Wise. Natural or unnatural, all is one to a Thief. Beside, you
must think that he had likewise Companions to whom he was, for the
wickedness that he saw in them, more {25c} firmly knit, than either
to Father or Mother. Yea, and what had he cared if Father and
Mother had died for grief for him. Their death would have been, as
he would have counted, great release and liberty to him: For the
truth is, they and their counsel was his Bondage; yea, and if I
forget not, I have heard some say, that when he was, at times,
among his Companions, he would greatly {25d} rejoyce to think that
his Parents were old, and could not live long, and then, quoth he,
I shall be mine own man, to do what I list without their controul.

Atten. Then it seems he counted that robbing of his Parents was no
crime.

Wise. None at all, and therefore he fell directly under that
Sentence, Whoso robbeth his Father or his Mother, and saith it is
no transgression, the same is the companion of a destroyer. And
for that he set so light by them as to their Persons and Counsels,
'twas a sign that at present he was of a very abominable spirit,
{26a} and that some Judgement waited to take hold of him in time to
come.

Atten. But can you imagin what it was, I mean, in his conceit (for
I speak not now of the suggestions of Satan, by which doubtless he
was put on to do these things,) I say what it should be in his
conceit, that should make him think that this his manner of
pilfering and stealing was no great matter.