Chapter 8

[97a]Colos. 3. 25.

[97b]Fair warning again.

[97c]He that designedly commits this sin is like the Devil.

[97d]2.  Question.

[98a]How those that are Banckrupts should deal with their consciences.

[98b]Good advice.

[98c]Rom. 12. 11.

[98d]1 Tim. 5. 8.

[98e]Pro. 18. 9.

[98f]Good counsel again.

[99a]How to find that thy decay came by the Judgment of God, or by thy miscarriage.

[99b]Another question.

[99c]Pro. 10. 3.  1 Pet. 5. 6.

[99d]Lam. 3. 33.

[100a]Good advice again.  Deut. 32. 15.

[100b]James 1. 9, 10.

[100c]Consider four things.

[100d]Job 1. 21.  Chap. 2. 8.

[100e]Psal. 49. 6.

[100f]Jam. 2. 5.

[101a]Honest dealing with Creditors.

[101b]Pro. 16. 33.

[102a]Jer. 15. 10, 11.  Pro. 16. 7.

[102b]A heavy blot upon Religion.

[103a]If Knaves will make profession their cloak to be vile, who can help it?

[103b]1 Cor. 6. 8, 9, 10.  2 Tim. 3. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

[103c]Matt. 18. 6, 7, 8.

[103d]Let such be disowned of all good men.

[103e]Jer. 17. 11.

[104a]Ezek. 20. 38, 39.

[104b]2 Cor. 7. 2.

[104c]Mar. 10. 19.

[104d]1 Sam. 12. 3.

[104e]Ver. 4.

[105a]A question.

[105b]An answer.

[105c]2 King. 4. 1, 2.

[105d]Hag. 1. 9.

[105e]God does sometimes blow upon his own people.  How they should doe at that time.

[105f]Philip. 4. 12.

[106]More of Mr. Badmans fraudulent dealing.  He used deceitful weights and scales.

[107a]Levit. 19. 35, 36.

[107b]Of Just weights and measures.

[107c]Ezek. 45. 10.

[107d]Pro. 20. 23.  Chap. 11. 1.

[107e]The evil of deceitful Balances, Weights and Measures.

[107f]Deut. 25. 13, 14, 15, 16.

[108a]The Old and New Law commands all men to be honest and upright in their weights and measures.

[108b]Luke 6. 88.

[108c]Pat Scriptures for our purpose.

[109a]Where false weights and measures are to be found.

[109b]1.  With evil doers.

[109c]Mic. 6. 10.

[109d]2.  With the merciless and Oppressors.

[109e]Hos. 12. 7.

[109f]3.  With such as would swallow up the poor.

[109g]Amos 8. 4, 5, 6, 7.

[110a]4.  With impure ones.

[110b]Mic. 6. 11.

[110c]Dan. 5. 27.

[111a]How Mr. Badman did cheat, and hide his cheating.

[111b]Good Weights and a bad Ballance a deep piece of Knavery.

[112a]Mat. 23.

[112b]A cloak of Religion to blind Mr. Cheats Knavery.

[112c]Some plead Custom to cheat.

[112d]Deut. 16. 20.

[113a]They get nothing that cozen and cheat.

[113b]Mar. 9.

[113c]Prov. 10. 3.  Jer. 15. 13.  Chap. 17. 3.

[113d]Job 27. 17.

[113e]Pro. 13. 22.

[114a]More of Mr. Badmans Bad tricks.

[114b]Amos 8.

[114c]Another art to cheat withall.

[115a]Zeph. 1. 9.

[115b]Servants observe these words.

[115c]Of Extortion.

[115d]1 Cor. 6. 9, 10.

[116a]Who are Extortioners.

[116b]Hucksters.

[116c]Pro. 22. 16, 22.

[117a]Deut. 23. 19.

[118a]Whether it be lawful for a man to make the best of his own.  Proved in negative by 8 reasons.

[118b]Good conscience must be used in selling.

[118c]We must not make a prey of our neighbours Ignorance.

[118d]Nor of his Neighbours Necessity.

[119a]Nor of his Fondness of our commodity.

[119b]We must use good conscience in buying.

[119c]Gen. 23. 8, 9.

[119d]1 Chron. 21, 22. 24.

[119e]Levit. 25. 14.

[120a]Charity must be used in our dealings.

[120b]1 Cor. 16. 14.

[120c]1 Cor. 13.

[120d]Ephes. 4. 25.

[120e]There may be and is sin in trading.

[121a]Matt. 7. 12.

[121b]A man in trading must not offer violence to the Law of nature.

[121c]Job. 37. 7.

[121d]We must not abuse the Gift we have in the knowledge of earthly things.

[121e]1 Cor. 10. 13.  (Don’t see where this fits into text.  DP)

[121f]An eye to the glory of God in all we should have.

[121g]Colo. 3. 17.

[121h]Acts, 24. 15, 16.

[122a]Levit. 25. 14.

[122b]Badman used to laugh at them that told him of his faults.

[122c]Luke. 16. 13, 14, 15.  Chap. 6. 25.

[123a]A question.

[123b]An answer.

