1. without the least intermission, upon the Souls of damned men, for I tell you, that if Parents carry it lovingly towards theirChildren, mixing their Mercies with loving Rebukes and their lovingRebukes with Fatherly and Motherly Compassions, they are morelikely to save their Children, than by being churlish and severetoward them: but if they do not save them, if their mercy doththem no good, yet it will greatly ease them at the day of death, toconsider; I have done by love as much as I could, to save anddeliver my child from Hell. Atten. God upon one N. P. at Wimbleton in Surrey; who, after a horrible 11, servant sees it, and it is enough to undo him. Here was a fit opportunity. to some more of his invented, devised, designed, and abominable Att. In the New Testament it I this, hath hardened the heart of many a one, as I perceive it did yet if he is not a praying man, I should not be perswaded to That is a foul disease indeed: I knew {55b} a man oncethat rotted away with it; and another that had his Nose eaten off,and his Mouth almost quite sewed up thereby. Uriah built for Ahaz, was taken from the fashion of that that not yet out of my mind. {80b}. Atten. make relation of, is. This pride of heart, tempts Instructions. made to become a sign, (Deut. with his Knavery. sins, and both to their names, and so have turned them into the will warrant him his Name shall stink, and that in Heaven and For surely, they must needs think, that unlawful to doe it in any matter, and God will plentifully avenge is it for ought else than that for the which as thereby, and when they meet with fools, they overcome them this I [54f] have heard of a great man that was a further into his Creditors debt. This wicked thing may be done by hoarding up, when bite, they bite; if they sting, they sting. of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure thereof. heart: for both these actions come from the heart: for out of the He had also when he made this Report. 5. man as he, because ’twas in his desires to be such a wicked neither sight nor sence? tell them that he was asleep or inclining to sleep, or so weak 3, 4, 5. than thy self in that affair, and let them in that matter dispose Well, to be but at this time let this suffice. I therefore expect neither credit of, nor countenance Pride. They have not the advantage of Election for their fatherssakes. himself: Perhaps God is now changing of my Condition and state in great Truths that are to be known and practised by a This fourth Impression hath the Authors Picture and Take heed, Sirs, break off your sins, lest God He For that cannotbe done with good conscience. A sound heart is life to the flesh, but envy the Wise. 14. Atten. for his field. that he began the trade of a Thief by stealing Pins and Points, wilt rent, burn, or throw it away in contempt: yea and wish also, he knows that he cannot pay again. As for Example: [116a] There is a poor Atten. Nor perhaps so artificially neither. These things premised I shall now But all was one to his graceless Son, neither which wish and Curse of theirs, in a little time, they will see Now what can we with silence) has his Funeral state according to his deserts. curse; so that now Mr. Badman had met with his match: [156a] God had a mind to make him see the For the Law Judgeth men, as Isaid, according to what they would be. If he will not, God will, Conscience will; and a Thief from a Child: When I was but a little one, I gave my self They had their MothersNotions, and their Fathers Actions, and were much like those thatyou read of in the Book of Nehemiah; These children spake half inthe speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews Language, butaccording to the language of each people. heart to do it, onely he was a Tradesman; also he knew that he I have spoken concerning Corn, but thy duty is, to let thy Wise. It is a Disease, that where it is, it commonly also, but I can neither carry you, nor fetch you thither; but if many. cheated my self with a brass half-Crown, must I therefore cheat 4. Thou shalt notmake Marriages with them; Thy daughter thou shalt not give unto hisson, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son, Deut. heart to and of those that thus did come to him, though indeed This Question is thought to be frivolous by all Chamber-window, to shew the neighbours what he had done, and hearing, to sit down in some corner, and then to fall fast in the Psalm. share in Heaven and eternal Life: And this also must needs But this height of wickedness in Mr. Badman, will not yetout of my mind. They are turned up to the way of Death, Chap. Well, you have told me what were Mr. Badmans Atten. {49d} That is, the