end of this hellish mirth.

Wise. These were all sad Judgements.

Atten. These were dreadful Judgments indeed.

Wise. Ai, and they look like the Threatning of that Text, (though
chiefly it concerned Judas,) As he loved cursing, so let it come
unto him; as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from
him. As he cloathed himself with cursing as with a garment, so let
it come into his bowels like water, and as oyl into his bones.
{40a}

Atten. It is a fearful thing for Youth to be trained up in a way
of Cursing and Swearing.

Wise. Trained up in them! that I cannot say Mr. Badman was, for
his Father hath oft-times in my hearing, bewailed the badness of
his Children, and of this naughty Boy in particular. I believe
that the wickedness of his Children made him (in the thoughts of
it) goe many a Night with heavy heart to bed, and with as heavy an
one to rise in the Morning. But all was one to his graceless Son,
neither wholsom counsel, nor fatherly sorrow, would make him mend
his Manners.

There {40b} are some indeed that do train up their Children to
swear, curse, lye and steal, and great is the misery of such poor
Children whose hard hap it is to be ushered into the world by, and
to be under the tuition too of such ungodly Parents. It had been
better for such Parents, had they not begat them, and better for