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A Body of Practical Divinity
A body of practical divinity consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster : with a supplement of some sermons on several texts of Scripture / by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed for Thomas Parkurst, 1692
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5. Counterfeit, Vows and Resolutions. What Vows and Solemn Protestations do some make in their Sickness, if God recover them they will be new Men, but afterwards are as bad as ever! Jer. 2.20. Thou saidst, I will not transgress. Here was a Resolution, but for all this she ran after her Idols. Under every green Tree thou wanderest, playing the Harlot.
5. Counterfeit, Vows and Resolutions. What Vows and Solemn Protestations do some make in their Sickness, if God recover them they will be new Men, but afterwards are as bad as ever! Ier. 2.20. Thou saidst, I will not transgress. Here was a Resolution, but for all this she ran after her Idols. Vnder every green Tree thou wanderest, playing the Harlot.
6. Counterfeit, Leaving off some gross Sin. But that is a Mistake: For, (1.) A Man may leave some Sins, and keep other. Herod did reform many things amiss, but kept his Herodias. (2.) An old Sin may be left to entertain a new. A Man may leave off Riot and Prodigality, and turn Covetous. This is to exchange a Sin. These are the Counterfeits of Repentance. Now if you find that yours is a Counterfeit Repentance, and you have not repented aright, mend what you have done amiss: As in the Body, if a Bone be set wrong, the Chirurgeon hath no ways but to break it again, and set it right. So must you do by your Repentance, if you have not repented aright; you must have your Heart broken again in a Godly Manner, and be more deeply afflicted for Sin than ever. And that brings me to the Second, to show wherein True Repentance consists. It consists in Two things.
6. Counterfeit, Leaving off some gross Sin. But that is a Mistake: For, (1.) A Man may leave some Sins, and keep other. Herod did reform many things amiss, but kept his Herodias. (2.) An old Sin may be left to entertain a new. A Man may leave off Riot and Prodigality, and turn Covetous. This is to exchange a Sin. These are the Counterfeits of Repentance. Now if you find that yours is a Counterfeit Repentance, and you have not repented aright, mend what you have done amiss: As in the Body, if a Bone be set wrong, the Chyrurgeon hath no ways but to break it again, and set it right. So must you do by your Repentance, if you have not repented aright; you must have your Heart broken again in a Godly Manner, and be more deeply afflicted for Sin than ever. And that brings me to the Second, to show wherein True Repentance consists. It consists in Two things.