A65293:108
The Doctrine of Repentance
The doctrine of repentance, useful for these times by Tho. Watson ...
London: printed by R.W. for Thomas Parkhurst, 1668
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
—inscripsere deos sceleri *—.
- *Ovid.
That is a bad sin indeed that hath no excuse: as it must needs be a very course Wool which will take no dye. How apt are we to pare and curtail sin, and look upon it through the small end of the perspective, that it appears but as a little cloud, like the bigness of a mans hand, 1 King. 18. 44.
That is a bad sin indeed that hath no excuse: as it must needs be a very course Wooll which will take no dye. How apt are we to pare and curtail sin, and look upon it through the small end of the perspective, that it appears but as a little cloud, like the bigness of a mans hand, 1 King. 18. 44.
It reproves them who are so far from confessing sin, that they boldly plead *2for it: Instead of having tears to lament it, they use Arguments to defend it. If their sin be passion, they will justify it, Jonah 9. 4. I do well to be angry. If it be covetousness, they will vindicate it. When men commit sin, they are the Devils Servants; when they plead for it, they are the Devils Attorneys, and he will give them a fee.
It reproves them who are so far from confessing sin, that they boldly plead