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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. F. CLAY, <span +class="smcap">Manager</span>.</p> +<p style="text-align: center">London: FETTER LANE, E.C.</p> +<p style="text-align: center">Glasgow: <span +class="GutSmall">50</span>, WELLINGTON STREET.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"> +<a href="images/p0cb.jpg"> +<img alt= +"Decorative graphic" +title= +"Decorative graphic" +src="images/p0cs.jpg" /> +</a></p> +<p style="text-align: center">Leipzig: F. A. BROCKHAUS.</p> +<p style="text-align: center">New York: THE MACMILLAN +COMPANY.</p> +<p style="text-align: center">Bombay and Calcutta: MACMILLAN AND +CO., <span class="smcap">Ltd.</span></p> +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center">[<i>All Rights reserved</i>]</p> +<h2>NOTE</h2> +<p><i>The Life and Death of Mr Badman</i> was published by John +Bunyan in 1680, two years after the First Edition of the First +Part of <i>The Pilgrim’s Progress</i>. 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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