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Bunyan wrote many other works, but none of them equals the Pilgrim's Progress. His Holy War is a powerful allegory, which has been called a prose Paradise Lost. Bunyan also produced a strong piece of realistic fiction, the Life and Death of Mr. Badman. This shows the descent of a soul along the broad road.
Badman had such an one; for, for the most part, masters are now-a-days such as mind nothing but their worldly concerns, and if apprentices do but answer their commands therein, soul and religion may go whither they will. Yea, I much fear that there have been many towardly lads put out by their parents to such masters, that have quite undone them as to the next world. ATTEN. The more is the pity.
He that will run the hazard of eternal damnation of his soul, but he will commit this sin, will for it run the hazard of destroying his body. If young Badman feared not the damnation of his soul, do you think that the consideration of impairing of his body would have deterred him therefrom? WISE. You say true.
And this is the case of Mr. Badman. ATTEN. I feel my heart even shake at the thoughts of coming into such a state. Hell! who knows that is yet alive, what the torments of hell are? This word HELL gives a very dreadful sound. WISE. Ay, so it does in the ears of him that has a tender conscience.
It had been better for such parents had they not begat them, and better for such children had they not been born. O! methinks for a father or a mother to train up a child in that very way that leadeth to hell and damnation, what things so horrible! But Mr. Badman was not by his parents so brought up.
They were forced with Esau to join in affinity with Ishmael, to wit, to look out for a people that were hypocrites like themselves, and with them they matched and lived and died. Badman meanwhile, with the help of his wife's fortune, grew into an important person, and his character becomes a curious study.
Implying that he did not lift them up before; he neither saw what he had done, nor whither he was going, till he came to the place of execution, even into hell. He died asleep in his soul; he died besotted, stupefied, and so consequently for quietness like a child or lamb, even as Mr. Badman did.
How sorry he is for Mr Badman! and how he makes you sympathize with Christian and Mr Ready-to-halt and Mr Feeble-mind, and all the other interesting companions of that eventful journey! And in his sermons how piteously he pleads with sinners for their own souls! and how impressive is the undisguised vehemency of his yearning affections!
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.
This judgment did not work any reformation upon him, no, not to God nor man. ATTEN. I warrant you that Mr. Badman thought when his wife was dead, that next time he would match far better. WISE. What he thought I cannot tell, but he could not hope for it in this match.
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