3C0 - Satanspewer torempt ; andChtift's love to Objel . Oh! but yet (will force fay) I have finned greatly, very much ; Ihave been a great inner ; and therefore Ifear, that the, LordYrefus Chrift will let me alone towrefile with my temptations all alone, and will notpray and intercede for me in the time and hour of my temptation. An no. IA ell, I mutt yet fay again to you : Haft that finnedmore' than this Peter did, when he denied his acrdand -114 after ? Yet Chriff prayed for him, and his prayer took and prevailed. Have you finned more than Jerufalem did ? Oh ! Yerufa- lem, thou that Pali the Prophets, (faies Chrill when they put him to death.) And yet ifyou look into the r. of the AUs , you !hall find , that Chrift after his Refurreetion, bids his Difciples for to flay and wait at Jerufalem, and not fir from thence; and preach the Gofpel, and mercy, and free grace in Jerufalem. Haft thou (manor woman, that makeft this objealon) finned morethan thole that did put Chriti to death ? that run him into his body with a fpear ? that nailed him upon the crofie ? haft thou finned more than thefe ? "Ye know our Lord and Saviour when he was upon the erode, he prayed for them ; Oh ! Father for- give them, they knownot what they do. Eut, (Lord) thefe are thine oppofers, thefe are perfecutors, and they perfecute thee to death. Well, belt fo, (faies Chrift) I knowwhat I do, and I know whom I pray for : Father forgive t hem, they know not whattheydo. Oh ! what grace, andmer- cy, and love inhere ! Comfort, yea, Comfort unto all the Dikiples of jefus Chriit : when ye are in temptation, the lord Chriii is at prayer for you. And remember the Do- &rine; Never is his love and mercy more at work for ye, t ha nwhen Satan is moil bufie about ye, to tempt ye moll. W, hat comfort is here ! This was that (in part) that com- forted theMartyrs in thePrimitive times, ye reade ofvery great comforts that the Martyrs had in the Primitive times, thole times next-after Chrifl : I have defired to con- fder, what it was cfpecially, that boreup their hearts un- der all thole perfecutions. And Turrulliat:, pitches upon this as one thing : We confider (faies he the cafe of Peter ; Satan
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