The Funeral pomp therefore of Mr. Badman, is to wear upon his
Hearse the Badges of a dishonourable and wicked life; since his
bones are full of the sins of his Youth, which shall lye down, as
Job sayes, in the dust with him: nor is it fit that any should be
his Attendants, now at his death, but such as with him conspired
against their own souls in their life; persons whose transgressions
have made them infamous to all that have or shall know what they
have done.

Some notice therefore I have also here in this little discourse
given the Reader, of them who were his Confederates in his life,
and Attendants at his death; with a hint, either of some high
Villany committed by them, as also of those Judgments that have
overtaken and fallen upon them from the just and revenging hand of
God. All which are things either fully known by me, as being eye
and ear-witness thereto, or that I have received from such hands,
whose relation as to this, I am bound to believe. And that the
Reader may know them from other things and passages herein
contained, I have pointed at them in the Margent, as with a finger
thus: {2a}

Thirdly, The Funerals of persons of Quality have been solemnized
with some suitable Sermon at the time and place of their Burial;
but that I am not come to as yet, having got no further than to Mr.
Badmans death: but for as much as he must be buried, after he hath
stunk out his time before his beholders, I doubt not but some such
that we read are appointed to be at the burial of Gog, will do this
work in my stead; such as shall leave him neither skin nor bone
above ground, but shall set a sign by it till the buriers have