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2 See that you proportion your love to Christ to your sinfulness against Christ in times past. Hast thou been a great and a vile sinner before conversion, know that a little love to Christ is not answerable to thy great sins. Luke 7. 17. Her sins which are many are forgiven her, therefore she loved much. Jesus Christ expects and requires more love of such to whom he hath pardoned much, then he doth of those to whom little is forgiven. We read in John 21. 15. Jesus said unto Peter, Simon, son of ¹Jona•, Lovest thou me more then these? Jesus Christ did not ask him, Lovest thou me at all? nor, Lovest thou me as these? but, Lovest thou me more then these? Thou hast sinned more then these, doest thou love me more then these? Christ expected more love from Peter then from the rest of the Disciples. And so Peter did return more love to Christ then the rest did. And though the book of the Acts be called the Acts of the Apostles, yet there is more spoken of Peter then of all the rest of the Apostles that had seen Christ in the flesh. Peter after his fall did show more love then the rest. 1 Peter preached the first Sermon after ²Christs resurrection and ascension, Act 1. ⟨p. 61⟩15. 2 Peter was the first that went into the Sepulchre after Christs death and resurrection. Although Peter and John did run to the Sepulchre, & John out-ran Peter, and came first thither, yet Peter first went down into the Sepulchre to see where Christ was laid, John 20. 6. 3 When Christ ³after his resurrection was walking upon the waters, Peter cast himself into the Sea to go to meet Jesus, he had no patience to stay till he came at him, Joh. 21. 7. 4 Peter converted ⁴