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Life and Death of Mr. Badman by John Bunyan
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Conscience, and contrary to the Law of nature. It is a designed
piece of wickedness, and therefore a double sin. A man cannot do
this great wickedness on a sudden, and through a violent assault of
Satan. He that will commit this sin, must have time to deliberate,
that by invention, he may make it formidable, and that with lies
and high dissimulations. He that commits this wickedness, must
first hatch it upon his bed, beat his head about it, and lay his
plot strong: So that to the completing of such a wickedness, there
must be adjoyned many sins, and they too, must go hand in hand
untill it be compleated. But what saith the Scripture? {96e}{96f}
Let no man go beyond, and defraud his Brother in any matter,
because the Lord is the avenger of all such. But this kind of
Breaking is a going beyond my Brother; This is a compassing of him
about that I may catch him in my net; and as I said, an art to rob
my Brother, and to pick his pocket, and that with his consent.
Which doth not therefore mitigate, but so much the more greaten and
make odious the offence. For men that are thus wilily abused
cannot help themselves, they are taken in a deceitfull net. But
God will here concern himself, he will be the avenger, he will be
the avenger of all such either here or in another world.

And this, the Apostle testifies again, where he saith; {97a} But he
that doth wrong, shall receive for the wrong that he hath done, and
there is no respect of persons. {97b} That is, there is no man, be
he what he will, if he will be guilty of this sin, of going beyond,
of beguiling of, and doing wrong to his Brother, but God will call
him to an account for it, and will pay him with vengeance for it
too; for there is no respect of persons.

I might add, that this sin of wronging, of going beyond, and
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