Atten. There may be something in what you say, for he that cannot
abide to keep one day holy to God, to be sure he hath given a
sufficient proof that he is an unsanctified man; and as such, what
should he do in Heaven? that being the place where a perpetual
Sabath is to be kept to God; {30a} I say, to be kept for ever and
ever. And for ought I know, one reason why one day in seven, hath
been by our Lord set apart unto holy Duties for men, may be to give
them conviction that there is enmity in the hearts of sinners to
the God of Heaven, for he that hateth Holiness, hateth God himself.
They pretend to love God, and yet love not a holy day, and yet love
not to spend that day in one continued act of holiness to the Lord:
They had as good say nothing as to call him Lord, Lord, and yet not
doe the things that he says. And this Mr. Badman was such an one:
he could not abide this day, nor any of the Duties of it. Indeed,
when he could get from his Friends, and so {30b} spend it in all
manner of idleness and profaneness, then he would be pleased well
enough: but what was this but a turning the day into night, or
other than taking an opportunity at Gods forbidding, to follow our
Callings, to solace and satisfie our lusts and delights of the
flesh. I take the liberty to speak thus of Mr. Badman, upon a
confidence of what you, Sir, have said of him, is true.

Wise. You needed not to have made that Apology for your censuring
of Mr. Badman, for all that knew him, will confirm what you said of
him to be true. He could not abide either that day, or any thing
else that had the stamp or image of God upon it. Sin, sin, and to
do the thing that was naught, was that which he delighted in, and
that from a little Child.

Atten. I must say again, I am sorry to hear it, and that for his