profanely, it is to sentence another or +our self, for, or to evil: or to wish that some evil might happen +to the person or thing under the Curse, unjustly. + +It is to sentence for, or to evil, (that is, without a cause): +Thus Shimei cursed David: He sentenced him for and to evil +unjustly, when he said to him, Come out, come out thou bloody man, +and thou man of Belial. The Lord hath returned upon thee all the +blood of the house of Saul, in whose stead thou hast reigned, and +the Lord hath delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom thy +son: and behold thou art taken in thy mischief, because thou art a +bloody man. {34c} + +This David calls a grievous Curse. And behold, saith he to Solomon +his Son, thou hast with thee Shimei a Benjamite, which cursed me +with a grievous curse in the day when I went to Mahanaim. {34d} + +But what was this Curse? Why, First, It was a wrong sentence past +upon David; Shimei called him Bloody man, man of Belial, when he +was not. Secondly, He sentenced him to the evil that at present +was upon him, for being a bloody man, (that is, against the house +of Saul,) when that present evil overtook David, for quite another +thing. + +And we may thus apply it to the {34e} profane ones of our times who +in their rage and envy, have little else in their mouths but a +sentence against their Neighbour for, and to evil unjustly. How +common is it with many, when they are but a little offended with +one, to cry, Hang him, Damn him, Rogue! This is both a sentencing +of him for, and to evil, and is in it self a grievous Curse. + +2. The other kind of Cursing, is to wish that some evil might +happen to, and overtake this or that person or thing: And this +kind of Cursing, Job counted a grievous sin. I have not suffered +(says he) my mouth to sin, {35a} by wishing a curse to his soul; or +consequently, to Body or Estate. This then is a wicked cursing, to +wish that evil might either befall another or our selves: And this +kind of cursing young Badman accustomed himself unto. + +1. He {35b} would wish that evil might befall others; he would +wish their Necks broken, or that their Brains were out, or that the +Pox, or Plague was upon them, and the like: All which is a +devilish kind of cursing, and is become one of the common sins of +our age. + +2. He would also as often wish a Curse to himself, saying, Would I +might be hanged, or burned, or that the Devil might fetch me, if it +be not so, or the like. We count the {35c} Damme Blades to be +great Swearers; but when in their hellish fury they say, God-damme +me, God perish me, or the like, they rather curse than swear; yea, +curse themselves, and that with a Wish that Damnation might light +upon themselves; which wish and Curse of theirs, in a little time, +they will see accomplished upon them, even in Hell-fire, if they +repent not of their sins. + +Atten. But did this young Badman accustom himself to such filthy +kind of language? + +Wise. I think I may say, that nothing was more frequent in his +mouth, and that upon the least provocation. Yea he was so versed +in such kind of language, that neither {35d} Father, nor Mother, +nor Brother, nor Sister, nor Servant, no nor the very Cattel that +his Father had, could escape these Curses of his. I say, that even +the bruit Beasts when he drove them, or rid upon them, if they +pleased not his humour, they must be sure to partake of his curse. +{35e} He would wish their Necks broke, their Legs broke, their Guts +out, or that the Devil might fetch them, or the like: and no +marvel, for he that is so hardy to wish damnation, or other bad +curses to himself, or dearest relations; will not stick to wish +evil to the silly Beast, in his madness. + +Atten. Well, I see still that this Badman was a desperate villain. +But pray, Sir, since you have gone thus far, now shew me whence +this evil of cursing ariseth, and also what dishonour it bringeth +to God; for I easily discern that it doth bring damnation to the +soul. + +Wise. This evil of Cursing ariseth, in general, from the desperate +wickedness of the heart, but particularly from, {36a} {36b} 1. +Envie, which is, as I apprehend, the leading sin to Witchcraft. 2. +It also ariseth from Pride which was the sin of the fallen Angels; +3. It ariseth too from Scorn and contempt of others: 4. But for +a man to curse himself, must needs arise from desperate Madness. + +The {36c} dishonour that it bringeth to God, is this. It taketh +away from him his Authority, in whose power it is onely, to Bless +and Curse; not to Curse wickedly, as Mr. Badman, but justly, and +righteously, giving by his Curse to those that are wicked, the due +Reward of their deeds. + +Besides, these wicked men, in their wicked cursing of their +Neighbour, &c. do even Curse God himself in his handy work. Man is +Gods Image, and to curse wickedly the Image of God, is to curse God +himself. {36d} Therefore as when men wickedly swear, they rend, +and tare Gods Name, and make him, as much as in them lies, the +avoucher and approver of all their wickedness; so he that curseth +and condemneth in this sort his Neighbour, or that wisheth him +evil, curseth, condemneth, and wisheth evil to the Image of God, +and consequently judgeth and condemneth God himself. + +Suppose that a man should say with his mouth, I wish that the Kings +Picture was burned; would not this mans so saying, render him as an +Enemy to the Person of the King? Even so it is with them that, by +cursing, wish evil to their neighbour, or to themselves, they +contemn the Image, even the Image of God himself. + +Atten. But do you think that the men that do thus, do think that +they do so vilely, so abominably? + +Wise. The question is not what men do believe concerning their +sin, but what Gods Word says of it: If Gods Word says that +Swearing and Cursing are sins, though men should count them for +Vertues, their reward will be a reward for sin, to wit, the +damnation of the soul. + +To {37a} curse another, and to swear vainly and falsly, are sins +against the Light of Nature. + +1. To Curse is so, because, whoso curseth another, knows, that at +the same time he would not be so served himself. + +2. To Swear also, is a sin against the same Law: for Nature will +tell me, that I should not lie, and therefore much less Swear to +confirm it. Yea, the Heathens have looked upon Swearing to be a +solemn Ordinance of God, and therefore not to be lightly or vainly +used by men, though to confirm a matter of truth. {37b} + +Atten. But I wonder, since Curseing and Swearing are such evils in +the eyes of God, that he doth not make some Examples to others, for +their committing such wickedness. + +Wise. Alas! so he has, a thousand times twice told, as may be +easily gathered by any observing people in every Age and Countrey. +I could present you with several my self; but waving the abundance +that might be mentioned, I will here present you with {37c} two; +One was that dreadful Judgment of God upon one N. P. at Wimbleton +in Surrey; who, after a horrible fit of Swearing at, and Cursing of +some persons that did not please him, suddenly fell sick, and in +little time died raving, cursing and swearing. + +But above all take that dreadful Story of Dorothy Mately an +Inhabitant of As[h]over in the County of Darby. + +This {37d} Dorothy Mately, saith the Relator, was noted by the +people of the Town to be a great Swearer, and Curser, and Lier, and +Thief; (just like Mr. Badman.) And the labour that she did usually +follow, was to wash the Rubbish that came forth of the Lead Mines, +and there to get sparks of Lead-Ore; and her usual way of asserting +of things, was with these kind of Imprecations: I would I might +sink into the earth if it be not so, or I would God would make the +earth open and swallow me up. Now upon the 23. of March, 1660. +this Dorothy was washing of Ore upon the top of a steep Hill, about +a quarter of a mile from Ashover, and was there taxed by a Lad for +taking of two single Pence out of his Pocket, (for he had laid his +Breeches by, and was at work in his Drawers;) but she violently +denyed it, wishing, That the ground might swallow her up if she had +them: She also used the same wicked words on several other +occasions that day. + +Now one George Hodgkinson of Ashover, a man of good report there, +came accidentally by where this Dorothy was, and stood still a +while to talk with her, as she was washing her Ore; there stood +also a little Child by her Tub-side, and another a distance from +her, calling aloud to her to come away; wherefore the said George +took the Girle by the hand to lead her away to her that called her: +But behold, they had not gone above ten yards from Dorothy, but +they heard her crying out for help; so looking back, he saw the +Woman, and her Tub, and Sive, twirling round, and sinking into the +ground. Then said the man, Pray to God to pardon thy sin, for thou +art never like to be seen alive any longer. So she and her Tub +twirled round, and round, till they sunk about three yards into the +Earth, and then for a while staid. Then she called for help again, +thinking, as she said, that she should stay there. Now the man +though greatly amazed, did begin to think which way to help her, +but immediately a great stone which appeared in the Earth, fell +upon her head, and brake her Skull, and then the Earth fell in upon +her and covered her. She was afterwards digged up, and found about +four yards within ground, with the Boys two single Pence in her +pocket, but her Tub and Sive could not be found. + +Atten. You {38a} bring to my mind a sad story, the which I will +relate unto you. The thing is this; About a bow-shoot from where I +once dwelt, there was a blind Ale-house, and the man that kept it +had a Son whose name was Edward. This Edward was, as it were, an +half-fool, both in his words, and manner of behaviour. To this +blind Ale-house certain jovial companions would once or twice a +week come, and this Ned, (for so they called him) his Father would +entertain his guests withall; to wit, by calling for him to make +them sport by his foolish words and gestures. So when these boon +blades came to this mans house, the Father would call for Ned: Ned +therefore would come forth; and the villain was devilishly addicted +to cursing, yea to cursing his Father and Mother, and any one else +that did cross him. And because (though he was an half-fool) he +saw that his practice was pleasing, he would do it with the more +audaciousness. + +Well, when these brave fellows did come at their times to this +Tippling-house (as they call it) to fuddle and make merry, then +must Ned be called out; and because his Father was best acquainted +with Ned, and best knew how to provoke him, therefore He would +usually ask him such questions, or command him such business, as +would be sure to provoke him indeed. Then would he (after his +foolish manner) Curse his Father most bitterly; at which the old +man would laugh, (and so would the rest of the guests, as at that +which pleased them best) still continuing to ask, that Ned still +might be provoked to curse, that they might still be provoked to +laugh. This was the mirth with which the old man did use to +entertain his guests. + +The curses wherewith this Ned did use to curse his father, and at +which the old man would laugh, were these, and such like: The +Devil take you; The Devil fetch you: He would also wish him +Plagues and Destructions many. Well, so it came to pass, through +the righteous Judgement of God, that Neds Wishes and Curses were in +a little time fuelled upon his Father; for not many months passed +between them after this manner, but the Devil did indeed take him, +possess him, and also in few days carried him out of this world by +death; I say, Satan did take him and possess him: I mean, so it +was judged by those that knew him, and had to do with him in that +his lamentable condition. He could feel him like a live thing goe +up and down in his body, but when tormenting time was come (as he +had often tormenting fits) then he would lye like an hard bump in +the soft place of his chest, (I mean, I saw it so,) and so would +rent and tare him, and make him roar till he died away. + +I told you before, that I was an ear and eye witness of what I here +say; and so I was. I have heard Ned in his Roguery, cursing his +Father, and his Father laughing thereat most heartily; still +provoking of Ned to curse, that his mirth might be encreased. I +saw his Father also, when he was possessed, I saw him in one of his +fits, and saw his flesh (as 'twas thought) by the Devil, gathered +up on an heap, about the bigness of half in Egge; to the +unutterable torture and afflict[i]on of the old man. There was +also one Freeman, (who was more than an ordinary Doctor) sent for, +to cast out this Devil; and I was there when he attempted to do it. +The manner whereof was this. They had the possessed into an out- +room, and laid him on his belly upon a Form, with his head hanging +over the Forms end; then they bound him down thereto: which done, +they set a pan of Coals under his mouth, and put something therein +which made a great smoak; by this means (as 'twas said) to fetch +out the Devil. There therefore they kept the man till he was +almost smothered in the smoak, but no Devil came out of him; at +which Freeman was somewhat abashed, the man greatly afflicted, and +I made to go away wondering and fearing. In a little time +therefore that which possessed the man, carried him out of the +World, according to the cursed Wishes of his Son. And this was the +end of this hellish mirth. + +Wise. These were all sad Judgements. + +Atten. These were dreadful Judgments indeed. + +Wise. Ai, and they look like the Threatning of that Text, (though +chiefly it concerned Judas,) As he loved cursing, so let it come +unto him; as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from +him. As he cloathed himself with cursing as with a garment, so let +it come into his bowels like water, and as oyl into his bones. +{40a} + +Atten. It is a fearful thing for Youth to be trained up in a way +of Cursing and Swearing. + +Wise. Trained up in them! that I cannot say Mr. Badman was, for +his Father hath oft-times in my hearing, bewailed the badness of +his Children, and of this naughty Boy in particular. I believe +that the wickedness of his Children made him (in the thoughts of +it) goe many a Night with heavy heart to bed, and with as heavy an +one to rise in the Morning. But all was one to his graceless Son, +neither wholsom counsel, nor fatherly sorrow, would make him mend +his Manners. + +There {40b} are some indeed that do train up their Children to +swear, curse, lye and steal, and great is the misery of such poor +Children whose hard hap it is to be ushered into the world by, and +to be under the tuition too of such ungodly Parents. It had been +better for such Parents, had they not begat them, and better for +such Children had they not been born. O! methinks for a Father or +a Mother to train up a Child in that very way that leadeth to Hell +and Damnation, what thing so horrible! But Mr. Badman was not by +his Parents so brought up. + +Atten. But methinks, since this Young Badman would not be ruled at +home, his Father should have tryed what good could have been done +of him abroad, by putting him out to some man of his acquaintance, +that he knew to be able to command him, and to keep him pretty hard +to some employ: So should he, at least, have been prevented of +time to do those wickednesses that could not be done without time +to do them in. + +Wise. Alas, his Father did so, {41a} he put him out betimes to one +of his own Acquaintance, and entreated him of all love, that he +would take care of Son, and keep him from extravagant wayes. His +Trade also was honest and commodious; he had besides a full Employ +therein, so that this young Badman had no vacant seasons nor idle +hours yielded him by his Calling, therein to take opportunities to +do Badly: but all was one to him, as he had begun to be vile in +his Fathers house, even so he continued to be when he was in the +house of his Master. + +Atten. I have known some Children, who though they have been very +Bad at home, yet have altered much when they have been put out +abroad; especially when they have fallen into a Family, where the +Governours thereof have made conscience of maintaining of the +Worship and Service of God therein; but perhaps that might be +wanting in Mr. Badmans Masters house. + +Wise. Indeed some Children do greatly mend, when put under other +mens Roofs; but, as I said, this naughty boy did not so; nor did +his badness continue, because he wanted a Master that both could +and did correct it: For his {41b} Master was a very good man, a +very devout person; one that frequented the best Soul-means, that +set up the Worship of God in his Family, and also that walked +himself thereafter. He was also a man very meek and merciful, one +that did never overdrive young Badman in business, nor that kept +him at it at unseasonable hours. + +Atten. Say you so! This is rare: I for my part can see but few +that can parallel, in these things, with Mr. Badmans Master. + +Wise. Nor I neither, (yet Mr. Badman had such an one;) for, for +the most past, {42a} Masters are now a days such as mind nothing +but their worldly concerns, and if Apprentices do but answer their +commands therein, Soul and Religion may go whither they will. Yea, +I much fear, that there have been many towardly Lads put out by +their parents to such Masters, that have quite undone them as to +the next world. + +Atten. The more is the pity. But pray, now you have touched upon +this subject, shew me how many wages a Master may be the ruin of +his poor Apprentice. + +Wise. Nay, I cannot tell you of all the wayes, yet some of them I +will mention. + +Suppose then that a towardly Lad be put to be an Apprentice with +one that is reputed to be a Godly man, yet that Lad may be ruined +many wayes; that is, if his Master be not circumspect in all things +that respect both God and man, and that before his Apprentice. + +1. If {42b} he be not moderate in the use of his Apprentice; if he +drives him beyond his strength; if he holds him to work at +unseasonable hours; if he will not allow him convenient time to +read the Word, to Pray, &c. This is the way to destroy him; that +is, in those tender begin[n]ings of good thoughts, and good +beginnings about spiritual things. + +2. If he suffers his house to be scattered with profane and wicked +Books, such as stir up to lust, to wantonness, such as teach idle, +wanton, lascivious discourse, and such as has a tendency to provoke +to profane drollery and Jesting; and lastly, such as tend to +corrupt, and pervert the Doctrine of Faith and Holiness. All these +things will eat as doth a canker, and will quickly spoil, in Youth, +&c. those good beginnings that may be putting forth themselves in +them. + +3. If there be a mixture of Servants, that is, if some very bad be +in the same place, that's a way also to undo such tender Lads; for +they that are bad and sordid Servants, will be often (and they have +an opportunity too, to be) distilling and fomenting of their +profane and wicked words and tricks before them, and these will +easily stick in the flesh and minds of Youth, to the corrupting of +them. + +4. If the Master have one Guise for abroad, and another for home; +that is, if his Religion hangs by in his house as his Cloak does, +and he be seldom in it, except he be abroad; this, young beginners +will take notice of, and stumble at. We say, Hedges have eyes, and +little Pitchers have ears; and indeed, {43a} Children make a +greater inspection into the Lives of Fathers, Masters, &c. than +oft-times they are aware of: And therefore should Masters be +carefull, else they may soon destroy good beginnings in their +Servants. + +5. If the Master be unconscionable in his Dealing, and trades with +lying words; or if bad Commodities be avouched to be good, or if he +seeks after unreasonable gain, or the like; his servant sees it, +and it is enough to undo him. Elies Sons being bad before the +congregation, made Men despise the sacrifices of the Lord. {43b} + +But these things by the by, only they may serve for a hint to +Masters to take heed that they take not Apprentices to destroy +their Souls. But young Badman had none of these hinderances; {43c} +His father took care, and provided well for him, as to this: He +had a good Master, he wanted not good Books, nor good Instruction, +nor good Sermons, nor good Examples, no nor good fellow-Servants +neither: but all would not doe. + +Atten. 'Tis a wonder, that in such a Family, amidst so many +spiritual helps, nothing should take hold of his heart! What! not +good Books, nor good Instructions, nor good Sermons, nor good +Examples, nor good fellow-Servants, nor nothing do him good! + +Wise. You talk, he minded none of these things; nay, all these +were {43d} abominable to him. + +1. For good Books, they might lie in his Masters house till they +rotted for him, he would not regard to look into them; but, +contrary-wise, would get all the bad and abominable Books that he +could, as beastly Romances, and books full of Ribbauldry, even such +as immediately tended to set all fleshly lusts on fire. True, he +durst not be known to have any of these, to his Master; therefore +would he never let them be seen by him, but would keep them in +close places, and peruse them at such times, as yielded him fit +opportunities thereto. + +2. For good Instruction, he liked that, much as he liked good +books; his care was to hear but little thereof, and to forget what +he heard as soon as 'twas spoken. Yea, I have heard some that knew +him then, say, that one might evidently discern by the shew of his +countenance and gestures, that good counsel was to him like {44a} +little-ease, even a continual torment to him; nor did he ever count +himself at liberty, but when farthest off of wholsom words. He +would hate them that rebuked him, and count them his deadly +enemies. + +3. For good Example; which was frequently set him by his Master, +both in Religious and Civil matters; these, young Badman would +laugh at, and would also make a byword of them, when he came in +place where he with safety could. + +4. His Master indeed would make him go with him to Sermons, and +that where he thought the best Preachers were, but this ungodly +young man, what shall I say, was (I think) a Master of Art in all +mischief; he had these wicked ways to hinder himself of hearing, +let the Preacher thunder never so loud. + +1. His {44b} way was, when come into the place of hearing, to sit +down in some corner, and then to fall fast asleep. + +2. Or else to fix his adulterous eyes upon some beautifull Object +that was in the place, and so all Sermon-while, therewith be +feeding of his fleshly lusts. + +3. Or, if he could get near to some that he had observed would fit +his humour, he would be whispering, gigling, and playing with them, +till such time as Sermon was done. + +Atten. Why! he was grown to a prodigious height of wickedness. + +Wise. He was so, and that which aggravates all, was, this was his +practice as soon as he was come to his Master, he was as ready at +all these things, as if he had, before he came to his Master, +served an Apprentiship to learn them. + +Atten. There could not but be added (as you relate them) Rebellion +to his sin. Methinks it is as if he had said, I will not hear, I +will not regard, I will not mind good, I will not mend, I will not +turn, I will not be converted. + +Wise. You {45a} say true, and I know not to whom more fitly to +compare him, {45b} than to that man, who when I my self rebuked him +for his wickedness, in this great huff replied; What would the +Devil do for company, if it was not for such as I. + +Atten. Why did you ever hear any man say so. + +Wise. Yes, that I did; and this young Badman was as like him, as +an Egg is like an Egg. Alas! the Scripture makes mention of many +that by their actions speak the same. They say unto God, Depart +from us, for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways; Again, They +refuse to hearken, and pull away their shoulder, and stop their +ears; yea, they make their hearts hard as an Adamant-stone, lest +they should hear the Law, and the words that the Lord of Host[s] +hath sent. {45c} What are all these but such as Badman, and such +as the young man but now mentioned? That young man was my Play- +fellow when I was solacing my self in my sins: I may make mention +of him to my shame; but he has a great many fellows. + +Atten. Young Badman was like him indeed, and he trod his steps, as +if his wickedness had been his very Copy; I mean, as to his +desperateness: for had he not been a desperate one, he would never +have made you such a reply, when you was rebuking of him for his +sin. But when did you give him such a rebuke? + +Wise. A while after God had parted him and I, by Calling of me (as +I hope) by his Grace, still leaving him in his sins; and so far as +I could ever gather, as he lived, so he died, even as Mr. Badman +did: but we will leave him, and return again to our discourse. + +Atten. Ha, poor obstinate sinners! doe they think that God cannot +be even with them? + +Wise. I do not know, what they think, but I know that God hath +said, That as He cried, and they would not hear, so they shall +crie, and I will not hear, saith the Lord. {45d} Doubtless there +is a time a coming, when Mr. Badman will crie for this. + +Atten. But I wonder that he should be so expert in wickedness, so +soon! alas, he was but a Stripling, I suppose, he was, as yet, not +Twenty. + +Wise. No, nor Eighteen neither: but (as with Ishmael, and with +the Children that mocked the Prophet) the seeds of sin did put +forth themselves betimes in him. {46a} + +Atten. Well, he was as wicked a young man as commonly one shall +hear of. + +Wise. You will say so, when you know all. + +Atten. All, I think here is a great All; but if there is more +behind, pray let us hear it. + +Wise. Why, then I will tell you, that he had not been with his +Master much above a year and a half, but he came {46b} acquainted +with three young Villains (who here shall be nameless,) that taught +him to adde to his sin, much of like kind; and he as aptly received +their Instructions. One of them was chiefly given to Uncleanness, +another to Drunkenness; and the third to Purloining, or stealing +from his Master. + +Atten. Alas poor Wretch, he was bad enough before, but these, I +suppose, made him much worse. + +Wise. That they made him worse you may be sure of, for they taught +him to be an Arch, a chief one in all their wayes. + +Atten. It was an ill hap that he ever came acqu[a]inted with them. + +Wise. You must rather word it thus. It {46c} was the Judgement of +God that he did; that is, he came acquainted with them, through the +anger of God. He had a good Master, and before him a good Father: +By these he had good counsel given him for Months and Years +together; but his heart was set upon mischief, he loved wickedness +more than to do good, even untill his Iniquity came to be hateful; +therefore, from the anger of God it was, that these companions of +his, and he, did at last so acquaint together. Sayes Paul, They +did not like to retain God in their knowledge; {46d} and what +follows? wherefore, God gave them over, or up to their own hearts +lusts. And again, As for such as turn aside to their own crooked +wayes, the Lord shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity. +{46e} This therefore was Gods hand upon him, that he might be +destroyed, be damned; because he received not the love of the Truth +that he might be saved. He chose his Delusions and Deluders for +him, even the company of base men, of Fools, that he might be +destroyed. {46f} {47a} + +Atten. I cannot but think indeed, that it is a Great Judgment of +God for a man to be given up to the company of vile men; for what +are such but the Devils {47b} Decoyes, even those by whom he +drawes the simple into the Net? A Whoremaster, a Drunkard, a +Thiefe, what are they but the Devils baits, by which he catcheth +others? + +Wise. You say right; but this young Badman was no simple one, if +by simple, you mean one uninstructed; for he had often good counsel +given him: but if by simple, you mean, him that is a Fool as to +the true Knowledge of, and Faith in Christ, then he was a simple +one indeed: for he chose death, rather than life, and to live in +continual opposition to God, rather than to be Reconciled unto him; +according to that saying of the wise man; The fooles hated +knowledge, and did not choose the Fear of the Lord: {47c} and what +Judgement more dreadfull can a fool be given up to, than to be +delivered into the hands of such men, that have skill to do +nothing, but to ripen sin, and hasten its finishing unto damnation? +And therefore men should be afraid of offending God, because he can +in this manner punish them for their sins. I {47d} knew a man that +once was, as I thought, hopefully awakened about his Condition; +yea, I knew two that were so awakened; but in time they began to +draw back, and to incline again to their lusts; wherefore, God gave +them up to the company of three or four men, that in less than +three years time brought them roundly to the Gallows, where they +were hanged like Dogs, because they refused to live like honest +men. {47e} + +Atten. But such men do not believe, that thus to be given up of +God, is in Judgement and anger; they rather take it to be their +liberty, and do count it their happiness; they are glad that their +Cord is loosed, and that the reins are in their neck; they are glad +that they may sin without controul, and that they may choose such +company as can make them more expert in an evil way. + +Wise. Their Judgement is therefore so much the greater, because +thereto is added blindness of Mind, and hardness of Heart in a +wicked way. They are turned up to the way of Death, but must not +see to what place they are going: They must go as the Ox to the +slaughter, and as the Fool to the Correction of the Stocks, {48a} +till a Dart strikes through their Liver, not knowing that it is for +their life. This, I say, makes their Judgement double, they are +given up of God, for a while to sport themselves with that which +will assuredly make them mourn at last, when their flesh and their +body is consumed. {48b} These are those that Peter {48c} speaks +of, that shall utterly perish in their own corruptions; these, I +say, who count it pleasure to ryot in the day-time, and that sport +themselves with their own deceivings, are, as natural bruit beasts, +made to be taken and destroyed. + +Atten. Well, but I pray now concerning these three Villains that +were young Badmans companions: Tell me more particularly how he +carried it then. + +Wise. How he carried it! why, he did as they. I intimated so much +before, when I said, they made him an arch, a chief one in their +ways. + +First, He became a Frequenter of {48d} Taverns and Tippling-houses, +and would stay there untill he was even as drunk as a Beast. And +if it was so, that he could not get out by day, he would, be sure, +get out by night. Yea, he became so common a Drunkard, at last, +that he was taken notice of to be a Drunkard even by all. + +Atten. This was Swinish, for Drunkenness, is so beastly a sin, a +sin so much against Nature, that I wonder that any that have but +the appearance of Men, can give up themselves to so beastly (yea, +worse than beastly) a thing. + +Wise. It is a Swinish vanity indeed. I will tell you another +Story. {48e} {48f} There was a Gentleman that had a Drunkard to be +his Groom, and coming home one night very much abused with Beer, +his Master saw it. Well (quoth his Master within himself,) I will +let thee alone to night, but to morrow morning I will convince thee +that thou art worse than a Beast, by the behaviour of my Horse. So +when morning was come, he bids his man goe and water his Horse, and +so he did; but coming up to his Master, he commands him to water +him again; so the fellow rid into the water the second time, but +his masters horse would now drink no more, so the fellow came up +and told his Master. Then said his Master, Thou drunken sot, thou +art far worse than my Horse, he will drink but to satisfie nature, +but thou wilt drink to the abuse of nature; he will drink but to +refresh himself, but thou to thy hurt and dammage; He will drink, +that he may be more serviceable to his Master, but thou, till thou +art uncapable of serving either God or Man. O thou Beast, how much +art thou worse than the horse that thou ridest on. + +Atten. Truly I think that his Master served him right; for in +doing as he did, he shewed him plainly, as he said, that he had not +so much government of himself as his horse had of himself, and +consequently that his beast did live more according to the Law of +his nature by far, than did his man. But pray go on with what you +have further to say. + +Wise. Why, I say, that there are {49a} four things, which if they +were well considered, would make drunkenness to be abhorred in the +thoughts of the Children of men. + +1. It greatly tendeth to impoverish and beggar a man. The +Drunkard, says Solomon, shall come to poverty. {49b} Many that +have begun the world with Plenty, have gone out of it in Rags; +through drunkenness. Yea, many Children that have been born to +good Estates, have yet been brought to a Flail & a Rake, through +this beastly sin of their Parents. + +2. This sin of Drunkenness, it bringeth upon the Body, many, +great, and incurable Diseases, by which Men do in little time come +to their end, and none can help them. So, because they are +overmuch wicked, therefore they dye before their time. {49c} + +3. Drunkenness, is a sin that is often times attended with +abundance of other evils. Who hath woe? Who hath sorrow? Who +hath contention? Who hath babblings? Who hath wounds without +cause? Who hath redness of the eyes? They that tarry long at the +Wine, they that go to seek mixt wine. {49d} That is, the Drunkard. + +4. By Drunkenness, Men do often times shorten their dayes; goe out +of the Ale-house drunk, and break their Necks before they come +home. Instances not a few might be given of this, but this is so +manifest, a man need say nothing. + +Atten. But {50a} {50b} that which is worse than all is, it also +prepares men for everlasting burnings. + +Wise. Yea, and it so stupifies and besotts the soul, that a man +that is far gone in Drunkenness, is hardly ever recovered to God. +Tell me, when did you see an old drunkard converted? No, no, such +an one will sleep till he dies, though he sleeps on the top of a +{50c} Mast, let his dangers be never so great and Death and +damnation never so near, he will not be awaked out of his sleep. +So that if a man have any respect either to Credit, Health, Life or +Salvation, he will not be a drunken man. But the truth is, where +this sin gets the upper hand, men are, as I said before, so +intoxicated and bewitched with the seeming pleasures, and sweetness +thereof; that they have neither heart nor mind to think of that +which is better in itself; and would, if imbraced, do them good. + +Atten. You said that drunkenness tends to poverty, yet some make +themselves rich by drunken bargains. + +Wise. I {50d} said so, because the Word says so. And as to some +mens getting thereby, that is indeed but rare, and base: yea, and +base will be the end of such gettings. The Word of God is against +such wayes, and the curse of God will be the end of such doings. +An Inheritance may sometimes thus be hastily gotten at the +beginning, but the end thereof shall not be blessed. Hark what the +Prophet saith; Wo to him that coveteth an evil covetousness, that +he may set his nest on high. {50e} Whether he makes drunkenness, +or ought else, the engine and decoy to get it; for that man doth +but consult the shame of his own house, the spoiling of his family, +and the damnation of his Soul; for that which he getteth by working +of iniquity, is but a getting by the devices of Hell; Therefore he +can be no gainer neither for himself or family, that gains by an +evil course. But this was one of the sins that Mr. Badman was +addicted to after he came acquainted with these three fellows, nor +could all that his Master could do break him of this Beastly sin. + +Atten. But where, since he was but an Apprentice, could he get +Money to follow this practice, for drunkenness, as you have +intimated, is a very costly sin. + +Wise. His Master {51a} paid for all. For, (as I told you before) +as he learned of these three Villains to be a Beastly Drunkard; so +he learned of them to pilfer and steal from his Master. Sometimes +he would sell off his Masters Goods, but keep the Money, that is +when he could; also sometimes he would beguile his Master by taking +out of his Cashbox: and when he could do neither of these, he +would convey away of his Masters wares, what he thought would be +least missed, and send or carry them to such and such houses, where +he knew they would be laid up to his use, and then appoint set +times there, to meet and make merry with these fellowes. + +Atten. This, was as bad, nay, I think, worse than the former; for +by thus doing, he did, not only run himself under the wrath of God, +but has endangered the undoing of his Master and his Familie. + +Wise. Sins go not alone, but follow one the other as do the links +of a Chain; he that will be a drunkard, must have money either of +his own, or of some other mans; either of his Fathers, Mothers, +Masters, or at the high-way, or some way. + +Atten. I fear that many an honest man is undone by such kind of +servants. + +Wise. I am of the same mind with you, but {51b} this should make +the dealer the more wary what kind of Servants he keeps, and what +kind of Apprentices he takes. It should also teach him to look +well to his Shop himself, also to take strict account of all things +that are bought and sold by his Servants. The Masters neglect +herein may embolden his servant to be bad, and may bring him too in +short time to rags and a morsel of Bread. + +Atten. I am afraid that there is much of this kind of pilfering +among servants in these bad dayes of ours. + +Wise. Now, while it is in my mind, I will tell you a story. {51c} +When I was in prison, there came a woman to me that was under a +great deal of trouble. So I asked her (she being a stranger to me) +what she had to say to me. She said, she was afraid she should be +damned. I asked her the cause of those fears. She told me that +she had sometime since lived with a Shop-keeper at Wellingborough, +and had robbed his box in the Shop several times of Money, to the +value of more than now I will say; and pray, says she, tell me what +I shall do. I told her, I would have her go to her Master, and +make him satisfaction: She said, she was afraid; I asked her why? +She said, she doubted he would hang her. I told her, that I would +intercede for her life, and would make use of other friends too to +do the like; But she told me, she durst not venture that. Well, +said I, shall I send to your Master, while you abide out of sight, +and make your peace with him, before he sees you; and with that, I +asked her her Masters name. But all that she said in answer to +this, was, Pray let it alone till I come to you again. So away she +went, and neither told me her Masters Name, nor her own: This is +about ten or twelve years since, and I never saw her again. I tell +you this story for this cause; to confirm your fears, that such +kind of servants too many there be; and that God makes them +sometimes like old Tod, of whom mention was made before, (through +the terrors that he layes upon them) to betray themselves. + +I could tell you of another, {52a} that came to me with a like +relation concerning her self, and the robbing of her Mistress; but +at this time let this suffice. + +Atten. But what was that other Villain addicted to, I mean, young +Badmans third companion? + +Wise. Uncleanness. {52b} I told you before, but it seems you +forgot. + +Atten. Right, it was Uncleanness. Uncleanness is also a filthy +sin. + +Wise. It is so; and yet it is one of the most reigning sins in our +day. + +Atten. So they say, and that too among those that one would think +had more wit, even among the great ones. + +Wise. The more is the pity: for usually Examples that are set by +them that are great and chief, {52c} spread sooner, and more +universally, then do the sins of other men; yea, and when such men +are at the head in transgressing, sin walks with a bold face +through the Land. As Jeremiah saith of the Prophets, so may it be +said of such, From them is profaneness gone forth into all the +land; that is, with bold and audacious face, Jer. 23. 15. + +Atten. But pray let us return again to Mr. Badman and his +companions. You say one of them was very vile in the commission of +Uncleanness. + +Wise. Yes, so I say; not but that he was a Drunkard and also +Thievish, but he was most arch in this sin of Uncleanness: This +Roguery was his Master-piece, for he was a Ringleader to them all +in the beastly sin of Whoredom. He was also best acquainted with +such houses where they were, and so could readily lead the rest of +his Gang unto them. The Strumpets also, because they knew this +young Villain, would at first discover themselves in all their +whorish pranks to those that he brought with him. + +Atten. That is a deadly thing: I mean, it is a deadly thing to +young men, when such beastly queans, shall, with words and +carriages that are openly tempting, discover themselves unto them; +It is hard for such to escape their Snare. + +Wise. That is true, therefore the Wise mans counsel is the best: +Come not near the door of her house; {53a} for they are (as you +say) very tempting, as is seen by her in the Proverbs. I looked +(says the Wise man) through my casement, and beheld among the +simple ones, I discerned a young man void of understanding, passing +through the streets near her corner, and he went the way to her +house: In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark +night. And behold, there met him a Woman, with the attire of an +harlot, and subtle of heart; ({53c} she is loud and stubborn, her +feet abide not in her house. Now she is without, now she is in the +street, and lieth in wait at every corner.) So she caught him, and +kiss'd him, and with an impudent face said unto him: I have peace +offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows. Therefore came I +forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found +thee. I have decked my bed with coverings of Tapestry, with carved +works, with fine Linnen of AEgypt: I have perfumed my bed with +Myrrhe, Aloes, and Cinnamon; come let us take our fill of love +untill the Morning, let us solace our selves with loves. {53b} +Here was a bold Beast: And indeed, the very eyes, hands, words and +ways of such, are all snares and bands to youthful, lustful +fellows: And with these was young Badman greatly snared. + +Atten. This sin of Uncleanness {54a} is mightily cried out against +both by Moses, the Prophets, Christ, and his Apostles; and yet, as +we see, for all that, how men run head-long to it! + +Wise. You have said the truth, and I will adde, that God, to hold +men back from so filthy a sin, has set such a stamp of his +Indignation upon it, and commanded such evil effects to follow it, +that were not they that use it bereft of all Fear of God, and love +to their own health, they could not but stop and be afraid to +commit it. For, besides the eternal Damnation that doth attend +such in the next world, (for these have no Inheritance in the +Kingdom of Christ and of God, Ephes. 