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Badman had but little conscience. WISE. This argued that Mr. Badman had no conscience at all; for conscience, the least spark of a good conscience, cannot endure this. ATTEN. Before we go any further in Mr. Badman's matters, let me desire you, if you please, to give me an answer to these two questions. 1. What do you find in the Word of God against such a practice as this of Mr. Badman's is? 2.
He would also charged her with giving of what he had to her ministers, when, vile wretch, he had spent it on his vain companions before. This was the life that Mr. Badman's good wife lived, within few months after he had married her. ATTEN. This was a disappointment indeed. WISE. A disappointment indeed, as ever I think poor woman had.
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.
Badman's customers. ATTEN. Then it seems he kept good weights and a bad balance; well that was better than that both should be bad. WISE. Not at all.
And then he would send all home with a curse. ATTEN. If those that make profession of religion be wise, Mr. Badman's watchings and words will make them the more wary, and careful in all things. WISE. You say true. For when we see men do watch for our halting, and rejoice to see us stumble and fall, it should make us so much abundantly the more careful. I do think it was as delightful to Mr.
I will, before I leave this, tell you here two notable stories; and I wish Mr. Badman's companions may hear of them. They are found in Clark's Looking-glass for Sinners; and are these: Mr. Cleaver, says Mr.
CHAP. II. Badman's wicked behavior in childhood, CHAP. III. Badman's apprenticeship to a pious master, CHAP. IV. He gets a new master bad as himself, CHAP. V. Badman in business; the tricks of a wicked tradesman, CHAP. VI. His hypocritical courtship and marriage to a pious, rich, young lady, CHAP. VII. He throws off the mask and cruelly treats his wife.
Let such professors therefore be disowned by all true Christians, and let them be reckoned among those base men of the world, which, by such actions, they most resemble. They are Mr. Badman's kindred. For they are a shame to religion, I say, these slithy, rob-shop, pick-pocket men, they are a shame to religion, and religious men should be ashamed of them.
Badman's indulgence in them described, makes portions of the book very disagreeable, and indeed hardly profitable reading. With omissions, however, the book well deserves perusal, as a picture such as only Bunyan or his rival in lifelike portraiture, Defoe, could have drawn of vulgar English life in the latter part of the seventeenth century, in a commonplace country town such as Bedford.
ATTEN. There is a great deal in the manner of reproof; wicked men both can and cannot abide to hear their transgressions spoken against. WISE. There is a great deal of difference indeed. This last master of Mr. Badman's would tell Mr. Badman of his sins in Mr.
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