might even read in his very countenance the symptoms of an hard and
desperate heart this way.

Atten. This was an ill beginning indeed, and argueth that he began
to harden himself in sin betimes. For a lye cannot be knowingly
told and stood in, (and I perceive that this was his manner of way
in Lying) but he must as it were force his own heart into it. Yea,
he must make his heart {21d} hard, and bold to doe it: Yea, he
must be arrived to an exceeding pitch of wickedness thus to doe,
since all this he did against that good education, that before you
seemed to hint, he had from his Father and Mother.

Wise. The want of good Education, as you have intimated, is many
times a cause why Children doe so easily, so soon, become bad;
especially when there is not only a want of that, but bad Examples
enough, as, the more is the pity, there is in many Families; by
vertue of which poor Children are trained up in Sin, and nursed
therein for the Devil and Hell. But it was otherwise with Mr.
Badman, for to my knowledge, this his way of Lying, was a great
grief to his Parents, for their hearts were much dejected at this
beginning of their Son; nor did there want Counsel and Correction
from them to him, if that would have made him better. He wanted
not to be told, in my hearing, and that over and over and over,
That all Lyars should have their part in the Lake that burns with
fire and brimstone; and that whosoever loveth and maketh a lye,
should not have any part in the new and heavenly Jerusalem: {22a}
But all availed nothing with him; when a fit, or an occasion to
lie, came upon him, he would invent, tell, and stand to his Lie (as
steadfastly as if it had been the biggest of truths,) that he told,
and that with that hardening of his heart and face, that it would