Wise. What do you think that might be?
Atten. For ought I know, the melodious Notes of Angels, that were sent of God to fetch him to Heaven.
Wise. I cannot say but that God goes out of his Ordinary Road with us poor mortals sometimes. I cannot say this of this woman, but yet she had better musick in her heart than sounded in this womans ears.
Atten. I believe so; but pray tell me, did any of her other children hearken to her words, so as to be bettered in their souls thereby?
Wise. One of them did, [153b] and became a very hopefull young man: but for the rest I can say nothing.
Atten. And what did Badman do after his wife was dead?
Wise. Why even as he did before, he scarce mourned a fortnight for her, and his mourning then was, I doubt, more in fashion than in heart.
Atten. Would he not sometimes talk of his Wife, when she was dead?
Wise. Yes, when the fit took him, and could commend her too extremely; saying, she was a good, godly, vertuous woman. But this is not a thing to be wondred at: It is common with wicked men, to hate Gods Servants while alive, and to commend them when they are dead. So served the Pharisees the Prophets: Those of the Prophets that were dead, they commended; and those of them that were alive they condemned. [153c]