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Peter was a good house, Judas was an ill house; therefore when a storm came, though Peter lost a slate or two, as the best house may, yet the foundation and the side-walls stood firm: he wept bitterly for his sin, and craved pardon for it, and so all was repaired. But what of Judas? he stood indifferently well for a while: but at length when Christ rebuked him, he was full of wrath; and when the high Priests offered him money, he was ⟨p. 69⟩full of covetousness: and so thinking to gain more by selling of Christ, then by serving of him, he quite forsook his Master, and sought how to betray him to his most mortal adversaries.

Peter was a good house, Iudas was an ill house; therefore when a storme came, though Peter lost a slate or two, as the best house may, yet the foundation and the side-wals stood firme: he wept bitterly for his sinne, and craued pardon for it, and so all was repaired. But what of Iudas? he stood indifferently well for a while: but at length when Christ rebuked him, hee was full of wrath; and when the high Priests offered him money, he was ⟨p. 69⟩full of couetousnesse: and so thinking to gaine more by selling of Christ, then by seruing of him, he quite forsooke his Master, and sought how to betray him to his most mortall aduersaries.

So Joseph being good under his fathers government, continued good also under the government of Infidels, where he had all means of damnation, but none of salvation; yea though he were at first in an unchaste house, where he was set upon by his unchaste mistress; and afterwards cast in prison amongst the notablest malefactors in all the country: yet look what manner of man Joseph was in his fathers house, the same he was still, both in Potiphars house, and in the prison; and the same he continued to be when he came to great advancement in Pharaohs court, which was the most dangerous temptation of all the rest. Hereunto we may add, that Joseph was a young man, and therefore more likely to be carried away; but all was nothing: when his heart was sound, all the powers of hell could not prevail against him.