The Life and Death of Mr. Badman

About this book

John Bunyan's companion piece to The Pilgrim's Progress, first published in 1680, tells the story of a persistently wicked man in dialogue form. As Mr. Wiseman recounts Mr. Badman's life and death to Mr. Attentive, Bunyan traces how a hardened conscience grows through deceit, profanity, and contempt for repeated warnings. It is a sober Puritan warning against a wasted life.

Contents

1. Note
2. The Author to the Reader
3. Books lately Printed for and Sold by Nathaniel Ponder at the Peacock in the Poultrey, neer the Church
4. Errata
5. The Meeting — Mr Wiseman Proposes His Subject
6. A Wicked Childhood — Lying, Stealing, and the Lord's Day 🔒
7. Swearing and Cursing 🔒
8. The Apprentice — and How Masters May Ruin One 🔒
9. Bad Companions — Drunkenness 🔒
10. The Third Companion — Uncleanness 🔒
11. He Runs Away from His Master 🔒
12. Set Up by His Father — and a Wife Got by Dissimulation 🔒
13. His Cruelty to His Godly Wife 🔒
14. His Children 🔒
15. Judgments Before His Eyes — Yet Scarce Throughly Begun 🔒
16. The Art of Breaking 🔒
17. False Weights and Measures 🔒
18. Extortion and Overreaching 🔒
19. Pride, Anger, and Envy 🔒
20. Twice Afflicted — and No Remorse 🔒
21. The Death of His Wife 🔒
22. His Last Sickness — No Sense of Sin, No Repentance 🔒
23. He Died Like a Lamb — the Conclusion 🔒
24. Margin Notes 🔒