own sake, and also for the sake of his Relations, who must needs be
broken to pieces with such doings as these: For, for these things
sake comes the wrath of God upon the Children of disobedience:
{30c} and doubtless he must be gone to Hell, if he died without
Repentance; and to beget a Child for Hell, is sad for Parents to
think on.

Wise. Of his Dying, as I told you, I will give you a Relation
anon, but now we are upon his Life, and upon the Manner of his Life
in his Childhood, even of the sins that attended him then, some of
which I have mentioned already; and indeed I have mentioned but
some, for yet there are more to follow, and those not at all
inferiour to what you have already heard.

Atten. Pray what were they?

Wise. Why he was greatly given, and that while a Lad, to grievous
{31a} Swearing and Cursing: yea, he then made no more of Swearing
and Cursing, than I do of telling my fingers. Yea, he would do it
without provocation thereto. He counted it a glory to Swear and
Curse, and it was as natural to him, as to eat and drink and sleep.

Atten. Oh! what a young Villain was this! here is, as the Apostle
says, a yielding of Members as instruments of unrighteousness unto
sin, {31b} indeed! This is proceeding from evil to evil with a
witness; This argueth that he was a black-mouthed young Wretch
indeed.

Wise. He was so; and yet, as I told you, he counted, above all,
this kind of sinning, to be {31c} a Badge of his Honour: He