as long as it was grudging till it was over Atten. This his abhorring of that day was not I think for the sake of the day it self for as it is a day it is nothing else but as other days of the Week But I suppose that the reason of his loathing of it was for that God hath put sanctity and holiness upon it also because it is the day above all the days of the week that ought to be spent in holy Devotion in remembrance of our Lords Resurrection from the dead Wise. Yes 't was therefore that he was such an enemy to it even because more restraint was laid upon him on that day from his own ways than were possible should be laid upon him on all others Atten. Doth not God by instituting of a day unto holy Duties make great proof how the hearts and inclinations of poor people do stand to Holiness of heart and a Conversation in doly duties Wise. 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 〈…〉 to the perpetuity of Holiâ—â—â—◠〈…〉 than to be found in a 〈…〉 does 〈…〉 â—ys 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 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 upon the account that now they have an opportunity to shew how they delight to honour him 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 The first he calleth a Blessed man but brandeth the other for an unsanctified worldling And indeed to delight our selves in Gods service upon his Holy days gives a better proof of a sanctified Nature than to grudge at the coming and to be weary of the holy duties of such dayes as Mr. Badman did Atten. There may be something in what you say for he that cannot abide to keep one day holy to God to be sure he hath given a sufficient proof that he is an unsanctified man and as such what should he do in Heaven that being the place where a perpetual Sabath is to be kept to God 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 â—â—t 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 spend it in all manner of idleness and profaneness then he would be pleased well enough but what was this but a turning the day into night or other than taking an opportunity at Gods forbidding to follow our Callings to solace and satisfie our lusts and delights of the flesh I take the liberty to speak thus of Mr. Badman upon a confidence of what you Sir have said of him is true Wise. You needed not to have made that Apology for your censuring of Mr. Badman for all that knew him will confirm what you said of him to be true He could not abide either that day or any thing else that had the stamp or image of God upon it Sin sin and to do the thing that was naught was that which he delighted in and that from a little Child Atten. I must say again I am sorry to hear it and that for his own sake and also for the sake of his Relations who must needs be broken to pieces with such doings as these For for these things sake comes the wrath of God upon the Children of disobedience and doubtless he must be gone to Hell if he died without Repentance and to beget a Child for Hell is sad for Parents to think on Wise. Of his Dying as I told you I will give you a Relation anon but now we are upon his Life and upon the Manner of his Life in his Childhood even of the sins that attended him then some of which I have mentioned already and indeed I have mentioned but some for yet there are more to follow and those not at all inferiour to what you have already heard Atten. Pray what were they Wise. Why he was greatly given and that while a Lad to grievous Swearing and Cursing yea he then made no more of Swearing and Cursing than I do of telling my fingers Yea he would do it without provocation thereto He counted it a glory to Swear and Curse and it was as natural to him as to eat and drink and sleep Atten. Oh! what a young Villain was this here is as the Apostle says a yielding of Members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin indeed This is proceeding from evil to evil with a witness This argueth that he was a black-mouthed young Wretch indeed Wise. He was so and yet as I told you he counted above all this kind of sinning to be a Badge of his Honour He reckoned himself a mans Fellow when he had learnt to Swear and Curse boldly Atten. I am perswaded that many do think as you have said that to Swear is a thing that does bravely become them and that it is the best way for a man when he would
