it, We beforc lett Peter in the High PricSF's Palace, warming + ſelf ty the Fire amongit the Servants, It 15 a dangerous ching '\r Coriſtians co come into Places of Tempration. A Maid comes -. 3-1, and chargerh him to have been with Chriſt, whom the | 1c 7-15 of Galilee : So they called Chriſt, fomerimes 7e/u45 of
© - 74, rhe Ciry in Galile2 where Chriſt lived rhe greateſt parc © his Lite: He denicd before them all; {5 loud thar all heard 1t. 1.» mt what thou ſayest , or ( as Luke-falth) I know him nt , hy; kaww him nor what thou f.tzc8t.
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17447 hath the ſame, cap. 14. 2&7. 70. more ſhortly. So Luke,
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-nzr, and was Zor into the Porch, bur there another meets him, with the fame Charge. Here to the former Lie which he had toid, 1nd here repeareth , he adds an Oarh for the Confirmation ot whit he had laid. What are the beſt of Men when God [exves them to their own Strengrh? Bur the Tempration , yer grows Inghcr. =
-2 And after a while came unto him they that {095d by, and ſaid unto Peter, Surely thou alio art one of them, for thy ſpeech bewrayeth thee.
-1 Then began he to curſe and to ſwear, ſay:7g, 1 krow not the man. And immediately the cock crew.
Mak, chap. 14. ver. 76, 7!. faith, And a little after, toey wt Itord by, ſaid again to Peter, Surely thou art one of them, ji t129!! wt a Galilean , and thy Speech agreeth thereto, But he vegan t9 1177 md t1 ſwear, ſaying, I know not the Man of whom you ſpe-th. Lube hatli ir, ch.ap. 22. $9, 60, And about the ſpace of an hour after, all- ether confidently affirmed, ſaying, Of a truth this Fellow a!jo was with hin, for h2 s a Galilean. And Peter ſaid, Man, I know nt what thin (get, 4nd immediately the Cock crew. One ſpake 1n rhe Name of the reſt, char were gathered abour Peter, and he chargerh 7:2 confidently ; and he might well, tor John faith, chap.18.25. thar this was one of the Servants of the High Prieſt's, being his Kin- 1m, whnſe Ear Peter cut off, he ſaid, Did I not ſee thee in the Gar- dn with bim 2 Temptations always grow upon us, in the Com- pany of wicked Men. Here Peter adds to his Lying, Swearing and (:rfmg; all confirming of whar he had ſaid, 1n the Denial of lis Maſter, All in an exad fulfilling of whar Chriſt had cold ſ*ter, v. $4. tho*he was then ditficulr ro believe ir: To teach us all, not ro preſume too far upon our own Strength, but ro Pray, that we be nor led inro Temptation. While we ſtand to rake heed left we fall, and in order to it, to avoid the Sociery of wicked Men, and Places in which we probably may be tempred. To texch us alſo Chariry ro lapſed Brethren, and nor too haſtily ro condemn our Brethren, for falling a ſecond and a third time into the ſame Sin ; eſpecially, while the ſame fit of Temptation holdeth. Ir is added ; | And immediately the Cock nor) that is, the ſecond time: So faith Mark, chap. 14. 72- who had mentioned the Cock's firſt Crowing, v. 68. upon Peter's firſt Denial of his Maſter.
-3 And Peter remembred the words of Jeſus, which
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ly me thrice. And he went out and wept bitterly.
Warb faith, chap. 14. 72. And the ſecond time, the Cock crew 3 nd Peter called to mind the words that Jeſus had ſaid unto him, Be- f:12 the Coch craw twice, thou ſhalt deny me thrice; and when he rmaught there he wept. Luke ſaith, chap. 22. 61. And the Lord zimed, and lockt upon Peter, and Peter remembred the word of the Lid, hyp he had ſaid unto him, Before the Cock crow, thou ſhalt deny me thrice, And Peter went out, and wept bitterly. We have 1n this laſt Verſe Peter's Repentance, and the Occaſion and Cauſe of it. A good Man may tall, and thar foully, bur he ſhall nor tall, fo as to rile no more.David lay longer than Peter under the Guilt of his v1n, but huth of them wept bitterly. He went our of the Porch, Vither he went is not faid ; poſſibly he was atraid , ro whar tis Derettion of him might riſe, or elſe ſought a Place (as 79- 201d) to weep more privarely,and plenrifully chan he durſt do, 7 t10uhkt convenient to do in the Porch of the High Pricft. Thar Which cave occaſion to this ReffeFiom was, the Crowing of 2 Cob the ſecmd time, and his Remembrance of the Words ( Jews, ver. 34. Our Memories ſerve us much in the Buit- linets of Repentanc?, and therefore, thar rhe Soul ſhould be with- Gut hnowledoe of che Law of God, 15 nor good. Peter remem- "Wd whar Chriſt had perſonally ſfai4 ro him. True Penirents ate till excired ro Repent ance, by remembring the Law of God, "at Clhrift hath in his Word faid to them; and .confidering Wi vn Ways. The Crowing of the Ck rhe ſecond time, "CPM tO remember the Words of Feſus, for he had faid, "72 1.2 Cork crow twice, &c. Bur the Care of his Repenrance, -2pretied by Lukes The Lord turned, and Iy1hed upin Peter. More ol he undcritood by this LZo9& of Chris upon him, than the ©-iT caſt of Chriſt's bodily Eye £ With that Look there was a 40 watch went from Chriſt which healed Peter, exciting his
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