The Life and Death of Mr. Badman

Atten. This was an ill beginning indeed, and argueth that he began to harden himself in sin betimes. For a lye cannot be knowingly told and stood ⟨p. 13⟩in, (and I perceive that this was his manner of way in Lying) but he must as it were force his own heart unto it. Yea, he must make his ^*heart hard, and bold to do it: Yea, he must be arrived to an exceeding pitch of▪ wickedness thus to do, since all this he did against that good education, that before you seemed to hint, he had from his Father and Mother.

Atten. This was an ill beginning indeed, and argueth that he began to harden himself in sin betimes. For a lye cannot be knowingly told and stood ⟨p. 13⟩in, (and I perceive that this was his manner of way in Lying) but he must as it were force his own heart unto it. Yea, he must make his ^*heart hard, and bold to doe it: Yea, he must be arrived to an exceeding pitch of▪ wickedness thus to doe, since all this he did against that good education, that before you seemed to hint, he had from his Father and Mother.

1. *A Lie knowingly told demonstrates that the heart is desperately hard.

Wise. The want of good Education, as you have intimated, is many times a cause why Children do so easily, so soon, become bad; especially when there is not only a want of that, but bad Examples enough, as, the more is the pity, there is in many Families; by virtue of which poor Children are trained up in Sin, and nursed therein for the Devil and Hell. But it was otherwise with Mr. Badman, for to my knowledge, this his way of Lying, was a great grief to his Parents, for their hearts were much dejected at this beginning of their Son; nor did there want Counsel and Correction from them to him, if that would have made him better,