also rob his Father methinks that was an unnatural thing Wise. Natural or unnatural all is one to a Thief Besides you must think that he had likewise Companions to whom he was for the wickedness that he saw in them more firmly knit than either to Father or Mother Yea and what had he cared if Father and Mother and 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 rejoyce to think that his Parents were old and could not live long and then quoth he I shall be mine own man to do what I list without their controul Atten. Then it seems he counted that robbing of his Parents was no crime Wise. None at all and therefore he fell directly under that Sentence Whoso robbeth his Father or his Mother and saith it is no transgression the same is the companion of a destroyer And for that he set so light by them as to their Persons and Counsels 't was a sign that at present he was of a very abominable spirit and that some Judgement waited to take hold of him in time to come Atten. But can you imagin what it was I mean in his conceit for I speak not now of the suggestions of Satan by which doubtless he was put on to do these things I say what it should be in his conceit that should make him think that this his manner of pilfering and stealing was not great matter Wise. It was for that the things that he stole were small to rob Orchards and Gardens and to steal Pullen and the like these he counted 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 laught at it when he had done 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 piâ—fer and steal small things To my best remembrance he told us that he began the trade of a Thief by stealing of Pins and Points and therefore did forewarn all the Youth that then were gathered together to see him die to take heed of beginning though but with little sins because by tampering at first with little ones way is made for the commission of bigger Wise. Since you are entred upon Storyes I also will tell you one the which though I heard it not with mine own Ears yet my Author I dare believe It is concerning one old Tod that was hanged about Twenty years agoe or more at Hartford for being a Thief The Story is this At a Summer Assizes holden at Hartfort 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 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 of this place but I have either been at it or privy to it The Judge thought the fellow was mad but after some conference with some of the Justices they agreed to Indict him and so they did of several felonious Actions to all which he heartily confessed Guilty and so was hanged with his Wife at the same time Atten. This is a remarkable Story indeed and you think it is a true one Wise. It is not only remarkable but pat to our purpose This Thief like Mr. Badman began his Trade betimes he began too where Mr. Badman began even at robbing of Orchards and other such things which brought him as you may perceive from sin to sin till at last it brought him to the publick shame of sin which is the Gallows As for the truth of this Story the Relator told me that he was at the same time himself in the Court and stood within less than two yards of old Tod when he heard him aloud to utter the words Atten. These two sins of lying and stealing were a bad sign of an evil end Wise. So they were and yet Mr. Badman came not to his end like old Tod Though I fear to as bad nay worse than was that death of the Gallows though less discerned by spectators but more of that by and by But you talk of these two sins as if these were all that Mr. Badâ—man was addicted to in â—is Youth Alas alas he swarmed with sins even as a Begger does with Vermin and that when he was but a Boy Atten. Why what other sins was he addicted to I mean while he was but a Child Wise. You need not ask to what other sins was he but to what other sins was he not addicted that is of such as suited with his Age for a man may safely say that nothing that was vile came amiss to him if he was but capable to do it Indeed some sins there be that Childhood knows not how to be tampering with but I speak of sins that he was capable of committing of which I will nominate two or three more And First He could not endure the 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
seen in Job But then the consideration of this should bid men have a care that they be honest lest this comes upon them for their sin It should also bid them beware of launching further into the world than in an honest way by ordinary means they can Godlily make their retreat for the further in the greater fall It should also teach them to begg of God his blessing upon their endeavours their honest and lawfull endeavours And it should put them upon a diligent looking to their steps that if in their going they should hear the Ice crack they may timely goe back again These things considered and duely put in practice if God will blow upon a man then let him be content and with Job embrace the dunghill let him give unto all their dues and not fight against the Providence of God but humble himself rather under his mighty hand which comes to strip him naked and bare for he that doth otherwise fights against God and declares that he is a stranger to that of Paul I know both how to be abased and I know how to abound every where in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry both to abound and to suffer need Atten. But Mr. Badman would not I believe have put this difference 'twixt things feigned and those that