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Badman can put his head out a doors again, and be a better man than when he shut up shop, by several thousands of pounds. ATTEN. And did he do thus indeed? WISE. Yes, once and again. I think he brake twice or thrice. ATTEN. And did he do it before he had need to do it? WISE. Need! What do you mean by need? There is no need at any time for a man to play the knave.
ATTEN. Well, but now we are upon it, pray show me the difference between swearing and cursing; for there is a difference, is there not? WISE. Yes; there is a difference between swearing and cursing. Swearing, vain swearing, such as young Badman accustomed himself unto.
That every sight and sense 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 sense, great sense of sin, but none of them repentance unto life. Now I conclude that Mr. Badman did die impenitent, and so a death most miserable. ATTEN. But pray now, before we conclude our discourse of Mr.
Badman could not abide, nor could the good man abide the bad ways of his base apprentice. Yet would his master, if he could, have kept him, and also have learned him his trade. ATTEN. If he could! Why, he might, if he would, might he not? WISE. Alas, Badman ran away 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.
ATTEN. Well, but I wonder if young Badman's master knew him to be such a wretch, that he would suffer him in his house. WISE. They liked one another even as fire and water do. Young Badman's ways were odious to his master, and his master's ways were such as young Badman could not endure. The good man's ways, Mr.
ATTEN. You bring to my mind a sad story, the while I will relate unto you. The thing is this: About a bow-shot 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, a half fool, both in his words and manner of behaviour.
Yea, he became so common a drunkard at last, that he was taken notice of to be a drunkard even by all. ATTEN. This was swinish, for drunkenness is so beastly a sin, a sin so much against nature, that I wonder that any that have but the appearance of men can give up themselves to so beastly, yea, worse than beastly, a thing. WISE. It is a swinish vanity indeed. I will tell you another story.
ATTEN. Why, did you ever hear any man say so? WISE. Yes, that I did, and this young Badman was as like him as an egg is like an egg. Again, 'They refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears. What are all these but such as Badman, and such as the young man but now mentioned?
WISE. The eldest, old in years, and old in sin; but the sinner that dies an hundred years old shall be accursed. ATTEN. Well, but what makes you think he is gone to hell? WISE. His wicked life, and fearful death, especially since the manner of his death was so corresponding with his life. ATTEN. Pray let me know the manner of his death, if yourself did perfectly know it.
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 go back again. These things considered, and duly put in practice, if God will blow upon a man, then let him be content, and with Job embrace the dunghill. ATTEN. But Mr.
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