5.) the evil effects thereof +in this world are dreadfull. + +Atten. Pray skew me some of them, that as occasion offereth it +self, I may shew them to others for their good. + +Wise. So I will. 1. {54b} It bringeth a man (as was said of the +sin before) to want and poverty; for by means of a Whorish woman, a +man is brought to a piece of bread. The reason is, for that an +Whore will not yield without hire; and men when the Devil and Lust +is in them, and God and his Fear far away from them, will not +stick, so they may accomplish their desire, to lay their Signet, +their Bracelets, and their Staff to pledge, {54c} rather than miss +of the fulfilling of their lusts. 2. Again, by this sin men +diminish their strength, and bring upon themselves, even upon the +Body, a multitude of Diseases. This King Lemuel's Mother warned +him of. What my Son, said she, and what the son of my womb, and +what the Son of my Vows: Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy +ways to that which destroyeth Kings. {54d} This sin is destructive +to the Body. Give me leave to tell you another story. I {54e} +{54f} have heard of a great man that was a very unclean person, and +he had lived so long in that sin, that he had almost lost his +sight. So his Physicians were sent for, to whom he told his to +Disease; but they told him, that they could do him no good, unless +he would forbear his Women. Nay then, said he, farewell sweet +Sight. Whence observe, that this sin, as I said, is destructive to +the Body; and also, that some men be so in love therewith, that +they will have it, though it destroy their body. + +Atten. Paul says also, that he that sins this sin, sins against +his own Body. But what of that? he that will run the hazard of +eternal Damnation of his Soul, but he will commit this sin, will +for it run the hazard of destroying his Body. If young Badman +feared not the Damnation of his Soul, do you think that the +consideration of impairing of his Body, would have deterred him +therefrom? + +Wise. You say true. But yet, methinks, there are still such bad +effects follow, often, upon the commission of it, that if men would +consider them, it would put, at least, a stop to their career +therein. + +Atten. What other evil effects attend this sin? + +Wise. Outward shame and disgrace, and that in these particulars: +{55a} + +First, There often follows this foul sin, the Foul Disease, now +called by us the Pox. A disease so nauseous and stinking, so +infectious to the whole body (and so intailed to this sin) that +hardly are any common with unclean Women, but they have more or +less a touch of it to their shame. + +Atten. That is a foul disease indeed: I knew {55b} a man once +that rotted away with it; and another that had his Nose eaten off, +and his Mouth almost quite sewed up thereby. + +Wise. It is a Disease, that where it is, it commonly declares, +that the cause thereof is Uncleanness. It declares to all that +behold such a man, that he is an odious, a beastly, unclean person. +This is that strange punishment that Job speaks of, that is +appointed to seize on these workers of Iniquity. {55c} + +Atten. Then it seems you think that the strange punishment that +Job there speaks of, should be the foul disease. + +Wise. I have thought so indeed, and that for this reason: We see +that this Disease is entailed as I may say, to this most beastly +sin, nor is there any disease so entailed to any other sin, as this +to this. That this is the sin to which the strange Punishment is +entailed, you will easily perceive when you read the Text. I made +a covenant with mine eyes, said Job, why should I think upon a +Maid? For what portion is there (for that sin) from above, and +what Inheritance of the Almighty from on high? And then he answers +himself; Is not destruction to the wicked, and a strange punishment +to the workers of iniquity? This strange Punishment is the Pox. + +Also I think that this foul Disease is that which Solomon intends, +when he saith, (speaking of this unclean and beastly creature) A +wound and dishonour shall he get, and his reproach shall not be +turned away. {56a} A Punishment Job calls it, a Wound and +Dishonour, Solomon calls it; and they both do set it as a Remark +upon this sin; Job calling it a strange punishment, and Solomon a +reproach that shall not be turned away from them that are common in +it. + +Atten. What other things follow upon the commission of this +beastly sin? + +Wise. Why, often-times it is attended with Murder, with the murder +of the Babe begotten on the defiled bed. How common it is for the +Bastard-getter and Bastard-bearer, to consent together to murder +their Children, will be better known at the day of Judgement; yet +something is manifest now. + +I will tell you another story. {56b} An ancient man, one of mine +acquaintance, a man of good credit in our Countrey, had a Mother +that was a Midwife: who was mostly imployed in laying great +persons. To this womans house, upon a time, comes a brave young +Gallant on horseback, to fetch her to lay a young Lady. So she +addresses herself to go with him; wherefore, he takes her up behind +him, and away they ride in the night. Now they had not rid far, +but the Gentleman litt off his horse, and taking the old Midwife in +his arms from the horse, turned round with her several times, and +then set her up again; then he got up, and away they went till they +came at a stately house, into which he had her, and so into a +Chamber where the young Lady was in her pains: He then bid the +Midwife do her Office, and she demanded help, but he drew out his +Sword and told her, if she did not make speed to do her Office +without, she must look for nothing but death. Well, to be short, +this old Midwife laid the young Lady, and a fine sweet Babe she +had; Now there was made in a Room hard by, a very great Fire: so +the Gentleman took up the Babe, went and drew the coals from the +stock, cast the Child in, and covered it up, and there was an end +of that. So when the Midwife had done her work, he paid her well +for her pains, but shut her up in a dark room all day, and when +night came, took her up behind him again, and carried her away, +till she came almost at home; then he turned her round, and round, +as he did before, and had her to her house, set her down, bid her +Farewell, and away he went: And she could never tell who it was. + +This Story the Midwifes son, who was a Minister, told me; and also +protested that his mother told it him for a truth. + +Atten. Murder doth often follow indeed, as that which is the fruit +of this sin: but sometimes God brings even these Adulterers, and +Adulteresses to shameful ends. I heard {57a} of one, (I think, a +Doctor of Physick) and his Whore, who had had three or four +Bastards betwixt them, and had murdered them all, but at last +themselves were hanged for it, in or near to Colchester. It came +out after this manner: The Whore was so afflicted in her +conscience abort it, that she could not be quiet untill she had +made it known: Thus God many times makes the actors of wickedness +their own accusers, and brings them by their own tongues to +condigne punishment for their own sins. + +Wise. There has been many such instances, but we will let that +pass. I was once in the presence of a Woman, a married woman, that +lay sick of the sickness whereof she died; and being smitten in her +conscience for the sin of Uncleanness, which she had often +committed with other men, I heard {57b} her (as she lay upon her +Bed) cry out thus: I am a Whore, and all my Children are Bastards: +And I must go to Hell for my sin; and look, there stands the Devil +at my beds feet to receive my Soul when I die. + +Atten. These are sad storyes, tell no more of them now, but if you +please shew me yet some other of the evil effects of this beastly +sin. + +Wise. This sin is such a snare to the Soul, that unless a miracle +of Grace prevents, it unavoidably perishes in the enchanting and +bewitching pleasures of it. This is manifest by these, and such +like Texts. + +The Adulteress will hunt for the precious life. Whoso committeth +adultery with a woman, lacketh understanding, and he that doth it +destroys his own soul. {57c} An Whore is a deep ditch, and a +strange woman is a narrow pit. Her house inclines to death, and +her pathes unto the dead. None that go in unto her return again, +neither take they hold of the path of life. She hath cast down +many wounded; yea many strong men have been slain by her, her house +is the way to Hell, going down to the Chambers of Death. {58a} + +Atten. These are dreadful sayings, and do shew the dreadful state +of those that are guilty of this sin. + +Wise. Verily so they doe. But yet that which makes the whole more +dreadful, is, That men are given up to this sin, because they are +abhorred of God, and because abhorred, therefore they shall fall +into the commission of it; and shall live there. The mouth (that +is, the flattering Lips) of a strange woman is a deep pit, the +abhorred of the Lord shall fall therein. {58b} Therefore it saith +again of such, that they have none Inheritance in the Kingdom of +Christ and of God. {58c} + +Atten. Put all together, and it is a dreadful thing to live and +die in this transgression. + +Wise. True. But suppose, that instead of all these Judgments, +this sin had attending of it all the felicities of this life, and +no bitterness, shame, or disgrace mixed with it, yet one hour in +Hell will spoil all. O! this Hell, Hell-fire, Damnation in Hell, +it is such an inconceivable punishment, that were it but throughly +believed, it would nip this sin, with others, in the head. But +here is the mischief, those that give up themselves to these +things, do so harden themselves in Unbelief and Atheism about the +things, the punishments that God hath threatned to inflict upon the +committers of them, that at last they arrive to, almost, an +absolute and firm belief that there is no Judgment to come +hereafter: Else they would not, they could not, no not attempt to +commit this sin, by such abominable language as some do. + +I heard {58d} of one that should say to his Miss, when he tempted +her to the committing of this sin, If thou wilt venture thy Body, I +will venture my Soul. {58e} And I my self heard another say, when +he was tempting of a Maid to commit uncleanness with him, (it was +in Olivers dayes) That if she did prove with Child, he would tell +her how she might escape punishment, (and that was then somewhat +severe,) Say (saith he) when you come before the Judge, That you +are with Child by the Holy Ghost. I heard {59a} him say thus, and +it greatly afflicted me; I had a mind to have accused him for it +before some Magistrate; but he was a great man, and I was poor, and +young: so I let it alone, but it troubled me very much. + +Atten. 'Twas the most horrible thing that ever I heard in my life. +But how far off are these men from that Spirit and Grace that dwelt +in Joseph! + +Wise. Right; when Joseph's Mistress tempted him, yea tempted him +daily; {59b} yea, she laid hold on him, and said with her Whores +forehead, Come lie with me, but he refused: He hearkned not to lie +with her, or to be with her. Mr. Badman would have taken the +opportunity. + +And a little to comment upon this of Joseph. {59c} + +1. Here is a Miss, a great Miss, the Wife of the Captain of the +Guard, some beautiful Dame, I'le warrant you. + +2. Here is a Miss won, and in her whorish Affections come over to +Joseph, without his speaking of a word. + +3. Here is her unclean Desire made known; Come lie with me, said +she. + +4. Here was a fit opportunity. There was none of the men of the +house there within. + +5. Joseph was a young man, full of strength, and therefore the +more in danger to be taken. + +6. This was to him, a Temptation, from her, that lasted days. + +7. And yet Joseph refused, 1. Her daily Temptation; 2. Her daily +Solicitation: 3. Her daily Provocation, heartily, violently and +constantly. For when she caught him by the Garment, saying, Lie +with me, he left his Garment in her hand, and gat him out. Ay, and +although contempt, treachery, slander, accusation, imprisonment, +and danger of death followed, (for an Whore careth not what +mischief she does, when she cannot have her end) yet Joseph will +not defile himself, sin against God, and hazard his own eternal +salvation. + +Atten. Blessed Joseph! I would thou hadst more fellows! + +Wise. Mr. Badman has more fellows than Joseph, else there would +not be so many Whores as there are: For though I doubt not but +that that Sex is bad enough this way, yet I verify believe that +many of them are made Whores at first by the flatteries of Badmans +fellows. Alas! there is many a woman plunged into this sin at +first even by promises of Marriage. {60a} I say, by these promises +they are flattered, yea, forced into a consenting to these +Villanies, and so being in, and growing hardened in their hearts, +they at last give themselves up, even as wicked men do, to act this +kind of wickedness with greediness. But Joseph you see, was of +another mind, for the Fear of God was in him. + +I will, before I leave this, tell you here two notable storyes; and +I wish Mr. Badmans companions may hear of them. They are found in +Clarks Looking-glass for Sinners; and are these. + +Mr. Cleaver (says Mr. Clark) reports of one whom he knew, that had +committed the act of Uncleanness, whereupon he fell into such +horror of Conscience that he hanged himself; leaving it thus +written in a paper. Indeed, (saith he) I acknowledge it to be +utterly unlawful for a man to kill himself, but I am bound to act +the Magistrates part, because the punishment of this sin is death. + +Clark doth also in the same page make mention of two more, who as +they were committing Adultery in London, were immediately struck +dead with fire from Heaven, in the very Act. Their bodyes were so +found, half burnt up, and sending out a most loathsom savour. + +Atten. These are notable storyes indeed. + +Wise. So they are, and I suppose they are as true as notable. + +Atten. Well, but I wonder, if young Badmans Master knew him to be +such a Wretch, that he would suffer him in his house. + +Wise. They liked one another even as {60c} fire and water doe. +Young Badmans wayes were odious to his Master, and his Masters +wayes were such as young Badman could not endure. Thus in these +two, was fulfilled that saying of the Holy Ghost: An unjust man is +an abomination to the just, and he that is upright in the way is +abomination to the wicked. {60d} + +The good mans wayes, Mr. Badman could not abide, nor could the good +man abide the bad wayes of his base Apprentice. Yet would his +Master, if he could, have kept him, and also have learnt him his +trade. + +Atten. If he could! why he might, if he would, might he not? + +Wise. Alas, Badman ran away {61a} from him once and twice, and +would not at all be ruled. So the next time he did run away from +him, he did let him go indeed. For he gave him no occasion to run +away, except it was by holding of him as much as he could (and that +he could do but little) to good and honest rules of life. And had +it been ones own case, one should have let him go. For what should +a man do, that had either regard to his own Peace, his Childrens +Good, or the preservation of the rest of his servants from evil, +but let him go? Had he staid, the house of Correction had been +most fit for him, but thither his Master was loth to send him, +because of the love that he bore to his Father. An house of +correction, I say, had been the fittest place for him, but his +Master let him go. + +Atten. He ran away you say, but whither did he run? + +Wise. Why, to one of his own trade, {61b} and also like himself. +Thus the wicked joyned hand in hand, and there he served out his +time. + +Atten. Then, sure, he had his hearts desire, when he was with one +so like himself. + +Wise. Yes. So he had, but God gave it him in his anger. + +Atten. How do you mean? + +Wise. I mean as before, that for a wicked man to be by the +Providence of God, turned out of a good mans doors, into a wicked +mans house to dwell, is a sign of the Anger of God. {61c} For God +by this, and such Judgements, says thus to such an one: Thou +wicked one, thou lovest not me, my wayes, nor my people; Thou +castest my Law and good Counsel behinde thy back: Come, I will +dispose of thee in my wrath; thou shalt be turned over to the +ungodly, thou shalt be put to school to the Devil, I will leave +thee to sink and swim in sin, till I shall visit thee with Death +and Judgment. This was therefore another Judgment that did come +upon this young Badman. + +Atten. You have said the truth, for God by such a Judgment as +this, in effect says so indeed; for he takes them out of the hand +of the just, and binds them up in the hand of the wicked, and +whither they then shall be carried, a man may easily imagin. + +Wise. It is one of the saddest tokens of Gods anger that happens +to such kind of persons: And that for several reasons. {62a} + +1. Such an one, by this Judgment, is put out out of the way, and +from under the means which ordinarily are made use of to do good to +the soul. For a Family where Godliness is professed, and +practised, is Gods Ordinance, the place which he has appointed to +teach young ones the way and fear of God. {62b} Now to be put out +of such a Family into a bad, a wicked one, as Mr. Badman was, must +needs be in Judgment, and a sign of the anger of God. For in +ungodly Families men learn to forget God, to hate goodness, and to +estrange themselves from the wayes of those that are good. + +2. In Bad Families, they have continually fresh Examples, and also +incitements to evil, and fresh encouragements to it too. Yea +moreover, in such places evil is commended, praised, well-spoken +of, and they that do it, are applauded; and this, to be sure, is a +drowning Judgement. + +3. Such places are the very haunts and Walks of the infernal +Spirits, who are continually poysoning the Cogitations and Minds of +one or other in such Families, that they may be able to poyson +others. Therefore observe it, usually in wicked Families, some +one, or two, are more arch for wickedness then are any other that +are there. Now such are Satans Conduit-pipes; for by them he +conveighs of the spawn of Hell, through their being crafty in +wickedness, into the Ears and Souls of their Companions. Yea, and +when they have once conceived wickedness, they travel with it, as +doth a woman with Child, till they have brought it forth; Behold, +he travelleth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and +brought forth falshood. {62c} Some men, as here is intimated in +the Text, and as was hinted also before, have a kind of mystical, +but hellish copulation with the Devil, who is the Father, and their +Soul the Mother of sin and wickedness; and they, so soon as they +have conceived by him, finish, by bringing forth sin, both it, and +their own damnation. {62d} + +Atten. How {63a} much then doth it concern those Parents that love +their Children, to see, that if they go from them, they be put into +such Families as be good, that they may learn there betimes to +eschew evil, and to follow that which is good? + +Wise. It doth concern them indeed; and it doth also concern them +{63b} that take Children into their Families, to take heed what +Children they receive. For a man may soon by a Bad boy, be +dammaged both in his Name, Estate, and Family, and also hindred in +his Peace and peaceable pursuit after God and godliness; I say, by +one such Vermin as a wicked and filthy Apprentice. + +Atten. True, for one Sinner destroyeth much good, and a poor man +is better than a Lier. But many times a man cannot help it; for +such as at the beginning promise very fair, are by a little time +proved to be very Rogues, like young Badman. + +Wise. That is true also, but when a man has done the best he can +to help it, he may with the more confidence expect the Blessing of +God to follow, or he shall have the more peace, if things go +contrary to his desire. + +Atten. Well, but did Mr. Badman and his Master agree so well? I +mean his last Master, since they were Birds of a Feather, I mean, +since they were so well met for wickedness. + +Wise. This second Master, was, as before I told you, bad enough, +but yet he would often fall out {63c} with young Badman his +Servant, and chide, yea and some times beat him too, for his +naughty doings. + +Atten. What! for all he was so bad himself! This is like the +Proverb, The Devil corrects Vice. + +Wise. I will assure you, 'tis as I say. For you must know, that +Badmans wayes suited not with his Masters gains. Could he have +done as the Damsel that we read of Acts 16. {63d} did, to wit, fill +his Masters Purse with his badness, he had certainly been his +White-boy, but it was not so with young Badman; and therefore, +though his Master and he did suit well enough in the main, yet in +this and that point they differed. Young Badman {63e} was for +neglecting of his Masters business, for going to the Whore-house, +for beguiling of his Master, for attempting to debauch his +Daughters, and the like: No marvel then if they disagreed in these +points. Not so much for that his Master had an antipathy against +the fact it self, for he could do so when he was an Apprentice; but +for that his servant by his sin made spoil of his Commodities, &c. +and so damnified his Master. + +Had (as I said before) young Badmans wickedness, had only a +tendency to his Masters advantage; as could he have sworn, lied, +cousened, cheated, and defrauded customers for his Master, (and +indeed sometimes he did so) but had that been all that he had done, +he had not had, no not a wry word from his Master: But this was +not always Mr. Badmans way. + +Atten. That was well brought in, even the Maid that we read of in +the Acts, and the distinction was as clear betwixt the wickedness, +and wickedness of servants. + +Wise. Alas! men that are wicked themselves, yet greatly hate it in +others, not simply because it is wickedness, but because it +opposeth their interest. Do you think that that Maids master would +have been troubled at the loss of her, if he had not lost, with +her, his gain: No, I'le warrant you; she might have gone to the +Devil for him: But when her master saw that the hope of his gain +was gone, then, then he fell to persecuting Paul. {64a} But Mr. +Badmans master did sometimes lose by Mr. Badmans sins, and then +Badman and his master were at odds. + +Atten. Alas poor Badman! Then it seems thou couldest not at all +times please thy like. + +Wise. No, he could not, and the reason I have told you. + +Atten. But do not bad Masters condemn themselves in condemning the +badness of their servants. {64b} + +Wise. Yes; {64c} in that they condemn that in another which they +either have, or do allow in themselves. And the time will come, +when that very sentence that hath gone out of their own mouths +against the sins of others, themselves living and taking pleasure +in the same, shall return with violence upon their own pates. The +Lord pronounced Judgment against Baasha, as for all his evils in +general, so for this in special, because he was like the house of +Jeroboam, and yet killed him. {64d} This is Mr. Badmans Masters +case, he is like his man, and yet he beats him. He is like his +man, and yet he rails at him for being bad. + +Atten. But why did not young Badman run away from this Master, as +he ran away from the other? + +Wise. He did not. And if I be not mistaken, the reason {65a} why, +was this. There was Godliness in the house of the first, and that +young Badman could not endure. For fare, for lodging, for work, +and time, he had better, and more by this Masters allowance, than +ever he had by his last; but all this would not content, because +Godliness was promoted there. He could not abide this praying, +this reading of Scriptures, and hearing, and repeating of Sermons: +he could not abide to be told of his transgressions in a sober and +Godly manner. + +Atten. There is a great deal in the Manner of reproof, wicked men +both can, and cannot abide to hear their transgressions spoken +against. + +Wise. There is a great deal of difference indeed. This last +Master of Mr. Badmans, would tell Mr. Badman of his sins in Mr. +Badmans own dialect; he would swear, and curse, and damn, when he +told him of his sins, and this he could bear better, {65b} than to +be told of them after a godly sort. Besides, that last Master +would, when his passions and rage was over, laugh at and make merry +with the sins of his servant Badman: And that would please young +Badman well. Nothing offended Badman but blows, and those he had +but few of now, because he was pretty well grown up. For the most +part when his Master did rage and swear, he would give him Oath for +Oath, and Curse for Curse, at least secretly, let him go on as long +as he would. + +Atten. This was hellish living. + +Wise. 'Twas hellish living indeed: And a man might say, that with +this Master, young Badman compleated himself {65c} yet more and +more in wickedness, as well as in his trade: for by that he came +out of his time, what with his own inclination to sin, what with +his acquaintance with his three companions, and what with this last +Master, and the wickedness he saw in him; he became a sinner in +grain. I think he had a Bastard laid to his charge before he came +out of his time. + +Atten. Well, but it seems he did live to come out of his time, +{66a} but what did he then? + +Wise. Why, he went home to his Father, and he like a loving and +tender-hearted Father received him into his house. + +Atten. And how did he carry it there? + +Wise. Why, the reason why he went home, {66b} was, for Money to +set up for himself, he staied but a little at home, but that little +while that he did stay, he refrained himself {66c} as well he +could, and did not so much discover himself to be base, for fear +his Father should take distaste, and so should refuse, or for a +while forbear to give him money. + +Yet even then he would have his times, and companions, and the fill +of his lusts with them, but he used to blind all with this, he was +glad to see his old acquaintance, and they as glad to see him, and +he could not in civility but accomodate them with a bottle or two +of Wine, or a dozen or two of Drink. + +Atten. And did the old man give him money to set up with? + +Wise. Yes, above two hundred pounds. + +Atten. Therein, I think, the old man was out. Had I been his +Father, I would have held him a little at staves-end, till I had +had far better proof of his manners to be good; (for I perceive +that his Father did know what a naughty boy he had been, both by +what he used to do at home, and because he changed a good Master +for a bad, &c.) He should not therefore have given him money so +soon. What if he had pinched a little, and gone to Journey-work +for a time, that he might have known what a penny was, by his +earning of it? Then, in all probability, he had known better how +to have spent it: Yea, and by that time perhaps, have better +considered with himself, how to have lived in the world. Ay, and +who knows but he might have come to himself with the Prodigal, and +have asked God and his Father forgiveness for the villanies that he +had committed against them. {66d} + +Wise. If his Father could also have blessed this manner of dealing +to him, and have made it effectual for the ends that you have +propounded; then I should have thought as you. But alas, alas, you +talk as if you never knew, or had at this present forgot what the +bowels and compassions of a Father are. Why did you not serve your +own son so? But 'tis evident enough, that we are better at giving +good counsel to others, than we are at taking good counsel our +selves. {67a} But mine honest neighbour, suppose that Mr. Badmans +Father had done as you say, and by so doing had driven his son to +ill courses, what had he bettered either himself or his son in so +doing? + +Atten. That's true, but it doth not follow, that if the Father had +done as I said, the son would have done as you suppose. But if he +had done as you have supposed, what had he done worse than what he +hath done already? {67b} + +Wise. He had done bad enough, that's true. But suppose his Father +had given him no Money, and suppose that young Badman had taken a +pett thereat, and in an anger had gone beyond Sea, and his Father +had neither seen him, nor heard of him more. Or suppose that of a +mad and headstrong stomach he had gone to the High-way for money, +and so had brought himself to the Gallows, and his Father and +Family to great contempt, or if by so doing he had not brought +himself to that end, yet he had added to all his wickedness, such +and such evils besides: And what comfort could his Father have had +in this? + +Besides, when his Father had done for him what he could, with +desire to make him an honest man, he would then, whether his son +had proved honest or no, have laid down his head with far more +peace, than if he had taken your Counsel. + +Atten. Nay I think I should not a been forward to have given +advice in the cause; but truly you have given me such an account of +his vilianies, that the hearing thereof has made me angry with him. + +Wise. In an angry mood we may soon out-shoot our selves, but poor +wretch, as he is, he is gone to his place. But, as I said, when a +good Father hath done what he can for a bad Child, and that Child +shall prove never the better, he will lie down with far more peace, +than if through severity, he had driven him to inconveniencies. + +I remember that I have heard of a good woman, that had (as this old +man) a bad and ungodly {68a} son, and she prayed for him, +counselled him, and carried it Motherly to him for several years +together; but still he remained bad. At last, upon a time, after +she had been at prayer, as she was wont, for his conversion, she +comes to him, and thus, or to this effect, begins again to admonish +him. Son, said she, Thou hast been and art a wicked Child, thou +hast cost me many a prayer and tear, and yet thou remainest wicked. +Well, I have done my duty, I have done what I can to save thee; now +I am satisfied, that if I shall see thee damned at the day of +Judgment, I shall be so far off from being grieved for thee, that I +shall rejoyce to hear the sentence of thy damnation at that day: +And it converted him. + +I tell you, that if Parents carry it lovingly towards their +Children, mixing their Mercies with loving Rebukes and their loving +Rebukes with Fatherly and Motherly Compassions, they are more +likely to save their Children, than by being churlish and severe +toward them: but if they do not save them, if their mercy doth +them no good, yet it will greatly ease them at the day of death, to +consider; I have done by love as much as I could, to save and +deliver my child from Hell. + +Atten. Well I yield. But pray let us return again to Mr. Badman: +You say, that his Father gave him a piece of money that he might +set up for himself. + +Wise. Yes, his Father did give him a piece of money, and he did +set up, {68b} and almost as soon set down again: for he was not +long set up, but by his ill managing of his matters at home, +together with his extravagant expences abroad, he was got so far +into debt, and had so little in his shop to pay, that he was hard +put to it to keep himself out of prison. But when his Creditors +understood that he was about to marry, and in a fair way to get a +rich Wife, they said among themselves, We will not be hasty with +him, if he gets a rich Wife he will pay us all. + +Atten. But how could he so quickly run out, for I perceive 'twas +in little time, by what you say? + +Wise. 'Twas in little time indeed, I think he was not above two +years and a half in doing of it: but the reason {69a} is apparent; +for he being a wild young man, and now having the bridle loose +before him, and being wholly subjected to his lusts and vices, he +gave himself up to the way of his heart, and to the sight of his +eye, forgetting that for all these things God will bring him to +Judgment; {69b} and he that doth thus, you may be sure, shall not +be able long to stand on his leggs. + +Besides, he had now an addition of {69c} new companions; companions +you must think, most like himself in Manners, and so such that +cared not who sunk, if they themselves might swim. These would +often be haunting of him, and of his shop too when he was absent. +They would commonly egg him to the Ale-house, but yet make him +Jack-pay-for-all; They would be borrowing also money of him, but +take no care to pay again, except it was with more of their +company, which also he liked very well; and so his poverty came +like one that travelleth, and his want like an armed man. + +But all the while they studied his temper; {69d} he loved to be +flattered, praised and commanded for Wit, Manhood, and Personage; +and this was like stroking him over the face. Thus they Collogued +with him, and got yet more and more into him, and so (like Horse- +leaches) they drew away that little that his father had given him, +and brought him quickly down, almost to dwell next dore to the +begger. + +Atten. Then was the saying of the wise man fulfilled, He that +keepeth company with harlots, and a companion of fools, shall be +destroyed. {69e} + +Wise. Ay, and that too, A companion of riotous persons shameth his +father; {69f} For he, poor man, had both grief and shame, to see +how his son (now at his own hand) behaved himself in the enjoyment +of those good things, in and under the lawfull use of which he +might have lived to Gods glory, his own comfort, and credit among +his neighbours. But he that followeth vain persons, shall have +poverty enough. {69g} The way that he took, led him directly into +this condition; for who can expect other things of one that follows +such courses? Besides, when he was in his Shop, he could not abide +to be doing; He was naturally given to Idleness: He loved to live +high, but his hands refused to labour; and what else can the end of +such an one be, but that which the wise man saith? The Drunkard +and the Glutton shall come to poverty, and drowsiness shall cloath +a man with rags. {70a} + +Atten. But now, methinks, when he was brought thus low, he should +have considered the hand of God that was gone out against him, and +should have smote upon the breast, and have returned. + +Wise. Consideration, good consideration was far from him, he was +as stout and proud now, as ever in all his life, and was as high +too in the pursuit of his sin, as when he was in the midst of his +fulness; only he went now {70b} like a tyred Jade, the Devil had +rid him almost off of his leggs. + +Atten. Well, but what did he do when all was almost gone? + +Wise. Two things were now his play. {70c} 1. He bore all in hand +by Swearing, and Cracking and Lying, that he was as well to pass, +as he was the first day he set up for himself, yea that he had +rather got than lost; and he had at his beck some of his Companions +that would swear to confirm it as fast as he. + +Atten. This was double wickedness, 'twas a sin to say it, and +another to swear it. + +Wise. That's true, but what evil is that that he will not doe, +that is left of God, as I believe Mr. Badman was? + +Atten. And what was the other thing? + +Wise. Why, that which I hinted before, he was for looking out for +a rich Wife: {70d} and now I am come to some more of his invented, +devised, designed, and abominable Roguery, such that will yet +declare him to be a most desperate sinner. + +The thing was this: A Wife he wanted, or rather Money; for as for +a woman, he could have Whores enow at his whistle. But, as I said, +he wanted Money, and that must be got by a Wife, or no way; nor +could he so easily get a Wife neither, except he became an Artist +at the way of dissembling; nor would dissembling do among that +people that could dissemble as well as he. But there dwelt a Maid +not far from him, that was both godly, {70e} and one that had a +good Portion, but how to get her, there lay all the craft. {71a} +Well, he calls a Council of some of his most trusty and cunning +Companions, {71b} and breaks his mind to them; to wit, that he had +a mind to marry: and he also told them to whom; But, said he, how +shall I accomplish my end, she is Religious, and I am not? Then +one of them made reply, saying, Since she is Religious, you must +pretend to be so likewise, and that for some time before you go to +her: Mark therefore whither she goes daily to hear, and do you go +thither also; but there you must be sure to behave your self +soberly, and make as if you liked the Word wonderful well; stand +also where she may see you, and when you come home, be sure that +you walk the street very soberly, and go within sight of her: This +done for a while, then go to her, and first talk of how sorry you +are for your sins, and shew great love to the Religion that she is +of; still speaking well of her Preachers and of her godly +acquaintance, bewailing your hard hap, that it was not your lot to +be acquainted with her and her fellow-Professors sooner; and this +is the way to get her. Also you must write down Sermons, talk of +Scriptures, and protest that you came a wooing to her, only because +she is Godly, and because you should count it your greatest +happiness if you might but have such an one: As for her Money, +slight it, it will be never the further off, that's the way to come +soonest at it, for she will be jealous at first that you come for +her Money; you know what she has, but make not a word about it. Do +this, and you shall see if you do not intangle the Lass. + +Thus was the snare laid for this poor honest Maid, and she was +quickly catched in his pit. + +Atten. Why, did he take this counsel? + +Wise. Did he! yes, and after a while, went as boldly to her, {71c} +and that under a Vizzard of Religion, as if he had been for Honesty +and Godliness, one of the most sincere and upright-hearted in +England. He observed all his points, and followed the advice of +his Counsellers, and quickly obtained her too; for natural parts he +had, he was tall, and fair, and had plain, but very good Cloaths on +his back; and his Religion was the more easily attained; for he had +seen something in the house of his Father, and first Master, and so +could the more readily put himself into the Form and Shew thereof. + +So he appointed his day, and went to her, as that he might easily +do, for she had neither father nor mother to oppose. Well, when he +was come, and had given her a civil Complement, {72a} to let her +understand why he was come, then he began and told her, That he had +found in his heart a great deal of love to her Person; and that, of +all the Damosels in the world he had pitched upon her, if she +thought fit, to make her his beloved wife. The reasons, as he told +her, why he had pitched upon her were, her Religious and personal +Excellencies; and therefore intreated her to take his condition +into her tender and loving consideration. As for the world, quoth +he, I have a very good trade, and can maintain my self and Family +well, while my wife sits still on her seat; I have got thus, and +thus much already, and feel money come in every day, but that is +not the thing that I aim at, 'tis an honest and godly Wife. Then +he would present her with a good Book or two, pretending how much +good he had got by them himself. He would also be often speaking +well of godly Ministers, especially of those that he perceived she +liked, and loved most. Besides, he would be often telling of her, +what a godly Father he had, and what a new man he was also become +himself; and thus did this treacherous Dealer, deal with this +honest and good Girl, to her great grief and sorrow, as afterward +you shall hear. + +Atten. But had the maid no friend to looke after her? + +Wise. Her Father and Mother were dead, and that he knew well +enough, and so she was the more easily overcome by his naughty +lying tongue. But if she had never so many friends, she might have +been beguiled by him. It is too much the custom of young people +now, to think themselves wise enough to make their own Choyce, and +that they need not ask counsel of those that are older and also +wiser then they: {72b} but this is a great fault in them, and many +of them have paid dear for it. Well, to be short, in little time +Mr. Badman obtains his desire, {73a} gets this honest Girl and her +money, is married to her, brings her home, makes a Feast, +entertains her royally, but her Portion must pay for all. + +Atten. This was wonderfull deceitfull doings, a man shall seldom +hear of the like. + +Wise. By this his doing, he shewed how little he feared God, {73b} +and what little dread he had of his Judgments. For all this +carriage, and all these words were by him premeditated evil, he +knew he lyed, he knew he dissembled; yea, he knew that he made use +of the name of God, of Religion, good Men, and good Books, but as a +stalking-Horse, thereby the better to catch his game. In all this +his glorious pretense of Religion, he was but a glorious painted +Hypocrite, and hypocrisie is the highest sin that a poor carnal +wretch can attain unto; it is also a sin that most dareth God, and +that also bringeth the greater damnation. Now was he a whited +Wall, now was he a painted Sepulchre; {73c} now was he a grave that +appeared not; for this poor honest, godly Damosel, little thought +that both her peace, and comfort, and estate, and liberty, and +person, and all, were going to her burial, {73d} when she was going +to be married to Mr. Badman; And yet so it was, she enjoyed her +self but little afterwards; she was as if she was dead and buried, +to what she enjoyed before. + +Atten. Certainly some wonderfull Judgment of God must attend and +overtake such wicked men as these. + +Wise. You may be sure that they shall have Judgment to the full, +for all these things, when the day of Judgment is come. But as for +Judgment upon them in this life, it doth not alwayes come, no not +upon those that are worthy thereof. They that tempt God are +delivered, and they that work wickedness are set up: {73e} But +they are reserved to the day of wrath, and then for their +wickedness, God will repay them to their faces. {73f} The wicked +is reserved to the day of destruction, they shall be brought forth +to the day of wrath; who shall declare his way to his face? and who +shall repay him what he hath done? yet shall he be brought to the +grave, and remain in the tomb. {73g} That is, ordinarily they +escape God's hand in this life, save only a few Examples are made, +that others may be cautioned, and take warning thereby: But at the +day of Judgment they must be rebuked for their evil with the lashes +of devouring fire. + +Atten. Can you give me no examples of Gods wrath upon men that +have acted this tragical wicked deed Mr. Badman. + +Wise. Yes; {74a} Hamor and Shechem, and all the men of their City, +for attempting to make God and Religion the stalking-Horse to get +Jacobs daughters to wife, were together slain with the edge of the +sword. A Judgment of God upon them, no doubt, for their +dissembling in that matter. All manner of lying and dissembling is +dreadfull, but to make God and Religion a Disguise, therewith to +blind thy Dissimulation from others eyes, is highly provoking to +the Divine Majesty. + +I knew {74b} one that dwelt not far off from our Town, that got him +a wife as Mr. Badman got his; but he did not enjoy her long: for +one night as he was riding home (from his companions, where he had +been at a neighbouring Town) his horse threw him to the ground, +where he was found dead at break of day; frightfully and lamentably +mangled with his fall, and besmeared with his own blood. + +Atten. Well, but pray return again to Mr. Badman, how did he carry +it to his wife, after he was married to her? + +Wise. Nay, let us take things along as we go. He had not been +married but a little while, but his Creditors came upon him {74c} +for their money: He deferred them a little while, but at last +things were come to that point, that pay he must, or must do worse; +so he appointed them a time, and they came for their money, and he +payed them down with her money before her eyes, for those goods +that he had profusely spent among his Whores long before, (besides +the portion that his Father gave him) to the value of two hundred +pounds. + +Atten. This beginning was bad; but what shall I say? 