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The Life and Death of Mr. Badman
The life and death of Mr. Badman presented to the world in a familiar dialogue between Mr. Wiseman and Mr. Attentive / by John Bunyan ...
London: printed by J. A. for Nath. Ponder, 1680
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Wise. It is not only remarkable, but pat to our purpose. This Thief, ⟨p. 25⟩like Mr. Badman, began his Trade betimes; he began too where Mr. Badman began, even at robbing of Orchards, and other such things, which brought him▪ as you may perceive, from sin to sin, till at last it brought him to the public shame of sin, which is the Gallows. As for the truth of this Story, the Relator told me that he was at the same time himself in the Court, and stood within less than two yards of old Tod, when he heard him aloud to utter the words.
Wise. It is not only remarkable, but pat to our purpose. This Thief, ⟨p. 25⟩like Mr. Badman, began his Trade betimes; he began too where Mr. Badman began, even at robbing of Orchards, and other such things, which brought him▪ as you may perceive, from sin to sin, till at last it brought him to the publick shame of sin, which is the Gallows. As for the truth of this Story, the Relator told me that he was at the same time himself in the Court, and stood within less than two yards of old Tod, when he heard him aloud to utter the words.
Atten. These two sins of lying and stealing were a bad sign of an evil end.
Wise. So they were, and yet Mr. Badman came not to his end like old Tod; Though I fear, to as bad, nay, worse than was that death of the Gallows, though less discerned by spectators; but more of that by and by. But you talk of these two sins as if these were all that Mr. Bad•man was addicted to in is Youth: Alas, alas, he swarmed with sins, even as a Beggar does with Vermin, and that when he was but a Boy.