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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.
As Job says, God has struck them as wicked men in the open sight of others, Job 34 26. So that I cannot conceive, since their si• and Judgment was so conspicuous, that my admonishing the world thereof, should turn to their detriment: For the publishing of these things are, so far as Relation is concerned, intende• for remembrancers: That they may also be think themselves, repent and turn to God, […] the Judgments for their sins should prove here ditary. For the God of Heaven hath threatened to visit the iniquity of the fathers upon th• children, if they hate him, to the third an• fourth generation, Exod. 20. 5.
As Job sayes, God has strook them as wicked men in the open sight of others, Job 34 26. So that I cannot conceive, since their si• and Judgment was so conspicuous, that my admonishing the world thereof, should turn to their detriment: For the publishing of these things are, so far as Relation is concerned, intende• for remembrancers: That they may also be think themselves, repent and turn to God, 〈…〉 the Judgments for their sins should prove here ditary. For the God of Heaven hath threatne• to visit the iniquity of the fathers upon th• children, if they hate him, to the third an• fourth generation, Exod. 20. 5.
Nebuchadnezzars punishment for his pri being open, (for he was for his sin, driven fro his Kingly dignity, and from among men too, […] eat grass like an Ox, and to company with th beasts,) Daniel did not stick to tell Belshazz his son to his face thereof; nor to publish […] that it might be read and remembered by the generations to come. The same may be said […] Judas and Ananias, &c. for their sin and punishment were known to all the dwellers at Jesalem,