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The Doctrine of Repentance

Name: The Doctrine of Repentance
Author: Thomas Watson

The doctrine of repentance, useful for these times by Tho. Watson ...

Thomas Watson d. 1686London: printed by R.W. for Thomas Parkhurst, 1668

[8], 175 p. · 36k words · Wing W1122 · ESTC R38513

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7. In confession we must so charge¹ our selves as to clear God; should the Lord be severe in his providences, and unsheath his bloody sword, yet we must acquit him, and acknowledge he hath done us no wrong. Nehemiah in his confessing of sin, vindicates Gods righteousness, ⟨p. 32⟩Nehem. 9. 33. Howbeit thou art just in all that is brought upon us. Mauritius the Emperor, when he saw his wife slain before his eyes by Phocas, cried out, Righteous art thou O Lord in all thy ways.

7. In confession we must so charge¹ our selves as to clear God; should the Lord be severe in his providences, and unsheath his bloody sword, yet we must acquit him, and acknowledge he hath done us no wrong. Nehemiah in his confessing of sin, vindicates Gods righteousness, ⟨p. 32⟩Nehem. 9. 33. Howbeit thou art just in all that is brought upon us. Mauritius the Emperour, when he saw his wife slain before his eyes by Phocas, cryed out, Righteous art thou O Lord in all thy wayes.

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8. We must confess our sins with a resolution¹ not to act them over again. Some run from the confessing of sin, to the committing of sin. Like the Persians, who have one day in the year wherein they use to kill Serpents, and after that day suffer them to swarm again^*

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