fall of necessity Wise. If he will not God will Conscience will and that not thine own only but the Consciences of all those that have seen the way and that have known the truth of the condition of such an one Atten. Well Let us at this time leave this matter and return again to Mr. Badman Wise. With all my heart will I proceed to give you a relation of what is yet behind of his Life in order to our discourse of his Death Atten. But pray do it with as much brevity as you can Wise. Why are you a weary of my relating of things Atten. No. But it pleases me to hear a great deal in few words Wise. I profess not my self an artist that way but yet as briefly as I can I will pass through what of his Life is behind and again I shall begin with his fraudulent dealing as before I have shewed with his Creditors so now with his Customers and those that he had otherwise to deal withall He dealt by deceitfull Weights and Measures He kept weights to buy by and weights to sell by measures to buy by and measures to sell by those he bought by were too big those he sold by were too little Besides he could use a thing called slight of hand if he had to do with other mens weights and measures and by that means make them whether he did buy or sell yea though his Customer or Chapman looked on turn to his own advantage Moreover he had the art to misreckon men in their Accounts whether by weight or measure or money and would often do it to his worldly advantage and their loss What say you to Mr. Badman now And if a question was made of his faithfull dealing he had his servants ready that to his purpose he had brought up that would avouch and swear to his Book or word this was Mr. Badmans practice What think you of Mr. Badman now Atten. Think Why I can think no other but that he was a man left to himself a naughty man for these as his other were naughty things if the tree as indeed it may ought to be judged what it is by its fruits then Mr. Badman must needs be a bad Tree But pray for my further satisfaction shew me now by the Word of God the evil of this his practice and first of his using false Weights and Measures Wise. The evil of that why the evil of that appears to every eye the Heathens that live like Beasts and Bruits in many things do abominate and abhorr such wickedness as this Let a man but look upon these things as he goes by and he shall see enough in them from the light of nature to make him loath so base a practice although Mr. Badman loved it Atten. But shew me something out of the Word against it will you Wise. I will willingly do it And first we will look into the Old Testament 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 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. 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. Some have just Weights but false Ballances and by vertue of those false Ballances by their just Weights they deceive the Countrey Wherefore God first of all commands that the Ballance be made Just A just Ballance shalt thou have Else they may be yea are decievers notwithstanding their just weights Now having commanded that men have a just Ballance and testifying that a false one is an abomination to the Lord he proceedeth also unto weight and measure Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights a great and a small 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 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
bad might goe off with the less mistrust Besides if his customers at any time paid him money let them look to themselves and to their Acquitances for he would usually attempt to call for that payment again specially if he thought that there was hopes of making a prize thereby and then to be sure if they could not produce good and sufficient ground of the payment a hundred to one but they payed it again Sometimes the honest Chapman would appeal to his servants for proof of the payment of money but they were trained up by him to say after his mind right or wrong so that relief that way he could get none Atten. It is a bad yea an abominable thing for a man to have such servants For by such means a poor customer may be undone and not know how to help himself Alas if the master be so unconscionable as I percieve Mr. Badman was to call for his money twice and if his servant will swear that it is a due debt where is any help for such a man he must sink there is no remedy Wise. This is very bad but this has been a practice and that hundreds of years agoe But what saith the Word of God I will puâ—ish all those that leap upon the threshold which fill their masters houses with violence and deceit Mr. Badman also had this art could he get a man at advantage that is if his chapman durst not go from him or if the comodity he wanted could not for the present be conveniently had elsewhere Then let him look to himself he would surely make his purse-strings crack he would exact upon him without any