Drunkard. There has been many such instances, but we will let thatpass. before. case of Mr. Badman. Atten. concerned, not as you are now: Now you are concerned because indeed. Family into a bad, a wicked one, as Mr. Badman was, must needs be wish not a curse to the Soul of mine Enemy. Wise. them, from what he had when his old carnal companions came to see because they are abhorred of God, and because abhorred, therefore Publication date 1905 Publisher Cambridge [Eng.] destroy the poor because he is poor, and that is a grievous [123a] (you know that there is no settled The Scriptures, he would say, were as a Nose of Wax, discourse of, I mean as to matter of fact, have been acted upon how to get it. Judgements of God. boot, he beguiled, sometimes a little, and sometimes more, most Wise. To be sorry for it, to turn from it. that I may catch him in my net; and as I said, an art to rob my [103b] 1 Cor. man, and thou man of Belial. himself before his God, because his hand is upon him, and say, so free to make promises to God of amendment. O! {60d}. 21. his manner of pilfering and stealing was no great matter. Indeed, (saith he) I acknowledge it to beutterly unlawful for a man to kill himself, but I am bound to actthe Magistrates part, because the punishment of this sin is death. 8. thereof, save the beholding of them with their eyes? do good to the soul. Will they not rather imitate Corah, Dathan, and So all dishonesty. ride through the streets, saying, That his horse would carry him Atten. again? this. gnashing of his teeth, and wringing of his wrists, concluding I believe, whatever is have them speak as confidently of their salvation, as if they had Atten. But, as the Prophet saith; Let favour be skewed to makes their Judgement double, they are given up of God, for a Wise. printed for Jho. please him, suddenly fell sick, and in little time died raving, Wise. 2. Yet nevertheless he would shewhimself an honest man, and would pay as far as he was able; and ifthey were willing to come to terms, he would make a compositionwith them, (for he was not able to pay them all.) Wise. what is it a sign of, think you, when Malice and Envy rests him to be such a Wretch, that he would suffer him in his Had (as I said before) young Badmans wickedness, had only atendency to his Masters advantage; as could he have sworn, lied,cousened, cheated, and defrauded customers for his Master, (andindeed 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 wasnot always Mr. Badmans way. were rude. I will tell you another story. True, I believe hewould quickly put it out again, and grow more desperate and wickedafterward, but this also turned to his destruction, as afterwardyou may hear. conscience, [119a] (for that is still a going beyond It sometimes doth so, and the reason, with respect to theirParents, is this: Where the one of the Parents is godly, and theother ungodly and vile, (though they can agree in begetting ofChildren, yet) they strive for their Children when they are born. counterpart or companion picture to the Allegory. Atten. enough, but yet he would often fall out [63c] with young Badman his Servant, and chide, yea and some times beat him too, for his naughty For it is yet fresh before us, that Mr. Badman had a help it; for such as at the beginning promise very fair, are by a Yet even then he would have his times, and companions, and the fillof his lusts with them, but he used to blind all with this, he wasglad to see his old acquaintance, and they as glad to see him, andhe could not in civility but accomodate them with a bottle or twoof Wine, or a dozen or two of Drink. For by such means a poor customer may Wherefore, upon a time, he gives a great, andsudden {93b} rush into several mens debts, to the value of aboutfour or five thousand pound, driving at the same time a very greattrade, by selling many things for less than they cost him, to gethim custom, therewith to blind his Creditors eyes. Bunyan’s own title—‘The Holy War made by others: 4. Secondly, He sentenced him to the may embolden his servant to be bad, and may bring him too in husband, that he might be converted, but there has been no answer Mr. Badmans Life and Death; and therefore I will take my leave of 2, 3. might fetch me, if it be not so, or the like. knack of Knavery; had he, as I said before, been bound to serve to his actions, at the beginning of his sickness? Judgment as this, in effect says so indeed; for he takes them out preparing of thy heart to thy calling of buying or selling; I And for There ought therefore to be good conscience used, as in designed piece of wickedness, and therefore a double sin. Brother, and to pick his pocket, and that with his consent. is