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I see no place whereunto I may flee, and seek a remedy for my sins.
But Peter denied his Master for fear. Then Peter denied again, and immediately the cock crew, Then said the damsel that kept the door, unto Peter, Art not thou also one of this man's disciples? he saith, I am not, but denied, saying, I know not the man, neither understand I what thou sayest. And he went out into the porch, and the cock crew; but he began to curse and swear, saying, I know not this man of whom ye speak. When Peter had gotten some feeling in his conscience, he went out and wept bitterly. 'Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame,' I Cor. xv. 34. 'That thou mayest remember and be ashamed, and never open thy mouth more,' Ezek xvi. 36.
Thus Peter is rejected for his swearing and lying, as it is in Rev. xvi. 27. 'And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie.' When Satan had tempted Peter to swear, he tempted him to lie; if Peter had not speedily repented, he had been a lost man: But we read that Christ had mercy upon him, and called him from the error of his ways, and from that sinful deed.
Repentance is a turning to men, we must not be ashamed to acknowledge our faults one to another, James v. 16. 'Confess your faults
