576 Book IV. Pa'rto;. L1oking unt1 :Jefr~~. Cbap.1.Sett.7 ----------------------------------------- l'liu. bift· . Jearr,-- And in cafe we fall inr:leed, as Peter did, yet let us not defpaire as 'fudM did; but fii!l. upon our repentance let us trufl in God. When Chrifi looked on Peter, he wept bitterly; notwithftanding our fins are great, yet one look of Chrift is full of vertue, and enough to melt us into teares: 0 let us not finke in defpaire, but look up to him, that he may look down on us. Pliny tells us of fome rocks in Phrigia, that when the Sun doth but lbine upon them, they fend out drops ofwater, as if they wept teares. Peter fignifies a rock, and whiles Peter perfified in his ' fin ofcl'enying Chrifi , his heart was hard as the rocke, but when Chrift the Son ofrighteoufnefs looked upon him, his heart wasfofcned, and he droped teares continually. Such is the vertue ofChrifts look, it turns the rock)ntoAftanding water, and the flint into a founrain ofwaters.- Laftly, let us not decry repentance, but rather be in the ufe, and prar.tife, and exercife of it: is not here a Gofpel prefident. * Clrment an antient "Flevit quUem tanta lachri · ma•um inundatione, ut in muiUis profundos julcos habcrct, per quos quafi per quo(dam ca· nales aut aqu.e·duffus lachri· mal ejus tlejlu~bant C lcm. . .!10oties gaUz cantum audte· hat itt lachrimas prorumpebat, pcr'rotum vit£ tempus uegati. Qnis culpam frequenter adeo planxit. Idem. writer, ofwhom Pau/makesmention, Phi/.4·3· expreffeth Peter.rrepentance to have beenfogreat, that in hi.r cheek! he made (as it were) furrows, in which as in certaine ch,mne/J' his teares run dewn; the text tells us he wept .bitterly; and {lement adds, that while he lived, M ofun as ke hCArd a cock._ crow, he could not but weep, and bew11ile hio denyaf. Da'Vid is another like example, all the night, faid he, I mal<! my bed to fwimme, I water m7 co11ch with my uarn, ·p[alm 6. 6. D,1vid m~ kes mention of his bed and couch, becaufc: there mo!t efpecially he had offended God : it was on his bed that hecommitted adultry, and it was in his couch, that he defigned and fubfcribed with his own hand, that Vriah muft dye, and hence is it that he waters his bed and co!lch with his ceares ; the very fight of his b:d 11nd couch brings his fin into his remembrance; as the very hearing·of the crowing ofa cock ever after awakened Peter to his task of te~ res: that repentarJce io aG&f} el duty, we have fpokeelfewhere, 0 take heed of decrying it ! as we are often finning,f0 Ia m often repent, it conc~rns u~ neere to be frequent in this duty of bewailing fin, and (urning to God. 6. For the abufes and delufions .of the bafe attendants offered to Chrift, the Evangelifi tells us, then did they JPit in hio face, and · buffeted
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