'twas like +Mr. Badman himself. Poor woman, this was but a bad beginning for +her, I fear it filled her with trouble enough, as I think such a +beginning would have done, one, perhaps much stronger than she. + +Wise. Trouble, ay, you may be sure of it, but now 'twas too late +to repent, {75a} she should have looked better to herself, when +being wary would have done her good; her harms may be an advantage +to others, that will learn to take heed thereby; but for her self, +she must take what follows, even such a life now as Mr. Badman her +Husband will lead her, and that will be bad enough. + +Atten. This beginning was bad, and yet I fear it was but the +beginning of bad. + +Wise. You may he sure, that it was but the beginning of badness, +for other evils came on apace; as for instance: it was but a +little while after he was married, {75b} but he hangs his Religion +upon the hedge, or rather dealt with it as men deal with their old +Cloaths, who cast them off, or leave them to others to wear, for +his part he would be Religious no longer. + +Now therefore he had pulled off his Vizzard, and began to shew +himself in his old shape, a base, wicked, debauched fellow, (and +now the poor woman saw that she was betrayed indeed;) now also his +old Companions begin to flock about him, and to haunt his house and +Shop as formerly: And who with them but Mr. Badman? and who with +him again but they? + +Now those good people that used to company with his Wife, began to +be ama[t]ed and discouraged; {75c} also he would frown and gloat +upon them, as it he abhorred the appearance of them: so that in +little time he drove all good company from her, and made her sit +solitary by herself. He also began now to go out a nights to those +Drabs {75d} who were his Familiars before, with whom he would stay +somtimes till midnight, and sometimes till almost morning, and then +would come home as drunk as a Swine; and this was the course of Mr. +Badman. + +Now, when he came home in this case, if his wife did but speak a +word to him, about where he had been, and why he had so abused +himself, though her words were spoken in never so much meekness and +love, then she was Whore, {76a} and Bitch, and Jade; and 'twas well +if she miss'd his fingers and heels. Sometimes also he would bring +his Puncks home to his house, and wo be to his wife when they were +gone, if she did not entertain them with all varieties possible, +and also carry it lovingly to them. + +Thus this good woman was made by Badman her Husband, to possess +nothing but disappointments as to all that he had promised her, or +that she hoped to have at his hands. + +But that that added pressing weight to all her sorrow, was, that, +as he had cast away all Religion himself, so he attempted, if +possible, to make her do so too. {76b} He would not suffer her to +go out to the Preaching of the Word of Christ, nor to the rest of +his Appointments, for the health and salvation of her Soul: he +would now taunt at, and reflectingly speak of her Preachers; {76c} +and would receive, yea raise scandals of them, to her very great +grief and affliction. + +Now she scarce durst go to an honest Neighbours house, or have a +good Book in her hand; specially when he had his companions in his +house, or had got a little drink in his head. He would also, when +he perceived that she was dejected, speak tauntingly, {76d} and +mockingly to her in the presence of his Companions, calling of her +his Religious Wife, his demure Dame, and the like; also he would +make a sport of her among his wanton ones abroad. + +If she did ask him (as sometimes she would) to let her go out to a +Sermon, he would in a currish manner reply, Keep at home, keep at +home, and look to your business, we cannot live by hearing of +Sermons. {76e} If she still urged that he would let her goe, then +he would say to her, Goe if you dare. He would also charge her +with giving of what he had to her Ministers, when, vile wretch, he +had spent it on his vain Companions before. + +This was the life that Mr. Badmans good wife lived, within few +months after he had married her. + +Atten. This was a disappointment indeed. + +Wise. A disappointment indeed, as ever, I think, poor woman had. +One would think that the Knave might a little let her have had her +will, since it was nothing but to be honest, and since she brought +him so sweet, so lumping a Portion, for she brought hundreds into +his house: I say, one would think he should have let her had her +own will a little, since she desired it only in the Service and +Worship of God: but could she win him to grant her that? no, not a +bit if it would have saved her life. True, sometimes she would +steal out when he was from home, on a Journey, or among his drunken +companions, but with all privacy imaginable; {77a} and, poor woman, +this advantage she had, she carried it so to all her Neighbours, +that, though many of them were but carnal, yet they would not +betray her, or tell of her going out to the Word, if they saw it, +but would rather endeavour to hide it from Mr. Badman himself. + +Atten. This carriage of his to her, was enough to break her heart. + +Wise. It was enough to do it indeed, yea it did effectually do it. +It killed her in time, yea it was all the time a killing of her. +She would often-times when she sate by her self, thus mournfully +bewail her condition: {77b} Wo is me that I sojourn in Meshech, +and that I dwell in the tents of Kedar; my soul hath long time +dwelt with him that hateth peace. {77c} O what shall be given unto +thee, thou deceitful tongue? or what shall be done unto thee, thou +false tongue? I am a Woman grieved in spirit, my Husband has +bought me and sold me for his lusts: 'Twas not me, but my Money +that he wanted: O that he had had it, so I had had my liberty! + +This she said, not of contempt of his Person, but of his +Conditions, and because she saw that by his hypocritical tongue, he +had brought her not only almost to beggery, but robbed her of the +Word of God. + +Atten. It is a deadly thing, I see, to be unequally yoaked with +Unbelievers. If this woman had had a good Husband, how happily +might they have lived together! Such an one would have prayed for +her, taught her, and also would have encourages her in the Faith, +and ways of God: But now, poor creature, instead of this, there is +nothing but the quite contrary. + +Wise. It is a deadly thing indeed, and therefore, by the Word of +God his people are forbid to be joyned in marriage with them. {77d} +Be not, saith it, unequally yoaked together with unbelievers; for +what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what +communion hath light with darkness? And what Concord hath Christ +with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an Infidel? +And what agreement hath the Temple of God with Idols? {78a} There +can be no agreement where such Matches are made, even God himself +hath declared the contrary, from the beginning of the world. I +(says he) will put enmity betwixt thee and the woman, betwixt thy +seed and her seed. {78b} Therefore he saith in another place, they +can mix no better than Iron and Clay. I say, they cannot agree, +they cannot be one, and therefore they should be aware at first, +and not lightly receive such into their affections. God has often +made such Matches bitter, especially to his own. Such matches are, +as God said of Elie's Sons that were spared, to consume the eyes, +and to grieve the heart. Oh the wailing, and lamentation that they +have made that have been thus yoaked, especially if they were such +as would be so yoaked, against their light, and good counsel to the +contrary. + +Atten. Alas! he deluded her with his tongue, and feigned +reformation. + +Wise. Well, well; she should have gone more warily to work: {78d} +what if she had acquainted some of her best, most knowing, and +godly friends therewith? what if she had engaged a Godly Minister +or two to have talked with Mr. Badman? Also, what if she had laid +wait round about him, to espie if he was not otherwise behind her +back than he was before her face? And besides, I verily think +(since in the multitude of Counsellors there is safety) that if she +had acquainted the Congregation with it, and desired them to spend +some time in prayer to God about it, and if she must have had him, +to have received him as to his godliness, upon the Judgment of +others, rather than her own, (she knowing them to be Godly and +Judicious, and unbiassed men) she had had more peace all her life +after; than to trust to her own poor, raw, womanish Judgment, as +she did. Love is blind, and will see nothing amiss, where others +may see an hundred faults. Therefore I say, she should not have +trusted to her own thoughts in the matter of his Goodness. + +As to his Person, there she was fittest to judge, because she was +to be the person pleased, but as to his Godliness, there the Word +was the fittest Judge, and they that could best understand it, +because God was therein to be pleased. I wish {79a} that all young +Maidens will take heed of being beguiled with flattering words, +with feigning and lying speeches, and take the best way to preserve +themselves from being bought and sold by wicked men, as she was; +lest they repent with her, when (as to this) repentance will do +them no good, but for their unadvisedness goe sorrowing to their +graves. + +Atten. Well, things are past with this poor woman, and cannot be +called back, let others {79b} beware, by her misfortunes, lest they +also fall into her distress. + +Wise. That is the thing that I say, let them take heed, lest for +their unadvisedness the smart, as this poor woman has done. And +ah! methinks, that they that yet are single persons, and that are +tempted to marry to such as Mr. Badman; would, to inform, and warn +themselves in this matter, before they intangle themselves, but goe +to some that already are in the snare, and ask them how it is with +them, as to the suitable, or unsuitableness of their marriage, and +desire their advice. Surely they would ring such a peal in their +ears about the unequality, unsuitableness, disadvantages, and +disquietments, and sins that attend such marriages, that would make +them beware as long as they live. But the bird in the air, knows +not the notes of the bird in the snare, untill she comes thither +herself: Besides, to make up such marriages, Satan, and carnal +Reason, and Lust, or at least Inconsiderateness, has the chiefest +hand; and where these things bear sway, designs, though never so +destructive, will goe headlong on: and therefore I fear, that but +little warning will be taken by young Girls, at Mr. Badmans wives +affliction. + +Atten. But are there no disswasive arguments to lay before such, +to prevent their future misery. + +Wise. Yes: There is the Law of God, that forbiddeth marriage with +unbelievers. These kind of marriages also are condemned even by +irrational creatures. 1. It is forbidden by the Law of God both in +the Old Testament and in the New. 1. In the Old. Thou shalt not +make Marriages with them; Thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his +son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son, Deut. 7. 4, 5. +{80a} 2. In the New Testament it is forbidden. Be ye not +unequally yoaked together with unbelievers; Let them marry to whom +they will, only in the Lord. {80b} + +Here now is a prohibition, {80c} plainly forbidding the Believer to +marry with the Unbeliever, therefore they should not do it. Again, +these unwarrantable Marriages, are, as I may so say, condemned by +irrational creatures, who will not couple but with their own sort: +Will the Sheep couple with a Dog, the Partridge with a Crow, or the +Feasant with an Owl? No, they will strictly tye up themselves to +those of their own sort only: Yea, it sets all the world a +wondring, when they see or hear the contrary. Man only is most +subject to wink at, and allow of these unlawful mixtures of men and +women; Because man only is a sinful Beast, a sinful Bird, therefore +he, above all, will take upon him by rebellious actions to answer, +or rather to oppose and violate the Law of his God and Creator; nor +shall these, or other Interogatories, [What fellowship? what +concord? what agreement? what communion can there be in such +Marriages?] be counted of weight, or thought worth the answering by +him. + +But further. The dangers {80d} that such do commonly run +themselves into, should be to others a disswasive argument to stop +them from doing the like: for besides the distresses of Mr. +Badmans wife, many that have had very hopefull beginnings for +heaven, have by vertue of the mischiefs that have attended these +unlawfull marriages, miserably and fearfully miscarried. Soon +after such marriages, Conviction (the first step toward heaven) +hath ceased; Prayer (the next step toward Heaven) hath ceased; +Hungrings and thirstings after salvation (another step towards the +Kingdom of Heaven) have ceased. In a word, such marriages have +estranged them from the Word, from their godly and faithful +Friends, and have brought them again into carnal company, among +carnal Friends, and also into carnal Delights, where, and with whom +they have in conclusion both sinfully abode, and miserably +perished. + +And this is one reason why God hath forbidden this kind of unequal +marriages. For they, saith he, meaning the ungodly, will turn away +thy son from following me, that they may serve other Gods, so will +the anger of the Lord be kindled against you, and destroy you +suddenly. {81a} Now mark, there were some in Israel, that would, +notwithstanding this prohibition, venture to marry to the Heathens +and Unbelievers: But what followed? They served their Idols, they +sacrificed their Sons and their Daughters unto Devils. Thus were +they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their +own Inventions. Therefore was the wrath of the Lord kindled +against his people, insomuch that he abhorred his own Inheritance. +{81b} + +Atten. But let's return again to Mr. Badman; had he any Children +by his wife? + +Wise. Yes, seven. + +Atten. I doubt they were but badly brought up. + +Wise. One of them loved its Mother dearly, and would constantly +harken to her voice. Now that Child {81c} she had the opportunity +to instruct in the Principles of Christian Religion, and it became +a very gracious child. But that child Mr. Badman could not abide, +he would seldom afford it a pleasant word, but would scowl and +frown upon it, speak churlishly and doggedly to it, and though as +to Nature it was the most feeble of the seven, yet it oftenest felt +the weight of its Fathers fingers. Three of his Children did +directly follow his steps, and began to be as vile as (in his +youth) he was himself. The other that remained became a kind of +mungrel Professors, not so bad as their Father, nor so good as +their Mother, but were betwixt them both. They had their Mothers +Notions, and their Fathers Actions, and were much like those that +you read of in the Book of Nehemiah; These children spake half in +the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews Language, but +according to the language of each people. {81d} + +Atten. What you say in this matter, is observable, and if I take +not my mark amiss, it often happeneth after this manner where such +unlawful Marriages are contracted. + +Wise. It sometimes doth so, and the reason, with respect to their +Parents, is this: Where the one of the Parents is godly, and the +other ungodly and vile, (though they can agree in begetting of +Children, yet) they strive for their Children when they are born. +{82a} The godly Parent strives for the child, and by Prayers, +Counsel and good Examples, labours to make it holy in body and +soul, and so fit for the Kingdom of Heaven; but the ungodly would +have it like himself, wicked and base and sinful; and so they both +give instructions accordingly: instructions did I say? yea, and +Examples too, according to their minds. Thus the godly, as Hannah, +is presenting her Samuel unto the Lord: but the ungodly, like them +that went before them, are for offering their Children to Moloch, +to an Idol, to sin, to the Devil, and to Hell. Thus one harkeneth +to the Law of their Mother, and is preserved from destruction, but +as for the other, as their Fathers did, so do they. Thus did Mr. +Badman and his wife part some of their Children betwixt them; but +as for the other three that were as 'twere Mungrels, betwixt both, +they were like unto those that you read of in Kings, They feared +the Lord, but served their own Idols. {82b} They had, as I sail, +their Mothers Notions, and I will adde, Profession too, but their +Fathers Lusts, and something of his Life. Now their Father did not +like them, because they had their Mothers tongue; and the Mother +did not like them because they had still their Fathers heart and +life; nor were they indeed fit company for good or bad. The Good +would not trust them because they were bad, the Bad would not trust +them because they were good, viz. The good would not trust them +because they were bad in their Lives, and the bad would not trust +them because they were good in their Words: So they were forced +with Esau to joyn in affinity with Ishmael; to wit, to look out a +people that were Hypocrites like themselves, and with them they +matcht, and lived and died. + +Atten. Poor woman, she could not but have much perplexity. + +Wise. Yea, and poor Children, that ever they were sent into the +world as the fruit of the loyns, and under the government of such a +father as Mr. Badman. + +Atten. You say right, for such children, lye, almost under all +manner of disadvantages: but we must say nothing, because this +also is the sovereign Will of God. + +Wise. We may not by any means object against God: yet we may talk +of the advantages, and disadvantages that Children have by having +for their Parents such as are either Godly, or the contrary. + +Atten. You say right, we may so, and pray now, since we are about +it, speak something in brief unto it, that is, unto this; What +advantage those Children have above others, that have for their +Parents such as indeed are Godly. + +Wise. So I will, only I must first premise these two or three +things. {83a} + +1. They have not the advantage of Election for their fathers +sakes. + +2. They are born, as others, the children of wrath, though they +come of Godly Parents. + +3. Grace comes not unto them as an Inheritance, because they have +Godly Parents. These things premised I shall now proceed. + +1. The children of Godly Parents are the children of many Prayers: +they are prayed for before, and Prayed for after they are born, and +the Prayer of a godly Father and godly Mother doth much. + +2. They have the advantage of what restraint is possible, from +what evils their Parents see them inclinable to, and that is a +second mercy. + +3. They have the advantage of Godly instruction, and of being told +which be, and which be not the right ways of the Lord. + +4. They have also those ways commended unto them, and spoken well +of in their hearing, that are good. + +5. Such are also, what may be, kept out of evil company, from evil +Books, and from being taught the way of Swearing, Lying, and the +like, as Sabbath-breaking, and mocking at good men, and good +things, and this is a very great mercy. + +6. They have also the benefit of a godly life set before them +doctrinally by their Parents, and that doctrine backt with a godly +and holy example: and all these are very great advantages. + +Now all these advantages, the children of ungodly Parents want; +{84a} and so are more in danger of being carried away with the +error of the wicked. For ungodly Parents neither Pray for their +Children, nor do, nor can they heartily instruct them; they do not +after a godly manner restrain them from evil, nor do they keep them +from evil company. They are not grieved at, nor yet do they +forewarn their children to beware of such evil actions that are +abomination to God, and to all good men. They let their children +break the Sabbath, swear, lye, be wicked and vain. They commend +not to their children an holy life, nor set a good example before +their eyes. No, they do in all things contrary: Estranging of +their children what they can, from the love of God and all good +men, so soon as they are born. Therefore it is a very great +Judgment of God upon children to be the Offspring of base and +ungodly men. {84b} + +Atten. Well, but before we leave Mr. Badmans wife and children, I +have a mind, if you please, to enquire a little more after one +thing, the which I am sure you can satisfie me in. + +Wise. What is that? + +Atten. You said a while ago, that this Mr. Badman would not suffer +his wife to go out to hear such godly Ministers as she liked, but +said if she did, she had as good never come home any more. Did he +often carry it thus to her? + +Wise. He did say so, he did often say so. This I told you then, +and had also then told you more, but that other things put me out. + +Atten. Well said, pray therefore now go on. + +Wise. So I will. Upon a time, she was on a Lords day for going to +hear a Sermon, and Mr. Badman was unwilling {84c} she should: but +she at that time, as it seems, did put on more courage than she was +wont; and therefore, after she had spent upon him, a great many +fair words and entreaties, if perhaps she might have prevailed by +them, but all to no purpose at all: At last she said she would go, +and rendred this reason for it; I have an Husband, but also a God; +my God has commanded me, and that upon pain of damnation, to be a +continual Worshipper of him, and that in the way of his own +Appointments: I have an Husband, but also a Soul, and my Soul +ought to be more unto me, than all the world besides. This soul of +mine I will look after, care for, and (if I can) provide it an +Heaven for its habitation. You are commanded to love me, as you +love your own body, and so do I love you; {85a} but I tell you +true, I preferr my Soul before all the world, and its Salvation I +will seek. + +At this, first, {85b} he gave her an ugly wish, and then fell into +a fearfull rage, and sware moreover that if she did go, he would +make both her, and all her damnable Brotherhood (for so he was +pleased to call them) to repent their coming thither. + +Atten. But what should he mean by that? + +Wise. You may easily guess what he meant: he meant, he would turn +Informer, and so either weary out those that she loved, from +meeting together to Worship God; or make them pay dearly for their +so doing; the which if he did, he knew it would vex every vein of +her tender heart. + +Atten. But do you think Mr. Badman would have been so base? + +Wise. Truly he had malice, and enmity enough in his heart to do +it, onely he was a Tradesman; also he knew that he must live by his +neighbours, and so he had that little wit in his anger, that he +refrained himself, and did it not. But, as I said, he had malice +and envy enough in his heart {85c} to have made him to do it, only +he thought it would worst him in his trade: yet these three things +he would be doing. + +1. He would be putting of others on to molest and abuse her +friends. + +2. He would be glad when he heard that any mischief befell them. + +3. And would laugh at her, when he saw her troubled for them. And +now I have told you Mr. Badmans way as to this. + +Atten. But was he not afraid of the Judgments of God, that did fly +about at that time? + +Wise. He regarded not the Judgment nor Mercy of God, for had he at +all done that, he could not have done as he did. But what +Judgments do you mean? + +Atten. Such Judgments, that if Mr Badman himself had taken but +sober notice of, they might have made him a hung down his ears. + +Wise. Why, have you heard of any such persons that the Judgments +of God have overtaken. + +Atten. Yes, and so, I believe, have you too, though you make so +strange about it. + +Wise. I have so indeed, to my astonishment and wonder. + +Atten. Pray, therefore, if you please, tell me what it is, as to +this, that you know; and then, perhaps, I may also say something to +you of the same. + +Wise. In {86a} our Town {86b} there was one W. S. a man of a very +wicked life; and he, when there seemed to be countenance given to +it, would needs turn Informer. Well, so he did, and was as +diligent in his business as most of them could be; he would watch a +nights, climb Trees, and range the Woods a days, if possible, to +find out the Meeters, for then they were forced to meet in the +Fields: yea, he would curse them bitterly, and swear most +fearfully what he would do to them when he found them. Well, after +he had gone on like a Bedlam in his course a while, and had done +some mischiefs to the people, he was stricken by the hand of God, +and that in this manner. + +1. Although he had his tongue naturally at will, now he was taken +with a faultering in his speech, and could not for weeks together +speak otherwise, than just like a man that was drunk. + +2. Then he was taken with a drauling, or slabbering at his mouth, +which slabber sometimes would hang at his mouth well nigh half way +down to the ground. + +3. Then he had such a weakness in the back sinews of his Neck, +that oft times he could not look up before him, unless he clapped +his hand hard upon his forehead, and held up his head that way, by +strength of hand. + +4. After this his speech went quite away, and he could speak no +more than a Swine or a Bear. Therefore, like one of them, he would +gruntle and make an ugly noyse, according as he was offended, or +pleased, or would have any thing done, &c. + +In this posture he continued for the space of half a year, or +thereabouts, all the while otherwise well, and could go about his +business, save once that he had a fall from the Bell as it hangs in +our Steeple, which 'twas a wonder it did not kill him: But after +that he also walked about, till God had made him a sufficient +spectacle of his Judgment for his sin, and then on a sudden he was +stricken and dyed miserably: and so there was an end of him and +his doings. + +I will tell you {87a} of another. About four miles from St. Neots, +there was a Gentleman had a man, and he would needs be an Informer, +and a lusty young man he was. Well, an Informer he was, and did +much distress some people, and had perfected his Informations so +effectually against some, that there was nothing further to do, but +for the Constables to make distress on the people, that he might +have the Money or Goods; and as I heard, he hastened them much to +do it. Now while he was in the heat of his work, as he stood one +day by the Fire-side, he had (it should seem) a mind to a Sop in +the Pan, (for the Spit was then at the fire,) so he went to make +him one; but behold, a Dog (so say his own Dog) took distaste at +something, and bit his Master by the Leg; the which bite, +notwithstanding all the means that was used to cure him, turned (as +was said) to a Gangrene; however, that wound was his death, and +that a dreadful one too: for my Relator said, that he lay in such +a condition by this bite, (as the beginning) till his flesh rotted +from off him before he went out of the world. But what need I +instance in particular persons, when the Judgement of God against +this kind of people was made manifest, I think I may say, if not in +all, yet in most of the Counties in England where such poor +Creatures were. But I would, if it had been the will of God, that +neither I nor any body else, could tell you more of these Stories: +True stories, that are neither Lye, nor Romance. + +Atten. Well, I also heard of both these my self, and of more too, +as remarkable in their kind as these, if I had any list to tell +them: but let us leave those that are behind to others, or to the +coming of Christ, who then will justifie or condemn them as the +merit of their work shall require; or if they repented, and found +mercy, I shall be glad when I know it, for I wish not a curse to +the Soul of mine Enemy. + +Wise. There can be no pleasure in the telling of such stories, +though to hear of them may do us a pleasure: They may put us in +mind that there is a God that judgeth in the earth, and that doth +not alwayes forget nor deferre to hear the Crye of the destitute; +They also carry along with them both Caution and Counsel to those +that are the survivors of such. Let us tremble at the Judgements +of God, and be afraid of sinning against him, and it shall be our +protection. It shall go well with them that fear God, that fear +before him. + +Atten. Well Sir, as you have intimated, so I think we have in this +place spoken enough about these kind of men; if you please, let us +return again to Mr. Badman himself, if you have any more to say of +him. + +Wise. More! we have yet scarce throughly begun with Any thing that +we have said. All the particulars are in themselves so full of +badness, that we have rather only looked in them, than indeed said +any thing to them: but we will pass them, and proceed. You have +heard of the sins of his Youth, of his Apprentiship, and how he set +up, and married, and what a life he hath led his wife; and now I +will tell you some more {88a} of his pranks. He had the very knack +of Knavery; had he, as I said before, been bound to serve an +Apprentiship to all these things, he could not have been more +cunning, he could not have been more artificial at it. + +Atten. Nor perhaps so artificially neither. For as none can teach +Goodness like to God himself, so concerning Sin and Knavery, none +can teach a man it like the Devil, to whom, as I perceive, Mr. +Badman went to School from his Childhood to the end of his life. +But pray Sir, make a beginning. + +Wise. Well so I will. You may remember that I told you what a +condition he was in for Money before he did marry, and how he got a +rich Wife, with whose Money he paid his debts: Now when he had +paid his debts, he having some Moneys left, he sets up again {88b} +as briskly as ever, keeps a great Shop, drives a great Trade, and +runs again a great way into debt; but now not into the debt of one +or two, but into the debt of many, so that at last he came to owe +some thousands; and thus he went on a good while. And to pursue +his ends the better, he began now to study to please all men, and +to suit himself to any company; he could now be as they, say as +they, that is, if he listed; and then he would list, when he +perceived that by so doing, he might either make them his Customers +or Creditors for his Commodities. If he dealt with honest men, (as +with some honest men he did) then he would be as they; talk as +they, seem to be sober as they, talk of Justice and Religion as +they, and against Debauchery as they; yea, and would too seem to +shew a dislike of them that said, did, or were otherwise than +honest. + +Again, when he did light among those that were bad, then he would +be as they, but yet more close and cautiously, except he were sure +of his company: Then he would carry it openly, be as they; say, +Damn'em and Sink'em, as they. If they railed on Good men, so could +he; {89a} if they railed on Religion, so could he: if they talked +beastly, vainly, idlely, so would he; if they were for drinking, +swearing, whoring, or any the like Villanies, so was he. This was +now the path he trod in, and could do all artificially, as any man +alive. And now he thought himself a perfect man, he thought he was +always a Boy till now. What think you now of Mr. Badman? + +Atten. Think! why, I think he was an Atheist: For no man but an +Atheist can do this. I say, it cannot be, but that the man that is +such as this Mr. Badman, must be a rank and stinking Atheist; for +he that believes that there is either God or Devil, Heaven or Hell, +or Death, and Judgment after, cannot doe as Mr. Badman did; I mean, +if he could do these things without reluctancy and check of +Conscience; yea, if he had not sorrow and remorse for such +abominable sins as these. + +Wise. Nay, he was so far off from reluctancies and remorse of +Conscience for these things, that he counted them the excellency of +his Attainments, the quintessence of his Wit, his rare and singular +vertues, such as but few besides himself could be the Masters of. +Therefore, as for those that made boggle and stop at things, and +that could not in Conscience, and for fear of Death and Judgement, +do such things as he; he would call them Fools and Noddies, and +charge them for being frighted with the talk of unseen Bugbears; +and would encourage them, if they would be men indeed, to labour +after the attainment of this his excellent art. He would often- +times please himself {90a} with the thoughts of what he could do in +this matter, saying within himself; I can be religious, and +irreligious, I can be any thing, or nothing; I can swear, and speak +against swearing; I can lye, and speak against lying; I can drink, +wench, be unclean, and defraud, and not be troubled for it: Now I +enjoy my self, and am Master of mine own wayes, and not they of me. +This I have attained with much study, great care, and more pains. +But this his talk should be only with himself, to his wife, who he +knew durst not divulge it; or among his Intimates, to whom he knew +he might say any thing. + +Atten. Did I call him before an Atheist? I may call him now a +Devil, or a man possessed with one, if not with many. I think that +there cannot be found in every corner such an one as this. True, +it is said of King Ahaz, that be sinned more and more; and of Ahab, +that he sold himself to work wickedness; and of the men of Sodom, +that they were sinners exceedingly before the Lord. {90b} + +Wise. An Atheist he was no doubt, if there be such a thing as an +Atheist in the world, but for all his brags of perfection and +security in his wickedness, I believe that at times God did let +down fire from Heaven into his Conscience. True, I believe he +would quickly put it out again, and grow more desperate and wicked +afterward, but this also turned to his destruction, as afterward +you may hear. {90c} + +But I am not of your mind, to think that there are but few such in +the world; except you mean as to the Degree of wickedness unto +which he had attained. For otherwise, no doubt, {90d} there is +abundance of such as he: men of the same mind, of the same +principles, and of the same conscience too, to put them into +practice. Yea, I believe that there are many that are endeavouring +to attain to the same pitch of wickedness; and all them are such as +he, in the Judgment of the Law; nor will their want of hellish wit +to attain thereto, excuse them at the day of Judgment. You know +that in all Science, some are more arch than some; and so it is in +the art, as well as in the practice of wickedness: some are two- +fold, and some seven-fold more the children of Hell than others, +(and yet all the children of Hell,) else they would all be Masters, +and none scholars in the school of wickedness. But there must be +Masters, and there must be Learners; Mr. Badman was a master in +this art, and therefore it follows that he must be an arch and +chief one in that mystery. + +Atten. You are in the right, for I perceive that some men, though +they desire it, cannot be so arch in the practice thereof as +others, but are (as I suppose they call them) fools and dunces to +the rest, their heads and capacities will not serve them to act and +do so wickedly. But Mr. Badman wanted not a wicked head to +contrive, as well as a wicked heart to do his wickedness. + +Wise. True, but yet I say, such men shall at the day of Judgment, +be judged, not only for what they are, but also for what they would +be. For if the thought of foolishness is sin, {91a} doubtless the +desire of foolishness is more sin: and if the desire be more, the +endeavour after it must needs be more and more. {91b} He then that +is not an artificial Atheist and Transgressor, yet if he desires to +be so, if he endeavoureth to be so, he shall be Judged and +condemned to Hell for such an one. For the Law Judgeth men, as I +said, according to what they would be. He that looketh upon a +woman to lust after her, hath committed adultery with her already +in his heart. {91c} By the same rule, he that would steal, doth +steal; he that would cheat, doth cheat; he that would swear, doth +swear; and he that would commit adultery, doth do so. For God +Judgeth men according to the working of their minds, and saith; As +he thinketh, so is he. That is, so is he in his heart, in his +intentions, in his desires, in his endeavours; and Gods Law, I say, +lays hold of the desires, intentions and endeavours, even as it +lays hold of the act of wickedness it self. {91d} A man then that +desires to be as bad as Mr. Badman, (and desires to be so wicked +have many in their hearts) though he never attains to that +proficiency in wickedness as he, shall yet be Judged for as bad a +man as he, because 'twas in his desires to be such a wicked one. + +Atten. But this height of wickedness in Mr. Badman, will not yet +out of my mind. This hard, desperate, or what shall I call it, +diabolicall frame of heart, was in him a foundation, a ground-work, +to all acts and deeds that were evil. + +Wise. The heart, and the desperate wickedness of it, is the +foundation and groundwork of all. Atheism, professed and +practicall, spring both out of the heart, yea and all manner of +evils besides. {92a} For they be not bad deeds that make a bad +man, but he is already a bad man that doth bad deeds. A man must +be wicked before he can do wickedness. {92b} Wickedness proceedeth +from the wicked. 