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Life and Death of Mr. Badman by John Bunyan
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silence) has his Funeral state according to his deserts.

Four things are usual at great mens Funerals, which we will take
leave, and I hope without offence, to allude to, in the Funeral of
Mr. Badman.

First, They are sometimes, when dead, presented to their Friends,
by their compleatly wrought Images, as lively as by cunning mens
hands they can be; that the remembrance of them may be renewed to
their survivors, the remembrance of them and their deeds: And this
I have endeavoured to answer in my discourse of Mr. Badman; and
therefore I have drawn him forth in his featours and actions from
his Childhood to his Gray hairs. Here therefore thou hast him
lively set forth as in Cutts; both as to the minority, flower, and
seniority of his Age, together with those actions of his life, that
he was most capable of doing, in, and under those present
circumstances of time, place, strength; and the opportunities that
did attend him in these.

Secondly, There is also usual at great mens Funerals, those Badges
and Scutcheons of their honour, that they have received from their
Ancestors, or have been thought worthy of for the deeds and
exploits they have done in their life: And here Mr. Badman has
his, but such as vary from all men of worth, but so much the more
agreeing with the merit of his doings: They all have descended in
state, he only as an abominable branch. His deserts are the
deserts of sin, and therefore the Scutcheons of honour that he has,
are only that he died without Honour, and at his end became a fool.
Thou shalt not be joyned with them in burial.--The seed of evil
doers shall never be renowned.
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