to the Chi(f of.Si1ners~ 67 . 1 54 . Aft~r this, I can1.e to c?nfider .-of P~: ~er's_fin, .wh1ch ~e commltt~d In de~y1ng Ius Ma.Iter.: And, tndeed, th ts came ntgheft to Hline of any that I could·find, for he had den i~d his Saviour, as I, after light and mer– cy received ; yea, and that too, after wa:ni~g givea him. I alfo confidered, that he d1d It both once and twice ; and that after time to confider betwixt. But tho' I put all tbefe cir– cumftances together,that, if poffible, I 1night find help, yet I confidered again,that his was but a Je;q.ial of his Mafter, but mine was A · felling of my Saviour. Wherefore I thought with my felf, that 1 came nearer to Judas, then either to Da~id or Peter. I 56. [--Jere again lTIY torment.WOO}d flame - · ont and afflitl: me; yea, it would grind me, as it were to powder., to confider the prefer- ,_\vation of God towards others, whilelfell in– to the Snare; for in my thus confidering of other men's Sins, and -c<H11paring of them with mine own, I could evidcQtly fee, God jn~~fervcd them , notwithftanding their · \''lckednefs, and would not let theru, as he had let rne becon1e aSon of Perdition. I 57 .But Ohjhow did my Soul a~ this time prize the Prefervation that God did fet-about his People: -~b; how fafely did I fee then1 w~lk.,wh?m God had hedg~d in! ·They were · wtth1n h1~ care,proted:ion qnd f})ecial provi– dence.: The' they were fuH as bad as I, 'by , nature ; yet becaufe he loved t.hen1, Le wotild D ·n{)t
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