'Tis an evil tree that bears evil fruit, men +gather no grapes of thorns; the heart therefore must be evil, +before the man can do evil, and good before the man doth good. + +Atten. Now I see the reason why Mr. Badman was so base, as to get +a Wife by dissimulation, and to abuse her so like a Villain when he +had got her, it was because he was before by a wicked heart +prepared to act wickedness. + +Wise. You may be sure of it; for from within, out of the heart of +man proccedeth evil thoughts, Adulteries, Fornications, Murders, +Thefts, Coveteousness, Wickedness, Deceit, Lasciviousness, an evil +Eye, Blasphemy, Pride, Foolishness. All these things come from +within, and defile a man. {92c} And a man, as his naughty mind +inclines him, makes use of these, or any of these, to gratifie his +lust, to promote his designs, to revenge his malice, to enrich, or +to wallow himself in the foolish pleasures and pastimes of this +life: And all these did Mr. Badman do, even to the utmost, if +either opportunity, or purse, or perfidiousness, would help him to +the obtaining of his purpose. + +Atten. Purse! Why he could not but have Purse to do almost what +he would, having married a wife with so much money. + +Wise. Hold you there; some of Mr. Badmans sins were costly, as his +drinking, and whoring, and keeping other bad company; though he was +a man that had ways too many to get money, as well as ways too many +to spend it. + +Atten. Had he then such a good Trade, for all he was such a bad +man? or was his Calling so gainfull to him, as alwayes to keep his +Purses belly full, though he was himself a great spender? + +Wise. No: It was not his Trade that did it, though he had a +pretty trade too. He had another way to get Money, and that by +hatfulls and pocketfulls at a time. + +Atten. Why I trow he was no Highway man, was he? + +Wise. I will be sparing in my speech as to that, though some have +muttered as if he could ride out now and then, about no body but +himself knew what, over night, and come home all dirty and weary +next morning. But that is not the thing I aim at. + +Atten. Pray let me know it, if you think it convenient that I +should. + +Wise. I will tell you: It was this, he had an art to Break, {93a} +and get hatfulls of money by breaking. + +Atten. But what do you mean by Mr. Badmans Breaking? you speak +mystically, do you not? + +Wise. No, no, I speak plainly. Or, if you will have it in plainer +language, 'tis this: When Mr. Badman had swaggered and whored away +most of his wifes portion, he began to feel that he could not much +longer stand upon his legs in this course of life, and keep up his +Trade and Repute (such as he had) in the world; but by the new +Engine of Breaking. Wherefore, upon a time, he gives a great, and +sudden {93b} rush into several mens debts, to the value of about +four or five thousand pound, driving at the same time a very great +trade, by selling many things for less than they cost him, to get +him custom, therewith to blind his Creditors eyes. His Creditors +therefore feeling that he had a great employ, and dreaming that it +must needs at length turn to a very good account to them, trusted +him freely without mistrust, and so did others too, to the value of +what was mentioned before. Well, when Mr. Badman had well +feathered his Nest with other mens goods and money, after a little +time {93c} he breaks. And by and by it is noysed abroad that Mr. +Badman had shut up Shop, was gone, and could trade no longer. Now, +by that time his breaking was come to his Creditors ears, he had by +Craft and Knavery made so sure of what he had, that his Creditors +could not touch a penny. Well, when he had done, he sends his +mournfull sugered letters to his Creditors, to let them understand +what had happened unto him, and desired them not to be severe with +him; {94a} for he bore towards all men an honest mind, and would +pay so far as he was able. Now he sends his letters by a man {94b} +confederate with him, who could make both the worst, and best of +Mr. Badmans case: The best for Mr. Badman, and the worst for his +Creditors. So when he comes to them, he both bemoans them, and +condoles Mr. Badmans condition: Telling of them, that without a +speedy bringing of things to a conclusion, Mr. Badman would be able +to make them no satisfaction, but at present he both could, and +would, and that to the utmost of his power: and to that end, he +desired that they would come over to him. Well, his Creditors +appoint him a time, and come over; and he, mean while, authorizes +another to treat with them, but will not be seen himself, unless it +was on a Sunday, lest they should snap him with a Writ. So his +deputed friend treats with them about their concern with Mr. +Badman, first telling them of the great care that Mr. Badman took +to satisfie them and all men for whatsoever he ought, as far as in +him lay, and, how little he thought a while since to be in this low +condition. He pleaded also the greatness of his Charge, the +greatness of Taxes, the Badness of the times, and the great Losses +that he had by many of his customers, some of which died in his +debt, others were run away, and for many that were alive, he never +expected a farthi[n]g from them. Yet nevertheless he would shew +himself an honest man, and would pay as far as he was able; and if +they were willing to come to terms, he would make a composition +with them, (for he was not able to pay them all.) The Creditors +asked what he would give? {94c} 'Twas replyed, Half a crown in the +pound. At this they began to huff, and he to renew his complaint +and entreaty; but the Creditors would not hear, and so for that +time their meeting without success broke up. But after his +Creditors were in cool blood, and admitting of second thoughts, and +fearing lest delays should make them lose all, they admit of a +second debate, come together again, and by many words, and great +ado, they obtained five shillings i'th' pound. {94d} So the money +was produced, Releases and Discharges drawn, signed, and sealed, +Books crossed, and all things confirmed; and then Mr. Badman can +put his head out of dores again, and be a better man than when he +shut up Shop, by several thousands of pounds. + +Atten. And did he do thus indeed? + +Wise, Yes, once, and again. I think he brake twice or thrice. + +Atten. And did he do it before he had need to do it? + +Wise. Need! What do you mean by need? there is no need at any +time for a man to play the knave. {95a} He did it of a wicked +mind, to defraud and beguile his Creditors: he had wherewithall of +his Father, and also by his Wife, to have lived upon, with lawfull +labour, like an honest man. He had also when he made this wicked +Break (though he had been a profuse and prodigal spender) to have +paid his creditors their own to a farthing. But had he done so, he +had not done like himself, like Mr. Badman; had he, I say, dealt +like an honest man, he had then gone out of Mr. Badmans road. He +did it therefore of a dishonest mind, and to a wicked end; to wit, +that he might have wherewithall, howsoever unlawfully gotten, to +follow his Cups and Queans, and to live in the full swinge of his +lusts, even as he did before. + +Atten. Why this was a meer Cheat. + +Wise. It was a cheat indeed. This way of breaking, it is else but +a more neat way of Thieving, of picking of pockets, of breaking +open of shops, and of taking from men what one has nothing to do +with. But though it seem easie, it is hard to learn, no man that +has conscience to God or man, can ever be his Crafts Master in this +Hellish art. + +Atten. Oh! Sirs! what a wicked man was this? + +Wise. A wicked man indeed. By this art he could tell how to make +men send their goods to his shop, and then be glad to take a penny +for that for which he had promised before it came thither, to give +them a Groat: I say, he could make them glad to take a Crown for a +pounds worth, and a thousand for that for which he had promised +before to give them four thousand pounds. + +Atten. This argueth that Mr. Badman had but little conscience. + +Wise. This argued that Mr. Badman had No Conscience at all; for +Conscience, the least spark of a good Conscience cannot endure +this. + +Atten. Before we go any further in Mr. Badmans matters, let me +desire you, if you please, to give me an answer to these two +questions. {96a} + +1. What do you find in the Word of God against such a practice, as +this of Mr. Badmans is? {96b} + +2. What would you have a man do that is in his Creditors debt, and +can neither pay him what be owes him, nor go on in a trade any +longer? + +Wise. I will answer you as well as I can. And first to the first +of your questions. To wit, What I find in the Word of God against +such a practice, as this of Mr. Badmans is. + +Answ. The Word of God doth forbid this wickedness; and to make it +the more odious in our eyes, it joyns it with Theft and Robbery: +Thou shalt not, says God, defraud thy neighbour, nor rob him. {96c} +Thou shalt not defraud, that is, deceive or beguile. Now thus to +break, is to defraud, deceive and beguile; which is, as you see, +forbidden by the God of Heaven: Thou shalt not defraud thy +neighbour, nor rob him. It is a kind of theft and robbery, thus to +defraud, and beguile. {96d} It is a wilely robbing of his shop, +and picking of his pocket: a thing odious to Reason and +Conscience, and contrary to the Law of nature. It is a designed +piece of wickedness, and therefore a double sin. A man cannot do +this great wickedness on a sudden, and through a violent assault of +Satan. He that will commit this sin, must have time to deliberate, +that by invention, he may make it formidable, and that with lies +and high dissimulations. He that commits this wickedness, must +first hatch it upon his bed, beat his head about it, and lay his +plot strong: So that to the completing of such a wickedness, there +must be adjoyned many sins, and they too, must go hand in hand +untill it be compleated. But what saith the Scripture? {96e}{96f} +Let no man go beyond, and defraud his Brother in any matter, +because the Lord is the avenger of all such. But this kind of +Breaking is a going beyond my Brother; This is a compassing of him +about that I may catch him in my net; and as I said, an art to rob +my Brother, and to pick his pocket, and that with his consent. +Which doth not therefore mitigate, but so much the more greaten and +make odious the offence. For men that are thus wilily abused +cannot help themselves, they are taken in a deceitfull net. But +God will here concern himself, he will be the avenger, he will be +the avenger of all such either here or in another world. + +And this, the Apostle testifies again, where he saith; {97a} But he +that doth wrong, shall receive for the wrong that he hath done, and +there is no respect of persons. {97b} That is, there is no man, be +he what he will, if he will be guilty of this sin, of going beyond, +of beguiling of, and doing wrong to his Brother, but God will call +him to an account for it, and will pay him with vengeance for it +too; for there is no respect of persons. + +I might add, that this sin of wronging, of going beyond, and +defrauding of my Neighbour, it is like that first prank that the +Devil plaid with our first Parents, {97c} (as the Altar that Uriah +built for Ahaz, was taken from the fashion of that that stood at +Damascus, to be the very pattern of it.) The Serpent beguiled me, +says Eve; Mr. Badman beguiles his Creditors. The Serpent beguiled +Eve with lying promises of gain; and so did Mr. Badman beguile his +Creditors. The Serpent said one thing and meant another, when he +beguiled Eve; and so did Mr. Badman when he beguiled his Creditors. + +That man therefore that doth thus deceive and beguile his +neighbour, imitateth the Devil; he taketh his examples from him, +and not from God, the Word, or good men: and this did Mr. Badman. + +And now to your second question: To wit, What I would have a man +do, that is in his Creditors debt, and that can neither pay him, +nor go on in a trade any longer? {97d} + +Answ. First of all. If this be his case, and he knows it, let him +not run one penny further in his Creditors debt. For that cannot +be done with good conscience. He that knowes he cannot pay, and +yet will run into debt; does knowingly wrong and defraud his +neighbour, and falls under that sentence of the Word of God, The +wicked borroweth and payeth not again. Yea worse, he borrows +though at the very same time he knows that he cannot pay again. He +doth also craftily take away what is his Neighbours. That is +therefore the first thing that I would propound to such: Let him +not run any further into his Creditors debt. {98a} + +Secondly, After this, let him consider, {98b} how, and by what +means he was brought into such a condition, that he could not pay +his just debts. To wit, whether it was by his own remisness in his +Calling, by living too high in Dyet or Apparel, by lending too +ravishingly that which was none of his own, to his loss; or whether +by the immediate hand and Judgment of God. + +If by searching, he findes, that this is come upon him through +remisness in his Calling, Extravagancies in his Family, or the +like; let him labour for a sence of his sin and wickedness, {98c} +for he has sinned against the Lord: First, in his being slothfull +in business, and in not providing, to wit, of is own, by the sweat +of his brows, or other honest ways, for those of his own house. +{98d} And secondly in being lavishing in Dyet and Apparel in the +Family, or in lending to others that which was none of his own. +This cannot be done with good conscience: it is both against +reason and nature, and therefore must be a sin against God. I say +therefore, if thus this debtor hath done, if ever he would live +quietly in conscience, and comfortably in his condition for the +future, let him humble himself before God, and repent of this his +wickedness. For he that is slothfull in his work, is brother to +him that is a great waster. {98e} To be slothfull and a waster +too, is to be as it were a double sinner. + +But again, as this man should enquire into these things, so he +should also into this. How came I into this way of dealing in +which I have now miscarried? is it a way that my Parents brought me +up in, put me Apprentice to, or that by providence I was first +thrust into? or is it a way into which I have twisted my self, as +not being contented with my first lot, that by God and my Parents I +was cast into? This ought duly to be considered. {98f} And if +upon search, a man shall find that he is out of the place and +Calling into which he was put by his Parents, or the Providence of +God, and has miscarried in a new way, that through pride and +dislike of his first state he as chose rather to embrace; his +miscarriage is his sin, the fruit of his Pride, and a token of the +Judgment of God upon him for his leaving of his first state. And +for this he ought, as for the former, to be humble and penitent +before the Lord. + +But if by search, he finds, that his poverty came by none of these; +if by honest search, he finds it so, and can say with good +conscience, I went not out of my place and state in which God by +his providence had put me; but have abode with God in the calling +wherein I was called, and have wrought hard, and fared meanly, been +civilly apparelled, and have not directly, nor indirectly made away +with my Creditors goods: Then has his fall come upon him by the +immediate hand of God, whether by visible or invisible wayes. For +sometimes it comes by visible wayes, to wit, by Fire, by Thieves, +by loss of Cattel, or the wickedness of sinful dealers, &c. And +sometimes by means invisible, and then no man knows how; we only +see things are going, but cannot see by what way they go. Well, +Now suppose that a man, by an immediate hand of God is brought to a +morsel of Bread, what must he do now? + +I answer: His surest way is still to think, that this is the fruit +of some sin, though possibly not sin in the management of his +calling, yet of some other sin. God casteth away the substance of +the wicked. Therefore let him still humble himself before his God, +because his hand is upon him, and say, What sin is this, for which +this hand of God is upon me? and let him be diligent to find it +out, for some sin is the cause of this Judgment; for God doth not +willingly afflict nor grieve the children of men. Either the heart +is too much set upon the world, or Religion is too much neglected +in thy Family, or some thing. There is a Snake in the grass, a +Worm in the gourd; some sin in thy bosom, for the sake of which God +doth thus deal with thee. + +Thirdly, This thus done, let that man again consider thus with +himself: Perhaps God is now changing of my Condition and state in +the world; he has let me live in fashion, in fulness, and abundance +of worldly glory, and I did not to his glory improve, as I should, +that his good dispensation to me. {100a} But when I lived in full +and fat pasture, I did there lift up the heel: Therefore he will +now turn me into hard Commons, that with leanness, and hunger, and +meanness, and want, I may spend the rest of my days. But let him +do this without murmering, and repining; let him do it in a godly +manner, submitting himself to the Judgment of God. Let the rich +rejoyce in that he is made low. {100b} + +This is duty, and it may be priviledg to those that are under this +hand of God. And for thy encouragement to this hard work, (for +this is a hard work) consider of these four things. {100c} + +1. This is right lying down under Gods hand, and the way to be +exalted in Gods time: when God would have Job embrace the +Dunghill, he embraces it, and says, The Lord giveth, and the Lord +hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. {100d} + +2. Consider, That there are blessings also that attend a low +condition, more than all the world are aware of. A poor condition +has preventing mercy attending of it. The poor, because they are +poor, are not capable of sinning against God as the rich man does. + +3. The Poor can more clearly see himself preserved by the +providence of God than the rich, for he trusteth in the abundance +of his riches. {100e} + +4. It may be God has made thee poor, because he would make thee +rich. Hearken my beloved brethren, hath not God chosen the poor of +this world, rich in Faith, and heirs of a Kingdom which God hath +promised to them that love him? {100f} + +I am perswaded, if men upon whom this hand of God is, would thus +quietly lye down, and humble themselves under it, they would find +more peace, yea, more blessing of God attending them in it, than +the most of men are aware of. But this is an hard Chapter, and +therefore I do not expect that many should either read it with +pleasure, or desire to take my counsel. + +Having thus spoken to the Broken man, with reference to his own +self; I will now speak to him as he stands related to his +Creditors. + +In the next place therefore, let him fall upon the most {101a} +honest way of dealing with his Creditors, and that I think must be +this. + +First, Let him timely make them acquainted with his condition, and +also do to them these three things. + +1. Let him heartily, and unfeignedly ask them forgiveness for the +wrong that he has done them. + +2. Let him proffer them all, and the whole all that ever he has in +the world; let him hide nothing, let him strip himself to his +raiment for them; let him not keep a Ring, a Spoon, or any thing +from them. + +3. If none of these two will satisfie them, let him proffer them +his Body, to be at their dispose, to wit, either to abide +imprisonment their pleasure, or to be at their service, till by +labour and travel he hath made them such amends as they in reason +think fit, (only reserving something for the succour of his poor +and distressed Family out of his labour, which in Reason, and +Conscience, and Nature, he is bound also to take care of:) Thus +shall he make them what amends he is able, for the Wrong that he +hath done them in wasting and spending of their Estates. + +By thus doing, he submits himself to Gods rod, commits himself to +the dispose of his Providence; yea, by thus doing, he casteth the +lot of his present and future condition into the lap of his +Creditors, and leaves the whole dispose thereof to the Lord, {101b} +even as he shall order and incline their hearts to do with him. +And let that be either to forgive him; or to take that which he +hath for satisfaction; or to lay his body under affliction, this +way or that, according to Law; can he, I say, thus leave the whole +dispose to God, let the issue be what it will, that man shall have +peace in his mind afterward. And the comforts of that state, +(which will be comforts that attend Equity, Justice, and Duty,) +will be more unto him, because more according to Godliness, than +can be the comforts that are the fruits of Injustice, Fraudulency, +and Deceit. Besides, this is the way to engage God to favour him +by the sentence of his Creditors; (for He can entreat them to use +him kindly,) and he will do it when his ways are pleasing in his +sight: When a mans ways please the Lord, his enemies shall be at +peace with him; {102a} And surely, for a man to seek to make +restitution for wrongs done, to the utmost of his power, by what he +is, has, and enjoys in this world, is the best way, in that +capacity, and with reference to that thing, that a man can at this +time be found active in. + +But he that doth otherwise, abides in his sin, refuses to be +disposed of by the Providence of God, chuseth an high Estate, +though not attained in Gods way; when Gods Will is, that he should +descend into a low one: yea, he desperately saith in his heart and +actions, I will be mine own chooser, and that in mine own way, +whatever happens or follows thereupon. + +Atten. You have said well, in my mind. But suppose now, that Mr. +Badman was here, could he not object as to what you have said, +saying, Go and teach your Brethren, that are Professors, this +lesson, for they, as I am, are guilty of Breaking; yea I am apt to +think, of that which you call my Knavish way of breaking; to wit, +of breaking before they have need to break. But if not so, yet +they are guilty of neglect in their Calling, {102b} of living +higher, both in Fare and Apparrel, than their Trade or Income will +maintain. Besides, that they do break, all the world very well +knowes, and that they have the art to plead for a composition, is +very well known to men; and that it is usual with them, to hide +their Linnen, their Plate, their Jewels, and ('tis to be thought, +sometimes Money and Goods besides,) is as common as four eggs a +penny. And thus they beguile men, debauch their consciences, sin +against their Profession, and make, 'tis to be feared, their lusts +in all this, and the fulfilling of them, their end. I say, if Mr. +Badman was here to object thus unto you, what would be your reply? + +Wise. What! Why I would say, I hope no Good man, no man of good +conscience, no man that either feareth God, regardeth the credit of +Religion, the peace of Gods people, or the salvation of his own +soul, will do thus. + +Professors, such perhaps there may be, and who, upon earth can help +it? Jades there be of all colours. {103a} If men will profess, +and make their profession a stalking-Horse to beguile their +neighbours of their estates, as Mr. Badman himself did, when he +beguiled her that now is with sorrow his wife, who can help it? +The Churches of old were pestered with such, and therefore no +marvel if these perilous difficult times be so. But mark how the +Apostle words it: Nay do wrong and defraud, and that your +Brethren: Know you not, that the unrighteous shall not inherit the +Kingdom of God? Be not deceived, neither Fornicator, nor +Idolaters, nor Adulterers, nor Effeminate, nor abusers of +themselves with Mankind, nor Thieves, nor Covetous, nor Drunkards, +nor Revilers, nor Extortioners, shall inherit the Kingdom of God. +{103b} + +None of these shall be saved in this state, nor shall profession +deliver them from the censure of the Godly, when they shall be +manifest such to be. But their profession we cannot help: How can +we help it, if men should ascribe to themselves the title of Holy +ones, Godly ones, Zealous ones, Self-denying ones, or any other +such glorious title? and while they thus call themselves, they +should be the veryest Rogues for all evil, sin, and villany +imaginable, who could help it? True, they are a scandal to +Religion, a grief to the honest hearted, an offence to the world, +and a stumbling stone to the weak, and these offences have come, do +come, and will come, do what all the world can; but wo be to them +through whom they come; {103c} let such professors therefore +disowned by all true Christians, and let them be reckoned among +those base men of the world which by such actions they most +resemble: They are Mr. Badmans Kindred. + +For {103d} they are a shame to Religion, I say these slithy, rob- +Shop, pick-pocket men, they are a shame to Religion, and religious +men should be ashamed of them. God puts such an one among the +Fools of the world, therefore let not Christians put them among +those that are wise for heaven. As the Partridge sitteth on eggs, +and hatcheth them not, so he that getteth riches and not by right, +shall leave them in the midst of his dayes, and at his end shall be +a fool. {103e} And the man under consideration is one of these, +and therefore must look to fall by this Judgment. + +A professor! and practice such villianies as these! such an one is +not worthy to bear that name any longer. We may say to such as the +Prophet spake to their like, to wit, to the rebellious that were in +the house of Israel. Goe ye, serve every man his Idols:- If ye +will not hearken to the Law and Testament of God, to lead your +lives thereafter: but pollute Gods holy name no more with your +Gifts, and with your Idols. {104a} + +Goe professors, Goe; leave off profession, unless you will lead +your lives according to your profession. Better never profess, +than to make profession a stalking-horse to sin, Deceit, to the +Devil, and Hell. + +The ground and rules of Religion allow not any such thing: Receive +us, says the Apostle, we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no +man, we have defrauded no man. {104b} Intimating, that those that +are guilty of wronging, corrupting or defrauding of any, should not +be admitted to the fellowship of Saints, no nor into the common +catalogue of Brethren with them. + +Nor can men with all their Rhetorick, and Eloquent speaking prove +themselves fit for the Kingdom of Heaven, or men of good conscience +on earth. {104c} O that godly plea of Samuel: Behold here I am, +says he, witness against me, before the Lord, and before his +Anointed, whose Oxe have I taken, or whose Ass have I taken, or +whom have I defrauded, whom have I oppressed, {104d} &c? This was +to do like a man of good conscience indeed. And in this his +Appeal, he was so justified in the consciencies of the whole +Congregation, that they could not but with one voice, as with one +mouth, break out joyntly and say, Thou hast not defrauded us, nor +oppressed us. {104e} + +A Professor, and defraud, away with him! a Professor should not owe +any man any thing, but love. A professor should provide things, +not of other mens, but of his own, of his own honest getting, and +that not onely in the sight of God, but of all men; that he may +adorn the Doctrine if God our Saviour in all things. + +Atten. But {105a} suppose God should blow upon a Professor in his +Estate, and Calling, and he should be run out before he is aware, +must he be accounted to be like Mr. Badman, and lie under the same +reproach as he? + +Wise. No: {105b} If he hath dutifully done what he could to avoid +it. It is possible for a Ship to sink at sea, notwithstanding the +most faithfull endeavour of the most skilful Pilot under Heaven. +And thus, as I suppose, it was with the Prophet that left his wife +in debt to the hazarding the slavery of her children by the +Creditors. {105c} He was no profuse man, nor one that was given to +defraud, for the Text says he feared God; yet, as I said, he was +run out more than she could pay. + +If God would blow upon a man, who can help it? and he will do so +sometimes, {105d} because he will change dispensations with men, +and because he will trye their Graces. {105e} Yea, also because he +will overthrow the wicked with his Judgments; and all these things +are seen in Job. But then the consideration of this, should bid +men have a care that they be honest, lest this comes upon them for +their sin: It should also bid them beware of launching further +into the world, than in an honest way by ordinary means they can +Godlily make their retreat; for the further in, the greater fall. +It should also teach them, to begg of God his blessing upon their +endeavours, their honest and lawfull endeavours. And it should put +them upon a diligent looking to their steps, that if in their going +they should hear the Ice crack, they may timely goe back again. + +These things considered, and duely put in practice, if God will +blow upon a man, then let him be content, and with Job embrace the +dunghill; let him give unto all their dues, and not fight against +the Providence of God, (but humble himself rather under his mighty +hand,) which comes to strip him naked and bare: for he that doth +otherwise, fights against God; and declares that he is a stranger +to that of Paul; I know both how to be abased, and I know how to +abound; every where, in all things, I am instructed both to be +full, and to be hungry, both to abound, and to suffer need. {105f} + +Atten. But Mr. Badman would not, I believe, have put this +difference 'twixt things feigned, and those that fall of necessity. + +Wise. If he will not, God will, Conscience will; and that not +thine own only, but the Consciences of all those that have seen the +way, and that have known the truth of the condition of such an one. + +Atten. Well: Let us at this time leave this matter, and return +again to Mr. Badman. + +Wise. With all my heart will I proceed to give you a relation of +what is yet behind of his Life, in order to our discourse of his +Death. + +Atten. But pray do it with as much brevity as you can. + +Wise. Why? are you a weary of my relating of things? + +Atten. No. But it pleases me to hear a great deal in few words. + +Wise. I profess not my self an artist that way, but yet as briefly +as I can, I will pass through what of his Life is behind; and again +I shall begin with his fraudulent dealing (as before I have shewed +with his Creditors, so now) with his Customers, and those that he +had otherwise to deal withall. + +He dealt by deceitfull Weights and Measures. {106a} He kept +weights to buy by, and weights to sell by; measures to buy by, and +measures to sell by: those he bought by were too big, those he +sold by were too little. + +Besides, he could use a thing called slight of hand, if he had to +do with other mens weights and measures, and by that means make +them whether he did buy or sell, yea though his Customer or Chapman +looked on, turn to his own advantage. + +Moreover, he had the art to misreckon men in their Accounts whether +by weight, or measure, or money, and would often do it to his +worldly advantage, and their loss: What say you to Mr. Badman now? + +And if a question was made of his faithfull dealing, he had his +servants ready, that to his purpose he had brought up, that would +avouch and swear to his Book, or word: this was Mr. Badmans +practice; What think you of Mr. Badman now? + +Atten. Think! Why I can think no other but that he was a man left +to himself, a naughty man; for these, as his other, were naughty +things; if the tree, as indeed it may, ought to be judged, what it +is by its fruits; then Mr. Badman must needs be a bad Tree. But +pray, for my further satisfaction, shew me now by the Word of God, +evil of this his practice: and first of his using false Weights +and Measures. + +Wise. The evil of that! why the evil of that appears to every eye: +the Heathens, that live like Beasts and Bruits in many things, do +abominate and abhorr such wickedness as this. Let a man but look +upon these things as he goes by, and he shall see enough in them +from the light of nature to make him loath so base a practice; +although Mr. Badman loved it. + +Atten. But shew me something out of the Word against it, will you? + +Wise. I will willingly do it. And first we will look into the Old +Testament: {107a} You shall, saith God there, do no +unrighteousness in Judgment, in mete-yard, in weights or in +measures, a just Ballance, a just Weight, a just Ephah, and a just +Hin shall you have. {107b} This is the Law of God, and that which +all men according to the Law of the land ought to obey. So again: +Ye shall have just Ballances, and a just Ephah, &c. {107c} + +Now having shewed you the Law, I will also shew you how God takes +swerving therefrom. A false Ballance is not good; a false Ballance +is an abomination to the Lord. {107d} Some have just Weights but +false Ballances, and by vertue of those false Ballances, by their +just Weights, they deceive the Countrey: {107e} Wherefore, God +first of all commands that the Ballance be made Just: A just +Ballance shalt thou have. Else they may be, yea are, decievers, +notwithstanding their just weights. + +Now, having commanded that men have a just Ballance, and testifying +that a false one is an abomination to the Lord, he proceedeth also +unto weight and measure. + +Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small; +{107f} that is one to buy by, and another to sell by, as Mr. Badman +had. Thou shalt not have in thy house divers measures, a great and +a small, (and these had Mr. Badman also) but thou shalt have a +perfect and a just weight; a perfect and a just measure shalt thou +have, that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the Lord +thy God giveth thee. For all that do such things, (that is, that +use false Weights and Measures) and all that do unrighteously are +abomination to the Lord. See now both how plentiful, and how +punctual the Scripture is in this matter. But perhaps it may be +objected, that all this is old Law, and therefore hath nothing to +do with us under the New Testament. (Not that I think you, +neighbour, will object thus:) Well, to this foolish objection, let +us make an Answer. First, he that makes this objection, if he doth +it to overthrow the authority of those Texts, {108a} discovereth +that himself is first cousen to Mr. Badman: For a Just man is +willing to speak reverently of those commands. That man therefore +hath, I doubt, but little conscience, if any at all that is good, +that thus objecteth against the Text: but let us look into the New +Testament, and there we shall see how Christ confirmeth the same: +Where he commandeth that men make to others good measure, including +also that they make good weight; telling such that doe thus, or +those that do it not, that they may be encouraged to do it; Good +measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, shall men +give into your bosom; for with the same measure that ye mete +withall, it shall be measured to you again: {108b} To wit, both +from God and man. For as God will shew his indignation against the +false man, by taking away even that he hath, so he will deliver up +the false man to the Oppressor, and the Extortioner shall catch +from him, as well as he hath catched from his neighbour; therefore +another Scripture saith, When thou shalt cease to deal +treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee. That the +New Testament also, hath an inspection into mens Trading, yea even +with their weights and measures, is evident from these general +exhortations. {108c} Defraud not; lye not one to another; let no +man goe beyond his brother in any matter, for God is the avenger of +all such: whatsoever you do, do it heartily, as unto the Lord, +doing all in his name, to his glory; and the like. All these +injunctions and commandments do respect our life and conversation +among men, with reference to our dealing, trading, and so +consequently they forbid false, deceitful, yea all doings that are +corrupt. + +Having thus in a word or two shewed you, that these things are bad; +I will next, for the conviction of those that use them, shew you, +where God saith they are to be found. {109a} + +1. They are not to be found in the house of the good and godly +man, for he, as his God, abhorrs them; but they are to be found in +the house of evil doers, {109b} such as Mr. Badmans is. Are there, +saith the Prophet, yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of +the wicked, and the scant measure that is abomination? {109c} Are +they there yet, notwithstanding Gods forbidding, notwithstanding +Gods tokens of anger against those that do such things? O how loth +is a wicked man to let goe a sweet, a gainful sin, when he hath +hold of it! They hold fast deceit, they refuse to let it goe. + +2. These deceitful Weights and Measures are not to be found in the +house of the Mercifull, but in the house of the Cruel; in the house +of them that love to oppress. {109d} The Ballances of deceit are +in his hand, he loveth to oppress. {109e} He is given to +oppression and cruelty, therefore he useth such wicked things in +his calling. Yea he is a very cheat, and as was hinted before, +concerning Mr. Badmans breaking, so I say now, concerning his using +these deceitful weights and measures, it is as bad, as base, as to +take a purse, or pick a pocket; for it is a plain robbery, it takes +away from a man that which is his own, even the price of his money. + +3. The deceitful Weights and Measures are not to be found in the +house of such as relieve the belly, and that cover the loyns of the +poor, but of such as indeed would swallow them up. {109f} Hear ye +this, ye that swallow up the needy, and that make the poor of the +land to fail, saying, When will the new Moon be gone that we may +sell corn, and the Sabbath that we may set forth Wheat, making the +Ephah small and the Sheckle great, (making the Measure small, and +the Price great) and falsifying the Ballances by deceit, that ye +may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shooes, +and sell the refuse of the Wheat. The Lord hath sworn by the +excellencie of Jacob, surely I will not forget any of their works. +{109g} So detestable and vile a thing is this in the sight of God. + +4. God abominates the thoughts of calling of those that use false +weights and measures, by any other term than, that they be Impure +ones {110a} or the like: Shall I count them pure (saith he) with +the bag of deceitful weights? {110b} no by no means, they are +impure ones, their hands are defiled, deceitful gain is in their +houses, they have gotten what they have by coveting an evil +Covetousness, and therefore must and shall be counted among the +impure, among the wicked of the world. + +Thus you see how full and plain the Word of God is, against this +sin, and them that use it. And therefore Mr. Badman, for that he +used by these things thus to rook and cheat his neighbours, is +rightly rejected from having his Name in, and among the catalogue +of the godly. + +Atten. But I am perswaded, that the using of these things, and the +doing by them thus deceitfully, is not counted so great an evil by +some. + +Wise. Whether it be counted an evil or a vertue, by men, it +mattereth not; you see by the Scriptures, the Judgment of God upon +it. It was not counted an evil by Mr. Badman, nor is it by any +that still are treading in his steps. But, I say, 'tis no matter +how men esteem of things, let us adhere to the Judgment of God. +And the rather, because when we our selves have done weighing and +measuring to others, then God will weigh and measure both us and +our actions. And when he doth so, as he will do shortly, then wo +be to him to whom, and of whose actions it shall be thus said by +him: Tekel, Thou art weighed in the Ballances, and art found +wanting. {110c} God will then recompense their evil of deceiving +upon their own head, when he shall shut them out of his presence, +favour, and kingdom, for ever and ever. + +Atten. But 'tis a wonder, that since Mr. Badmans common practice +was to do thus, that some one or more did not find him out, and +blame him for this his wickedness. + +Wise. For the generality of people, he went away clever with his +Knavery. For what with his Ballance, his false Ballance, and good +weight, and what with his slight of hand to boot, he beguiled, +sometimes a little, and sometimes more, most that he had to deal +with: Besides, those that use this naughty trade, are either such +as blind men with a shew of Religion, or by hectoring the buyer out +by words. I must confess Mr. Badman was not so arch at the first; +{111a} that is, to do it by shew of Religion; for now he began to +grow threadbare, (though some of his brethren are arch enough this +way, yea and of his sisters too, for I told you at first that there +was a great many of them, and of them good:) but for hectoring, for +swearing, for lying, if these things would make weight and measure, +they should not be wanting to Mr. Badmans Customers. + +Atten. Then it seem he kept good Weights, and a bad Ballance; well +that was better than that both should be bad. + +Wise. Not at all. There lay the depth of his deceit: {111b} For +if any at any time found fault, that he used them hardly, and that +they wanted their weight of things; he would reply: Why did you +not see them weighed? will you not believe your own eyes: If you +question my weights, pray carry them whether you will, I will +maintain them to be good and just. The same he would say of his +scales. So he blinded all, by his Ballance. + +Atten. This is cunning indeed: but as you say, there must be also +something done or said, to blind therewith, and this I perceive Mr. +Badman had. + +Wise. Yes. He had many ways to blind, but he was never clever at +it, by making a shew of Religion, (though he cheated his wife +therewith:) for he was, especially by those that dwelt near him, +too well known to do that, though he would bungle at it as well as +he could. But there are some that are arch villains this way; they +shall to view live a whole life Religiously, and yet shall be +guilty of these most horrible sins: And yet Religion in it self is +never the worse, nor yet the true professors of it. But as Luther +says, In the name of God begins all mischief. For Hypocrites have +no other way to bring their evils to maturity, but by using and +mixing the Name of God and Religion therewith. {112b} Thus they +become whited Walls; {112a} for by this white, the white of +Religion, the dirt of their actions is hid. Thus also they become +graves that appear not, and they that goe over them, (that have to +do with them) are not aware of them, but suffer themselves to be +deluded by them. Yea, if there shall, as there will sometimes, +rise a doubt in the heart of the buyer about the weight and measure +he should have, why, he suffereth his very sences to be also +deluded, by recalling of his Chapmans Religion to mind, and thinks +verily that not his good chapman but himself is out; for he dreams +not that his chapman can deceive. But if the buyer shall find it +out, and shall make it apparent, that he is beguiled; then shall he +be healed by having amends made, and perhaps fault shall be laid +upon servants, &c. and so Master Cheat shall stand for a right +honest man in the eye of his Customer, though the next time he +shall pick his pocket again. + +Some {112c} plead Custom for their Cheat, as if that could acquit +them before the Tribunal of God: And others say, it came to them +for so much, and therefore another must take it for so much, though +there is wanting both as to weight and measure: but in all these +things there are Juggles; or if not, such must know, {112d} That +that which is altogether just, they must doe. Suppose that I be +cheated my self with a brass half-Crown, must I therefore cheat +another therewith? if this be bad in the whole, it is also bad in +the parts. Therefore however thou are dealt withall in thy buying, +yet thou must deal justly in selling, or thou sinnest against thy +soul, and art become as Mr. Badman. And know, that a pretence to +custom is nothing worth. 