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Life and Death of Mr. Badman by John Bunyan
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Wise. By this his doing, he shewed how little he feared God, {73b}
and what little dread he had of his Judgments. For all this
carriage, and all these words were by him premeditated evil, he
knew he lyed, he knew he dissembled; yea, he knew that he made use
of the name of God, of Religion, good Men, and good Books, but as a
stalking-Horse, thereby the better to catch his game. In all this
his glorious pretense of Religion, he was but a glorious painted
Hypocrite, and hypocrisie is the highest sin that a poor carnal
wretch can attain unto; it is also a sin that most dareth God, and
that also bringeth the greater damnation. Now was he a whited
Wall, now was he a painted Sepulchre; {73c} now was he a grave that
appeared not; for this poor honest, godly Damosel, little thought
that both her peace, and comfort, and estate, and liberty, and
person, and all, were going to her burial, {73d} when she was going
to be married to Mr. Badman; And yet so it was, she enjoyed her
self but little afterwards; she was as if she was dead and buried,
to what she enjoyed before.

Atten. Certainly some wonderfull Judgment of God must attend and
overtake such wicked men as these.

Wise. You may be sure that they shall have Judgment to the full,
for all these things, when the day of Judgment is come. But as for
Judgment upon them in this life, it doth not alwayes come, no not
upon those that are worthy thereof. They that tempt God are
delivered, and they that work wickedness are set up: {73e} But
they are reserved to the day of wrath, and then for their
wickedness, God will repay them to their faces. {73f} The wicked
is reserved to the day of destruction, they shall be brought forth
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