pity or conscience Atten. That was Extortion was it not I pray let me hear your Judgmen of Extortion what it is and when committed Wise. Extortion 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 't is 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 Bailiss and Câ—arks 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 Atten. Well this Badman was a sâ—d wretch Wise. Thus you have often said before But now we are in discourse of this give me leave a little to goe on We have a great many people in the Countrey too that live all their dayes in the practice and so under the guilt of Extortion people alas that think scorn to be so accounted As for Example There is a poor body that dwells we will suppose so many miles from the Market and this man wants a Bushel of Grist a pound of Butter or a Cheese for himself his wife and poor children But dwelling so far from the Market if he goes thither he shall lose his dayes work which will be eight pence or ten pence dammage to him and that is something to a poor man So he goeth to one of his Masters or Dames for what he wanteth and asks them to help him with such a thing Yes say they you may have it but withall they will give him a gripe perhaps make him pay as much or more for it at home as they can get when they have carryed it five miles to a Market yea and that too for the Refuse of their Commodity But in this the Women are especially faulty in the sale of their Butter and Cheese c. Now this is a kind of Extortion it is a making a prey of the necessity of the poor it is a grinding of their faces a buying and selling of them But above all your Hucksters that buy up the poor mans Victuals by whole-sale and sell it to him again for unreasonable gains by retale and as we call it by piece-meal they are got into a way after a stingeing rate to play their game upon such by Extortion I mean such who buy up Butter Cheese Eggs Bacon c. by whole sale and sell it again as they call it by penny worths two penny worths a half penny worth or the like to the poor all the week after the market is past These though I will not condemn them all do many of them bite and pinch the poor by this kind of evil dealing These destroy the poor because he is poor and that is a grievious sin He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches and that giveth to the rich shall surely come to want Therefore he saith again Rob not the poor because he is poor neither oppress the afflicted in the gate for the Lord will plead their cause and spoil the soul of them that spoile them Oh that he that gripeth and grindeth the face of the poor would take notice of these two Scriptures Here is threatned the destruction of the Estate yea and of the Soul too of them that oppress the poor Their Soul we shall better see where and in what condition that is in when the day of Doom is come but for the Estates of such they usually quickly moulter and that sometimes all men and sometimes no man knows how Besides these are Usurers yea they take usury for victuals which thing the Lord has forbidden 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 't is time they were hissed out of the world For all that doe such things offend against God wrong their neighbour and like Mr. Badman doe provoke God to Judgment God knows there is abundance of deceit in the world Wise. Deceit Aie but I have not told you the thousandth part of it nor is it my business now to rake to the bottom of that dunghill what would you say if I should anatomize some of those vile wretches called Pawn-Brokers that lend Money and Goods to poor people who are by necessity forced to such an inconvenience and will make by one trick or other the Interest of what they so lend amount to thirty
incident to it yet methinks those of more years should be ashamed thereof I might at the first have begun with Mr. Badmans Pride only I think it is not the Pride in Infancy that begins to make a difference betwixt one and another as did and do those wherewith I began my relation of his life therefore I passed it over but now since he had no more consideration of himself and of his vile and sinful state but to be proud when come to years I have taken the occasion in this place to make mention of his pride Atten. But pray if you can remember them tell me of some places of Scripture that speakâ— against pride I the rather desire this because that pride is now a reigning sin and I happen sometimes to fall into the company of them that in my conscience are proud very much and I have a mind also to tell them of their sin now when I tell them of it unless I bring Gods word too I doubt they will laugh me to scorn Wise. Laugh you to scorn the Proud man will laugh you to scorn bring to him what Text you can except God shall smite him in his conscience by the Word Mr. Badman did use to serve them so that did use to tell him of his and besides when you have said what you can they