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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57146	Meditations on the fall and rising of St. Peter by Edward Reynolds ...	Reynolds, Edward, 1599-1676.; Reynolds, Edward, 1629-1698.	1677 (1677)	Wing R1266; ESTC R15342	19,547	140

Members in sinning how the action of the Foot bears witness to the apostacy of the Tongue But why should Peter get him out for fear of an Attachment and farther Examination having already by his denial clear'd himself and for ought he sees satisfied his adversay Surely there is no security to be expected from the denial of our Lord. He which thinks to gain ease by sinning misseth of his end and shall be more afraid after he hath clear'd himself by Apostacy than he was before 'T is not the way to avoid the storms of danger by making shipwrack of a good Conscience and to free our selves from the hands of men by running upon the wrath of God He which hides himself in the hedg of wickedness from danger shall meet with a Serpent instead of safety and shall be so much the more suspicious of other mens fury and persecution by how much the more he is sensible that he hath deserv'd it Peter sate boldly amongst them while he was in danger he hath no sooner made his Apology but he is gone straight The same that befell Peter here in denying his dependance on his Saviour did once befall Adam in denying the Truth of his Maker the next news which you hear of them is their flight their fear Sin is ever deceitful and pays nothing less than what it promiseth The first thing that ever painted it self was Sin MED XIV IS the nature of Woman more inquisitive or more malignant that amongst so many other servants a Woman should begin the second accusation The Devil will double a weak Temptation if it have proved prosperous and looks rather to the issue than to the Instruments of his assaults The first Maid tempted Peter by questioning him this second by accusing him to the other Servants from which latter we may infer That those who are aptest to Tempt are aptest to Accuse These two are the Devils grand Instruments to work the ruin of Mankind He first tempts a man to sin and then he accuseth him to God And therefore he hath both names in an equal propriety a Tempter and an Accuser and these on all sides He first tempted man to forsake his Maker and accused his Maker of deceiving man next he tempts God to Judgment upon man by accusing man of wickedness towards God and lastly after he hath tempted any man unto sin he begins to accuse him to his brethren without and his own Conscience within Ever when thou feelest an assault begin to fear an accusation and learn to prevent the Devils Malice by resisting his Temptation MED XV. WE may here see the method of Satan His first Temptation is by one only Maid his second by many Servants that stood by The more weak and naked he finds us with the greater force he makes upon us using his first assault to try but his second to wound us As in the battery or breaking open of a City one man may serve for a spie to watch the Gates to take notice of the Defences and to make relation of the weaknesses or force of either but when they are by his report found unable for resistance there then follows the irruption of a whole army bringing nothing but the threats of blood and slaughter So is it with Satan towards our Souls after he hath sent one smaller Temptation as a spie to observe our Fortifications and upon the success and report of it finds how weak we are to withstand his forces he then rushes in upon us with a multitude of his armed and more able servants who certainly would take possession of us and hold us in peace as their own did not a stronger than he come upon him and overcome him and divide the spoils MED XVI THE form and manner of Peter's second Denial is not without special reason as I conceive diversly related In one Evangelist the words are I know not the man in another I am not of them One would think these were two Denials May not a man know him unless he follow him No. Behold a mystery of Faith in the fall of Peter No man knows Christ unless he be one of them that follow him and to whom he hath united himself If it had been true I am not one of them it had been true also I know not the man All knowledg consists in mixture and union whereby the understanding receiveth into it the image and similitude of the thing which it knows which made the Philosopher say That the Soul in understanding a thing is made the very thing which it understands namely in that sense as we call the Image of the Face in a Glass the Face it self or the Impression in Wax the Seal it self Now then there is no union between Christ and us no dwelling of him in us no ingrafture or incorporation of us into him without that Faith whereby we follow him which makes us to be so nearly one with him that in the judgment of the learned the name of Christ is sometimes in the holy Scriptures taken for the Church of Christ. And therefore to those that believe to them only he hath given to know Christ is not truly apprehended either by the fancy or the understanding He is at once known and possess'd It is an Experimental and not a Speculative knowledg that concieves him He understands him that feels him We see him in his Grace and Truth in his Word and Promises not in any carnal or gross presence Pilate knew him in that manner and Judas as well as Peter A true Believer can see and know him better in Heaven at the right hand of his Father by a Sacramental than a Papist can on the Altar in the Jewish and Pilate-hands of a Mass-Priest by a Transubstantiated bread Let their Faith have the assistance of teeth and jaws ours though toothless eats him with less injury and with more nourishment MED XVII THE encrease of the Enemies Temptation accumulates unto the Apostles sin When Peter is pressed a second time and with more strong opposition he conceives a naked and empty denial to be an implicite confession and therefore that he may make them more credulous he makes himself more impious and to gain Faith with men he not only denies but forswears his Faith with God making Christ himself the Witness and Patron not only of a Lie but also of a Revolt With how deep a die of sin with how many degrees of corruption will the habit of Faith consist That failed not Peter though the exercise thereof were a while smuther'd and suspended Christ's prayer was stronger to preserve it than his denial to root it out That very action which if it had proceeded from a heart qualified with other dispositions of stubborness malice and obduration would have been the irremediable sin against the Holy Ghost was in Peter proceeding from fear and weakness the sin of a believing and faithful heart How may the Godly in this one Example both learn to despair of