[123c]Preparations to be a good dealer.

[123d]Eccle. 5. 10, 11.

[123e]1 Tim. 6. 7, 8, 9.

[124a]Ezek. 22. 13.

[124b]Pro. 15. 17.  Chap 16. 8.  1 Sam. 2. 5.  Pro. 5. 21.

[124c]Job 14. 17.

[124d]Eccles. 5. 13, 14, 15.

[124e]Prov. 20. 14.

[125a]Amos 8. 5.

[125b]A Judgment of God.  2 King. 7.

[125c]Pro. 11. 26.

[125d]Isa. 58. 6, 7, 8.

[125e]Philip. 4. 5.

[126a]Mr. Badman a very proud man.

[126b]Of pride in general.

[126c]Pro. 21. 24.

[126d]Pride sticks close to nature.

[127]Pro. 8. 13.  Chap. 29. 23.  Isa. 25. 11.  Mal. 4. 1.

[128a]Proud men do not love to be called proud.

[128b]Two sorts of pride.

[128c]Pro. 16. 5.  Chap. 21. 4.  Eccle. 7. 8.

[128d]Isa. 3. 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22.

[128e]Wicked men do hate that word that reproves their vice.

[129a]Signes of a proud man in general.

[129b]Pro. 30. 13.

[129c]Pro. 17. 19.

[129d]Mar. 7.

[129e]In particular.

[129f]Psal. 10. 2.

[129g]Psal. 10. 4.

[129h]Pro. 13. 10.

[129i]Psal. 119. 51.

[129j]Ver. 122.

[129k]Jer. 13. 17.

[129l]Chap. 43. 2.

[129m]Mal. 3. 15.

[129n]Of outward pride.

[130a]1 Tim. 2. 2.  (Don’t see where this fits in the text.—DP)

[130b]1 Pet. 3. 3, 4, 5.

[130c]Mr. Badman was not for having pride called pride.

[130d]Professors guilty of the sin of pride.

[131a]Jer. 3. 3.

[131b]1 Tim. 2. 9.

[131c]1 Pet. 3. 1, 2, 3.

[131d]Jer. 23. 15.

[131e]Ezra. 9. 2.

[131f]Pride in professors a shame and stumbling-block to the world.

[132b]Why pride is in such request.

[132c]1 Reason.  Mar. 7. 22, 23.

[132d]Obad. 3.

[132e]1 Joh. 2. 16.

[132f]1 Pet. 3. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

[133a]3 Reason.

[133b]4 Reason.

[133c]Isa. 6.

[133d]5 Reason.

[134a]The evil effects of the sin of Pride.

[134b]1 Evil effect.  1 Tim. 3. 6.

[134c]2 Evil effect.  Psal. 138. 9.

[134d]3 Evil effect.

[135a]Jam. 4. 6.

[135b]4  Evil effect.  Pro. 16. 25.

[135c]5 Evil effect.  Pro. 11. 2.  Prov. 16. 8.

[135d]6 Evil effect.  1 Tim. 3. 6.

[135e]A general character of Mr. Badman.

[135f]Psalm. 36. 1.

[135g]A brief relation of Mr. Badmans ways.

[136a]Isa. 26. 10.

[136b]Isa. 9. 13.

[136c]Isa. 26. 11.

[136d]Psal. 29. 5.  (Cannot see where this fits in the text.—DP)

[136e]Pro. 17. 6.  (Cannot see where this fits in the text.—DP)

[136f]Isa. 26. 10.

[136g]Mr. Badmans judgment of the Scriptures.

[136h]Good men Mr. Badmans song.

[137a]Psal. 50. 19. 20.

[137b]Rom. 3. 7, 8.

[137c]Jer. 23. 10.

[137d]When the wicked watch, Gods people should be wary.

[137e]Badman an angry, envious man.

[138a]Pro. 14. 16.

[138b]Eccle. 7. 9.

[138c]Whence Envy flows.

[138d]Pro. 27. 3, 4.

[138e]Envie the worst of the four.

[138f]Gal. 5. 19, 20.

[139a]Pro. 14. 30.

[139b]Envy is the father and mother of a many wickednesses.

[139c]Jam. 3. 14, 15.

[139d]Some of the births of Envy.

[139e]Job. 5. 2.

[139f]Matt. 27. 18.

[139g]Mar. 15. 10.

[139h]Acts 7. 9.

[139i]Isa. 11. 13.

[139j]Acts 13. 14.  (Cannot see where this fits in the text.—DP)

[140a]A rare thing.

[140b]Mr. Badman under some trouble of mind.

[140c]Mr. Badman brake his legg.

[140d]He swears.

[140e]He prays.

[141a]It has no good effect upon him.

[141c]How many sins do accompany drunkenness.

[141d]Acts 17. 30, 31, 32.

[142a]Job 34. 24, 25, 26.

[142b]An open stroak.

[142c]pag. 41.

[143a]Mr. Badman fallen sick.

[143b]His conscience is wounded.

[143c]He cryes out in his sickness.

[143d]His Atheism will not help him now.

[144a]A dreadful example of Gods anger.

[144c]What Mr. Badman did more when he was sick.