'Tis not custom, but good conscience that +will help at Gods Tribunal. + +Atten. But I am perswaded, that that which is gotten by men this +way, doth them but little good. + +Wise. I am of your mind for that, but this is not considered by +those thus minded. For if they can get it, though they get, as we +say, the Devil and all, by their getting, yet they are content, and +count that their getting is much. + +Little good! Why do you think they consider that? No: no more +than they consider what they shall doe in the Judgment, at the day +of God Almighty, for their wrong getting of what they get, and that +is just nothing at all. {113a} + +But to give you a more direct answer. This kind of getting, is so +far off from doing them little good, that it doth them no good at +all; because thereby they lose their own souls; What shall it +profit a man if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own +soul? {113b} He loseth then, he loseth greatly that getteth after +this fashion. This is the man that is penny-wise, and pound- +foolish; this is he that loseth his good Sheep for a halfpennyworth +of tarr; that loseth a soul for a little of the world. And then +what doth he get thereby, but loss and dammage? {113c} Thus he +getteth, or rather loseth about the world to come: But what doth +he get in this world, more than travel and sorrow vexation of +spirit, and disappointment? Men aim at blessedness in getting, I +mean, at temporal blessedness; but the man that thus getteth, shall +not have that. For though an Inheritance after this manner may be +hastily gotten at the beginning, yet the end thereof shall not be +blessed. They gather it indeed, and think to keep it too, but what +says Solomon? God casteth it away. The Lord will not suffer the +soul of the righteous to famish, but he casteth away the substance +of the wicked. + +The time, as I said, that they do enjoy it, it shall doe them no +good at all; but long to be sure they must not have it. For God +will either take it away in their life time, or else in the +generation following, according to that of Job: He, the wicked, +may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent +shall divide the silver. {113d} + +Consider that also that is written in the Proverbs: A good man +leaveth an Inheritance to his childrens children, and the wealth of +the sinner is laid up for the just. {113e} What then doth he get +thereby, that getteth by dishonest means? why he getteth Sin and +Wrath, Hell and Damnation: and now tell me how much he doth get. + +This, I say, is his getting; so that as David says, we may be bold +to say too: I beheld the wicked in great prosperity, and presently +I cursed his habitation: for it cannot prosper with him. Fluster +and huff, and make a doe for a while he may, but God hath +determined that both he and it shall melt like grease, and any +observing man may see it so. Behold, the unrighteous man in a way +of Injustice getteth much, and loadeth himself with thick Clay, but +anon it withereth, it decayeth, and even he, or the Generation +following decline, and return to beggery. + +And this Mr. Badman, notwithstanding his cunning and crafty tricks +to get money, did dye, no body can tell whether worth a farthing or +no. + +Atten. He had all the bad tricks, I think, that it was possible +for a man to have, to get money; one would think that he should a +been rich. + +Wise. You reckon too fast, if you count these all his bad tricks +to get money: For he had more besides. {114a} + +If his customers were in his Books (as it should goe hard but he +would have them there; at least, if he thought he could make any +advantage of them,) then, then would he be sure to impose upon them +his worst, even very bad Comodity, yet set down for it the price +that the best was sold at: like those that sold the Refuse Wheat, +or the worst of the wheat; making the Sheckle great, {114b} yet +hoisting up the price: This was Mr. Badmans way. He {114c} would +sell goods that cost him not the best price by far, for as much as +he sold the best of all for. He had also a trick to mingle his +comodity, that that which was bad might goe off with the less +mistrust. + +Besides, if his customers at any time paid him money, let them look +to themselves, and to their Acquitances, for he would usually +attempt to call for that payment again, specially if he thought +that there was hopes of making a prize thereby, and then to be sure +if they could not produce good and sufficient ground of the +payment, a hundred to one but they payed it again. Sometimes the +honest Chapman would appeal to his servants for proof of the +payment of money, but they were trained up by him to say after his +mind, right or wrong: so that, relief that way, he could get none. + +Atten. It is a bad, yea an abominable thing for a man to have such +servants. For by such means a poor customer may be undone and not +know how to help himself. Alas! if the master be so +unconscionable, as I perceive Mr. Badman was, to call for his money +twice, and if his servant will swear that it is a due debt, where +is any help for such a man? he must sink, there is no remedy. + +Wise. This is very bad, but this has been a practice, and that +hundreds of years agoe. But what saith the Word of God? I will +punish all those that leap upon the threshold, which fill their +masters houses with violence and deceit. {115a} {115b} + +Mr. Badman also had this art; could he get a man at advantage, that +is, if his chapman durst not go from him, or if the comodity he +wanted could not for the present be conveniently had elsewhere; +Then let him look to himself, he would surely make his purse- +strings crack; he would exact upon him without any pity or +conscience. + +Atten. That was Extortion, was it not? I pray let me hear your +Judgment of Extortion, what it is, and when committed? + +Wise. Extortion {115c} is a screwing from men more than by the Law +of God or men is right; and it is committed sometimes by them in +Office, about Fees, Rewards, and the like: but 'tis most commonly +committed by men of Trade, who without all conscience, when they +have the advantage, will make a prey of their neighbour. And thus +was Mr. Badman an Extortioner; for although he did not exact, and +force away, as Bailifs and Clarks have used to doe; yet he had his +opportunities, and such cruelty to make use of them, that he would +often, in his way, be Extorting, and forcing of money out of his +Neighbours pocket. For every man that makes a prey of his +advantage upon his neighbours necessities, to force from him more +than in reason and conscience, according to the present prizes of +things such comodity is worth; may very well be called an +Extortioner, and Judged for one that hath No inheritance in the +Kingdom of God. {115d} + +Atten. Well, this Badman was a sad wretch. + +Wise. Thus you have often said before. But now we are in +discourse of this, give me leave a little to goe on. We have a +great many people in the Countrey too that live all their dayes in +the practice, and so under the guilt of Extortion: people, alas! +that think scorn to be so accounted. + +As for Example: {116a} There is a poor body that dwells, we will +suppose, so many miles from the Market; and this man wants a Bushel +of Grist, a pound of Butter, or a Cheese for himself, his wife and +poor children: But dwelling so far from the Market, if he goes +thither, he shall lose his dayes work, which will be eight pence or +ten pence dammage to him, and that is something to a poor man. So +he goeth to one of his Masters or Dames for what he wanteth, and +asks them to help him with such a thing: Yes, say they, you may +have it; but withall they will give him a gripe, perhaps make him +pay as much (or more) for it at home, as they can get when they +have carryed it five miles to a Market, yea and that too for the +Refuse of their Commodity. But in this the Women are especially +faulty, in the sale of their Butter and Cheese, &c. Now this is a +kind of Extortion, it is a making a prey of the necessity of the +poor, it is a grinding of their faces, a buying and selling of +them. + +But above all, your {116b} Hucksters, that buy up the poor mans +Victuals by whole-sale, and sell it to him again for unreasonable +gains, by retale, and as we call it, by piece meal; they are got +into a way, after a stingeing rate, to play their game upon such by +Extortion: I mean such who buy up Butter, Cheese, Eggs, Bacon, &c. +by whole sale, and sell it again (as they call it) by penny worths, +two penny worths, a half penny worth, or the like, to the poor, all +the week after the market is past. + +These, though I will not condemn them all, do, many of them, bite +and pinch the poor by this kind of evil dealing. These destroy the +poor because he is poor, and that is a grievous sin. He that +oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and that giveth to the +rich, shall surely come to want. {116c} Therefore he saith again, +Rob not the poor because he is poor, neither oppress the afflicted +in the gate; for the Lord will plead their cause, and spoil the +soul of them that spoile them. + +Oh that he that gripeth and grindeth the face of the poor, would +take notice of these two Scriptures! Here is threatned the +destruction of the Estate, yea and of the Soul too, of them that +oppress the poor. Their Soul we shall better see where, and in +what condition that is in, when the day of Doom is come; but for +the Estates of such, they usually quickly moulter; and that +sometimes all men, and sometimes no man knows how. + +Besides, these are Usurers, yea they take usury for victuals, which +thing the Lord has forbidden. {117a} And because they cannot so +well do it on the Market-day, therefore they do it, as I said, when +the market is over; for then the poor falls into their mouths, and +are necessitated to have, as they can, for their need, and they are +resolved they shall pay soundly for it. Perhaps some will find +fault for my medling thus with other folks matters, and for my thus +prying into the secrets of their iniquity. But to such I would +say, since such actions are evil, 'tis time they were hissed out of +the world. For all that doe such things, offend against God, wrong +their neighbour, and like Mr. Badman doe provoke God to Judgment. +God knows, there is abundance of deceit in the world! + +Wise. Deceit! Aie, but I have not told you the thousandth part of +it; nor is it my business now to rake to the bottom of that +dunghill: what would you say, if I should anatomize some of those +vile wretches called Pawn-Brokers, that lend Money and Goods to +poor people, who are by necessity forced to such an inconvenience; +and will make, by one trick or other, the Interest of what they so +lend, amount to thirty, forty, yea sometimes fifty pound by the +year; nothwithstanding the Principal is secured by a sufficient +pawn; which they will keep too at last, if they can find any shift +to cheat the wretched borrower. + +Atten. Say! Why such Miscreants are the pest and Vermin of the +Common-Wealth, not fit for the society of men; but methinks by some +of those things you Discoursed before, you seem to import that it +is not lawful for a man to make the best of his own. + +Wise. If by making the best, you mean, to sell for as much as by +hook or crook he can get for his comodity; then I say, it is not +lawful. And if I should say the contrary, I should justifie Mr. +Badman and all the rest of that Gang: but that I never shall doe, +for the Word of God condemns them. But that it is not lawful for a +man at all times, to sell his commodity for as much as he can, I +prove by these reasons. {118a} + +First, If it be lawful for me alway to sell my commodity as dear, +or for as much as I can, then 'tis lawful for me to lay aside in my +dealing with others, good conscience, to them, and to God: but it +is not lawful for me, in my dealing with others, to lay aside good +conscience, &c. Therefore it is not lawful for me always to sell +my commodity as dear, or for as much as I can. + +That {118b} it is not lawful to lay aside good conscience in our +dealings, has already been proved in the former part of our +discourse: but that a man must lay it aside that will sell his +commodity always as dear or for as much as he can, is plainly +manifest thus. + +1. He that will (as is mentioned afore) sell his commodity as dear +as he can, must sometimes make a prey of the ignorance of his +chapman: {118c} but that he cannot doe with a good conscience (for +that is to overreach, and to goe beyond my chapman, and is +forbidden, 1 Thess. 4. 6.) Therefore he that will sell his +commodity, as afore, as dear, or for as much as he can, must of +necessity lay aside good conscience. + +2. He that will sell his commodity always as dear as he can, must +needs, sometimes make a prey of his neighbours necessity; {118d} +but that he cannot doe with a good conscience, (for that is to goe +beyond and defraud his neighbour, contrary to 1 Thess. 4. 6.) +Therefore he that will sell his commodity, as afore, as dear, or +for as much as he can, must needs cast off and lay aside a good +conscience. + +3. He that will (as afore) sell his commodity as dear, or for as +much as he can, must, if need be, make a prey of his neighbours +fondness; but that a man cannot doe with a good conscience, {119a} +(for that is still a going beyond him, contrary to 1 Thess. 4. 6.) +Therefore, he that will sell his commodity as dear, or for as much +as he can, must needs cast off, and lay aside good conscience. + +The same also may be said for buying; no man may always buy as +cheap as he can, but must also use good conscience in buying; +{119b} The which he can by no means use and keep, if he buyes +always as cheap as he can, and that for the reasons urged before. +For such will make a prey of the ignorance, necessity, and fondness +of their chapman, the which they cannot doe with a good consceince. + +When Abraham would buy a Burying-place of the Sons of Heth, thus he +said unto them. Intreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar, that he +may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he hath, in the end his +field. For as much as it is worth shall he give it me. Gen. 23. +8, 9. {110c} He would not have it under foot, he scorned it, he +abhored it: It stood not with his Religion, Credit, nor +Conscience. So also when David, would buy a field of Ornon the +Jebusite: Thus he said unto him: Grant me the place the +threshing-floor, that I may build an Altar there unto the Lord. +Thou shalt give it me for the full price. {119d} He also, as +Abraham, made conscience of this kind of dealing: he would not lie +at catch to go beyond, no not the Jebusite, but will give him his +full price for his field. For he knew that there was wickedness, +as in selling too dear so in buying too cheap, therefore he would +not do it. + +There ought therefore to be good conscience used, as in selling, so +in buying; for 'tis also unlawful for a man to goe beyond or to +defraud his neighbour in buying; yea 'tis unlawful to doe it in any +matter, and God will plentifully avenge that wrong: as I also +before have forewarned and testified. See also the {119e} text in +the margent. But, + +Secondly, if it be lawful for me always to sell my commodity as +dear, or for as much as I can, then it is lawful for me to deal +with my neighbour without the use of {120a} charity: but it is not +lawful for me to lay aside, or to deal with my neighbour without +the use of charity, therefore it is not lawful for me always to +sell my commodity to my neighbour for as much as I can. A man in +dealing should as really design his Neighbours good, profit, and +advantage, as his own: For this is to exercise Charity in his +dealing. + +That I should thus use, or exercise charity towards my Neighbour in +my buying and selling, &c. with him, is evident from the general +command: [Let all your things be done in charity:] {120b} But +that a man cannot live in the exercise of charity, that selleth, as +afore, as dear, or that buyeth as cheap as he can, is evident by +these reasons. + +1. He that sells his commodity as dear, or for as much money +(always) as he can, seeks himself, and himself only; (but charity +seeketh not her own, nor her own only {120c}:) So then, he that +seeks himself, and himself onely, as he that sells (as afore) as +dear as he can, does; maketh not use of, nor doth he exercise +charity, in his so dealing. + +2. He that selleth his commodity (always) for as much as he can +get, hardeneth his heart against all reasonable entreaties of the +buyer. But he that doth so, cannot exercise charity in his +dealing; therefore it is not lawful for a man to sell his +commodity, as afore, as dear as he can. + +Thirdly, If it be lawful for me to sell my commodity, as afore, as +dear as I can, then there can be no sin in my Trading, how +unreasonably soever I manage my calling, whether by Lying, +Swearing, Cursing, Cheating; for all this is but to sell my +commodity as dear as I can: but that there is sin in these, is +evident, therefore I may not sell my commodity always as dear as I +can. {120d} {120e} + +Fourthly, He that sells, as afore, as dear as he can, offereth +violence to the law of Nature: {121b} for that saith, Doe unto all +men, even as ye would that they should doe unto you. {121a} Now, +was the Seller a Buyer, he would not that he of whom he buyes, +should sell him always as dear as he can; therefore he should not +sell so himself, when it is his lot to sell, and others to buy of +him. + +Fifthly, He that selleth, as afore, as dear as he can, makes use of +that instruction, that God hath not given to others, but sealed up +in his hand, {121c} to abuse his Law, and to wrong his neighbour +withall: which indeed is contrary to God. {121d} God hath given +thee more skill, more knowledge and understanding in thy commodity +than he hath given to him that would buy of thee. But what! canst +thou think, that God has given thee this, that thou mightest +thereby make a prey of thy neighbour? that thou mightest thereby +goe beyond and beguile thy neighbour? No, verily; but he hath +given thee it, for his help; that thou mightest in this, be eyes to +the blind, and save thy neighbour from that dammage, that his +ignorance, or necessity, or fondness would betray him into the +hands of. + +Sixthly, In all that a man does, he should have an eye to the glory +of God, {121f} but that he cannot have that sells his commodity +always for as much as he can, for the reasons urged before. + +Seventhly, All that a man does, he should doe in the Name of the +Lord Jesus Christ; {121g} that is, as being commanded, and +authorized to doe it by him: but he that selleth always as dear as +he can, cannot so much as pretend to this, without horrid +blaspheming of that Name, because commanded by him to doe +otherwise. + +Eightly, and lastly, In all that a man does, he should have an eye +to the day of Judgment, and to the consideration of how his actions +will be esteemed of in that day. {121h} Therefore there is not any +man can or ought to sell always as dear as he can: unless he will, +yea he must say, in so doing, I will run the hazard of the tryal of +that day, + +If thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest ought of thy +neighbour, ye shall not oppress one another. {122a} + +Atten. But why doe you put in those cautionary words? They must +not sell [always] as dear, nor buy [always] as cheap as they can: +doe you not thereby intimate that a man may sometimes do so? + +Wise. I doe indeed intimate that somtimes the seller may sell as +dear, and the buyer buy as cheap as he can; but this is allowable +only in these cases: When he that sells is a Knave, and lays aside +all good conscience in selling; or when the buyer is a Knave, and +layes aside all good conscience in buying. If the buyer therefore +lights of a Knave, or if the seller lights of a Knave, then let +them look to themselves: but yet so, as not to lay aside +conscience, because he that thou dearest with doth so: but how +vile or base soever the chapman is, do thou keep thy commodity at a +reasonable price: or if thou buyest, offer reasonable gain for the +thing thou wouldest have: and if this will not do with the buyer +or seller, then seek thee a more honest chapman: If thou +objectest, But I have not skil to know when a pennyworth is before +me: Get some that have more skill than thy self in that affair, +and let them in that matter dispose of thy money. But if there +were no Knaves in the world, these objections need not be made. + +And thus, my very good neighbour, have I given you a few of my +reasons, why a man that hath it, should not always sell too dear, +nor buy as cheap as he can: but should use good Conscience to God, +and Charity to his Neighbour in both. + +Atten. But were some men here, to hear you, I believe they would +laugh you to scorn. + +Wise. I question not that at all, for so, {122b} Mr. Badman used +to doe, when any man told him of his faults: he used to think +himself wiser than any, and would count, as I have hinted before, +that he was not arrived to a manly spirit that did stick or boggle +at any wickedness. But let Mr. Badman and his fellowes laugh, I +will bear it, and still give them good counsel. But I will +remember also, for my further relief and comfort, that thus they +that were covetous of old, served the Son of God himself. It is +their time to laugh now, that they may mourn in time to come. +{122c} And, I say again, when they have laughed out their laugh; +He that useth not good conscience to God, and charity to his +neighbour, in buying and selling, dwells next dore to an Infidel, +and is near of kin to Mr. Badman. + +Atten. Well, but what will you say to this question? {123a} (you +know that there is no settled price set by God upon any Commodity +that is bought or sold under the Sun; but all things that we buy +and sell, do ebbe and flow, as to price, like the Tide:) How +(then) shall a man of a tender conscience doe, neither to wrong the +seller, buyer, nor himself, in buying and selling of commodities? + +Wise. This Question is thought to be frivolous by all that are of +Mr. Badmans way; 'tis also difficult in it self: yet I will +endeavour to shape you an Answer, {123b} and that first to the +matter of the question; to wit, How a Tradesman should, in Trading, +keep a good conscience; (A buyer or seller either.) Secondly, How +he should prepare himself to this work, and live in the practice of +it. + +For the first: He {123c} must observe what hath been said before, +to wit, he must have conscience to God, charity to his neighbour; +and I will add, much moderation in dealing. Let him therefore keep +within the bounds of the affirmative of those eight reasons that +before were urged to prove, that men ought not in their Dealing, +but to do Justly and mercifully 'twixt man and man; and then there +will be no great fear of wronging the seller, buyer, or himself. + +But particularly to prepare, or instruct a man to this work: + +1. Let the Tradesman or others consider, that there is not that in +great Gettings, and in abundance, which the most of men do suppose: +For all that a man has over and above what serves for his present +necessity and supply, serves only to feed the lusts of the eye. +For what good is there to the owners thereof, save the beholding of +them with their eyes? {123d} Men also, many times, in getting of +riches, get therewith a snare to their soul: {123e} But few get +good by getting of them. But this consideration, Mr. Badman could +not abide. + +2. Consider, that the getting of wealth dishonestly (as he does, +that getteth it without good conscience and charity to his +neighbour,) is a great offender against God. Hence he says, I have +smitten mine hands at thy dishonest gain, which thou hast made. +{124a} It is a manner of speech that shews anger in the very +making of mention of the Crime. Therefore, + +3. Consider, that a little honestly gotten, though it may yield +thee but a dinner of herbs at a time, will yield more peace +therewith, than will a stalled Ox, ill gotten. Better is a little +with righteousness, than great revenues without right. {124b} + +4. Be thou confident, that Gods eyes are upon all thy wayes, and +that he pondereth all thy goings, and also that he marks them, +writes them down, and seals them up in a bag, against the time to +come. {124c} + +5. Be thou sure that thou remembrest, that thou knowest not the +day of thy death. Remember also, that when death comes, God will +give thy substance, for the which thou hast laboured, and for the +which perhaps thou hast hazarded thy soul, to one, thou knowest not +who, nor whether he shall be a wise man or a fool. And then, what +profit hath he that laboureth for the wind? {124d} + +Besides, thou shalt have nothing that thou mayest so much as carry +away in thine hand. Guilt shall goe with thee, if thou hast got it +dishonestly, and they also to whom thou shalt leave it, shall +receive it to their hurt. + +These things duly considered, and made use of by thee to the +preparing of thy heart to thy calling of buying or selling; I come +in the next place to shew thee how thou shouldest live in the +practick part of this art. Art thou to buy or sell? + +1. If thou sellest, do not commend; if thou buyest, do not +dispraise, any otherwise, but to give the thing that thou hast to +do with, its just value and worth; for thou canst not do otherwise +knowingly, but of a covetous and wicked mind. Wherefore else are +comodities over-valued by the Seller, and also under-valued by the +Buyer. It is naught, it is naught, says the buyer, but when he +hath got his bargain he boasteth thereof. {124e} What hath this +man done now but lyed in the dispraising of his bargain? and why +did he dispraise it, but of a covetous mind, to wrong and beguile +the seller? + +2. Art thou a seller, and do things grow dear? set not thy hand to +help, or hold them up higher; this cannot be done without +wickedness neither; for this is a making of the sheckle great: +{125a} Art thou a buyer, and do things grow dear? use no cunning or +deceitful language to pull them down: for that cannot be done but +wickedly too. What then shall we do? will you say. Why I answer: +Leave things to the providence of God, and do thou with moderation +submit to his hand. But since, when they are growing dear, the +hand that upholds the price, is, for the time, more strong than +that which would pull it down; That being the hand of the seller, +who loveth to have it dear, specially if it shall rise in his hand: +therefore I say, do thou take heed, and have not a hand in it. The +which thou mayest have to thine own and thy neighbours hurt, these +three ways: + +1. By crying out scarcity, scarcity, beyond the truth and state of +things: especially take heed of doing of this by way of a +prognostick for time to come. 'Twas for {125b} this for which he +was trodden to death in the gate of Samaria, that you read of in +the book of Kings. This sin has a double evil in it. 1. It +belieth the present blessing of God amongst us: and, 2. It +undervalueth the riches of his goodness, which can make all good +things to abound towards us. + +2. This wicked thing may be done by hoarding up, when the hunger +and Necessity of the poor calls for it. Now that God may shew his +dislike against this, he doth, as it were, license the people to +curse such an hoarder up. He that withholdeth corn, the people +shall curse him, but blessing shall be upon the head of him that +selleth it. {125c} + +3. But if things will rise, do thou be grieved; Be also moderate +in all thy sellings, and be sure let the poor have a pennyworth, +and sell thy Corn to those in necessity: {125d} Which then thou +wilt do, when thou shewest mercy to the poor in thy selling to him, +and when thou for his sake, because he is poor, undersellest the +market. This is to buy and sell with good conscience: thy buyer +thou wrongest not, thy Conscience thou wrongest not, thy self thou +wrongest not, for God will surely recompense thee. + +I have spoken concerning Corn, but thy duty is, to let thy +moderation in all things be known unto all men, the Lord is at +hand. {125e} + +Atten. Well, Sir, now I have heard enough of Mr. Badmans +naughtiness, pray now proceed to his Death. + +Wise. Why Sir, the Sun is not so low, we have yet three hours to +night. + +Atten. Nay; I am not in any great hast, but I thought you had even +now done with his Life. + +Wise. Done! no, I have yet much more to say. + +Atten. Then he has much more wickedness than I thought he had. + +Wise. That may be. But let us proceed: This Mr. Badman, added to +all his wickedness this, He was a very proud man, a Very proud man. +{126a} He was exceeding proud and haughty in mind; He looked, that +what he said, ought not, must not be contradicted or opposed. He +counted himself as wise as the wisest in the Countrey, as good as +the best, and as beautiful as he that had most of it. He took +great delight in praising of himself, and as much in the praises +that others gave him. He could not abide that any should think +themselves above him, or that their wit or personage should by +others be set before his. {126b} He had scarce a fellowly carriage +for his equals. But for those that were of an inferior ranck, he +would look over them in great contempt. And if at any time he had +any remote occasion of having to do with them, he would shew great +height, and a very domineering spirit. So that in this it may be +said that Solomon gave a characteristical note of him, when he +said: Proud and haughty scorner is his name, who dealeth in proud +wrath. {126c} He never thought his Dyet well enough dressed, his +Cloathes fine enough made, or his Praise enough refined. + +Atten. This Pride, is a sin that sticks as close to nature I +think, as most sins. There is Uncleanness and Pride, I know not of +any two gross sins that stick closer to men then they. They have, +as I may call it, an interest in Nature; it likes them because they +most suit its lusts and fancies: and therefore no marvel though +Mr. Badman was tainted with pride, since he had so wickedly given +up himself to work all iniquity with greediness. + +Wise. You say right; Pride, is a sin that sticks close to Nature, +{126d} and is one of the first follies wherein it shews it self to +be polluted. For even in Childhood, even in little children, Pride +will first of all shew it self; it is a hasty, an early appearance +of the sin of the soul. It, as I may say, is that corruption that +strives for predominancy in the heart, and therefore usually comes +out first. But though children are so incident to it, yet methinks +those of more years, should be ashamed thereof. I might at the +first have begun with Mr. Badmans Pride, only I think it is not the +Pride in Infancy, that begins to make a difference betwixt one and +another, as did, and do those wherewith I began my relation of his +life: therefore I passed it over, but now, since he had no more +consideration of himself, and of his vile and sinful state, but to +be proud when come to years; I have taken the occasion in this +place to make mention of his pride. + +Atten. But pray, if you can remember them, tell me of some places +of Scripture that speak against pride. I the rather desire this, +because that pride is now a reigning sin, and I happen sometimes to +fall into the company of them that in my conscience are proud, very +much, and I have a mind also to tell them of their sin; now when I +tell them of it, unless I bring Gods word too, I doubt they will +laugh me to scorn. + +Wise. Laugh you to scorn! the Proud man will laugh you to scorn, +bring to him what Text you can, except God shall smite him in his +conscience by the Word: Mr. Badman did use to serve them so that +did use to tell him of his: and besides, when you have said what +you can, they will tell you they are not proud, and that you are +rather the proud man, else you would not judge, nor so malapertly +meddle with other mens matters as you do. Nevertheless, since you +desire it, I will mention two or three texts: They are these. +Pride and arrogancy do I hate. A mans pride shall bring him low. +And he shall bring down their pride. And all the proud, and all +that do wickedly shall be as stubble, and the day that comes shall +burn them up. {127a} This last, is a dreadful Text; it is enough +to make a proud man shake: God, saith he, will make the proud ones +as stubble; that is, as fuel for the fire, and the day that cometh +shall be like a burning oven, and that day shall burn them up, +saith the Lord. But Mr. Badman could never abide to hear pride +spoken against, nor that any should say of him, He is a proud man. + +Atten. What should be the reason of that? + +Wise. He did not tell me the reason; but I suppose it to be that +which is common to all vile persons. They love this Vice, but care +not to bear its name. {128a} The Drunkard loves the sin, but loves +not to be called a drunkard. The Thief loveth to steal, but cannot +abide to be called a thief, the whore loveth to commit uncleanness, +but loveth not to be called a Whore; And so Mr. Badman loved to be +proud, but could not abide to be called a proud man. The sweet of +sin, is desirable to polluted and corrupted man, but the name +thereof, is a blot in his Scutcheon. + +Atten. 'Tis true that you have said: but pray how many sorts of +pride are there? + +Wise. There are two sorts of Pride; {128b} Pride of Spirit, and +Pride of Body. The first of these is thus made mention of in the +Scriptures. Every one that is proud in heart is abomination to the +Lord. {128c} A high look, and a proud heart, and the plowing of +the wicked is sin. The patient in spirit is better than the proud +in spirit. Bodily pride these Scriptures mention. In that day the +Lord shall take away the bravery of their tinckling ornaments about +their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the Moon, +the chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers, the bonnets, and +the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and +the ear-rings, the rings, and the Nose-jewels: {128d} The +changable suits of Apparell, and the mantles, and the wimples, and +the crisping pins, the glasses, and the fine linnen, and the hoods +and the vails. By these expressions it is evident that there is +Pride of Body, as well as Pride of Spirit, and that both are sin, +and so abominable to the Lord. But these Texts Mr. Badman could +never abide to read, they were to him as Micaiah was to Ahab, they +never spake good of him, but evil. + +Atten. I suppose that it was not Mr. Badmans case alone even to +maligne those Texts that speak against their vices: For I believe, +that most ungodly men, (where the Scriptures are) have a secret +antipathy against those words of God that do most plainly and fully +rebuke them for their sins. {128e} + +Wise. That is out of doubt, and by that antipathy, they shew, that +sin and Satan are more welcome to them than are the wholesome +instructions of life and godliness. + +Atten. Well, but not to goe off from our discourse of Mr. Badman. +You say he was proud: but will you shew me now some symptoms of +one that is proud? + +Wise. Yes, that I will: And first I will shew you some symptoms +of Pride of Heart. {129a} Pride of heart, is seen by outward +things, as Pride of Body in general, is a sign of pride of heart; +for all proud gestures of the body flow from Pride of heart: +therefore Solomon saith; There is a generation, O how lofty are +their eyes, and their eye-lids are lifted up: {129b} And again; +There is that exalteth their gate, their going. {129c} Now these +lofty eyes, and this exalting of the gate, is a sign of a Proud +heart: for both these actions come from the heart: for out of the +heart comes Pride, in all the visible appearances of it. {129d} +But more particularly: + +1. Heart Pride is discovered {129e} by a stretched out Neck, and +by mincing as they go. For the wicked, the Proud, have a proud +Neck, a proud Foot, a proud Tongue, by which this their going is +exalted. This is that which makes them look scornfully, speak +ruggedly, and carry it huffingly among their Neighbours. + +2. A proud heart, is a persecuting one: The wicked through his +pride doth persecute the poor. {129f} + +3. A prayerless man is a proud man. {129g} + +4. A contentious man is a proud man. {129h} + +5. The disdainful man is a proud man. {129i} + +6. The man that oppresses his neighbour is a proud man. {129j} + +7. He that hearkeneth not to Gods Word with reverence and fear, is +a proud man. {129k} + +8. And he that calls the proud happy, is, be sure, a proud man. +All these are proud in heart, and this their pride of heart doth +thus discover it self. {129l} {129m} + +As to bodily {129n} pride, it is discovered, that is, something of +it, by all the particulars mentioned before; for though they are +said to be symptoms of pride of heart, yet they are symptoms of +that pride, by their shewing of themselves in the Body. You know +diseases that are within, are seen oft-times by outward and visible +Signs, yet by them very signs even the outside is defiled also. So +all those visible signs of heart-pride, are signs of bodily pride +also. But to come to more outward signs: The putting on of Gold, +and Pearls, and costly array; the pleating of the hair, the +following of fashions, the seeking by gestures to imitate the +proud, either by speech, looks, dresses, goings, or other fools +baubles, (of which at this time the world is full) all these, and +many more, are signs, as of a proud heart, so of bodily pride also. +{130b} + +But Mr. Badman would not allow, by any means, that this should be +called Pride, {130c} but rather neatness, handsomness, comeliness, +cleanliness, &c. neither would he allow that following of fashions +was any thing else, but because he would not be proud, singular, +and esteemed fantastical by his neighbours. + +Atten. But I have been told, that when some have been rebuked for +their pride, they have turned it again upon the brotherhood of +those by whom they have been rebuked: saying, Physician heal thy +Friends, look at home, among your Brotherhood, even among the +wisest of you, and see if you your selves be clear, even you +professors: for who is prouder than you professors? scarcesly the +Devil himself. + +Wise. My heart akes at this answer, because there is too much +cause for it. {130d} This very Answer would Mr. Badman give his +wife, when she (as she would sometimes) reproved him for his pride: +We shall have, says he, great amendments in living now, for the +Devil is turned a corrector of vice: For no sin reigneth more in +the world, quoth he, than pride among professors. And who can +contradict him? let us give the Devil his due, the thing is too +apparent for any man to deny. + +And I doubt not but the same answer is ready in the mouths of Mr. +Badmans friends; for they may and do see pride display it self in +the Apparel and carriages of professors; one may say, almost as +much, as among any people in the Land, the more is the pity. Ay, +and I fear that even their Extravagancies in this, hath hardened +the heart of many a one, as I perceive it did somewhat the heart of +Mr. Badman himself. + +For mine own part, I have seen many my self, and those Church- +members too, so deckt and bedaubed with their Fangles and Toyes, +and that when they have been at the solemn Appointments of God, in +the way of his Worship, that I have wondred with what face such +painted persons could sit in the place where they were without +swounding. But certainly the holiness of God, and also the +pollution of themselves by sin, must needs be very far out of the +minds of such people, what profession soever they make. + +I have read of an Whores forehead, {131a} and I have read of +christian-shamefacedness; I have read of costly array, and of that +which becometh women professing Godliness, with good works; {131b} +{131c} but if I might speak, I know what I know, and could say, and +yet do no wrong, that which would make some professors stink in +their places; {131d} but now I forbear. + +Atten. Sir, you seem to be greatly concerned at this, but what I +shall say more? it is whispered, that some good Ministers have +countenanced their people in their light and wanton Apparrel, yea +have pleaded for their Gold, and Pearls, and costly array, &c. + +Wise. I know not what they have pleaded for, but 'tis easily seen +that they tolerate, or at least wise, wink and connive at such +things, both in their Wives and Children. And so from the Prophets +of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land. {131e} +And when the hand of the Rulers are chief in a trespass, who can +keep their people from being drowned in that trespass? + +Atten. This is a lamentation, and must stand for a lamentation. + +Wise. So it is, and so it must. And I will add, it is a shame, it +is a reproach, it is a stumbling-block to the blind; {131f} for +though men be as blind as Mr. Badman himself, yet they can see the +foolish lightness that must needs be the bottom of all these apish +and wanton extravagancies. But many have their excuses ready; to +wit, their Parents, their Husbands, and their breeding calls for +it, and the like: yea, the examples of good people prompt them to +it: but all these will be but the Spiders webb, when the thunder +of the Word of the great God shall rattle from Heaven against them, +as it will at Death or Judgment; but I wish it might do it before. +But alas! these excuses are but bare pretences, these proud ones +love to have it so. I once talked with a Maid, by way of reproof, +for her fond and gaudy garment. But she told me, {132a} The Tailor +would make it so: when alas, poor proud Girle, she gave order to +the Taylor so to make it. Many make Parents, and Husbands, and +Taylors, &c. the Blind to others, but their naughty hearts, and +their giving of way thereto, that is the original cause of all +these evils. + +Atten. Now you are speaking of the cause of pride, pray shew me +yet further why pride is now so much in request? {132b} + +Wise. I will shew you what I think are the reasons of it. + +1. The first is, {132c} Because such persons are led by their own +hearts, rather than by the Word of God. I told you before, that +the original fountain of pride is the heart. For out of the heart +comes pride; it is therefore because they are led by their hearts, +which naturally tends to lift them up in pride. This pride of +heart, tempts them, and by its deceits overcometh them; {132d} yea +it doth put a bewitching vertue into their Peacocks feathers, and +then they are swallowed up with the vanity of them. + +2. Another reason why professors are so proud, (for those we are +talking of now) is because they are more apt to take example of +those that are of the World, than they are to take example of those +that are Saints indeed. Pride is of the world. For all that is of +the world, the lusts of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the +pride of life, are not of the Father but of the world. {132e} Of +the world therefore Professors learn to be proud. But they should +not take them for example. It will be objected, No, nor your +saints neither, for you are as proud as others: Well, let them +take shame that are guilty. But when I say, professors should take +example for their life by those that are saints indeed, I mean as +Peter says: They should take example of those that were in old +time, the saints; for saints of old time were the best, therefore +to these he directeth us for our pattern. Let the wives +conversation be chast, and also coupled with fear. Whose adorning, +saith Peter, let it not be that outward adorning, of pleating the +hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of Apparel: but let +it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not +corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is +in the sight of God of great price. For after this manner, in the +old time, the holy women also who trusted in God, adorned +themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands. {132f} + +3. Another reason is, {133a} Because they have forgotten the +pollution of their Nature. For the remembrance of that, must needs +keep us humble, and being kept humble, we shall be at a distance +from pride. The proud and the humble are set in opposition; (God +resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble.) And can it +be imagined, that a sensible Christian should be a proud one; sence +of baseness tends to lay us low, not to lift us up with pride; not +with pride of Heart, nor pride of Life: But when a man begins to +forget what he is, then he, if ever, begins to be proud. + +Methinks it is one of the most senceless and ridiculous things in +the world, that a man should be proud of that which is given him on +purpose to cover the shame of his nakedness with. + +4. Persons that are proud, have gotten God and his Holiness out of +their sight. {133b} If God was before them, as he is behind their +back; And if they saw him in his holiness, as he sees them in their +sins and shame, they would take but little pleasure in their apish +Knacks. The Holiness of God makes the Angels cover their faces, +crumbles Christians, when they behold it, into dust and ashes: +{133c} and as his Majesty is, such is his Word; Therefore they +abuse it, that bring it to countenance pride. + +Lastly, {133d} But what can be the end of those that are proud, in +the decking of themselves after their antick manner? why are they +for going with their Bulls-foretops, with their naked shoulders, +and Paps hanging out like a Cows bag? why are they for painting +their faces, for stretching out their necks, and for putting of +themselves into all the Formalities which proud Fancy leads them +to? Is it because they would honour God? because they would adorn +the Gospel? because they would beautifie Religion, and make sinners +to fall in love with their own salvation? No, no. It is rather to +please their lusts, to satisfie their wild and extravagant fancies; +and I wish none doth it to stir up lust in others, to the end they +may commit uncleanness with them. I believe, whatever is their +end, this is one of the great designes of the Devil: and I believe +also, that Satan has drawn more into the sin of uncleanness, by the +spangling shew of fine cloaths, than he could possibly have drawn +unto it, without them. I wonder what it was, that of old was +called the Attire of an Harlot: certainly it could not be more +bewitching and tempting than are the garments of many professors +this day. + +Atten. I like what you say very well, and I wish that all the +proud Dames in England that profess, were within the reach and +sound of your words. + +Wise. What I have said, I believe is true, but as for the proud +Dames in England that profess, they have Moses and the Prophets, +and if they will not hear them, how then can we hope that they +should recieve good by such a dull sounding Ramshorn as I am? +However, I have said my mind, and now if you will, we will proceed +to some other of Mr. Badmans doings. + +Atten. No: pray before you shew me any thing else of Mr. Badman, +shew me yet more particularly the evil effects of this sin of +Pride. + +Wise. With all my heart, I will answer your request. {134a} + +1. {134b} Then: 'Tis pride that makes poor Man so like the Devil +in Hell, that he cannot in it be known to be the Image and +similitude of God. The Angels when they became Devils, 'twas +through their being lifted or puffed up with pride. 