The Life and Death of Mr. Badman

Nor is it a sign but of desperate impe•tence ⟨image 10⟩and hardness of heart, when the offspring or relations of those who have fallen by open, fearful and prodigious Judgments, for their sin, shall overlook, forget, pass by, or take no notice of such high outgoings of God against them and their house. Thus Daniel aggravates Belshazzars crime, for that he hardened his heart in pride, though he knew that for that very sin and transgression, his father was brought down from his height, and made to be a companion for Asses. And thou his son, O Belshazzar, says he, hast not humbled thy heart, though thou knewest all this. Dan. 5. A home reproof indeed, but home is most fit for an open and a continued-in transgression.

Nor is it a sign but of desperate impe•tence ⟨image 10⟩and hardness of heart, when the offspring or relations of those who have fallen by open, fearfull and prodigious Judgments, for their sin, shall overlook, forget, pass by, or take no notice of such high outgoings of God against them and their house. Thus Daniel aggravates Belshazzars crime, for that he hardened his heart in pride, though he knew that for that very sin and transgression, his father was brought down from his height, and made to be a companion for Asses. And thou his son, O Belshazzar, sayes he, hast not humbled thy heart, though thou knewest all this. Dan. 5. A home reproof indeed, but home is most fit for an open and a continued-in transgression.

Let those then that are the Offspring or relations of such, who by their own sin, and the dreadful Judgments of God, are made to become a sign, (