the Providence of God, (but humble himself rather under his mighty
hand,) which comes to strip him naked and bare: for he that doth
otherwise, fights against God; and declares that he is a stranger
to that of Paul; I know both how to be abased, and I know how to
abound; every where, in all things, I am instructed both to be
full, and to be hungry, both to abound, and to suffer need. {105f}

Atten. But Mr. Badman would not, I believe, have put this
difference 'twixt things feigned, and those that fall of necessity.

Wise. If he will not, God will, Conscience will; and that not
thine own only, but the Consciences of all those that have seen the
way, and that have known the truth of the condition of such an one.

Atten. Well: Let us at this time leave this matter, and return
again to Mr. Badman.

Wise. With all my heart will I proceed to give you a relation of
what is yet behind of his Life, in order to our discourse of his
Death.

Atten. But pray do it with as much brevity as you can.

Wise. Why? are you a weary of my relating of things?

Atten. No. But it pleases me to hear a great deal in few words.

Wise. I profess not my self an artist that way, but yet as briefly
as I can, I will pass through what of his Life is behind; and again
I shall begin with his fraudulent dealing (as before I have shewed