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ATTEN. All these causes of swearing, so far as I can perceive, flow from the same root as do the oaths themselves, even from a hardened and desperate heart. But, pray, show me now how wicked cursing is to be distinguished from this kind of swearing.
ATTEN. Why, did he take this counsel? WISE. Did he! yes, and after a while, went as boldly to her, and that under a vizard of religion, as if he had been for honesty and godliness one of the most sincere and upright-hearted in England.
Badman was a master in this art, and therefore it follows that he must be an arch and chief one in that mystery. ATTEN. You are in the right, for I perceive that some men, though they desire it, are not 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.
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 music in her heart than sounded in this woman's ears. 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? WISE. One of them did, and became a very hopeful young man.
Do you think that that maid's master would have been troubled at the loss of her, if he had not lost, with her, his gain? But Mr. Badman's master did sometimes lose by Mr. Badman's sins, and then Badman and his master were at odds. ATTEN. Alas, poor Badman! Then it seems thou couldest not at all times please thy like. WISE. No, he could not, and the reason I have told you.
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. A house of correction, I say, had been the fittest place for him, but his master let him go. ATTEN. He ran away, you say, but whither did he run? WISE. Why, to one of his own trade, and also like himself.
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. ATTEN. But how could he so quickly run out, for I perceive it was in little time, by what you say? And he that doth thus, you may be sure, shall not be able long to stand on his legs.
Bodily pride the scriptures mention. 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. ATTEN. I suppose that it was not Mr.
WISE. Their judgment 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. ATTEN. Well, but I pray now concerning these three villains that were young Badman's companions; tell me more particularly how he carried it then.
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 yourselves be clear, even you professors. For who is prouder than you professors? scarcely the devil himself.
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