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ATTEN. I am persuaded 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 terror into his words, to stuff them full of the sin of swearing.
He arrived as soon as possible after the re- quest, and saw with regret the sure indications of fatality in his sick brother, and listened to his admonitions admonitions to a Christian life with tears, and uttered some promises of atten- tion to the subject so dear to the heart of James. How gladly he would have extended healing aid.
ATTEN. I know no reason why you should, for there is nothing can demonstrate that such a man hath it. But pray, Sir, what other sign have you by which you can prove that Mr. Badman died in his sins, and so in a state of damnation? WISE. I have this to prove it.
To them all he used to be, as we say, the ringleader, and master-sinner from a child. ATTEN. This was a bad beginning indeed, and did demonstrate that he was, as you say, polluted, very much polluted with original corruption.
WISE. No: this she spake but to one or two of her most intimate acquaintance, who were permitted to come and see her, when she lay languishing upon her death-bed. ATTEN. Well, but pray go on in your relation, this is good; I am glad to hear it, this is as a cordial to my heart while we sit thus talking under this tree.
True, when sinking fits, stitches, or pains took hold upon him, then he would say, as other carnal men used to do, Lord, help me; Lord, strengthen me; Lord, deliver me, and the like. But to cry to God for mercy, that he did not, but lay, as I hinted before, as if he never had sinned. ATTEN. That is another bad sign indeed, for crying to God for mercy is one of the first signs of repentance.
He was also a man very meek and merciful, one that did never over-drive young Badman in business, nor that kept him at it at unseasonable hours. ATTEN. Say you so! This is rare. I for my part can see but few that can parallel, in these things, with Mr. Badman's master. WISE. Nor I neither, yet Mr.
Badman's way as to this. ATTEN. But was he not afraid of the judgments of God that did fly about at that time? WISE. He regarded not the judgment nor mercy of God, for had he at all done that he could not have done as he did. But what judgments do you mean? ATTEN. Such judgments, that if Mr. Badman himself had taken but sober notice of, they might have made him a hung down his ears.
And with these was young Badman greatly snared. ATTEN. This sin of uncleanness 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 headlong to it!
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 loathe so base a practice, although Mr. Badman loved it. ATTEN. But show me something out of the Word against it, will you? WISE. I will willingly do it. This is the law of God, and that which all men, according to the law of the land, ought to obey.
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