will tell you they are not proud and that you are rather the proud man else you would not judge nor so malapertly meddle with other mens matters as you do Nevertheless since you desire it I will mention two or three texts They are these Pride and arrogancy do I hate A mans pride shall bring him low And he shall bring down their pride And all the proud and all that do wickedly shall be as stubble and the day that comes shall burn them up This last is a dreadful Text it is enough to make a proud man shake God saith he will make the proud ones as stubble that is as fuel for the fire and the day that cometh shall be like a burning oven and that day shall burn them up saith the Lord. But Mr. Badman could never abide to hear pride spoken against nor that any should say of him He is a proud man Atten. What should be the reason of that Wise. He did not tell me the reason but I suppose it to be that which is common to all vile persons They love this Vice but care not to bear its name The Drunkard loves the sin but loves not to be called a drunkard The Thief loveth to steal but cannot abide to be called a thief the whore loveth to commit uncleanness but loveth not to be called a Whore And so Mr. Badman loved to be proud but could not abide to be called a proud man The sweet of sin is desirable to polluted and corrupted man but the name thereof is a blot in his Scutcheon Atten. 'T is true that you have said but pray how many sorts of pride are there Wise. There are two sorts of Pride 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 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 mussters the bonnets and the ornaments of the legs and the headbands and the tablets and the ear-rings the rings and the Nose-jewels The changable suits of Apparell and the mantles and the wimples and the crisping pins the glasses and the sine 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 Mcaiah was to Ahab they never spake good of him but evil Atten. I suppose that it was not Mr. Badmans case alone even to maligne those Texts that speak against their vices For I believe that most ungodly men where the Scriptures are have a secret antipathy against those Words of God that do most plainly and fully rebuke them for their sins Wise. That is out of doubt and by that antipathy they shew that sin and Satan are more welcome to them than are the wholsome instructions of life and godliness Atten. Well but not to goe off from our discourse of Mr. Badman You say he was proud but will you shew me now some symptoms of one that is proud Wise. Yes that I will And first I will shew you some symptoms of Pride of Heart 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 slow from Pride of heart therefore Solomon saith There is a generation O how lofty are their eyes and their eye-lids are lifted up And again There is that exalteth their gate their going 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 But more particularly 1. Heart Pride is discovered by a stretched out Neck and by mincing as they go For the wicked the Proud have a proud Neck a proud Foot a proud Tongue by which this their going is exalted This is that which makes them look scornfully speak ruggedly and carry it huffingly among their Neighbours 2. A proud heart is a persecuting one The wicked through his pride doth persecute the poor 3. A prayerless man is a proud man 4. A contentions man is a proud man 5. The disdainful man is a proud man 6. The man that oppresses his neighbour is a proud man 7. He that hearkeneth not to Gods Word with reverence and fear is a proud man 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 As to bodily 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
for ever This he found out I say but not without great painfulness grief and pricking in his reins so deep so hard and so difficult did he find it rightly to come to a determination in this matter And indeed this is a deep Judgment of God towards ungodly sinners it is enough to stagger a whole world only the Godly that are in the world have a Sanctuary to go to where the Oracle and Word of God is by which his Judgements and a reason of many of them are made known to and understood by them Atten. Indeed this is a staggering dispensation It is full of the wisdom and anger of God And I believe as you have said that it is full of Judgment to the world Who would have imagined that had not known Mr. Badman and yet had seen him die but that he had been a man of an holy life and conversation since he died so stilly so quietly so like a Lamb or Chrisom child Would they not I say have concluded that he was a righteous man or that if they haâ— known him and his life yet to see him die 〈◊〉 quietly would they not have concluded tâ—â—t he had made his peace with God Nay furâ—â—er if some had known that he had died in his sins and yet that he died so like a Lamb would they not have concluded that either God doth not know our sins or that he likes them or that he wants power or will or heart or skill to punish them since Mr. Badman himself went from a sinfull life so quietly so peaceably and so like a Lamb as he did Wise. Without controversie this is an heavy judgment of God upon wicked men Job 21. 