Atten. These two sins of lying and stealing were a bad sign of an
evil end.

Wise. So they were, and yet Mr. Badman came not to his end like
old Tod; Though I fear, to as bad, nay, worse than was that death
of the Gallows, though less discerned by spectators; but more of
that by and by. But you talk of these two sins as if these were
all that Mr. Badman was addicted to in his Youth: Alas, alas, he
swarmed with sins, even as a Begger does with Vermin, and that when
he was but a Boy.

Atten. Why what other sins was he addicted to, I mean while he was
but a Child?

Wise. You need not ask, to what other sins was he, but to what
other sins was he not addicted, that is, of such as suited with his
Age: for a man may safely say, that nothing that was vile came
amiss to him; if he was but capable to do it. Indeed some sins
there be that Childhood knows not how to be tampering with; but I
speak of sins that he was capable of committing, of which I will
nominate two or three more. And,

First, He could not endure the {28a} Lords Day, because of the
Holiness that did attend it; the beginning of that Day was to him
as if he was going to Prison, (except he could get out from his
Father and Mother, and lurk in by-holes among his Companions,
untill holy Duties were over.) Reading the Scriptures, hearing
Sermons, godly Conference, repeating of Sermons, and Prayer, were
things that he could not away with; and therefore if his Father on
such days, (as often he did, though sometimes notwithstanding his