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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.
Is not he a fool that will believe a temptation before a promise? Is not he a fool that minds his recreation more than his salvation? How may this make men ashamed to think, that they inherit not so much Land as folly, Prov. 14. 18.
8. That which may make us blush, is,1 that the sins we commit are far worse than the sins of the Heathen: we act against more light: To us have been committed the Oracles of God. The same sin committed by a Christian, is worse than by an Indian, because he sins against clearer conviction; which is like the Dye to the Wool, or the weight put into the scale, which makes it weigh heavier.
8. That which may make us blush, is,1 that the sins we commit are far worse than the sins of the Heathen: we act against more light: To us have been committed the Oracles of God. The same sin committed by a Christian, is worse than by an Indian, because he sins against clearer conviction; which is like the Dye to the Wooll, or the weight put into the scale, which makes it weigh heavier.
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9. Our sins are worse than the sins of1 the Devils. 1. The lapsed Angels never sinned against Christs blood; Christ died not for them; the medicine of his merit was never intended to heal them; but we have affronted and disparaged his blood by unbelief.