A65293:133
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.
6. Sin like Circe's enchanting cup, turns1 men into beasts, and is not that matter of shame? Psa. 49. 12. Sinners are compared to Foxes, Luk. 13. 32. Wolves, Mat. 7. 15. Asses, Job 11. 12. Swine, 2 Pet. 2. 22. A sinner is a Swine with a mans head. He who was once in dignity little less than the Angels, is now become like the beasts. Grace in this life doth not wholly obliterate this brutish temper. Agur that good man cries out, Sure I am more brutish than any, Prov. 30. 2. But common sinners are in a manner wholly brutified; they do not act rationally, but are transported by the violence of their lusts and passions. How may this make us ashamed, who are thus degenerated below our own species? Our sins have taken away that noble, masculine spirit which once we had. The Crown is fallen from our head. Gods Image is defaced, reason is eclipsed, conscience stupefied. We have more in us of the brute, than the Angel.
6. Sin like Cyrcies inchanting cup, turns1 men into beasts, and is not that matter of shame? Psa. 49. 12. Sinners are compared to Foxes, Luk. 13. 32. Wolves, Mat. 7. 15. Asses, Iob 11. 12. Swine, 2 Pet. 2. 22. A sinner is a Swine with a mans head. He who was once in dignity little less than the Angels, is now become like the beasts. Grace in this life doth not wholly obliterate this bruitish temper. Agur that good man cryes out, Sure I am more bruitish than any,