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How far were the gracious Pen-men of the Scripture from this, who when possessed and directed by the Spirit of God, and filled with a Sense of him; instead of applauding themselves, publish upon Record their own faults to all the Eyes of the World? And if Peter, as some think, dictated the Gospel which Mark wrote as his Amanuensis; 'tis observable, that his Crime in denying his Master, is aggravated in that Gospel in some Circumstances, and less spoken of his Repentance, than in the other Evangelists: When he thought thereon, he wept. ^*But in the other, He went out and wept bitterly.^*

How far were the gracious Pen-men of the Scripture from this, who when possessed and directed by the Spirit of God, and filled with a Sence of him; instead of applauding themselves, publish upon Record their own faults to all the Eyes of the World? And if Peter, as some think, dictated the Gospel which Mark wrote as his Amanuensis; 'tis observable, that his Crime in denying his Master, is aggravated in that Gospel in some Circumstances, and less spoken of his Repentance, than in the other Evangelists: When he thought thereon, he wept. ^*But in the other, He went out and wept bitterly.^*

1. *Mark 14.72.
2. *Matt. 26 75.

^*This is one part of Atheism and Self-Idolatry, to magnify our selves with the Forgetfulness, and to the injury of our Creator.