soul, and so fit for the Kingdom of Heaven; but the ungodly would
have it like himself, wicked and base and sinful; and so they both
give instructions accordingly: instructions did I say? yea, and
Examples too, according to their minds. Thus the godly, as Hannah,
is presenting her Samuel unto the Lord: but the ungodly, like them
that went before them, are for offering their Children to Moloch,
to an Idol, to sin, to the Devil, and to Hell. Thus one harkeneth
to the Law of their Mother, and is preserved from destruction, but
as for the other, as their Fathers did, so do they. Thus did Mr.
Badman and his wife part some of their Children betwixt them; but
as for the other three that were as 'twere Mungrels, betwixt both,
they were like unto those that you read of in Kings, They feared
the Lord, but served their own Idols. {82b} They had, as I sail,
their Mothers Notions, and I will adde, Profession too, but their
Fathers Lusts, and something of his Life. Now their Father did not
like them, because they had their Mothers tongue; and the Mother
did not like them because they had still their Fathers heart and
life; nor were they indeed fit company for good or bad. The Good
would not trust them because they were bad, the Bad would not trust
them because they were good, viz. The good would not trust them
because they were bad in their Lives, and the bad would not trust
them because they were good in their Words: So they were forced
with Esau to joyn in affinity with Ishmael; to wit, to look out a
people that were Hypocrites like themselves, and with them they
matcht, and lived and died.

Atten. Poor woman, she could not but have much perplexity.

Wise. Yea, and poor Children, that ever they were sent into the
world as the fruit of the loyns, and under the government of such a