23. one goes to Hell in peace another goes to Hell in trouble one goes to Hell being sent thither by his own hands another goes to Hell being sent thither by the hand of his companion one goes thither with his eyes shut and another goes thither with his eyes open one goes thither roaring and another goes thither boasting of Heaven and Happiness all the way he goes One goes thither like Mr. Badman himself and others go thither as did his Brethren But above all Mr. Badmansâ— death as to the manner of dying is the fullest of Snares and Traps to wicked men therefore they that die as he are the greatest stumble to the world They goe and goe they go on peaceably from Youth to old Age and thence to the Grave and so to Hell without noyse They goe as an Ox to the slaughter and as a fool to the correction of the Stocks that is both sencelesly and securely O! but being come at the gates of Hell O! but when they see those gates set open for them O! but when they see that that is their home and that they must go in thither then their peace and quietness flies away for ever Then they roar like Lions yell like Dragons howl like Dogs and tremble at their Judgment as do the Devils themselves Oh! when they see they must shoot the Gulf and Throat of Hell when they shall see that Hell hath shut her ghastly Jaws upon them when they shall open their eyes and find themselves within the belly and bowels of Hell then they will mourn and weep and hack and gnash their teeth for pain But this must not be or if it must yet very rarely till they are gone out of the sight and hearing of those mortals whom they do leave behind them alive in the world Atten. Well my good Neighbour Wiseman I perceive that the Sun grows low and that you have come to a conclusion with Mr. Badmans Life and Death and therefore I will take my leave of you Only first let me tell you I am glad that I have met with you to day and that our hap was to full in with Mr. Badmans state I also thank you for your freedom with me in granting of me your reply to all my questions I would only beg your Prayers that God will give me much grace that I may neither live nor die as did Mr. Badman Wise. My good Neighbour Attentive I wish your welfare in Soul and Body and if ought that I have said of Mr. Badmans Life and Death may be of benefit unto you I shall be heartily glad only I desire you to thank God for it and to pray heartily for me that I with you may be kept by the Power of God through Faith unto Salvation Atten. Amen Farewell Wise. I wish you heartily Farewell FINIS Original sin is the root of Actual transgressions Mark 7. Job 11. 12 Ezek. 16. Exod. 12. 13. Chap. 34. 20. Rom. 5. * 〈◊〉 addicted to Lying from a child * A Lie knowingly told demonstrates that the heart is desperately hard The Lyers portion Rev. 21. 8. 27. Chap. 22. 15. Prov. 22. 15. Chap. 2â— 13 14. †Joh. 8. 44. * The Devils Brat Acts 5. 3 4. * The Father and Mother of a Lie †Mark * Some will tell a Lie for a Peny profit * An Example for Lyers Acts 5. * A Spirit of Lying accompanyed with other sins * Badman given to pilfer * Badman would rob his Father Exod. 20. 15. Zech. 5. 3. Jer. 2. 26. * How Badman did use to carry it when his Father used to chide him for his sins * Badman more firmly knit to his Companions than either to Father or Mother †Badman would rejoyce to think that his Parents death were at hand Prov. 28. 24. * 1 Sam. 2. 25. * Badman counted his thieving no great matter ☞ The Story of old Tod * Young Thieves take notice * Old Tod began his waâ— to the Gallows by robbing of Orchards and the like * Badman could not abide the Lords Day * Why Raâ—man could not abide the Lords Day * God proves the heart what it is by instituting of the Lords day and setting it apart 〈◊〉 his service Gen. 2. 2. Exod. 31. 13 14 15 16 17 Mar. 16. 1. Acts 20. 7. 1 Cor. 16. 1 2. Mar. 2. 27 2â— Revel 1. 10. Isa. 5. 8 13. Chap. 56. 2. Amos 8. 5. Heb. 4. 9. * How Badman did use to spend the Lords Day â—phes 5. 6. * Badman given to Swearing and Cursing Rom. 6. 13. * Swearing and Cursing a badge of Mr. Badmans honour * Difference â—etwixt Swearing and Cursing * What swearing is Exod. â—0 7. †A manâ— may sin in swearing to a truth Jer. 5. 2. †He that swears to a Lie concludes that God is as wicked as himself Zech. â— 3. Jer. 7. â— Hos. 4. â— 3. * Six Causes of vain Swearing Jam. 3. 6 7 8 9. * How Cursing is distinguished from Swearing * Of Cursing what it is 2 Sam. 16. 6 7 8. 1 King 2. 8. * How the profane ones of our times Curse Job 30. 31. Badmans way of Cursing * The Damme Blade Badman would curse his Father c. * Badman would curse his Fathers Cattel Job 15. Eccles. 7. 22. †〈◊〉