to do his duty to his neighbor also.

_Bragwell._ What! do you think that I serve two Gods? Do you think
then that I make graven images, and worship stocks or stones? Do you
take me for a papist or an idolater?

_Worthy._ Don't triumph quite so soon, Master Bragwell. Pray is
there nothing in the world you prefer to God, and thus make an idol
of? Do you not love your money, or your lands, or your crops, or
your cattle, or your own will, or your own way, rather better than
you love God? Do you never think of these with more pleasure than
you think of him, and follow them more eagerly than your religious
duty?

_Bragwell._ Oh! there's nothing about that in the 20th chapter of
Exodus.

_Worthy._ But Jesus Christ has said, "He that loveth father or
mother more than me is not worthy of me." Now it is certainly a
man's duty to love his father and his mother; nay, it would be
wicked not to love them, and yet we must not love even these more
than our Creator and our Saviour. Well, I think on this principle,
your heart pleads guilty to the breach of the first and second
commandments; let us proceed to the third.

_Bragwell._ That is about swearing, is it not?

Mr. Worthy, who had observed Bragwell guilty of much profaneness in
using the name of his Maker (though all such offensive words have
been avoided in writing this history), now told him that he had been
waiting the whole day for an opportunity to reprove him for his
frequent breach of the third commandment.

"Good L--d! I break the third commandment!" said Bragwell; "no
indeed, hardly ever; I once used to swear a little, to be sure, but
I vow I never do it now, except now and then when I happen to be in
a passion: and in such a case, why, good G--d, you know the sin is
with those who provoke me, and not with me; but upon my soul, I
don't think I have sworn an oath these three months; no, not I,
faith, as I hope to be saved."

_Worthy._ And yet you have broken this holy law not less than five
or six times in the last speech you have made.

_Bragwell._ Lord bless me! Sure you mistake. Good heavens, Mr.
Worthy, I call G--d to witness, I have neither cursed nor swore
since I have been in the house.

_Worthy._ Mr. Bragwell, this is the way in which many who call
themselves very good sort of people deceive themselves. What! is it
no profanation of the name of your Maker to use it lightly,
irreverently and familiarly as you have done? Our Saviour has not
only told