'Tis pride +also that lifteth or puffeth up the heart of the sinner, and so +makes him to bear the very image of the Devil. + +2. {134c} Pride makes a man so odious in the sight of God, that he +shall not, must not come nigh his Majesty. Though the Lord be +high, yet hath he respect to the lowly, but the proud he knows afar +off. Pride sets God and the Soul at a distrance; pride will not +let a man come nigh God, nor God will not let a proud man come nigh +unto him: Now this is a dreadful thing. + +3. {134d} As pride sets, so it keeps God and the Soul at a +distance. God resisteth the proud; resists, that is, he opposes +him, he thrusts him from him, he contemneth his person and all his +performances. Come in to Gods Ordinances, the proud man may; but +come into his presence, have communion with him, or blessing from +him, he shall not. For the high God doth resist him. {135a} + +4. {135b} The Word saith, that The Lord will destroy the House of +the proud. He will destroy his House; it may be understood, he +will destroy him and his. So he destroyed proud Pharaoh, so he +destroyed proud Corah, and many others. + +5. {135c} Pride, where it comes, and is entertained, is a certain +forerunner of some Judgment that is not far behind. When pride +goes before, shame and destruction will follow after. When pride +cometh, then cometh shame. Pride goeth before destruction, and a +haughty spirit before a fall. + +6. {135d} Persisting in pride makes the condition of a poor man as +remediless as is that of the Devils themselves. + +And this I fear was Mr. Badmans condition, and that was the reason +that he died so as he did; as I shall shew you anon. + +But what need I thus talk of the particular actions, or rather +prodigious sins of Mr. Badman, when his whole Life and all his +actions, went as it were to the making up one massie body of sin? +{135e} Instead of believing that there was a God, his Mouth, his +Life and Actions declared, that he believed no such thing. His +transgression said within my heart, that there was no fear of God +before his eyes. {135f} {135g} Instead of honouring of God, and of +giving glory to him for any of his Mercies, or under any of his +good Providences towards him (for God is good to all, and lets his +Sun shine, and his Rain fall upon the unthankful and unholy,) he +would ascribe the glory to other causes. If they were Mercies, he +would ascribe them (if the open face of the providence did not give +him the lye) to his own wit, labour, care, industry, cunning, or +the like: if they were Crosses, he would ascribe them, or count +them the offspring of Fortune, ill Luck, Chance, the ill +mannagement of matters, the ill will of neighbours, or to his wifes +being Religious, and spending, as he called it, too much time in +Reading, Praying, or the like. It was not in his way to +acknowledge God, (that is, graciously) or his hand in things. But, +as the Prophet saith; Let favour be skewed to the wicked, yet will +he not learn righteousness. {136a} And again, They returned not to +him that smote them, nor did they seek the Lord of hosts. {136b} +This was Mr. Badmans temper, neither Mercies nor Judgment would +make him seek the Lord. Nay, as another Scripture sayes, he would +not see the works of God, nor regard the operations of his hands +either in mercies or in Judgments. {136c} But further, when by +Providence he has been cast under the best Means for his soul, +(for, as was shewed before, he having had a good master, and before +him a good father, and after all a good wife, and being sometimes +upon a Journey, and cast under the hearing of a good Sermon, as he +would sometimes for novelties sake go to hear a good Preacher;) he +was always without heart to make use thereof: In this land of +righteousness he would deal unjustly, and would not behold the +majesty of the Lord. + +Instead of reverencing the Word, {136g} when he heard it preached, +read, or discoursed of, he would sleep, talk of other Business, or +else object against the authority, harmony, and wisdom of the +Scriptures. Saying, How do you know them to be the Word of God? +how do you know that these sayings are true? The Scriptures, he +would say, were as a Nose of Wax, and a man may turn them +whithersoever he lists: one Scripture says one thing, and another +sayes the quite contrary; Besides, they make mention of a thousand +imposibilities; they are the cause of all dissensions and discords +that are in the Land: Therefore you may (would he say) still think +what you will, but in my mind they are best at ease that have least +to do with them. + +Instead of loving and honouring of them that did bear in their +Foreheads the Name, and in their Lives the Image of Christ, they +should be his Song, {136h} the matter of his Jests, and the objects +of his slanders. He would either make a mock at their sober +deportment, their gracious language, quiet behaviour, or else +desperately swear that they did all in deceit and hypocrisie. He +would endeavour to render godly men as odious and contemptable as +he could; any lyes that were made by any, to their disgrace, those +he would avouch for truth, and would not endure to be controlled. +He was much like those that the prophet speaks of, that would sit +and slander his mothers son; {137a} yea, he would speak +reproachfully of his wife, though his conscience told him, and many +would testifie, that she was a very vertuous woman. He would also +raise slanders of his wives friends himself, affirming that their +doctrine tended to lasciviousness, and that in their assemblies +they acted and did unbeseeming men and women, that they committed +uncleanness, &c. He was much like those that affirmed the Apostle +should say, Let us do evil that good may come: {137b} Or like +those of whom it is thus written: Report, say they, and we will +report it. {137c} And if he could get any thing by the end that +had scandal in it, if it did but touch professors, how falsely +soever reported; Oh! then he would glory, laugh, and be glad, and +lay it upon the whole party: Saying, Hang them Rogues, there is +not a barrel better Herring of all the holy Brotherhood of them: +Like to like, quoth the Devil to the Collier, this is your precise +Crew. And then he would send all home with a curse. + +Atten. If those that make profession of Religion be wise, Mr. +Badmans watchings and words will make them the more wary and +careful in all things. + +Wise. You say true. For when we see men do watch for our halting, +and rejoyce to see us stumble and fall, it should make us so much +abundance the more careful. {137d} + +I do think it was as delightful to Mr. Badman to hear, raise, and +tell lies, and lying stories of them that fear the Lord, as it was +for him to go to bed when a weary. But we will at this time let +these things pass. For as he was in these things bad enough, so he +added to these, many more the like. + +He was an {137e} angry, wrathfull, envious man, a man that knew not +what meekness or gentleness meant, nor did he desire to learn. His +natural temper was to be surly, huffie, and rugged, and worse; and +he so gave way to his temper, as to this, that it brought him to be +furious and outrageous in all things, specially against goodness it +self, and against other things too, when he was displeased. {138a} + +Atten. Solomon saith, He is a fool that rageth. + +Wise. He doth so; and sayes moreover, That anger rests in the +bosom of fools. {138b} And truly, if it be a sign of a Fool to +have anger rest in his bosom, then was Mr. Badman, notwithstanding +the conceit that he had of his own abilities, a Fool of no small +size. + +Atten. Fools are mostly most wise in their own eyes. + +Wise. True. But I was a saying, that if it be a sign that a man +is a Fool, when Anger rests in his bosom; Then what is it a sign +of, think you, when Malice and Envy rests there? For to my +knowledge Mr. Badman was as malicious and as envious a man as +commonly you can hear of. + +Atten. Certainly, malice and envy flow {138c} from pride and +arrogancy, and they again from ignorance, and ignorance from the +Devil; And I thought, that since you spake of the pride of Mr. +Badman before, we should have something of these before we had +done. + +Wise. Envy flows from Ignorance indeed. And this Mr. Badman was +so envious an one, where he set against, that he would swell with +it, as a Toad, as we say, swells with poyson. He whom he maligned, +might at any time even read envy in his face wherever he met with +him, or in whatever he had to do with him. + +His envy was so rank and strong, that if it at any time turned its +head against a man, it would hardly ever be pulled in again: He +would watch over that man to do him mischief, as the Cat watches +over the Mouse to destroy it; yea, he would wait seven years, but +he would have an opportunity to hurt him, and when he had it, he +would make him feel the weight of his Envy. + +Envy is a devilish thing, the Scripture intimates that none can +stand before it. A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty, but a +fools wrath is heavier than them both. Wrath is cruel, and anger +is outrageous, but who can stand before envy? {138d} {138e} + +This Envy, for the foulness of it, is reckoned {138f} among the +foulest Villanies that are, as adultery, murder, drunkenness, +revellings, witchcrafts, heresies, seditions, &c. Yea, it is so +malignant a corruption, that it rots the very bones of him in whom +it dwells. A sound heart is life to the flesh, but envy the +rottenness of the bones. {139a} + +Atten. This Envy is the very Father and Mother of a great many +hideous and prodigious wickednesses: I say, it is the very {139b} +Father and Mother of them; it both besets them, and also nourishes +them up, till they come to their cursed maturity in the bosom of +him that entertains them. + +Wise. You have given it a very right description, in calling of it +the Father and Mother of a great many other prodigious +wickednesses: for it is so venomous and vile a thing, that it puts +the whole course of Nature out of order, and makes it fit for +nothing but confusion, and a hold for every evil thing. For where +envy and strife is, there is confusion, and every evil work. {139c} +Wherefore, I say, you have rightly called it, The very Father and +Mother of a great many other sins. And now for our further +edification, I will reckon up some of the births of Envy. + +1. Envy, as I told you before, it rotteth the very bones of him +that entertains it. And, + +2. As you have also hinted, it is heavier than a Stone, than Sand; +yea, and I will add, It falls like a Mill-stone upon the head. +Therefore, + +3. It kills him that throws it, and him at whom it is thrown. +Envy slayeth the silly one. {139e} That is, him in whom it +resides, and him who is its object. + +4. 'Twas that also that slew Jesus Christ himself; for his +adversaries persecuted him through their envy. {139f} {139g} + +5. Envy was that by vertue of which Joseph was sold by his +Brethren into Egypt: {139h} + +6. 'Tis envy that hath the hand in making of variance among Gods +Saints. {139i} + +7. 'Tis envy in the hearts of Sinners, that stirres them up to +thrust Gods Ministers out of their coasts. + +8. What shall I say? 'Tis envy that is the very Nursery of +whisperings, debates, backbitings, slanders, reproaches, murders, +&c. + +'Tis not possible to repeat all the particular fruits of this +sinfull root. Therefore, it is no marvel that Mr. Badman was such +an ill natured man, for the great roots of all manner of wickedness +were in him, unmortified, unmaimed, untouched. + +Atten. But it is {140a} a rare case, even this of Mr. Badman, that +he should never in all his life be touched with remorse for his +ill-spent life. + +Wise. Remorse, I cannot say he ever had, if by remorse you mean +repentance for his evils. Yet twice I remember he was under some +trouble of mind about his condition: {140b} Once when he broke his +legg as he came home drunk from the Ale-house; and another time +when he fell sick, and thought he should die: Besides these two +times, I do not remember any more. + +Atten. Did he break his legg then? + +Wise. Yes: Once, as he came home drunk from the Ale-house. + +Atten. Pray how did he break it? + +Wise. Why upon a time he was at an Ale-house, that wicked house, +about two or three miles from home, and having there drank hard the +greatest part of the day, when night was come, he would stay no +longer, but calls for his horse, gets up, and like a Madman (as +drunken persons usually ride) away he goes, as hard as horse could +lay legs to the ground. Thus he rid, till coming to a dirty place, +where his horse flouncing in, fell, threw his master, and with his +fall broke his legg: so there he lay. {140c} But you would not +think how he {140d} swore at first. But after a while, he comeing +to himself, and feeling by his pain, and the uselesness of his +legg, what case he was in, and also fearing that this bout might be +his death; he began to crie out after the manner of such; {140e} +Lord help me, Lord have mercy upon me, good God deliver me, and the +like. So there he lay, till some came by, who took him up, carried +him home, where he lay for some time, before he could go abroad +again. + +Atten. And then, you say, he called upon God. + +Wise. He cryed out in his pain, and would say, O God, and O Lord, +help me: but whether it was that his sin might be pardoned, and +his soul saved, or whether to be rid of his pain, I will not +positively determine; though I fear it was but for the last; {141a} +because, when his pain was gone, and he had got hopes of mending, +even before he could go abroad, he cast off prayer, and began his +old game; to wit, to be as bad as he was before. He then would +send for his old companions; his Sluts also would come to his house +to see him, and with them he would be, as well as he could for his +lame leg, as vicious as they could be for their hearts. + +Atten. 'Twas a wonder he did not break his neck. + +Wise. His neck had gone instead of his leg, but that God was long- +suffering towards him; he had deserved it ten thousand times over. +There have been many, as I have heard, and as I have hinted to you +before, that have taken their Horses when drunk, as he; but they +have gone from the pot to the grave; for they have broken their +necks 'twixt the Ale-house and home. One hard by us {141b} also +drunk himself dead; he drank, and dyed in his drink. + +Atten. 'Tis a sad thing to dye drunk. + +Wise. So it is: But yet I wonder that no more do so. For +considering the heinousness of that sin, and with how many other +sins it is accompanied, {141c} as with oaths, blasphemies, lyes, +revellings, whoreings, brawlings, &c. it is a wonder to me, that +any that live in that sin should escape such a blow from heaven +that should tumble them into their graves. Besides, when I +consider also how, when they are as drunk as beasts, they, without +all fear of danger, will ride like Bedlams and mad men, even as if +they did dare God to meddle with them if he durst, for their being +drunk: I say, I wonder that he doth not withdraw his protecting +providences from them, and leave them to those Dangers and +Destructions that by their sin they have deserved, and that by +their Bedlam madness they would rush themselves into: only I +consider again, that he has appointed a day wherein he will reckon +with them, {141d} and doth also commonly make Examples of some, to +shew that he takes notice of their sin, abhorrs their way, and will +count with them for it at the set time. + +Atten. It is worthy of our remark, to take notice how God, to shew +his dislike of the sins of men, strikes some of them down with a +blow; as the breaking of Mr. Badmans legg, for doubtless that was a +stroak from heaven. + +Wise. It is worth our remark indeed. It was an open stroak, it +fell upon him while he was in the height of his sin: And it looks +much like to that in Job; Therefore he knoweth their works, and +overturneth them in the night, so that they are destroyed. He +striketh them as wicked men in the open sight of others: {142a} Or +as the Margent reads it, in the place of beholders. He layes them +with his stroak in the place of beholders. There was {142b} Mr. +Badman laid, his stroak was taken notice of by every one: his +broken legg was at this time the Town-talk. Mr. Badman has broken +his legg, sayes one: How did he break it? sayes another: As he +came home drunk from such an Ale-house, said a third; A Judgment of +God upon him, said a fourth. This his sin, his shame, and +punishment, are all made conspicuous to all that are about him. I +will here tell you another story or two. + +I have read in Mr. Clark's Looking-glass for Sinners; {142c} That +upon a time, a certain drunken fellow boasted in his Cups, that +there was neither Heaven nor Hell; also he said, He believed, that +man had no Soul, and that for his own part, he would sell his soul +to any that would buy it. Then did one of his companions buy it of +him for a cup of Wine; and presently the Devil in mans shape bought +it of that man again at the same price; and so in the presence of +them all laid hold on this Soul-seller, and carried him away +through the Air, so that he was never more heard of. + +In pag. 148, he tells us also: That there was one at Salisbury, in +the midst of his health drinking and carousing in a Tavern; and he +drank a health to the Devil, saying, That if the Devil would not +come and pledge him, he would not believe that there was either God +or Devil. Whereupon his companions stricken with fear, hastened +out of the room: and presently after, hearing a hideous noise, and +smelling a stinking savour, the Vintner ran up into the chamber; +and coming in, he missed his Guest, and found the window broken, +the Iron barr in it bowed, and all bloody: But the man was never +heard of afterwards. + +Again, in pag. 149. he tells us of a Bailiff of Hedly: Who upon a +Lords Day being drunk at Melford, got upon his horse, to ride +through the streets, saying, That his horse would carry him to the +Devil: and presently his horse threw him, and broke his neck. +These things are worse than the breaking of Mr. Badmans Leg, and +should be a caution to all of his friends that are living, lest +they also fall by their sin into these sad Judgements of God. + +But, as I said, Mr. Badman quickly forgot all, his conscience was +choaked, before his legg was healed. And therefore, before he was +well of the fruit of one sin, he tempts God to send another +Judgment to seize upon him: And so he did quickly after. For not +many months after his legg was well, he had a very dangerous fit of +sickness, insomuch that now he began to think he must dye in very +deed. {143a} + +Atten. Well, and what did he think and do then? + +Wise. He thought he must go to Hell; this I know, for he could not +forbear but say so. {143b} To my best remembrance, he lay crying +out all one night for fear, and at times he would so tremble, that +he would make the very bed shake under him. {143c} But, Oh! how +the thoughts of Death, of Hell-fire, and of eternal Judgment, did +then wrack his conscience. Fear might be seen in his face, and in +his tossings to and fro: It might also be heard in his words, and +be understood by his heavy groans. He would often cry, I am +undone, I am undone; my vile life has undone me. + +Atten. Then his former atheistical thoughts and principles, were +too weak now to support him from the fears of eternal damnation. + +Wise. Aie! they were too weak indeed. They may serve to stifle +conscience, when a man is in the midst of his prosperity, and to +harden the heart against all good counsel when a man is left of +God, and given up to his reprobate mind: {143d} But alas, +atheistical thoughts, Notions and Opinions, must shrink and melt +away, when God sends, yea comes with sickness to visit the soul of +such a sinner for his sin. There was a man dwelt about 12 miles +off from us, that had so trained up himself in his atheistical +Notions, that at last he attempted to write a book against Jesus +Christ, and against the divine Authority of the Scriptures. (But I +think it was not printed:) Well, after many days God struck him +with sickness, whereof he dyed. So, being sick, and musing upon +his former doings, the Book that he had written came into his mind, +and with it such a sence of his evil in writing of it, that it tore +his Conscience as a Lyon would tare a Kid. He lay therefore upon +his death-bed in sad case, {144a} and much affliction of +conscience: some of my friends also went to see him; and as they +were in his chamber one day, he hastily called for Pen Ink and +Paper, which when it was given him, he took it and writ to this +purpose. I, {144b} such an one, in such a Town, must goe to Hell- +fire, for writing a Book against Jesus Christ, and against the Holy +Scriptures: And would also have leaped out of the window of his +house to have killed himself, but was by them prevented of that: +so he dyed in his bed, such a death as it was. 'Twill be well if +others take warning by him. + +Atten. This is a remarkable story. + +Wise. 'Tis as true as remarkable; I had it from them that I dare +believe, who also themselves were eye and ear witnesses; and also +that catcht him in their arms, and saved him when he would have +leaped out of his chamber-window, to have destroyed himself. + +Atten. Well, you have told me what were Mr. Badmans thoughts (now, +being sick) of his condition; pray tell me also what he then did +when he was sick? + +Wise. Did! he did many things, which I am sure he never thought to +have done, and which, to be sure, was not looked for of his wife +and children. + +In this fit of sickness, his Thoughts were quite altered about his +wife; I say his Thoughts, so far as could be judged by his words +and carriages to her. {144c} For now she was his good wife, his +godly wife, his honest wife, his duck, and dear, and all. Now he +told her, that she had the best of it, she having a good Life to +stand by her, while his debaucheries and ungodly Life did always +stare him in the face. Now he told her, the counsel that she often +gave him, was good; though he was so bad as not to take it. + +Now he would hear her talk to him, and he would lie sighing by her +while she so did. Now he would bid her pray for him, that he might +be delivered from Hell. {145a} + +He would also now consent, that some of her good Ministers might +come to him to comfort him; and he would seem to shew them kindness +when they came, for he would treat them kindly with words, and +hearken diligently to what they said, only he did not care that +they should talk much of his ill spent life, because his conscience +was clogged with that already; he cared not now to see his old +companions, the thoughts of them was a torment to him: and now he +would speak kindly to that child of his that took after its mothers +steps, though he could not at all abide it before. + +He also desired the prayers of good people, that God of his mercy +would spare him a little longer, promising that if God would but +let him recover this once, what a new, what a penitent man he would +be toward God, and what a loving husband he would be to his wife: +what liberty he would give her, yea how he would goe with her +himself to hear her Ministers, and how they should go hand in hand +in the way to heaven together. + +Atten. Here was a fine shew of things; I'le warrant you, his wife +was glad for this. + +Wise. His wife! Aie, and a many good people besides: it was +noysed all over the Town, {145b} what a great change there was +wrought upon Mr. Badman; how sorry he was for his sins, how he +began to love his wife, how he desired good men should pray to God +to spare him; and what promises he now made to God in his sickness, +that if ever he should raise him from his sick bed to health again, +what a new penitent man he would be towards God, and what a loving +husband to his good wife. + +Well, ministers prayed, and good people rejoyced, thinking verily +that they now had gotten a man from the Devil; nay, some of the +weaker sort did not stick to say that God had began a work of Grace +in his heart; and his wife, poor woman, {145c} you cannot think how +apt she was to believe it so; she rejoyced, and she hoped as she +would have it. But, alas! alas! in little time things all proved +otherwise. + +After he had kept his Bed a while, his distemper began to abate, +and he to feel himself better, so he in little time was so finely +mended, that he could walk about the house, and also obtained a +very fine stomach to his food: {146a} and now did his wife and her +good friends stand gaping, to see Mr. Badman fulfill his promise of +becoming new towards God, and loving to his wife: but the contrary +only shewed it self. For so soon as ever he had hopes of mending, +and found that his strength began to renew, his trouble began to +goe off his heart, and he grew as great a stranger to his frights +and fears, as if he had never had them. + +But verily, I am apt to think, that one reason of his no more +regarding, or remembring of his sick-bed fears, and of being no +better for them, was, some words that the Doctor that supplied him +with Physick said to him when he was mending. For as soon as Mr. +Badman began to mend, the Doctor comes and sits him down by him in +his house, and there fell into discourse with him about the nature +of his disease; and among other things they talked of Badmans +trouble, and how he would cry out, tremble, and express his fears +of going to Hell when his sickness lay pretty hard upon him. To +which the Doctor replyed: {146b} That those fears and Out-cries +did arise from the height of his distemper, for that disease was +often attended with lightness of the head, by reason the sick party +could not sleep, and for that the vapours disturbed the brain: But +you see Sir, quoth he, that so soon as you got sleep and betook +your self to rest, you quickly mended, and your head settled, and +so those frenzies left you. + +And was it so indeed, thought Mr. Badman; was my troubles, only the +effects of my distemper, and because ill vapours got up into my +brain? Then surely, since my Physician was my Saviour, my Lust +again shall be my God. So he never minded Religion more, but +betook him again to the world, his lusts and wicked companions: +And there was an end of Mr. Badmans Conversion. + +Atten. I thought, (as you told me of him) that this would be the +result of the whole; for I discerned by your relating of things, +that the true symptoms of conversion were wanting in him, and that +those that appeared to be any thing like them, were only such as +the reprobates may have. + +Wise. You say right, for there wanted in him, when he was most +sensible, a sence of the pollution of his Nature; he only had guilt +for his sinful actions, the which Cain, and Pharaoh, and Saul, and +Judas, those reprobates, have had before him. {147a} + +Besides, the great things that he desired, were, to be delivered +from going to Hell, (and who would willingly?) and that his life +might be lengthened in this world. We find not by all that he said +or did, that Jesus Christ the Saviour was desired by him, from a +sence of his need of his Righteousness to cloath him, and of his +Spirit to sanctifie him. {147b} + +His own strength was whole in him, he saw nothing of the treachery +of his own heart; for had he, he would never have been so free to +make promises to God of amendment. He would rather have been +afraid, that if he had mended, he should have turned with the dog +to his vomit, and have begged prayers of Saints, and assistance +from heaven upon that account, that he might have been kept from +doing so. + +'Tis true he did beg prayers of good people, and so did Pharaoh of +Moses and Aaron, and Simon Magus of Simon Peter. {147c} + +His mind also seemed to be turned to his wife and child; but alas! +'twas rather from conviction that God had given him concerning +their happy estate over his, than for that he had any true love to +the work of God that was in them. True, some shews of kindness he +seemed to have for them, and so had rich Dives, when in Hell, to +his five brethren that were yet in the world; yea he had such love, +as to wish them in Heaven, that they might not come thither to be +tormented. {147d} + +Atten. Sick-bed Repentance is seldom good for any thing. + +Wise. You {147e} say true, it is very rarely good for any thing +indeed. Death is unwelcom to Nature, and usually when sickness and +death visit the sinner; the first taking of him by the shoulder, +and the second standing at the Bed-chamber door to receive him; +then the sinner begins to look about him, and to bethink with +himself, These will have me away before God; and I know that my +Life has not been as it should, how shall I do to appear before +God! Or if it be more the sence of the punishment, and the place +of the punishment of sinners, that also is starting to a defiled +conscience, now rouzed by deaths lumbring at the door. + +And hence usually is sick-bed Repentance, and the matter of it: To +wit, to be saved from Hell, and from Death, and that God will +restore again to health till they mend; concluding that it is in +their power to mend, as is evident by their large and lavishing +promises to do it. + +I have known many, that, when they have been sick, have had large +measures of this kind of Repentance, and while it has lasted, the +noyse and sound thereof, has made the Town to ring again: but +alas! how long has it lasted? oft-times scarce so long as untill +the party now sick has been well. It has passed away like a mist +or a vapour, it has been a thing of no continuance. But this kind +of Repentance is by God compared to the howling of a dog. And they +have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon +their bed. {148a} + +Atten. Yet one may see, by this, the desperateness of mans heart: +{148b} for what is it but desperate wickedness, to make promise to +God of amendment, if he will but spare them; and yet so soon as +they are recovered (or quickly after,) fall to sin as they did +before, and never to regard their promise more. + +Wise. It is a sign of desperateness indeed; yea, of desperate +madness. For surely, they must needs think, that God took notice +of their promise, that he heard the words that they spake, {148c} +and that he hath laid them up against the time to come; and will +then bring out, and testifie to their faces, that they flattered +him with their mouth, and lyed unto him with their tongue, {148d} +when they lay sick, to their thinking, upon their death-bed, and +promised him that if he would recover them they would repent and +amend their ways. But thus, as I have told you, Mr. Badman did. +He made great promises that he would be a New man, that he would +leave his sins, and become a Convert, that he would love, &c. his +godly wife, &c. Yea many fine words had Mr. Badman in his +sickness, but no good actions when he was well. + +Atten. And how did his good wife take it, when she saw that he had +no Amendment, but that he returned with the Dog to his vomit, to +his old courses again? + +Wise. Why it {149a} broke her heart, it was a worse disappointment +to her than the cheat that he gave her in marriage: At least she +laid it more to heart, and could not so well grapple with it. You +must think that she had put up many a prayer to God for him before, +even all the time that he had carried it so badly to her, and now +when he was so affrighted in his sickness, and so desired that he +might live and mend, poor woman, she thought that the time was come +for God to answer her prayers; nay, she did not let with gladness, +to whisper it out amongst her Friends, that 'twas so: but when she +saw her self disappointed by her husbands turning Rebel again, she +could not stand up under it, but falls into a languishing +distemper, and in a few weeks gave up the Ghost. + +Atten. Pray how did she dye? + +Wise. Die! she dyed bravely; full of comfort of the faith of her +Interest in Christ, and by him, of the world to come: she had many +brave Expressions in her sickness, and gave to those that came to +visit her many signs of her salvation; the thoughts of the Grave, +but specially of her Rising again, were sweet thoughts to her. She +would long for Death, because she knew it would be her Friend. She +behaved her self like to some that were making of them ready to go +meet their Bridegroom. {149b} Now, said she, I am going to rest +from my sorrows, my sighs, my tears, my mournings and complaints: +I have heretofore longed to be among the Saints, but might by no +means be suffered to goe, but now I am going, (and no man can stop +me) to the great Meeting, to the general Assembly, and Church of +the first-born which are written in Heaven. {149c} There I shall +have my hearts desire; there I shall worship without Temptation or +other impediment; there I shall see the face of my Jesus, whom I +have loved, whom I have served, and who now, I know, will save my +soul. {149d} I have prayed often for my husband, that he might be +converted, but there has been no answer of God in that matter; Are +my prayers lost? are they forgotten? are they thrown over the barr? +No; they are hanged upon the horns of the golden Altar, and I must +have the benefit of them my self, that moment that I shall enter +into the gates, in at which the righteous Nation that keepeth truth +shall enter: I say, I shall have the benefit of them. I can say +as holy David; I say, I can say of my husband, as he could of his +enemies. As for me, when they were sick my cloathing was of sack- +cloth, I humbled my soul with fasting, and my prayer returned into +my bosom. {150a} My prayers are not lost, my tears are yet in +God's bottle; I would have had a Crown, and Glory for my husband, +and for those of my children that follow his steps; but so far as I +can see yet, I must rest in the hope of having all my self. + +Atten. Did she talk thus openly? + +Wise. No; this she spake but to one or two of her most intimate +acquaintance, who were permitted to come and see her, when she lay +languishing upon her death-bed. + +Atten. Well, but pray go on in your relation, this is good: I am +glad to hear it, this is as a cordial to my heart while we sit thus +talking under this tree. + +Wise. When she drew near her end, she called for her husband, and +when he was come to her, she told him, {150b} That now he and she +must part, and said she, God knows, and thou shalt know, that I +have been a loving, faithful Wife unto thee; my prayers have been +many for thee; and as for all the abuses that I have received at +thy hand, those I freely and heartily forgive, and still shall pray +for thy conversion, even as long as I breathe in this world. But +husband, I am going thither, where no bad man shall come, and if +thou dost not convert, thou wilt never see me more with comfort; +let not my plain words offend thee: I am thy dying wife, and of my +faithfulness to thee, would leave this Exhortation with thee: +Break off thy sins, fly to God for mercy while mercies gate stands +open; remember, that the day is coming, when thou, though now lusty +and well, must lye at the gates of death, as I do: And what wilt +thou then do, if thou shalt be found with a naked soul, to meet +with the Cherubims with their flaming swords? yea, what wilt thou +then do, if Death and Hell shall come to visit thee, and thou in +thy sins, and under the Curse of the Law? + +Atten. This was honest and plain: but what said Mr. Badman to +her? + +Wise. He did what he could to divert her talk, {151a} by throwing +in other things; he also shewed some kind of pity to her now, and +would ask her, What she would have? and with various kind of words +put her out of her talk; for when she see that she was not +regarded, she fetcht a deep sigh, and lay still. So he went down, +and then she called for her Children, and began to talk to them. +And first she spake to those that were rude, {151b} and told them +the danger of dying before they had grace in their hearts. She +told them also, that Death might be nearer them than they were +aware of; and bid them look, when they went through the Church-yard +again, if there was not little graves there. And, ah children, +said she, will it not be dreadful to you, if we only shall meet at +the day of Judgment, and then part again, and never see each other +more? And with that she wept, the Children (also) wept; so she +held on her discourse: Children, said she, I am going from you, I +am going to Jesus Christ, and with him there is neither sorrow, nor +sighing, nor pain, nor tears, nor death. {151c} Thither would I +have you go also, but I can neither carry you, nor fetch you +thither; but if you shall turn from your sins to God, and shall beg +mercy at his hands by Jesus Christ, you shall follow me, and shall, +when you dye, come to the place where I am going, that blessed +place of Rest: and then we shall be for ever together, beholding +the face of our Redeemer, to our mutual and eternal joy. So she +bid them remember the words of a dying mother when she was cold in +her grave, and themselves were hot in their sins, if perhaps her +words might put check to their vice, and that they might remember +and turn to God. + +Then they all went down; but her {151d} Darling, to wit, the child +that she had most love for, because it followed her ways. So she +addressed her self to that. Come to me, said she, my sweet child, +thou art the child of my joy: I have lived to see thee a Servant +of God; thou shalt have eternal life. I, my sweet heart, shall goe +before, and thou shalt follow after; if thou shalt hold the +beginning of thy confidence stedfast to the end. {152a} When I am +gone, do thou still remember my words, love thy Bible, follow my +Ministers, deny ungodliness still, and if troublous times shall +come, set an higher price upon Christ, his Word and Wayes, and the +testimony of a good conscience, than upon all the world besides. +Carry it kindly and dutifully to thy Father, but choose none of his +ways. If thou mayest, goe to service, choose that, rather than to +stay at home; but then be sure to choose a service where thou +mayest be helped forwards in the way to heaven; and that thou +mayest have such a service, speak to my Minister, he will help +thee, if possible, to such an one. + +I would have thee also, my dear child, to love thy Brothers and +Sisters, but learn none of their naughty tricks. Have no +fellowship with the unfruitfull works of darkness, but rather +reprove them. {152b} Thou hast Grace, they have none: do thou +therefore beautifie the way of salvation before their eyes, by a +godly life, and conformable conversation to the revealed will of +God, that thy Brothers and Sisters may see and be the more pleased +with the good wayes of the Lord. + +If thou shalt live to marry, take heed of being served as I was; +that is, of being beguiled with fair words, and the flatteries of a +lying