defrauding of my Neighbour, it is like that first prank that the
Devil plaid with our first Parents, {97c} (as the Altar that Uriah
built for Ahaz, was taken from the fashion of that that stood at
Damascus, to be the very pattern of it.) The Serpent beguiled me,
says Eve; Mr. Badman beguiles his Creditors. The Serpent beguiled
Eve with lying promises of gain; and so did Mr. Badman beguile his
Creditors. The Serpent said one thing and meant another, when he
beguiled Eve; and so did Mr. Badman when he beguiled his Creditors.

That man therefore that doth thus deceive and beguile his
neighbour, imitateth the Devil; he taketh his examples from him,
and not from God, the Word, or good men: and this did Mr. Badman.

And now to your second question: To wit, What I would have a man
do, that is in his Creditors debt, and that can neither pay him,
nor go on in a trade any longer? {97d}

Answ. First of all. If this be his case, and he knows it, let him
not run one penny further in his Creditors debt. For that cannot
be done with good conscience. He that knowes he cannot pay, and
yet will run into debt; does knowingly wrong and defraud his
neighbour, and falls under that sentence of the Word of God, The
wicked borroweth and payeth not again. Yea worse, he borrows
though at the very same time he knows that he cannot pay again. He
doth also craftily take away what is his Neighbours. That is
therefore the first thing that I would propound to such: Let him
not run any further into his Creditors debt. {98a}

Secondly, After this, let him consider, {98b} how, and by what
means he was brought into such a condition, that he could not pay