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Life and Death of Mr. Badman by John Bunyan
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too well known to do that, though he would bungle at it as well as
he could. But there are some that are arch villains this way; they
shall to view live a whole life Religiously, and yet shall be
guilty of these most horrible sins: And yet Religion in it self is
never the worse, nor yet the true professors of it. But as Luther
says, In the name of God begins all mischief. For Hypocrites have
no other way to bring their evils to maturity, but by using and
mixing the Name of God and Religion therewith. {112b} Thus they
become whited Walls; {112a} for by this white, the white of
Religion, the dirt of their actions is hid. Thus also they become
graves that appear not, and they that goe over them, (that have to
do with them) are not aware of them, but suffer themselves to be
deluded by them. Yea, if there shall, as there will sometimes,
rise a doubt in the heart of the buyer about the weight and measure
he should have, why, he suffereth his very sences to be also
deluded, by recalling of his Chapmans Religion to mind, and thinks
verily that not his good chapman but himself is out; for he dreams
not that his chapman can deceive. But if the buyer shall find it
out, and shall make it apparent, that he is beguiled; then shall he
be healed by having amends made, and perhaps fault shall be laid
upon servants, &c. and so Master Cheat shall stand for a right
honest man in the eye of his Customer, though the next time he
shall pick his pocket again.

Some {112c} plead Custom for their Cheat, as if that could acquit
them before the Tribunal of God: And others say, it came to them
for so much, and therefore another must take it for so much, though
there is wanting both as to weight and measure: but in all these
things there are Juggles; or if not, such must know, {112d} That
that which is altogether just, they must doe. Suppose that I be
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