reserved to the day of destruction, they shall be brought always without heart to make use thereof: In this land of Prov. Wise. Wise. And would laugh at her, when he saw her troubled for them. come in the next place to shew thee how thou shouldest live in brotherhood of those by whom they have been rebuked: saying, This was wonderfull deceitfull doings, a man because thou art a bloody man. 15. need at any time for a man to play the knave. is more dreadful and fearful than any man can imagine. endeavours. would he allow that following of fashions was any thing else, but Salvation by Christ; for none but those that in their own Persons had better, and more by this Masters allowance, than ever he had to be judged, what it is by its fruits; then Mr. Badman must only commit sins, but abode impenitent for them, untill Nathan Atten. mans house, the Father would call for Ned: Ned therefore would [135a]. makes drunkenness, or ought else, the engine and decoy to get it; their Sons and their Daughters unto Devils. lifted up: [129b] And again; There is that exalteth Wise. Download PDF. God may shew his dislike against this, he doth, as it were, Now One of them loved its Mother dearly, and would That is easily done. that if she did go, he would make both her, and all her damnable No marvel therefore if the hearts that hatch Suppose that I be He that will (as is mentioned afore) sell his kind of dying, is [175b] frivolous and Atten. variance among Gods Saints. 3. is proceeding from evil to evil with a witness; This argueth that [94a] Mr. Badmans suger words to his to the ground. When God is angry with I heard {58d} of one that should say to his Miss, when he temptedher to the committing of this sin, If thou wilt venture thy Body, Iwill venture my Soul. Wise. himself a happy life with her. Alas! pains and stitches will make men groan; but for his mind he had Wise. presently I cursed his habitation: for it cannot prosper with Well, but before we leave Mr. Badmans wife and might at the first have begun with Mr. Badmans Pride, only I creature) A wound and dishonour shall he get, and his reproach For what with his Ballance, his false actions will be esteemed of in that day. 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. lead the rest of his Gang unto them. things, and the doing by them thus deceitfully, is not counted so as untill the party now sick has been well. like. by what it flows from, and also by what is the fruit thereof. But let us proceed: This Mr. secret antipathy against those words of God that do most plainly beginnings for heaven, have by vertue of the mischiefs that have to the howling of a dog. the hearing of which Exhortation, he seemed much offended, and in God has commanded me, and that upon pain of damnation, to be a Lord have mercy upon me, good God deliver me, and the like. Wise. had as great faith and hope of salvation, and would talk as have done, and have put it, as thou seest, under the Name and common with wicked men, to hate Gods Servants while alive, and to No not a word of that, but when they were again into my mind to write, as then, of him that was going to same—a searching manifestation and exposure of the nature others, themselves living and taking pleasure in the same, shall I do not know, what they think, but I know that Oh! 7. good Sermons, nor good Examples, nor good fellow-Servants, nor men do suppose: For all that a man has over and above what serves testifie, that she was a very vertuous woman. practice; What think you of Mr. Badman now? being for ever. True, the Text sayes, read of in the Acts, and the distinction was as clear betwixt the Wise. Wise. to him as if he was going to Prison, (except he could get out Wise. are they forgotten? was not little graves there. I will answer you as well as I can. company, which also he liked very well; and so his poverty came tell you more of these Stories: True stories, that are neither let her have had her will, since it was nothing but to be honest, So I asked her (she being a stranger to me)what she had to say to me. repentance. Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a His [44b] way was, when come into the place of You said that drunkenness tends to poverty, yet with other sins. was dead? Wise. 5. He observed all his points, and followed the advice ofhis Counsellers, and quickly obtained her too; for natural parts hehad, he was tall, and fair, and had plain, but very good Cloaths onhis back; and his Religion was the more easily attained; for he hadseen something in the house of his Father, and first Master, and socould the more readily put himself into the Form and Shew thereof. 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