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and now let us go, we ⟨p. 272⟩beseech thee, three Days Journey into the Wilderness, that we may Sacrifice unto the Lord our God: And, I am sure that the King of Egypt will not let you go. So our blessed Saviour, the Evening wherein he was betrayed, knew that Peter would shamefully deny him, before the Morning; for he declares it to him with Asseverations, to show the Certainty of it; and tells the Disciples, that all of them should be offended because of him that Night; Matt. xxvi.31,—35. Joh. xiii.38. Luk. xxii.31,—34. Joh. xvi.32. And yet it was their Duty to avoid these Things; they were very sinful Things, which God had forbidden, and which it was their Duty to watch and pray against; and they were obliged to do so from the Counsels and Persuasions Christ used with them, at that very Time, so to do; Matt. xxvi.41. Watch and pray, that ye enter not into Temptation. So that whatover Difficulty there can be in this Matter, it can be no Objection against any Principles which have been maintained in Opposition to the Principles of Arminians; nor does it any more concern me to remove the Difficulty, than it does them, or indeed all that call themselves Christians, and acknowledge the divine Authority of the Scriptures.— Nevertheless, this Matter may possibly (God allowing) be more particularly and largely considered, in some future Discourse, on the Doctrine of Predestition.

and now let us go, we ⟨p. 272⟩beseech thee, three Days Iourney into the Wilderness, that we may Sacrifice unto the Lord our God: And, I am sure that the King of Egypt will not let you go. So our blessed Saviour, the Evening wherein he was betrayed, knew that Peter would shamefully deny him, before the Morning; for he declares it to him with Asseverations, to shew the Certainty of it; and tells the Disciples, that all of them should be of•ended because of him that Night;