The Unsearchable Riches of Christ

This you may see in that remarkable instance concerning Peter, in the 26 of Matthew, from the 69 to the end. A silly wench outfaces him, she daunts and dis-spirits this self-confident Champion, she easily stops and turns him by saying Thou wast with Jesus of Galilee, v. 70. But he denied it ⟨p. 72⟩before them all, saying, I know not what thou sayest. He makes as if he did neither understand her words, or her meaning, and this false dissembling was a true denying of Christ. Now Mark saith, Chap. 14. 68. That upon the very first denial of Christ, the Cock crew, and yet this fair warning could not secure him, but when another Maid saw him, and said, This fellow was with Jesus of Nazareth, vers. 72. He denied it with ¹an Oath, saying, I do not know the man. This was fearful and dreadful, and the worse because his Master whom he forswore, was now upon his Trial, and might say with wounded Caesar, What, and thou my Son Brutus: Is this thy kindness to thy ²friend, to him that ha's loved thee, and saved thee, and owned thee? &c. Then, vers. 73. Surely thou art one of them, for thy speech bewrayeth thee. And, vers. 74. He began to curse and to swear, I know not the man.³

This you may see in that remarkeable instance concerning Peter, in the 26 of Matthew, from the 69 to the end. A silly wench outfaces him, she daunts and dis-spirits this selfconfident Champion, she easily stops and turnes him by saying Thou wast with Jesus of Galilee, v. 70. But he denied it ⟨p. 72⟩before them all, saying, I know not what thou sayest. He makes as if he did neither understand her words, or her meaning, and this false dissembling was a true denying of Christ. Now Mark saith, Chap. 14. 68. That upon the very first deniall of Christ, the Cock crew, and yet this faire warning could not secure him, but when another Maid saw him, and said, This fellow was with Jesus of Nazareth, vers. 72. He denied it with ¹