[145a]Great alteration made in Mr. Badman.

[145b]The Town-talk of Mr. Badmans change.

[145c]His wife is comforted.

[146a]Mr. Badman recovers and returns to his old course.

[146b]Ignorant physicians kill souls while they cure bodyes.

[147a]Gen. 4. 13. 14.  Exo. 9. 27.  1 Sam. 15. 24.  Matt. 27. 3, 4, 5.

[147b]The true symptoms of conversion wanting in all Mr. Badmans sence of sin and desires of mercy.

[147c]Exo. 19. 28.  Acts 8. 24.

[147d]Luke 16. 27, 28.

[147e]Of sick-bed repentance, and that it is to be suspected.

[148a]Hos. 7. 14.

[148b]A sign of the desperateness of mans heart.

[148c]Deut. 1. 34, 35.

[148d]Psal. 78. 34, 35, 36, 37.

[149a]Mr. Badmans wifes heart is broken.

[149b]Her Christian speech.

[149c]Heb. 12. 22, 23, 24.

[149d]Her talk to her friends.  (Don’t see how this relates to the text.  DP)

[150a]Ps. 35. 13.

[150b]Her talk to her husband.

[151a]He diverts her discourse.

[151b]Her speech to her children that were rude.

[151c]Rev. 7. 16.  Chap. 21. 3, 4.

[151d]Her speech to her darling.

[152a]Heb. 3. 14.

[152b]Ephes. 5. 11.

[152c]Her death.

[153b]One of her children converted by her dying words.

[153c]Mat. 23.

[154a]Mr. Badmans base language.

[154b]He marryes again, and how he got this last wife.

[154c]What she was, and how they lived.

[154d]Clarks Looking Glass.

[155]Amo. 7. 16, 17.

[156a]He is punished in his last wife for his bad carriages towards his first.

[156b]He is not at all the better.

[156c]None did pity him for his sorrow, but looked upon it as a just reward.

[156d]Badman and this last wife part as poor as Howlets.

[157a]Mr Badmans sickness and diseases of which he died.

[157b]Badmans name stinks when he is dead.

[157c]Pro. 10. 7.

[158a]That Mr. Badman dies impenitent is proved.

[158b]1  Proof that he died impenitent.

[159a]Isa. 6.  Ro. 11.

[159b]No sence of sin, no repentance proved.

[159c]Acts 2.  Chap. 9.  Chap. 16.

[159d]Psal. 38. 18.

[159e]2 Sam. 12.

[159f]Job 10. 2.  Chap. 34. 32.

[159g]Jer. 31. 18, 19, 20.

[160a]Job 20. 11.  Prov. 5. 22.

[160b]Matt. 25.  Isa. 66. 24.  Mar. 9. 44.

[160c]Every sight and sence of sin cannot produce repentance.

[160d]2 proof that he died impenitent.

[161a]1 King.  21. 17, 18, 19, 20, 21.

[161b]Psal. 41. 6.

[161c]How Badman carried it to good men when they came to visit him in his last sickness.

[163a]Job. 21. 14.

[163b]Jer. 2. 25.  Zech. 7. 11, 12.  Acts. 28. 26, 27.

[163c]3  Proof that he died impenitent.

[163d]Acts 9. 11.

[163e]Psal. 18. 14.

[163f]Job 36. 13.

[164a]Psal. 51. 1.  Psal. 6. 1, 2, 3, 4.  Psal. 38.

[164b]4 Proof that he died impenitent.

[165a]Acts. 9. 26. 28.

[165b]Psal. 119. 63.

[165c]2 Cor. 5. 17.

[165d]Acts. 4. 32, 33.  Chap. 2. 44, 45, 46, 47.

[166a]How Mr. Badman was when near his End.

[166b]He died like a Lamb.

[166c]The opinion of the Ignorant about his manner of dying.

[167a]How we must judge whether men dye well or no.

[167b]When we may judge of a mans eternal state by the manner of his death.

[168c]The story of John Cox.

[169a]Of dying in Despair.

[170a]1 Sam. 28.

[170b]Psal. 73. 4.  (Don’t see where this fits into the text.—DP)

[171a]Further discourse of Mr. Badmans death.

[171b]He that after a sinfull life dies quietly, that is, without repentance, goes to Hell.  1 Proof

[171c]Sick-bed repentance seldom good for any thing.

[172a]Luke 13. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.

[172b]2 Proof.

[173a]Peace in a sinfull state is a sign of damnation.

[173b]Hos 4. 17.

[173c]3 Proof.

[173d]Joh. 12. 40.

[174a]Luk. 16. 22.

[174b]Rom. 2. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.  Acts 28. 26, 27.

[174c]2 Pet. 2.

[174d]4 Proof.  Psal. 73. 4, 5, 6.

[175a]Job 8. 13, 14.

[175b]A frivolous opinion.

[176a]When a wicked man dyes in his sins quietly, it is a Judgment of God upon his wicked beholder.

[176b]Ver. 6.

[177a]Ver. 8. 9, 10, 11.

[177b]Vers. 12.

[177c]Mala. 2. 17.


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