And they were exceeding sorrowful, and began every one of them to say unto him, Lord, is it I?
Ver. 22. And they were exceeding sorrowful] Not joyful (as some would have been) to find out other men's faults, and to exagitate them. Not only those that make, but that love lies, yea, or unseasonable truths in this kind, are shut out of heaven among dogs and devils,Revelation 22:15 .
Lord, is it I?] He puts them all to a search, before the sacrament. Let "a man therefore examine himself," &c., 1 Corinthians 11:28; who knows the error of his life? saith David, Psalms 19:12. In our hearts are volumes of corruptions, in our lives infinite erratas. Socrates would say, when he saw one drunk, or otherwise disordered, Num ego talis? Am I such a one? So would Mr Bradford, when he looked into the lewd lives of any others.