slaughter, and as the Fool to the Correction of the Stocks, {48a}
till a Dart strikes through their Liver, not knowing that it is for
their life. This, I say, makes their Judgement double, they are
given up of God, for a while to sport themselves with that which
will assuredly make them mourn at last, when their flesh and their
body is consumed. {48b} These are those that Peter {48c} speaks
of, that shall utterly perish in their own corruptions; these, I
say, who count it pleasure to ryot in the day-time, and that sport
themselves with their own deceivings, are, as natural bruit beasts,
made to be taken and destroyed.

Atten. Well, but I pray now concerning these three Villains that
were young Badmans companions: Tell me more particularly how he
carried it then.

Wise. How he carried it! why, he did as they. I intimated so much
before, when I said, they made him an arch, a chief one in their
ways.

First, He became a Frequenter of {48d} Taverns and Tippling-houses,
and would stay there untill he was even as drunk as a Beast. And
if it was so, that he could not get out by day, he would, be sure,
get out by night. Yea, he became so common a Drunkard, at last,
that he was taken notice of to be a Drunkard even by all.

Atten. This was Swinish, for Drunkenness, is so beastly a sin, a
sin so much against Nature, that I wonder that any that have but
the appearance of Men, can give up themselves to so beastly (yea,
worse than beastly) a thing.