tongue. But first be sure of godliness. Yea, as sure as it +is possible for one to be in this world: trust not thine own eyes, +nor thine own Judgment; I mean as to that persons godliness that +thou art invited to marry. Ask counsel of good men, and do nothing +therein, if he lives, without my Ministers advice. I have also my +self desired him to look after thee. Thus she talked to her +children, and gave them counsel, and after she had talked to this a +little longer, she kiss'd it, and bid it go down. + +Well, in short, her time drew on, and the day that she must die. +So she {152c} died with a soul full of Grace, an heart full of +comfort, and by her death ended a life full of trouble. Her +husband made a Funerall for her, perhaps because he was glad he was +rid of her, but we will leave that to be manifest at Judgment. + +Atten. This Woman died well: And now we are talking of the dying +of Christians, I will tell you a story of one that died some time +since in our Town. The man was a godly old Puritan, for so the +godly were called in time past. This man after a long, and godly +life, fell sick, of the sickness, whereof he died. And as he lay +drawing on, the woman that looked to him thought she heard Musick, +and that the sweetest that ever she heard in her life, which also +continued untill he gave up the Ghost: {153a} now when his soul +departed from him, the Musick seemed to withdraw and to go further +and further off from the house, and so it went untill the sound was +quite gone out of hearing. + +Wise. What do you think that might be? + +Atten. For ought I know, the melodious Notes of Angels, that were +sent of God to fetch him to Heaven. + +Wise. I cannot say but that God goes out of his Ordinary Road with +us poor mortals sometimes. I cannot say this of this woman, but +yet she had better musick in her heart than sounded in this womans +ears. + +Atten. I believe so; but pray tell me, did any of her other +children hearken to her words, so as to be bettered in their souls +thereby? + +Wise. One of them did, {153b} and became a very hopefull young +man: but for the rest I can say nothing. + +Atten. And what did Badman do after his wife was dead? + +Wise. Why even as he did before, he scarce mourned a fortnight for +her, and his mourning then was, I doubt, more in fashion than in +heart. + +Atten. Would he not sometimes talk of his Wife, when she was dead? + +Wise. Yes, when the fit took him, and could commend her too +extremely; saying, she was a good, godly, vertuous woman. But this +is not a thing to be wondred at: It is common with wicked men, to +hate Gods Servants while alive, and to commend them when they are +dead. So served the Pharisees the Prophets: Those of the Prophets +that were dead, they commended; and those of them that were alive +they condemned. {153c} + +Atten. But did not Mr. Badman marry again quickly? + +Wise. No, not a good while after: and when he was asked the +reason, he would make this slighty answer, Who would keep a Cow of +their own, that can have a quart of milk for a penny? {154a} +Meaning, Who would be at the charge to have a Wife, that can have a +Whore when he listeth? So villanous, so abominable did he continue +after the death of his wife. Yet at last there was one was too +hard for him. For, getting of him to her upon a time, and making +of him sufficiently drunk, she was so cunning as to get a promise +of marriage of him, and so held him to it, and forced him to marry +her. {154b} And she, as the saying is, was as good as he, {154c} +at all his vile and ranting tricks: she had her companions as well +as he had his, and she would meet them too at the Tavern and Ale- +house, more commonly than he was aware of. To be plain, she was a +very Whore, and had as great resort came to her, where time and +place was appointed, as any of them all. Aie, and he smelt it too, +but could not tell how to help it. For if he began to talk, she +could lay in his dish the whores that she knew he haunted, and she +could fit him also with cursing and swearing, for she would give +him Oath for Oath, and Curse for Curse. + +Atten. What kind of oaths would she have? + +Wise. Why damn her, and sink her, and the like. + +Atten. These are provoking things. + +Wise. So they are: but God doth not altogether let such things +goe unpunished in this life. Something of this I have shewed you +already, and will here give you one or two Instances more. + +There lived, saith one, {154d} in the year 1551. in a city of +Savoy, a man who was a monstrous Curser and Swearer, and though he +was often admonished and blamed for it, yet would he by no means +mend his manners. At length a great plague happening in the City, +he withdrew himself into a Garden, where being again admonished to +give over his wickedness, he hardned his heart more, Swearing, +Blaspheming God, and giving himself to the Devil: And immediately +the Devil snatched him up suddenly, his wife and kinswoman looking +on, and carried him quite away. The Magistrates advertised hereof, +went to the place and examined the Woman, who justified the truth +of it. + +Also at Oster in the Dutchy of Magalapole, (saith Mr. Clark) a +wicked Woman, used in her cursing to give herself body and soul to +the Devil, and being reproved for it, still continued the same; +till (being at a Wedding-Feast) the Devil came in person, and +carried her up into the Air, with most horrible outcries and +roarings: And in that sort carried her round about the Town, that +the Inhabitants were ready to dye for fear: And by and by he tore +her in four pieces, leaving her four quarters in four several high- +wayes; and then brought her Bowels to the Marriage-feast, and threw +them upon the Table before the Maior of the Town, saying, Behold, +these dishes of meat belong to thee, whom the like destruction +waiteth for, if thou dost not amend thy wicked life. + +Atten. Though God forbears to deal thus with all men that thus +rend and tare his Name, and that immediate Judgments do not +overtake them; yet he makes their lives by other Judgments bitter +to them, does he not? + +Wise. Yes, yes. And for proof, I need goe no further than to this +Badman and his wife; for their railing, and cursing, and swearing +ended not in words: They would fight and fly at each other, and +that like Cats and Dogs. But it must be looked upon as the hand +and Judgment of God upon him for his villany; he had an honest +woman before, but she would not serve his turn, and therefore God +took her away, and gave him one as bad as himself. Thus that +measure that he meted to his first wife, this last did mete to him +again. And this is a punishment, wherewith sometimes God will +punish wicked men. So said Amos to Amaziah: Thy wife shall be an +Harlot in the City. {155a} With this last wife Mr. Badman lived a +pretty while; but, as I told you before, in a most sad and hellish +manner. And now he would bewail his first wifes death: not of +love that he had to her Godliness, for that he could never abide, +but for that she used alwayes to keep home, whereas this would goe +abroad; his first wife was also honest, and true to that Relation, +but this last was a Whore of her Body: The first woman loved to +keep things together, but this last would whirl them about as well +as he: The first would be silent when he chid, and would take it +patiently when he abused her, but this would give him word for +word, blow for blow, curse for curse; so that now Mr. Badman had +met with his match: {156a} God had a mind to make him see the +baseness of his own life, in the wickedness of his wives. {156b} +But all would not do with Mr. Badman, he would be Mr. Badman still: +This Judgment did not work any reformation upon him, no, not to God +nor man. + +Atten. I warrant you that Mr. Badman thought when his wife was +dead, that next time he would match far better. + +Wise. What he thought I cannot tell, but he could not hope for it +in this match. For here he knew himself to be catcht, he knew that +he was by this woman intangled, and would therefore have gone back +again, but could not. He knew her, I say, to be a Whore before, +and therefore could not promise himself a happy life with her. For +he or she that will not be true to their own soul, will neither be +true to husband nor wife. And he knew that she was not true to her +own soul, and therefore could not expect she should be true to him +but Solomon says, An whore is a deep pit, and Mr. Badman found it +true. For when she had caught him in her pit, she would never +leave him till she had got him to promise her Marriage; and when +she had taken him so far, she forced him to marry indeed. And +after that, they lived that life that I have told you. + +Atten. But did not the neighbours take notice of this alteration +that Mr. Badman had made? + +Wise. Yes; and many of his Neighbours, yea, many of those that +were carnal said, {156c} 'Tis a righteous Judgment of God upon him, +for his abusive carriage and language to his other wife: for they +were all convinced that she was a vertuous woman, and he, vile +wretch, had killed her, I will not say, with, but with the want of +kindness. + +Atten. And how long I pray did they live thus together? + +Wise. Some fourteen or sixteen years, even untill (though she also +brought somthing with her) they had sinned all away, and parted as +poor as Howlets. {156d} And, in reason, how could it be otherwise? +he would have his way, and she would have hers; he among his +companions, and she among hers; he with his Whores, and she with +her Rogues; and so they brought their Noble to Nine-pence. + +Atten. Pray of what disease did Mr. Badman die, for now I perceive +we are come up to his death? + +Wise. I cannot so properly say that he died of one disease, {157a} +for there were many that had consented, and laid their heads +together to bring him to his end. He was dropsical, he was +consumptive, he was surfeited, was gouty, and, as some say, he had +a tang of the Pox in his bowels. Yet the Captain of all these men +of death that came against him to take him away, was the +Consumption, for 'twas that that brought him down to the grave. + +Atten. Although I will not say, but the best men may die of a +consumption, a dropsie, or a surfeit; yea, that these may meet upon +a man to end him: yet I will say again, that many times these +diseases come through mans inordinate use of things. Much drinking +brings dropsies, consumptions, surfeits, and many other diseases; +and I doubt, that Mr. Badman's death did come by his abuse of +himself in the use of lawfull and unlawfull things. I ground this +my sentence upon that report of his life that you at large have +given me. + +Wise. I think verily that you need not call back your sentence; +for 'tis thought by many, that by his Cups and his Queans he +brought himself to this his destruction: he was not an old man +when he dyed, nor was he naturally very feeble, but strong, and of +a healthy complexion: Yet, as I said, he moultered away, and went, +when he set a going, rotten to his Grave. And that which made him +stink when he was dead, I mean, that made him stink in his Name and +Fame, was, that he died with a spice of the foul disease upon him: +A man whose life was full of sin, and whose death was without +repentance. + +Atten. These were blemishes sufficient to make him stink indeed. + +Wise. They were so, and they did do it. No man could speak well +of him when he was gone. {157b} His Name rotted above ground, as +his Carkass rotted under. And this is according to the saying of +the wise man: The memory of the just is blessed, but the name of +the wicked shall rot. {157c} + +This Text, in both the parts of it, was fulfilled upon him and the +woman that he married first. For her Name still did flourish, +though she had been dead almost seventeen years; but his began to +stink and rot, before he had been buried seventeen dayes. + +Atten. That man that dieth with a life full of sin, and with an +heart void of repentance, although he should die of the most Golden +disease (if there were any that might be so called) I will warrant +him his Name shall stink, and that in Heaven and Earth. + +Wise. You say true; and therefore doth the name of Cain, Pharaoh, +Saul, Judas, and the Pharisees, though dead thousands of years +agoe, stink as fresh in the nostrils of the world as if they were +but newly dead. + +Atten. I do fully acquiesce with you in this. But, Sir, since you +have charged him with dying impenitent, pray let me see how you +will prove it: not that I altogether doubt it, because you have +affirmed it, but yet I love to have proof for what men say in such +weighty matters. + +Wise. When I said, he died without repentance, I meant, so far as +those that knew him, could judge, when they compared his Life, the +Word, and his Death together. + +Atten. Well said, they went the right way to find out whether he +had, that is, did manifest that he had repentance or no. Now then +shew me how they did prove he had none? + +Wise. So I will: And first, {158b} this was urged to prove it. +He had not in all the time of his sickness, a sight and sence of +his sins, but was as secure, and as much at quiet, as if he had +never sinned in all his life. + +Atten. I must needs confess that this is a sign he had none. For +how can a man repent of that of which he hath neither sight nor +sence? But 'tis strange that he had neither sight nor sence of sin +now, when he had such a sight and sence of his evil before: I mean +when he was sick before. + +Wise. He was, as I said, as secure now, as if he had been as +sinless as an Angel; though all men knew what a sinner he was, for +he carried his Sins in his Forehead. His debauched Life was read +and known of all men; but his Reputation was read and known of no +man; for, as I said, he had none. And for ought I know, the reason +he had no sence of his sins now, was because he profited not by +that sence that he had of them before. He liked not to retain that +knowledge of God then, that caused his sins to come to remembrance: +Therefore God gave him up now to a reprobate mind, to hardness and +stupidity of Spirit; and so was that Scripture fulfilled upon him, +He hath blinded their eyes. And that, Let their eyes be darkned +that they may not see. {159a} Oh! for a man to live in sin, and to +go out of the world without Repentance for it, is the saddest +Judgement that can overtake a man. + +Atten. But, Sir, although both you and I have consented that +{159b} without a sight and sence of sin there can be no Repentance, +yet that is but our bare Say-so; let us therefore now see if by the +Scripture we can make it good. + +Wise. That is easily done. The three thousand that were +converted, (Acts the second,) repented not, till they had sight and +sence of their sins: {159c} Paul repented not till he had sight +and sence of his sins: the Jailor repented not till he had sight +and sence of his sins: nor could they. For of what should a man +repent? The Answer is, of Sin. What is it to Repent of sin? The +answer is, To be sorry for it, to turn from it. {159d} But how can +a man be sorry for it, that has neither sight nor sence of it. +David did, not only commit sins, but abode impenitent for them, +untill Nathan the Prophet was sent from God to give him a sight and +sence of them; {159e} and then, but not till then, he indeed +repented of them. Job, in order to his Repentance, cries unto God, +Shew me wherefore thou contendest with me. And again, That which I +see not teach thou me, I have born chastisement, I will not offend +any more: {159f} That is, not in what I know, for I will repent of +it; nor yet in what I know not, when thou shalt shew me it. + +Also Ephraims Repentance was after he was turned to the sight and +sence of his sins, and after he was instructed about the evil of +them. {159g} + +Atten. These are good testimonies of this truth, and doe (if +matter of fact, with which Mr. Badman is charged, be true), prove +indeed that he did not repent, but as he lived, so he dyed in his +sin: For without Repentance a man is sure to dye in his sin; for +they will lie down in the dust with him, {160a} rise at the +Judgement with him, hang about his Neck like Cords and Chains when +he standeth at the Barre of Gods Tribunal, and goe with him too +when he goes away from the Judgment-seat, with a Depart from me ye +cursed into everlasting fire, prepared for the Devil and his +Angels; and there shall fret and gnaw his Conscience, because they +will be to him a never-dying worm. {160b} + +Wise. You say well, and I will add a word or two more to what I +have said: Repentance, as it is not produced without a sight and +sence of sin, so every sight and sence of sin cannot produce it: I +mean, every sight and sence of sin cannot {160c} produce that +Repentance, that is Repentance unto salvation; repentance never to +be repented of. For it is yet fresh before us, that Mr. Badman had +a sight and sence of sin, in that fit of sickness that he had +before, but it dyed without procuring any such godly fruit; as was +manifest by his so soon returning with the Dog to his Vomit. Many +people think also that Repentance stands in Confession of sin only, +but they are very much mistaken: For Repentance, as was said +before, is a being sorry for, and a turning from transgression to +God by Jesus Christ. Now, if this be true, that every sight and +sence of sin will not produce Repentance, then Repentance cannot be +produced there where there is no sight and sence of sin. That +every sight and sence of sin will not produce repentance, to wit, +the godly repentance that we are speaking of, is manifest in Cain, +Pharaoh, Saul and Judas, who all of them had sence, great sence of +sin, but none of them repentance unto life. + +Now I conclude, that Mr. Badman did die impenitent, and so a death +most miserable. + +Atten. But pray now, before we conclude our discourse of Mr. +Badman, give me another proof of his dying in his sins. + +Wise. Another proof is this. {160d} He did not desire a sight and +sence of sins, that he might have repentance for them. Did I say +he did not desire it, I will add, he greatly desired to remain in +his security: and that I shall prove by that which follows. +First, he could not endure that any man, now, should talk to him of +his sinfull life, and yet that was the way to beget a sight and +sence of sin, and so of repentance from it in his soul. But, I +say, he could not endure such discourse. Those men that did offer +to talk unto him of his ill-spent Life, they were as little welcome +to him in the time of his last sickness, as was Elijah when he went +to meet with Ahab, as he went down to take possession of Naboths +Vineyard. Hast thou found me, said Ahab, O mine enemy? {161a} So +would Mr. Badman say in his heart to and of those that thus did +come to him, though indeed they came even of love, to convince him +of his evil life, that he might have repented thereof, and have +obtained mercy. + +Atten. Did good men then goe to see him in his last sickness? + +Wise. Yes: Those that were his first wifes acquaintance, they +went to see him, and to talk with, and to him, if perhaps he might +now, at last, bethink himself, and cry to God for mercy. + +Atten. They did well to try now at last if they could save his +soul from Hell: But pray how can you tell that he did not care for +the company of such? + +Wise. Because of the differing Carriage that he had for them, from +what he had when his old carnal companions came to see him: When +his old Campanions came to see him, he would stir up himself as +much as he could both by words and looks, to signifie they were +welcome to him; he would also talk with them freely, and look +pleasantly upon them, though the talk of such could be none other +but such as David said, carnal men would offer to him, when they +came to visit him in his sickness: If he comes to see me, says he, +he speaketh vanity, his heart gathereth iniquity to itself. {161b} +But these kind of talks, I say, Mr. Badman better brooked, than he +did the company of better men. + +But I will more particularly give you a Character {161c} of his +carriage to good men (and good talk) when they came to see him. + +1. When they were come, he would seem to fail in his spirits at +the sight of them. + +2. He would not care to answer them to any of those questions that +they would at times put to him, to feel what sence he had of sin, +death, Hell, and Judgment: But would either say nothing, or answer +them by way of evasion, or else by telling of them he was so weak +and spent that he could not speak much. + +3. He would never shew forwardness to speak to, or talk with them, +but was glad when they held their tongues. He would ask them no +question about his state and another world, or how he should escape +that damnation that he had deserved. + +4. He had got a haunt at last to bid his wife and keeper, when +these good people attempted to come to see him, to tell them that +he was asleep or inclining to sleep, or so weak for want thereof, +that he could not abyde any noyse. And so they would serve them +time after time, till at last they were discouraged from coming to +see him any more. + +5. He was so hardned, now, in this time of his sickness, that he +would talk, when his companions came unto him, to the disparagement +of those good men (and of their good doctrine too) that of love did +come to see him, and that did labour to convert him. + +6. When these good men went away from him, he would never say, +Pray when will you be pleased to come again, for I have a desire to +more of your company, and to hear more of your good instruction? +No not a word of that, but when they were going would scarce bid +them drink, or say, Thank you for your good company, and good +instruction. + +7. His talk in his sickness with his companions, would be of the +World, as Trades, Houses, Lands, great Men, great Titles, great +places, outward Prosperity, or outward Adversity, or some such +carnal thing. + +By all which I conclude, that he did not desire a sence and sight +of his sin, that he might repent and be saved. + +Atten. It must needs be so as you say, if these things be true +that you have asserted of him. And I do the rather believe them, +because I think you dare not tell a lie of the dead. + +Wise. I was one of them that went to him, and that beheld his +carriage and manner of way, and this is a true relation of it that +I have given you. + +Atten. I am satisfied. But pray if you can, shew me now by the +Word, what sentence of God doth pass upon such men? + +Wise. Why, the man that is thus averse to repentance, that desires +not to hear of his sins, that he might repent and be saved; is said +to be a man that saith unto God, Depart from me, for I desire not +the knowledge of thy wayes. {163a} He is a man that sayes in his +heart and with his actions, I have loved strangers, (sins) and +after them I will goe. He is a man that shuts his eyes, stops his +ears, and that turneth his spirit against God. Yea he is the man +that is at enmity with God, and that abhorres him with his soul. +{163b} + +Atten. What other signe can you give me that Mr. Badman died +without repentance? + +Wise. Why, he did never heartily cry to God for mercy all the time +of his affliction. {163c} True, when sinking fits, stitches, or +pains took hold upon him, then he would say as other carnal men use +to do, Lord help me, Lord strengthen me, Lord deliver me, and the +like: But to cry to God for mercy, that he did not, but lay, as I +hinted before, as if he never had sinned. + +Atten. That is another bad sign indeed; for crying to God for +mercy, is one of the first signs of repentance. When Paul lay +repenting of his sin, upon his bed, the Holy Ghost said of him, +Behold he prayes. {163d} But he that hath not the first signs of +repentance, 'tis a sign he hath none of the other, and so indeed +none at all. I do not say, but there may be crying, where there +may be no sign of repentance. They cryed, says David, to the Lord, +but he answered them not; {163e} but that he would have done, if +their cry had been the fruit of repentance. But, I say, if men may +cry, and yet have no repentance, be sure, they have none, that cry +not at all. It is said in Job, They cry not when he bindeth them; +{163f} that is, because they have no repentance; no repentance, no +cryes; false repentance, false cryes; true repentance, true cryes. + +Wise. I know that it is as possible for a man to forbear crying +that hath repentance, as it is for a man to forbear groaning that +feeleth deadly pain. He that looketh into the Book of Psalms, +(where repentance is most lively set forth even in its true and +proper effects,) shall there find, that crying, strong crying, +hearty crying, great crying, and uncessant crying, hath been the +fruits of repentance: (But none of this had this Mr. Badman, +therefore he dyed in his sins.) + +That Crying is an inseparable effect of repentance, is seen in +these Scriptures. Have mercy upon me, O God, according to the +multitude of thy tender mercies, blot out my transgressions. O +Lord, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot +displeasure. Have mercy upon me, O Lord, for I am weak. O Lord, +heal me for my bones are vexed. My soul is also vexed, but thou, O +Lord, how long: Return, O Lord, deliver my soul: O save me for +thy mercies sake: O Lord, rebuke me not in thy wrath, neither +chasten me in thy hot displeasure; for thine arrows stick fast in +me, and thy hand presseth me sore. There is no soundness in my +flesh, because of thine anger, neither is there any rest in my +bones, because of my sin. For mine iniquities are gone over mine +head, as an heavy burthen, they are too heavy for me. My wounds +stink and are corrupt; because of my foolishness. I am troubled, I +am bowed down greatly, I goe mourning all the day long. My loyns +are filled with a loathsom disease, and there is no soundness in my +flesh. I am feeble, and sore broken, I have roared by reason of +the disquietness of my heart. {164a} + +I might give you a great number more of the holy sayings of good +men, whereby they express how they were, what they felt, and +whether they cryed or no, when repentance was wrought in them. +Alas, alas, it is as possible for a man, when the pangs of Guilt +are upon him to forbear praying, as it is for a woman when pangs of +travel are upon her to forbear crying. If all the world should +tell me that such a man hath repentance, yet if he is not a praying +man, I should not be perswaded to believe it. + +Atten. I know no reason why you should: for there is nothing can +demonstrate that such a man hath it. But pray Sir, what other sign +have you, by which you can prove that Mr. Badman died in his sins, +and so in a state of damnation? + +Wise. I have this to prove it. {164b} Those who were his old +sinfull companions in the time of his health, were those whose +company and carnal talk he most delighted in, in the time of his +sickness. I did occasionally hint this before, but now I make it +an argument of his want of grace: for where there is indeed a work +of Grace in the heart, that work doth not only change the heart, +thoughts and desires, but the conversation also; yea conversation +and company too. When Paul had a work of grace in his soul, he +assayed to Joyn himself to the Disciples. He was for his old +companions in their abominations no longer: he was now a Disciple, +and was for the company of Disciples. And he was with them coming +in and going out in Jerusalem. {165a} + +Atten. I thought something when I heard you make mention of it +before. Thought I, this is a shrewd sign that he had not grace in +his heart. Birds of a feather, thought I, will flock together: If +this man was one of Gods children, he would heard with Gods +children, his delight would be with, and in the company of Gods +children. As David said, I am a companion of all them that fear +thee, and of them that keep thy precepts. {165b} + +Wise. You say well, for what fellowship hath he that believeth +with an Infidel? And although it be true, that all that joyn to +the godly are not godly, yet they that shall inwardly choose the +company of the ungodly and open profane, rather than the company of +the godly, as Mr. Badman did; surely are not godly men, but +profane. He was, as I told you, out of his element, when good men +did come to visit him, but then he was where he would be, when he +had his vain companions about him. Alas! grace, as I said, +altereth all, heart, life, company, and all; for by it the heart +and man is made new: and a new heart, a new man, must have objects +of delight that are new, and like himself: Old things are passed +away; Why? For all things are become new. {165c} Now if all +things are become new, to wit, heart, mind, thoughts, desires, and +delights, it followeth by consequence that the company must be +answerable: hence it is said, That they that believed were +together; that they went to their own company; that they were added +to the Church; that they were of one heart and of one soul; {165d} +and the like. Now if it be objected that Mr. Badman was sick, and +so could not goe to the godly, yet he had a tongue in his head, and +could, had he had an heart, have spoken to some to call or send for +the godly to come to him. Yea, he would have done so; yea the +company of all others, specially his fellow sinners, would, even in +every appearance of them before him, have been a burden and a grief +unto him. His heart and affection standing bent to good, good +companions would have suited him best. But his Companions were his +old Associates, his delight was in them, therefore his heart and +soul were yet ungodly. + +Atten. Pray how was he when he drew near his end? for I perceive +that what you say of him now, hath reference to him, and to his +actions, at the beginning of his sickness? Then he could endure +company, and much talk; besides, perhaps then he thought he should +recover and not die, as afterwards he had cause to think, when he +was quite wasted with pining sickness, when he was at the graves +mouth. But how was he, I say, when he was (as we say) at the +graves mouth, within a step of death? when he saw, and knew, and +could not but know, that shortly he must dye, and appear before the +Judgment of God? + +Wise. Why {166a} there was not any other alteration in him, than +what was made by his disease upon his body: sickness, you know, +will alter the body, also pains and stitches will make men groan; +but for his mind he had no alteration there. His mind was the +same, his heart was the same. He was the self-same Mr. Badman +still: not onely in Name but Conditions, and that to the very day +of his death: yea, so far as could be gathered to the very moment +in which he died. + +Atten. Pray how was he in his death? was Death strong upon him? or +did he dye with ease, quietly? + +Wise. As quietly as a {166b} Lamb. There seemed not to be in it, +to standers by, so much as a strong struggle of Nature: and as for +his Mind, it seemed to be wholly at quiet. But pray why do you ask +me this question? + +Atten. Not for mine own sake, but for others. For there is such +{166c} an opinion as this among the ignorant: That if a man dies, +as they call it, like a Lamb, that is, quietly, and without that +consternation of mind that others shew in their death, they +conclude, and that beyond all doubt, that such an one is gone to +Heaven, and is certainly escaped the wrath to come. + +Wise. There is no Judgment to be made by a quiet death, of the +Eternal state of him that so dieth. Suppose one man should die +quietly, another should die suddenly, and a third should die under +great consternation of spirit; no man can Judge of their eternall +condition by the manner of any of these kinds of deaths. He that +dies quietly, suddenly, or under consternation of spirit, may goe +to Heaven, or may goe to Hell; no man can tell whether a man goes, +by any such manner of death. The {167a} Judgment therefore that we +make of the eternall condition of a man must be gathered from +another consideration: To wit, Did the man die in his sins? did he +die in unbelief? did he die before he was born again? then he is +gone to the Devil and hell, though he died never so quietly. +Again, Was the man a good man? had he faith and holiness? was he a +lover and a Worshipper of God by Christ, according to his Word? +Then he is gone to God and Heaven, how suddenly, or in what +consternation of mind soever he died: But Mr. Badman was naught, +his life was evil, his wayes were evil; evil to his end: he +therefore went to Hell and to the Devil, how quietly soever he +died. + +Indeed there is, in some cases, a Judgment to be made of a mans +eternal condition by the manner of the death he dieth. {167b} As +suppose now a man should murder himself, or live a wicked life, and +after that die in utter despair; these men without doubt do both of +them goe to Hell. And here I will take an occasion to speak of two +of Mr. Badmans Brethren, (for you know I told you before that he +had Brethren,) and of the manner of their death. One of them +killed himself, and the other after a wicked life died in utter +despair. Now I should not be afraid to conclude of both these, +that they went by, and through their death to hell. + +Atten. Pray tell me concerning the first, how he made away +himself? + +Wise. Why, he took a knife and cut his own Throat, and immediately +gave up the Ghost and died. Now what can we judge of such a mans +condition; since the Scripture saith, No murderer hath eternall +life, &c. but that it must be concluded, that such an one is gone +to Hell. He was a murderer, a Self-murderer; and he is the worst +murderer, one that slays his own body and soul: nor doe we find +mention made of any but cursed ones that doe such kind of deeds. I +say, no mention made in holy Writ of any others, but such, that +murder themselves. + +And this is the sore Judgment of God upon men, when God shall, for +the sins of such, give them up to be their own Executioners, or +rather to execute his Judgment and Anger upon themselves. And let +me earnestly give this Caution to sinners. Take heed, Sirs, break +off your sins, lest God serves you as he served Mr. Badmans +Brother: That is, lest he gives you up to be your own Murderers. + +Atten. Now you talk of this. I did once know a man, {168a} a +Barber, that took his own Raisor, and cut his own Throat, and then +put his head out of his Chamber-window, to shew the neighbours what +he had done, and after a little while died. + +Wise. I can tell you {168b} a more dreadful thing than this: I +mean as to the manner of doing the fact. {168c} There was about +twelve years since, a man that lived at Brafield by Northampton, +(named John Cox) that murdered himself; the manner of his doing of +it was thus. He was a poor man, and had for some time been sick +(and the time of his sickness was about the beginning of Hay-time;) +and taking too many thoughts how he should live afterwards, if he +lost his present season of work, he fell into deep despair about +the world, and cryed out to his wife the morning before he killed +himself, saying, We are undone. But quickly after, he desired his +wife to depart the room, Because, said he, I will see if I can get +any rest; so she went out: but he instead of sleeping, quickly +took his Raisor, and therewith cut up a great hole in his side, out +of which he pulled, and cut off some of his guts, and threw them, +with the blood up and down the Chamber. But this not speeding of +him so soon as he desired, he took the same Raisor and therewith +cut his own throat. His wife then hearing of him sigh and fetch +his wind short, came again into the room to him, and seeing what he +had done, she ran out and called in some Neighbours, who came to +him where he lay in a bloody manner, frightfull to behold. Then +said one of them to him, Ah! John, what have you done? are you not +sorry for what you have done? He answered roughly, 'Tis too late +to be sorry. Then said the same person to him again, Ah! John, +pray to God to forgive thee this bloody act of thine. At the +hearing of which Exhortation, he seemed much offended, and in angry +manner said, Pray! and with that flung himself away to the wall, +and so after a few gasps died desperately. When he had turned him +of his back, to the wall, the blood ran out of his belly as out of +a boul, and soaked quite through the bed to the boards, and through +the chinks of the boards it ran pouring down to the ground. Some +said, that when the neighbours came to see him, he lay groaping +with his hand in his bowels, reaching upward, as was thought, that +he might have pulled or cut out his heart. 