Wise. Indeed some Children do greatly mend, when put under other
mens Roofs; but, as I said, this naughty boy did not so; nor did
his badness continue, because he wanted a Master that both could
and did correct it: For his {41b} Master was a very good man, a
very devout person; one that frequented the best Soul-means, that
set up the Worship of God in his Family, and also that walked
himself thereafter. He was also a man very meek and merciful, one
that did never overdrive young Badman in business, nor that kept
him at it at unseasonable hours.

Atten. Say you so! This is rare: I for my part can see but few
that can parallel, in these things, with Mr. Badmans Master.

Wise. Nor I neither, (yet Mr. Badman had such an one;) for, for
the most past, {42a} Masters are now a days such as mind nothing
but their worldly concerns, and if Apprentices do but answer their
commands therein, Soul and Religion may go whither they will. Yea,
I much fear, that there have been many towardly Lads put out by
their parents to such Masters, that have quite undone them as to
the next world.

Atten. The more is the pity. But pray, now you have touched upon
this subject, shew me how many wages a Master may be the ruin of
his poor Apprentice.

Wise. Nay, I cannot tell you of all the wayes, yet some of them I
will mention.

Suppose then that a towardly Lad be put to be an Apprentice with
one that is reputed to be a Godly man, yet that Lad may be ruined