'Twas said also, that +some of his Liver had been by him torn out and cast upon the +boards, and that many of his guts hung out of the bed on the side +thereof. But I cannot confirm all particulars; but the general of +the story, with these circumstances above mentioned, is true; I had +it from a sober and credible person, who himself was one that saw +him in this bloody state, and that talked with him, as was hinted +before. + +Many other such dreadful things might be told you, but these are +enough, and too many too, if God in his wisdom had thought +necessary to prevent them. + +Atten. This is a dreadful Story: and I would to God that it might +be a warning to others to instruct them to fear before God, and +pray, lest he gives them up to doe as John Cox hath done. For +surely self-murderers cannot goe to Heaven: and therefore, as you +have said, he that dieth by his own hands, is certainly gone to +Hell. But speak a word or two of the other man you mentioned. + +Wise. What? of a wicked man dying in Despair? + +Atten. Yes, of a wicked man dying in despair. + +Wise. Well then: {169a} This Mr. Badmans other Brother was a very +wicked man, both in Heart and Life; I say in Heart, because he was +so in Life, nor could anything reclaim him; neither good Men, good +Books, good Examples, nor Gods Judgements. Well, after he had +lived a great while in his sins, God smote with a sickness of which +he died. Now in his sickness his Conscience began to be awakened, +and he began to roar out of his ill-spent Life, insomuch that the +Town began to ring of him. Now when it was noysed about, many of +the Neighbours came to see him, and to read by him, as is the +common way with some; but all that they could doe, {170a} could not +abate his terror, but he would lie in his Bed gnashing of his +teeth, and wringing of his wrists, concluding upon the Damnation of +his Soul, and in that horror and despair he dyed; not calling upon +God, but distrusting in his Mercy, and Blaspheming of his Name. + +Atten. This brings to my mind a man that a Friend of mine told me +of. {170b} He had been a wicked liver; so when he came to die, he +fell into despair, and having concluded that God had no mercy for +him he addressed himself to the Devil for favour, saying, Good +Devil be good unto me. + +Wise. This is almost like Saul, who being forsaken of God, went to +the Witch of Endor, and so to the Devil for help. {170c} But alas, +should I set my self to collect these dreadful Stories, it would be +easie in little time to present you with hundreds of them: But I +will conclude as I began; They that are their own Murderers, or +that die in Despair, after they have lived a life of wickedness, do +surely go to Hell. + +And here I would put in a Caution: Every one that dieth under +consternation of spirit; that is, under amazement and great fear, +do not therefore die in Despair: For a good man may have this for +his bands in his death, and yet go to Heaven and Glory. For, as I +said before, He that is a good man, a man that hath Faith and +Holiness, a lover and Worshipper of God by Christ, according to his +Word, may die in consternation of spirit: for Satan will not be +wanting to assault good men upon their death-bed, but they are +secured by the Word and Power of God; yea, and are also helped, +though with much agony of spirit, to exercise themselves in Faith +and Prayer, the which he that dieth in Despair, can by no means +doe. But let us return to Mr. Badman, and enter further Discourse +of the manner of his Death. + +Atten. I think you and I are both of a mind; for just now I was +thinking to call you back to him also. And pray now, since it is +your own motion to return again to him, let us discourse a little +more of his quiet and still death. + +Wise. With all my heart. You know we were speaking before of the +manner of Mr. Badmans death: {171a} How that he dyed very stilly +and quietly; upon which you made observation, that the common +people conclude, that if a man dyes quietly, and as they call it, +like a Lamb, he is certainly gone to Heaven: when alas, if a +wicked man dyes quietly, if a man that has all his dayes lived in +notorious sin, dyeth quietly; his quiet dying is so far off from +being a sign of his being saved, that it is an uncontrollable proof +of his damnation. This was Mr. Badmans case, he lived wickedly +even to the last, and then went quietly out of the world: +therefore Mr. Badman is gone to Hell. + +Att. Well, but since you are upon it, and also so confident in it, +to wit, that a man that lives a wicked life till he dyes, and then +dyes quietly, is gone to Hell; let me see hat shew of proof you +have for this your opinion. + +Wise. My first argument is drawn from the Necessity of repentance: +No man can be saved except he repents, nor can he repent that sees +not, that knows not that he is a sinner, and he that knows himself +to be a sinner, will, I will warrant him, be molested for the time +by that knowledge. {171b} This, as it is testified by all the +Scriptures, so it is testified by Christian experience. He that +knows of himself to be a sinner, is molested, especially if that +knowledge comes not to him untill he is cast upon his death-bed; +molested, I say, before he can dye quietly. Yea, he is molested, +dejected and cast down, he is also made to cry out, to hunger and +thirst after mercy by Christ, and if at all he shall indeed come to +die quietly, I mean with that quietness that is begotten by Faith +and Hope in Gods mercy (to the which Mr. Badman and his brethren +were utter strangers,) his quietness is distinguished by all +Judicious observers, by what went before it, by what it flows from, +and also by what is the fruit thereof. + +I must confess I am no admirer of sick-bed repentance, for I think +verily it is seldom {171c} good for any thing: but I say, he that +hath lived in sin and profaneness all his dayes, as Mr. Badman did, +and yet shall dye quietly, that is, without repentance steps in +'twixt his life and death, he is assuredly gone to Hell, and is +damned. + +Atten. This does look like an argument indeed; for Repentance must +come, or else we must goe to Hell-fire: and if a lewd liver shall +(I mean that so continues till the day of his death), yet goe out +of the world quietly, 'tis a sign that he died without repentance, +and so a sign that he is damned. + +Wise. I am satisfied in it, for my part, and that from the +Necessity, and Nature of repentance. It is necessary, because God +calls for it, and will not pardon sin without it: Except ye repent +ye shall all likewise perish. This is that which God hath said, +and he will prove but a fool-hardy man that shall yet think to goe +to Heaven and glory without it. Repent, for the Ax is laid to the +root of the tree, every tree therefore that bringeth not forth good +fruit, (but no good fruit can be where there is not sound +repentance) shall be hewn down, and cast into the fire. {172a} +This was Mr. Badmans case, he had attending of him a sinfull life, +and that to the very last, and yet dyed quietly, that is, without +repentance; he is gone to Hell and is damned. For the Nature of +repentance, I have touched upon that already, and shewed, that it +never was where a quiet death is the immediate companion of a +sinfull life; and therefore Mr. Badman is gone to Hell. + +Secondly, {172b} My second argument is drawn from that blessed Word +of Christ, While the strong man armed keeps the house, his goods +are in peace, till a stronger than he comes: but the strong man +armed kept Mr. Badmans house, that is, his heart, and soul, and +body, for he went from a sinfull life quietly, out of this world: +the stronger did not disturb by intercepting with sound repentance, +betwixt his sinful life and his quiet death: Therefore Mr. Badman +is gone to Hell. + +The strong man armed is the Devil, and quietness is his security. +The Devil never fears losing of the sinner, if he can but keep him +quiet: can he but keep him quiet in a sinfull life, and quiet in +his death, he is his own. Therefore he saith, his goods are in +peace; that is, out of danger. There is no fear of the Devils +losing such a soul, I say, because Christ, who is the best Judge in +this matter, saith, his goods are in peace, in quiet, and out of +danger. + +Atten. This is a good one too; {173a} for doubtless, peace and +quiet with sin, is one of the greatest signs of a damnable state. + +Wise. So it is. Therefore, when God would shew the greatness of +his anger against sin and sinners in one word, he saith, They are +joyned to Idols, let them alone. {173b} Let them alone, that is, +disturb them not; let them goe on without controll; let the Devil +enjoy them peaceably, let him carry them out of the world +unconverted quietly. This is one of the sorest of Judgments, and +bespeaketh the burning anger of God against sinfull men. See also +when you come home, the fourteenth Verse of the Chapter last +mentioned in the Margent: I will not punish your daughters when +they commit Whoredom. I will let them alone, they shall live and +dye in their sins. But, + +Thirdly, My third argument {173c} is drawn from that saying of +Christ: He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their hearts; +that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their +hearts, and be converted, and I should heal them. {173d} + +There are three things that I will take notice of from these words. + +1. The first is, That there can be no conversion to God where the +eye is darkned, and the heart hardened. The eye must first be made +to see, and the heart to break and relent under and for sin, or +else there can be no conversion. He hath blinded their eyes, and +hardned their hearts, lest they should see, and understand and (So) +be converted. And this was clearly Mr. Badmans case, he lived a +wicked life, and also died with his eyes shut, and heart hardened, +as is manifest, in that a sinful life was joyned with a quiet +death; and all for that he should not be converted, but partake of +the fruit of his sinfull life in Hell fire. + +2. The second thing that I take notice of from these words is, +That this is a dispensation and manifestation of Gods anger against +a man for his sin. When God is angry with men, I mean, when he is +so angry with them, this among many is one of the Judgments that he +giveth them up unto, to wit, to blindness of mind, and hardness of +heart, which he also suffereth to accompany them till they enter in +at the gates of death. And then, and there, and not short of then +and there, their eyes come to be opened. Hence it is said of the +rich man mentioned in Luke, He dyed, and in Hell he lifted up his +eyes: {174a} Implying that he did not lift them up before: He +neither saw what he had done, nor whither he was going, till he +came to the place of execution, even into Hell. He died asleep in +his soul; he dyed bespotted, stupified, and so consequently for +quietness, like a Child or Lamb, even as Mr. Badman did: this was +a sign of Gods anger; he had a mind to damn him for his sins, and +therefore would not let him see nor have an heart to repent for +them, lest he should convert, and his damnation, which God had +appointed, should be frustrate: lest they should be converted, and +I should heal them. + +3. The third thing that I take notice of from hence, is, That a +sinfull life and a quiet death annexed to it, is the ready, the +open, the beaten, the common high-way to Hell: there is no surer +sign of Damnation, than for a man to dye quietly after a sinfull +life. I do not say that all wicked men, that are molested at their +death with a sence of sin and fears of Hell, do therefore goe to +Heaven, (for some are also made to see, and are left to despair +(not converted by seeing) that they might go roaring out of this +world to their place:) But I say, there is no surer sign of a mans +Damnation, than to dye quietly after a sinful life; than to sin, +and dye with his eyes shut; than to sin, and dye with an heart that +cannot repent. He hath blinded their eyes and hardened their +heart, that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand +with their heart; (no, not so long as they are in this world) lest +they should see with their eyes, and understand with their heart, +and should be converted, and I should heal them. {174b} + +God has a Judgment for wicked men; God will be even with wicked +men: God knows how to reserve the ungodly to the day of Judgment +to be punished: {174c} And this is one of his wayes by which he +doth it. Thus it was with Mr. Badman. + +4. Fourthly, {174d} It is said in the Book of Psalms, concerning +the wicked, There is no bands in their death, but their strength is +firm. By no bands, he means no troubles, no gracious +chastisements, no such corrections for sin as fall to be the Lot of +Gods people for theirs; yea, that many times falls to be theirs, at +the time of their death. Therefore he adds concerning the wicked, +They are not troubled (then) like other men, neither are they +plagued like other men; but go as securely out of the world, as if +they had never sinned against God, and put their own souls into +danger of damnation. There is no band in their death. They seem +to go unbound, and set at liberty, out of this world, though they +have lived notoriously wicked all their dayes in it. The Prisoner +that is to dye at the Gallows for his wickedness, must first have +his Irons knock't off his legs; so he seems to goe most at liberty, +when indeed he is going to be executed for his transgressions. +Wicked men also have no bands in their death, they seem to be more +at liberty when they are even at the Wind-up of their sinfull life, +than at any time besides. + +Hence you shall have them boast of their Faith and Hope in Gods +Mercy, when they lye upon their death-bed; yea, you shall have them +speak as confidently of their salvation, as if they had served God +all their dayes: when the truth is, the bottom of this their +boasting is, because they have no bands in their death. + +Their sin and base life comes not into their mind to correct them, +and bring them to repentance; but presumptuous thoughts, and an +hope and faith of the Spiders (the Devils) making, possesseth their +soul, to their own eternal undoing. {175a} + +Hence wicked mens hope, is said to dye, not before, but with them; +they give up the Ghost together. And thus did Mr. Badman. His +sins and his hope went with him to the Gate, but there his hope +left him, because it dyed there; but his sins went in with him, to +be a worm to gnaw him in his conscience for ever and ever. + +The opinion therefore of the common people concerning this kind of +dying, is {175b} frivolous and vain; for Mr. Badman died like a +Lamb, or as they call it, like a Chrisom child, quietly and without +fear. I speak not this with reference to the strugling of nature +with death, but as to the strugling of the conscience with the +Judgment of God. I know that Nature will struggle with death. I +have seen a Dog and Sheep dye hardly: And thus may a wicked man +doe, because there is an antipathy betwixt nature and death. But +even while, even then, when Death and Nature are strugling for +mastery, the soul, the conscience, may be as besotted, as benummed, +as senceless and ignorant of its miserable state, as the block or +bed on which the sick lyes: And thus they may dye like a Chrisom +child in shew, but indeed like one who by the Judgment of God is +bound over to eternal damnation; and that also by the same Judgment +is kept from seeing what they are, and whither they are going, till +they plunge down among the flames. + +And as it is a very great Judgment of God on wicked men that so +dye, (for it cuts them off from all possibility of repentance, and +so of salvation) {176a} so it is as great a Judgment upon those +that are their companions that survive them. For by the manner of +their death, they dying so quietly, so like unto chrisom children, +as they call it, they are hardened, and take courage to go on in +their course. + +For comparing their life with their death, their sinful cursed +lives with their child-like, Lamb-like death, they think that all +is well, that no damnation is happened to them; Though they lived +like Devils incarnate, yet they dyed like harmless ones. There was +no whirl-wind, no tempest, no band, nor plague in their death: +They dyed as quietly as the most godly of them all, and had as +great faith and hope of salvation, and would talk as boldly of +salvation as if they had assurance of it. But as was their hope in +life, so was their death: Their hope was without tryal, because it +was none of Gods working, and their death was without molestation, +because so was the Judgment of God concerning them. + +But I say, at this their survivors take heart to tread their steps, +and to continue to live in the breach of the Law of God; yea they +carry it statelily in their villanies; for so it follows in the +Psalm. There is no bands in their death, but their strength is +firm, &c. Therefore pride compasseth them (the survivors) about as +a chain, violence covereth them as a garment. {176b} Therefore +they take courage to do evil, therefore they pride themselves in +their iniquity. Therefore, Wherefore? Why, because their fellows +died, after they had lived long in a most profane and wicked life, +as quietly and as like to Lambs, as if they had been innocent. + +Yea, they are bold, by seeing this, to conclude, that God, either +does not, or will not take notice of their sins. They speak +wickedly, they speak loftily. They speak wickedly of sin, for that +they make it better than by the Word it is pronounced to be. They +speak wickedly concerning oppression, that they commend, and count +it a prudent act. They also speak loftily: They set their mouth +against the Heavens, &c. And they say, How doth God know, and is +there knowledge in the most High? And all this, so far as I can +see, ariseth in their hearts from the beholding of the quiet and +lamb-like death of their companions. {177a} + +Behold these are the ungodly that prosper in the world, {177b} +(that is, by wicked ways) they increase in riches. + +This therefore is a great Judgment of God, both upon that man that +dyeth in his sins, and also upon his companion that beholdeth him +so to dye. He sinneth, he dyeth in his sins, and yet dyeth +quietly. What shall his companion say to this? What Judgment +shall he make how God will deal with him, by beholding the lamb- +like death of his companion? Be sure, he cannot, as from such a +sight say, Wo be to me, for Judgment is before him: He cannot +gather, that sin is a dreadful and a bitter thing, by the child- +like death of Mr. Badman. But must rather, if he judgeth according +to what he sees, or according to his corrupted reason, conclude +with the wicked ones of old, That every one that doth evil, is good +in the sight of the Lord, and he delighteth in them; or where is +the God of Judgment? {177c} + +Yea, this is enough to puzzle the wisest man. David himself, was +put to a stand, by beholding the quiet death of ungodly men. +Verily, sayes he, I have cleansed my heart in vain, and have washed +my hands in innocency. Psal. 73. 13. They, to appearance fare +better by far than I: Their eyes stand out with fatness, they have +more than heart can wish; But all the day long have I been plagued, +and chastned every morning. This, I say, made David wonder, yea, +and Job and Jeremiah too: But he goeth into the Sanctuary, and +then he understands their end, nor could he understand it before. +I went into the Sanctuary of God: What place was that? why there +where he might enquire of God, and by him be resolved of this +matter: Then, says he, understood I their end. Then I saw, that +thou hast set them in slippery places, and that thou castest them +down to destruction. Castest them down, that is, suddenly, or as +the next words say, As in a moment they are utterly consumed with +terrors: which terrors did not cease them on their sick-bed, for +they had no bands in their death. The terrors therefore ceased +them there, where also they are holden in them for ever. This he +found out, I say, but not without great painfulness, grief and +pricking in his reins: so deep, so hard and so difficult did he +find it, rightly to come to a determination in this matter. + +And indeed, this is a deep Judgment of God towards ungodly sinners; +it is enough to stagger a whole world, only the Godly that are in +the world have a Sanctuary to go to, where the Oracle and Word of +God is, by which his Judgements, and a reason of many of them are +made known to, and understood by them. + +Atten. Indeed this is a staggering dispensation. It is full of +the wisdom and anger of God. And I believe, as you have said, that +it is full of Judgment to the world. Who would have imagined, that +had not known Mr. Badman, and yet had seen him die, but that he had +been a man of an holy life and conversation, since he died so +stilly, so quietly, so like a Lamb or Chrisom child? Would they +not, I say, have concluded, that he was a righteous man? or that if +they had known him and his life, yet to see him die so quietly, +would they not have concluded that he had made his peace with God? +Nay further, if some had known that he had died in his sins, and +yet that he died so like a Lamb, would they not have concluded, +that either God doth not know our sins, or that he likes them; or +that he wants power, or will, or heart, or skill to punish them; +since Mr. Badman himself went from a sinfull life so quietly, so +peaceably, and so like a Lamb as he did? + +Wise. Without controversie, this is an heavy judgment of God upon +wicked men; (Job 21. 23) one goes to Hell in peace, another goes to +Hell in trouble; one goes to Hell being sent thither by his own +hands; another goes to Hell, being sent thither by the hand of his +companion; one goes thither with his eyes shut, and another goes +thither with his eyes open; one goes thither roaring, and another +goes thither boasting of Heaven and Happiness all the way he goes: +One goes thither like Mr. Badman himself, and others go thither as +did his Brethren. But above all, Mr. Badmans death, as to the +manner of dying, is the fullest of Snares and Traps to wicked men; +therefore they that die as he, are the greatest stumble to the +world: They goe, and goe, they go on peaceably from Youth to old +Age, and thence to the Grave, and so to Hell, without noyse: They +goe as an Ox to the slaughter, and as a fool to the correction of +the Stocks; that is, both sencelesly and securely. O! but being +come at the gates of Hell! O! but when they see those gates set +open for them: O! but when they see that that is their home, and +that they must go in thither, then their peace and quietness flies +away for ever: Then they roar like Lions, yell like Dragons, howl +like Dogs, and tremble at their Judgment, as do the Devils +themselves. Oh! when they see they must shoot the Gulf and Throat +of Hell! when they shall see that Hell hath shut her ghastly Jaws +upon them! when they shall open their eyes, and find themselves +within the belly and bowels of Hell! then they will mourn, and +weep, and hack, and gnash their teeth for pain. But this must not +be (or if it must, yet very rarely) till they are gone out of the +sight and hearing of those mortals whom they do leave behind them +alive in the world. + +Atten. Well, my good Neighbour Wiseman, I perceive that the Sun +grows low, and that you have come to a conclusion with Mr. Badmans +Life and Death; and therefore I will take my leave of you. Only +first, let me tell you, I am glad that I have met with you to day, +and that our hap was to fall in with Mr. Badmans state. I also +thank you for your freedom with me, in granting of me your reply to +all my questions: I would only beg your Prayers; that God will +give me much grace, that I may neither live nor die as did Mr. +Badman. + +Wise. My good Neighbour Attentive, I wish your welfare in Soul and +Body; and if ought that I have said of Mr. Badmans Life and-Death, +may be of Benefit unto you, I shall be heartily glad; only I desire +you to thank God for it, and to pray heartily for me, that I with +you may be kept by the Power of God through Faith unto Salvation. + +Atten. Amen. Farewell. + +Wise. I wish you heartily Farewell. + + + +MARGIN NOTES + + + +(General note. When Mr. Badman was printed much of the text was +annotated with notes in the margins. These are unlike our modern +footnotes in that they may apply to a range of text rather than at +a single point. However, in this Project Gutenberg eText it has +not been possible to reproduce the margin notes as such and hence +they have been turned into footnotes. The footnote numbering isn't +strictly consecutive but rather is the page the margin note appears +on followed by a single letter.--DP) + +{1a} In this Project Gutenberg eText italics have been dropped as +they are excessive but otherwise the text, complete with +capitalisation, punctuation, spelling etc., is as in the edition +transcribed.--DP + +{1b} Not included in this Project Gutenberg eText as we have +already released "The Holy War."--DP + +{1c} John Brown, D.D. + +{2a} The symbol used in the original book (a hand pointing) cannot +be reproduced. In this Project Gutenberg eText it will therefore +be rended as a footnote: NOTE.--DP + +{20a} Original sin is the root of Actual transgressions. + +{20b} Mark 7. + +{21a} Job 11. 12. Ezek. 16. Exod. 13. 13. Chap. 34. 20. + +{21b} Rom. 5. + +{21c} Badman addicted to Lying from a child. + +{21d} A Lie knowingly told demonstrates that the heart is +desperately hard. + +{22a} The Lyers portion. Rev. 21. 8. 27. Chap. 22. 15. + +{22b} Prov. 22. 15. Chap. 23. 13, 14. + +{22c} Joh. 8. 44. + +{22d} The Devils Brat. + +{22e} Acts 5. 3, 4. + +{22f} The Father and Mother of a Lie. + +{23a} Mark. + +{23b} Some will tell a Lie for a Peny profit. + +{23c} An Example for Lyers. Acts 5. + +{24a} A Spirit of Lying accompanyed with other sins. + +{24b} Badman given to pilfer. + +{24c} Badman would rob his Father. + +{24d} Exod. 20. 15. + +{25a} Zech. 5. 3. + +{25b} Jer. 2. 26. How Badman did use to carry it when his Father +used to chide him for his sins. + +{25c} Badman more firmly knit to his Companions than either to +Father or Mother. + +{25d} Badman would rejoyce to think that his Parents death were at +hand. + +{26a} 1 Sam. 2. 25. + +{26b} Badman counted his thieving no great matter. + +{26c} NOTE. + +{26d} The Story of old Tod. + +{26e} Young Thieves takes notice. + +{27a} NOTE. + +{27b} Old Tod began his way to the Gallows by robbing of Orchards +and the like. + +{28a} Badman could not abide the Lords Day. + +{28b} Why Badman could not abide the Lords Day. + +{29a} God proves the heart what it is, by instituting of the Lords +day, and setting it apart to his service. + +{29b} Gen. 2. 2. Exod. 31. 13, 14, 15, 16, 17. Mar. 16. 1. Acts +20. 7. 1 Cor. 16. 1, 2. Mar. 2. 27, 28. Revel. 1. 10. + +{29c} Isa. 5. 8, 13.--Could not see where this fits in the text.-- +DP + +{29d} Chap. 56. 2. + +{29e} Amos 8. 5. + +{30a} Heb. 4. 9. + +{30b} How Badman did use to spend the Lords Day. + +{30c} Ephes. 5. 6. + +{31a} Badman given to Swearing and Cursing. + +{31b} Rom. 6. 13. + +{31c} Swearing and Cursing a badge of Mr. Badmans honour. + +{31d} Difference betwixt Swearing and Cursing. + +{31e} What Swearing is. + +{32a} Exod. 20. 7. + +{32b} A man may sin in swearing to a truth. Jer. 5. 2. + +{32c} He that swears to a Lie, concludes that God is as wicked as +himself. + +{32d} Zech. 5. 3. Jer. 7. 9. Hos. 4. 2, 3. + +{33a} Six Causes of vain Swearing. + +{33b} Jam. 3. 6, 7, 8, 9. + +{34a} How Cursing is distinguished from Swearing. + +{34b} Of Cursing, what it is. + +{34c} 2 Sam. 16. 6, 7, 8. + +{34d} 1 King. 2. 8. + +{34e} How the profane ones of our times Curse. + +{35a} Job 30. 31. + +{35b} Badmans way of Cursing. + +{35c} The Damme Blade. + +{35d} Badman would curse his Father, &c. + +{35e} Badman would curse his Fathers Cattel. + +{36a} Job 15. Eccles. 7. 22. + +{36b} Four causes of Cursing. + +{36c} The dishonour it brings to God. + +{36d} Jam. 3. 9. + +{37a} Swearing and Cursing, are sins against the light of Nature. + +{37b} Gen. 31. + +{37c} Examples of Gods anger against them that Swear and Curse. + +{37d} NOTE. + +{38a} NOTE. + +{40a} Psal. 109. 17,18. + +{40b} A grievous thing to bring up Children wickedly. + +{41a} Badman put to be an Apprentice. + +{41b} Young Badmans Master, and his qualifications. + +{42a} A bad Master, a bad thing. + +{42b} How many ways a Master may be the ruin of an Apprentice. + +{43a} Children are great observers of what older folks doe. + +{43b} 1 Sam. 2. + +{43c} Badman had all advantages to be good, but continued Badman +still. + +{43d} All good things abominable to Badman. + +{44a} Good counsel to Badman like Little-Ease. Prov. 9. 8. Chap. +15. 12. + +{44b} How Badman used to behave himself at Sermons. + +{45a} NOTE. + +{45b} The desperate words of one H. S. who once was my Companion. +He was own bother to Ned, of whom you read before. + +{45c} Job 21. 14. Zech. 1. 11, 12, 13. + +{45d} Zech. 7. 13. + +{46a} Gen. 21. 9, 10. 2 King. 2. 23, 24. + +{46b} Badmans Acquaintance. + +{46c} A Sign of Gods Anger. + +{46d} Rom. 1. 28. + +{46e} Psal. 125. 5. + +{46f} 2 Thess. 2. 10, 11, 12. + +{47a} Prov. 12. 20. + +{47b} The Devils Decoys. + +{47c} Prov. 1. 29. + +{47d} NOTE. + +{47e} This was done at Bedford. + +{48a} Prov. 7. 12, 13. + +{48b} Prov. 5. 11. + +{48c} 2 Pet. 2. 12, 13. + +{48d} Badman becomes a frequenter of Taverns. + +{48e} NOTE. + +{48f} A Story for a Drunkard. + +{49a} Four evils attend drunkenness. + +{49b} Prov. 23. 20, 21. + +{49c} Eccles. 7. 17. + +{49d} Prov. 23. 29, 30. + +{50a} 1 Cor. 6. 10. + +{50b} The fifth evil the worst. + +{50c} Prov. 23. 34, 35. + +{50d} An Objection answered. + +{50e} Habak. 2, 9, 10, 11, 12. Ver. 5, 15. + +{51a} Badmans Masters Purse paid for his drunkenness. + +{51b} A Caution for Masters. + +{51c} NOTE. + +{52a} NOTE. + +{52b} Badmans third companion addicted to Uncleanness. + +{52c} Sins of great men dangerous. + +{53a} Prov. 5. 8. + +{53b} Chap. 7. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18. + +{53c} Signs of a whore. + +{54a} The sin of Uncleanness cried out against. + +{54b} What evils attend this sin. Prov. 6. 26. + +{54c} Gen. 38. 18. + +{54d} Prov. 31. 1, 2. + +{54e} NOTE. + +{54f} A Story for unclean persons to take notice of. + +{55a} More evils attend this sin. + +{55b} NOTE. + +{55c} Job 31. 1, 2, 3. + +{56a} Prov. 6. 33. + +{56b} NOTE. + +{57a} NOTE. + +{57b} NOTE. + +{58c} Prov. 6. 26. + +{59a} Chap. 23. 27. Prov. 2. 18, 19. Chap. 7. 25, 26, 27. + +{59b} Prov. 22. 14. + +{59c} Ephes. 5. 5. + +{59d} NOTE. + +{59e} Desperate words. + +{59a} NOTE. + +{59b} Gen. 39. 10. + +{59c} Of chaste Joseph. + +{60a} Many are made whores by promises of Marriage, &c. + +{60b} Clarks Looking-glass for Sinners, Chap. 2. Pag. 12. + +{60c} Badman and his Master abhor one another. + +{60d} Prov. 29. 27. + +{61a} Young Badman runs away from his Master. + +{61b} He gets a new Master like himself. + +{61c} A sign of Gods anger upon young Badman. + +{62a} Demonstration of Gods anger towards him. + +{62b} Gen. 18. 18, 19. + +{62c} Psal. 7. 14. + +{62d} Jam. 1. 15. + +{63a} It concerns Parents to put their Children into good +Families. + +{63b} Masters should also beware what Servants they entertain. + +{63c} Young Badman and his second Master cannot agree. + +{63d} Acts 16. 16. + +{63e} Reasons of their disagreeing. + +{64a} Acts 16. 17, 18, 19, 20. + +{64b} Ro. 14. 22. + +{64c} Bad Masters condemn themselves when they for badness beat +their Bad servants. + +{64d} 1 King. 16. 7. + +{65a} Why young Badman did not run away from this Master though he +did beat him. + +{65b} Why Badman could bear his last Masters reproof better than +he could the first. + +{65c} By what means Badman came to be compleated in his +wickedness. + +{66a} Badman out of his time. + +{66b} He goes home to his Father. + +{66c} He refrains himself for Money. + +{66d} Severity what it inclines to. + +{67a} We are better at giving then taking good Counsel. + +{67b} This is to be considered. + +{68a} A good woman and her bad son. + +{68b} Mr. Badman sets up for himself, and quickly runs to the +lands end. + +{69a} The reason of his runing out. + +{69b} Eccle. 11, 9. + +{69c} New companions. + +{69d} Mr. Badmans temper. + +{69e} Pro. 29. 3. Chap. 13. 20. + +{69f} Pro. 28. 7. + +{69g} Pro. 28. 19. + +{70a} Pro. 23. 21. + +{70b} His Behaviour under his decays. + +{70c} How he covered his decayes. + +{70d} Badman is for a rich Wife. + +{70e} Badman has a godly Maid in his eye. + +{71a} He seeks to get her, why, and how. + +{71b} He calls his Companions together, and they advise him how to +get her. + +{71c} Badman goes to the Damosel as his Counsel advised him. + +{72a} Badmans complement, his lying complement. + +{72b} Neglect of Counsel about marriage dangerous. + +{73a} Badman obtains his desire, is married, &c. + +{73b} His carriage judged ungodly and wicked. + +{73c} Mat. 23. + +{73d} The great alteration that quickly happened to Badmans wife. + +{73e} Mala. 3. 15. + +{73f} Expectation of Judgment is for such things. + +{73g} Job. 21. 30, 31, 32. + +{74a} An example of Gods anger on such as have heretofore +committed this sin of Mr. Badman. Gen 34. + +{74b} NOTE. + +{74c} After Badman is married, his Creditors come upon him, and +his wives Portion pays for that which his whores were feasted with +before he was married. + +{75a} Now she reaps the fruits of her unadvisedness. + +{75b} Now Badman has got him a wife by Religion, he hangs it by as +a thing out of use, and entertains his old Companions. + +{75c} He drives good company from his wife. + +{75d} He goes to his Whores. + +{76a} He rails at his wife. + +{76b} He seeks to force his wife from her Religion. + +{76c} He mocks at her Preachers. + +{76d} He mocks his wife in her dejections. + +{76e} He refuses to let her go out to good company. + +{77a} She gets out sometimes by stealth. + +{77b} Her repentance and complaint. + +{77c} Psal. 120 + +{77d} The evil of being unequally yoaked together. + +{78a} 2 Cor. 6. 13. + +{78b} Gen. 3. 15. + +{78c} Deut. 2. 43. (This doesn't exist but is as given in the +text. DP) + +{78d} Good counsel to those godly maids that are to marry. + +{79a} A caution to young women. + +{79b} Let Mr. Badmans wife be your Example. + +{80a} Deut. 7. 4, 5. (Rather unnecessary footnote. DP) + +{80b} 1 Cor. 7. 39. 2 Cor. 6. 14, 15, 16. + +{80c} Rules for those that are to marry. + +{80d} If you love your Souls take heed. + +{81a} Duet 7. + +{81b} Psal. 106. 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40. + +{81c} Badmans Children that he had by this good woman. + +{81d} Nehem. 13. 24. + +{82a} How the ungodly Father and godly Mother doe strive for the +Children that God doth give them. + +{82b} 2 King. 17. + +{83a} The advantages that Children have, whose Parents are both +godly. + +{84a} The disadvantages that the Children of ungodly Parents have. + +{84b} Job 30. 8. + +{84c} A contest betwixt Mr. Badman and his wife. + +{85a} Ephes. 5. 28. + +{85b} With what weapons Badman did deal with his wife. + +{85c} Mr. Badmans heart discovered as to its enmity against the +friends of his wife. + +{86a} Mark + +{86b} NOTE. + +{87a} NOTE. + +{88a} New discourse of Mr. Badman. + +{88b} Mr. Badman plays a new prank. + +{89a} Mr. Badmans perfection. + +{90a} How Mr. Badman came to enjoy himself. + +{90b} 2 Chron. 28. 22. 1 King 21. 25. Gen. 13. 13. + +{90c} Job 21. 17. + +{90d} There are abundance like Mr. Badman. + +{91a} Pro. 24. 9. + +{91b} He that would be bad is bad. + +{91c} Matt 5. 28. + +{91d} Pro. 23. 7. Mat. 5. Rom. 7. 7. + +{92a} A bad heart makes a bad man. + +{92b} 1 Sam. 24. 13. Mat. 7. 16, 17, 18. + +{92c} Mar. 7. 20, 21, 22, 23. + +{93a} Mr. Badman had an art to break, and to get money that way. + +{93b} How he managed things in order to his breaking. + +{93c} He breaks. + +{94a} Mr. Badmans suger words to his Creditors. + +{94b} Badmans friend. + +{94c} What Mr. Badman propounds to his Creditors. + +{94d} They at last agree, and Mr. Badman gains by breaking. + +{95a} There is no plea for his dishonesty. + +{96a} An answer to two questions. + +{96b} 1. Q[u]estion. + +{96c} Levit. 19. 13. + +{96d} The hainousness of this sin. + +{96e} 1 Thess. 4. 6. + +{96f} fair warning. + +{97a} Colos. 3. 25. + +{97b} Fair warning again. + +{97c} He that designedly commits this sin is like the Devil. + +{97d} 2. Question. + +{98a} How those that are Banckrupts should deal with their +consciences. + +{98b} Good advice. + +{98c} Rom. 12. 11. + +{98d} 1 Tim. 5. 8. + +{98e} Pro. 18. 9. + +{98f} Good counsel again. + +{99a} How to find that thy decay came by the Judgment of God, or +by thy miscarriage. + +{99b} Another question. + +{99c} Pro. 10. 3. 1 Pet. 5. 6. + +{99d} Lam. 3. 33. + +{100a} Good advice again. Deut. 32. 15. + +{100b} James 1. 9, 10. + +{100c} Consider four things. + +{100d} Job 1. 21. Chap. 2. 8. + +{100e} Psal. 49. 6. + +{100f} Jam. 2. 5. + +{101a} Honest dealing with Creditors. + +{101b} Pro. 16. 33. + +{102a} Jer. 15. 10, 11. Pro. 16. 7. + +{102b} A heavy blot upon Religion. + +{103a} If Knaves will make profession their cloak to be vile, who +can help it? + +{103b} 1 Cor. 6. 8, 9, 10. 2 Tim. 3. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. + +{103c} Matt. 18. 6, 7, 8. + +{103d} Let such be disowned of all good men. + +{103e} Jer. 17. 11. + +{104a} Ezek. 20. 38, 39. + +{104b} 2 Cor. 7. 2. + +{104c} Mar. 10. 19. + +{104d} 1 Sam. 12. 3. + +{104e} Ver. 4. + +{105a} A question. + +{105b} An answer. + +{105c} 2 King. 4. 1, 2. + +{105d} Hag. 1. 9. + +{105e} God does sometimes blow upon his own people. How they +should doe at that time. + +{105f} Philip. 4. 12. + +{106a} More of Mr. Badmans fraudulent dealing. He used deceitful +weights and scales. + +{107a} Levit. 19. 35, 36. + +{107b} Of Just weights and measures. + +{107c} Ezek. 45. 10. + +{107d} Pro. 20. 23. Chap. 11. 1. + +{107e} The evil of deceitful Balances, Weights and Measures. + +{107f} Deut. 25. 13, 14, 15, 16. + +{108a} The Old and New Law commands all men to be honest and +upright in their weights and measures. + +{108b} Luke 6. 88. + +{108c} Pat Scriptures for our purpose. + +{109a} Where false weights and measures are to be found. + +{109b} 1. With evil doers. + +{109c} Mic. 6. 10. + +{109d} 2. With the merciless and Oppressors. + +{109e} Hos. 12. 7. + +{109f} 3. With such as would swallow up the poor. + +{109g} Amos 8. 4, 5, 6, 7. + +{110a} 4. With impure ones. + +{110b} Mic. 6. 11. + +{110c} Dan. 5. 27. + +{111a} How Mr. Badman did cheat, and hide his cheating. + +{111b} Good Weights and a bad Ballance a deep piece of Knavery. + +{112a} Mat. 23. + +{112b} A cloak of Religion to blind Mr. Cheats Knavery. + +{112c} Some plead Custom to cheat. + +{112d} Deut. 16. 20. + +{113a} They get nothing that cozen and cheat. + +{113b} Mar. 9. + +{113c} Prov. 10. 3. Jer. 15. 13. Chap. 17. 3. + +{113d} Job 27. 17. + +{113e} Pro. 13. 22. + +{114a} More of Mr. Badmans Bad tricks. + +{114b} Amos 8. + +{114c} Another art to cheat withall. + +{115a} Zeph. 1. 9. + +{115b} Servants observe these words. + +{115c} Of Extortion. + +{115d} 1 Cor. 6. 9, 10. + +{116a} Who are Extortioners. + +{116b} Hucksters. + +{116c} Pro. 22. 16, 22. + +{117a} Deut. 23. 19. + +{118a} Whether it be lawful for a man to make the best of his own. +Proved in negative by 8 reasons. + +{118b} Good conscience must be used in selling. + +{118c} We must not make a prey of our neighbours Ignorance. + +{118d} Nor of his Neighbours Necessity. + +{119a} Nor of his Fondness of our commodity. + +{119b} We must use good conscience in buying. + +{119c} Gen. 23. 8, 9. + +{119d} 1 Chron. 21, 22. 24. + +{119e} Levit. 25. 14. + +{120a} Charity must be used in our dealings. + +{120b} 1 Cor. 16. 14. + +{120c} 1 Cor. 13. + +{120d} Ephes. 4. 25. + +{120e} There may be and is sin in trading. + +{121a} Matt. 7. 12. + +{121b} A man in trading must not offer violence to the Law of +nature. + +{121c} Job. 37. 7. + +{121d} We must not abuse the Gift we have in the knowledge of +earthly things. + +{121e} 1 Cor. 10. 13. (Don't see where this fits into text. DP) + +{121f} An eye to the glory of God in all we should have. + +{121g} Colo. 3. 17. + +{121h} Acts, 24. 15, 16. + +{122a} Levit. 25. 14. + +{122b} Badman used to laugh at them that told him of his faults. + +{122c} Luke. 16. 13, 14, 15. Chap. 6. 25. + +{123a} A question. + +{123b} An answer. + +{123c} Preparations to be a good dealer. + +{123d} Eccle. 5. 10, 11. + +{123e} 1 Tim. 6. 7, 8, 9. + +{124a} Ezek. 22. 13. + +{124b} Pro. 15. 17. Chap 16. 8. 1 Sam. 2. 5. Pro. 5. 21. + +{124c} Job 14. 17. + +{124d} Eccles. 5. 13, 14, 15. + +{124e} Prov. 20. 14. + +{125a} Amos 8. 5. + +{125b} A Judgment of God. 2 King. 7. + +{125c} Pro. 11. 26. + +{125d} Isa. 58. 6, 7, 8. + +{125e} Philip. 4. 5. + +{126a} Mr. Badman a very proud man. + +{126b} Of pride in general. + +{126c} Pro. 21. 24. + +{126d} Pride sticks close to nature. + +{127a} Pro. 8. 13. Chap. 29. 23. Isa. 25. 11. Mal. 4. 1. + +{128a} Proud men do not love to be called proud. + +{128b} Two sorts of pride. + +{128c} Pro. 16. 5. Chap. 21. 4. Eccle. 7. 8. + +{128d} Isa. 3. 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22. + +{128e} Wicked men do hate that word that reproves their vice. + +{129a} Signes of a proud man in general. + +{129b} Pro. 30. 13. + +{129c} Pro. 17. 19. + +{129d} Mar. 7. + +{129e} In particular. + +{129f} Psal. 10. 2. + +{129g} Psal. 10. 4. + +{129h} Pro. 13. 10. + +{129i} Psal. 119. 51. + +{129j} Ver. 122. + +{129k} Jer. 13. 17. + +{129l} Chap. 43. 2. + +{129m} Mal. 3. 15. + +{129n} Of outward pride. + +{130a} 1 Tim. 2. 2. (Don't see where this fits in the text. DP) + +{130b} 1 Pet. 3. 3, 4, 5. + +{130c} Mr. Badman was not for having pride called pride. + +{130d} Professors guilty of the sin of pride. + +{131a} Jer. 3. 3. + +{131b} 1 Tim. 2. 9. + +{131c} 1 Pet. 3. 1, 2, 3. + +{131d} Jer. 23. 15. + +{131e} Ezra. 9. 2. + +{131f} Pride in professors a shame and stumbling-block to the +world. + +{132a} NOTE. + +{132b} Why pride is in such request. + +{132c} 1 Reason. Mar. 7. 22, 23. + +{132d} Obad. 3. + +{132e} 1 Joh. 2. 16. + +{132f} 1 Pet. 3. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. + +{133a} 3 Reason. + +{133b} 4 Reason. + +{133c} Isa. 6. + +{133d} 5 Reason. + +{134a} The evil effects of the sin of Pride. + +{134b} 1 Evil effect. 1 Tim. 3. 6. + +{134c} 2 Evil effect. Psal. 138. 9. + +{134d} 3 Evil effect. + +{135a} Jam. 4. 6. + +{135b} 4 Evil effect. Pro. 16. 25. + +{135c} 5 Evil effect. Pro. 11. 2. Prov. 16. 8. + +{135d} 6 Evil effect. 1 Tim. 3. 6. + +{135e} A general character of Mr. Badman. + +{135f} Psalm. 36. 1. + +{135g} A brief relation of Mr. Badmans ways. + +{136a} Isa. 26. 10. + +{136b} Isa. 9. 13. + +{136c} Isa. 26. 11. + +{136d} Psal. 29. 5. (Cannot see where this fits in the text. DP) + +{136e} Pro. 17. 6. (Cannot see where this fits in the text. DP) + +{136f} Isa. 26. 10. + +{136g} Mr. Badmans judgment of the Scriptures. + +{136h} Good men Mr. Badmans song. + +{137a} Psal. 50. 19. 20. + +{137b} Rom. 3. 7, 8. + +{137c} Jer. 23. 10. + +{137d} When the wicked watch, Gods people should be wary. + +{137e} Badman an angry, envious man. + +{138a} Pro. 14. 16. + +{138b} Eccle. 7. 9. + +{138c} Whence Envy flows. + +{138d} Pro. 27. 3, 4. + +{138e} Envie the worst of the four. + +{138f} Gal. 5. 19, 20. + +{139a} Pro. 14. 30. + +{139b} Envy is the father and mother of a many wickednesses. + +{139c} Jam. 3. 14, 15. + +{139d} Some of the births of Envy. + +{139e} Job. 5. 2. + +{139f} Matt. 27. 18. + +{139g} Mar. 15. 10. + +{139h} Acts 7. 9. + +{139i} Isa. 11. 13. + +{139j} Acts 13. 14. (Cannot see where this fits in the text. DP) + +{140a} A rare thing. + +{140b} Mr. Badman under some trouble of mind. + +{140c} Mr. Badman brake his legg. + +{140d} He swears. + +{140e} He prays. + +{141a} It has no good effect upon him. + +{141b} NOTE. + +{141c} How many sins do accompany drunkenness. + +{141d} Acts 17. 30, 31, 32. + +{142a} Job 34. 24, 25, 26. + +{142b} An open stroak. + +{142c} pag. 41. + +{143a} Mr. Badman fallen sick. + +{143b} His conscience is wounded. + +{143c} He cryes out in his sickness. + +{143d} His Atheism will not help him now. + +{144a} A dreadful example of Gods anger. + +{144b} NOTE. + +{144c} What Mr. Badman did more when he was sick. + +{145a} Great alteration made in Mr. Badman. + +{145b} The Town-talk of Mr. Badmans change. + +{145c} His wife is comforted. + +{146a} Mr. Badman recovers and returns to his old course. + +{146b} Ignorant physicians kill souls while they cure bodyes. + +{147a} Gen. 4. 13. 14. Exo. 9. 27. 1 Sam. 15. 24. Matt. 27. 3, +4, 5. + +{147b} The true symptoms of conversion wanting in all Mr. Badmans +sence of sin and desires of mercy. + +{147c} Exo. 19. 28. Acts 8. 24. + +{147d} Luke 16. 27, 28. + +{147e} Of sick-bed repentance, and that it is to be suspected. + +{148a} Hos. 7. 14. + +{148b} A sign of the desperateness of mans heart. + +{148c} Deut. 1. 34, 35. + +{148d} Psal. 78. 34, 35, 36, 37. + +{149a} Mr. Badmans wifes heart is broken. + +{149b} Her Christian speech. + +{149c} Heb. 12. 22, 23, 24. + +{149d} Her talk to her friends. (Don't see how this relates to +the text. DP) + +{150a} Ps. 35. 13. + +{150b} Her talk to her husband. + +{151a} He diverts her discourse. + +{151b} Her speech to her children that were rude. + +{151c} Rev. 7. 16. Chap. 21. 3, 4. + +{151d} Her speech to her darling. + +{152a} Heb. 3. 14. + +{152b} Ephes. 5. 11. + +{152c} Her death. + +{153a} NOTE. + +{153b} One of her children converted by her dying words. + +{153c} Mat. 23. + +{154a} Mr. Badmans base language. + +{154b} He marryes again, and how he got this last wife. + +{154c} What she was, and how they lived. + +{154d} Clarks Looking Glass. + +{155a} Amo. 7. 16, 17. + +{156a} He is punished in his last wife for his bad carriages +towards his first. + +{156b} He is not at all the better. + +{156c} None did pity him for his sorrow, but looked upon it as a +just reward. + +{156d} Badman and this last wife part as poor as Howlets. + +{157a} Mr Badmans sickness and diseases of which he died. + +{157b} Badmans name stinks when he is dead. + +{157c} Pro. 10. 7. + +{158a} That Mr. Badman dies impenitent is proved. + +{158b} 1 Proof that he died impenitent. + +{159a} Isa. 6. Ro. 11. + +{159b} No sence of sin, no repentance proved. + +{159c} Acts 2. Chap. 9. Chap. 16. + +{159d} Psal. 38. 18. + +{159e} 2 Sam. 12. + +{159f} Job 10. 2. Chap. 34. 32. + +{159g} Jer. 31. 18, 19, 20. + +{160a} Job 20. 11. Prov. 5. 22. + +{160b} Matt. 25. Isa. 66. 24. Mar. 9. 44. + +{160c} Every sight and sence of sin cannot produce repentance. + +{160d} 2 proof that he died impenitent. + +{161a} 1 King. 21. 17, 18, 19, 20, 21. + +{161b} Psal. 41. 6. + +{161c} How Badman carried it to good men when they came to visit +him in his last sickness. + +{163a} Job. 21. 14. + +{163b} Jer. 2. 25. Zech. 7. 11, 12. Acts. 28. 26, 27. + +{163c} 3 Proof that he died impenitent. + +{163d} Acts 9. 11. + +{163e} Psal. 18. 14. + +{163f} Job 36. 13. + +{164a} Psal. 51. 1. Psal. 6. 1, 2, 3, 4. Psal. 38. + +{164b} 4 Proof that he died impenitent. + +{165a} Acts. 9. 26. 28. + +{165b} Psal. 119. 63. + +{165c} 2 Cor. 5. 17. + +{165d} Acts. 4. 32, 33. Chap. 2. 44, 45, 46, 47. + +{166a} How Mr. Badman was when near his End. + +{166b} He died like a Lamb. + +{166c} The opinion of the Ignorant about his manner of dying. + +{167a} How we must judge whether men dye well or no. + +{167b} When we may judge of a mans eternal state by the manner of +his death. + +{168a} NOTE. + +{168b} NOTE. + +{168c} The story of John Cox. + +{169a} Of dying in Despair. + +{170a} NOTE. + +{170b} NOTE. + +{170c} 1 Sam. 28. + +{170d} Psal. 73. 4. (Don't see where this fits into the text. +DP) + +{171a} Further discourse of Mr. Badmans death. + +{171b} He that after a sinfull life dies quietly, that is, without +repentance, goes to Hell. 1 Proof + +{171c} Sick-bed repentance seldom good for any thing. + +{172a} Luke 13. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. + +{172b} 2 Proof. + +{173a} Peace in a sinfull state is a sign of damnation. + +{173b} Hos 4. 17. + +{173c} 3 Proof. + +{173d} Joh. 12. 40. + +{174a} Luk. 16. 22. + +{174b} Rom. 2. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Acts 28. 26, 27. + +{174c} 2 Pet. 2. + +{174d} 4 Proof. Psal. 73. 4, 5, 6. + +{175a} Job 8. 13, 14. + +{175b} A frivolous opinion. + +{176a} When a wicked man dyes in his sins quietly, it is a +Judgment of God upon his wicked beholder. + +{176b} Ver. 6. + +{177a} Ver. 8. 9, 10, 11. + +{177b} Vers. 12. + +{177c} Mala. 2. 17. + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's Etext Life and Death of Mr. Badman, by Bunyan + diff --git a/old/badmn10.zip b/old/badmn10.zip Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..7b961d6 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/badmn10.zip |
