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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.
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.
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2. The Devils never sinned against Gods patience; as soon as they apostatized they were damned: God never waited for the Angels*: but we have spent upon the stock of Gods patience; he hath pitied our weakness, born with our frowardness; his Spirit hath been repulsed, yet hath still importuned us, and would take no denial: Our carriage hath been so provoking, as would have tired not only the patience of a Moses, but of all the Angels. We have put God to it, and made him weary of repenting, Jer. 15. 6.
2. The Devils never sinned against Gods patience; as soon as they apostatized they were damned: God never waited for the Angels*: but we have spent upon the stock of Gods patience; he hath pitied our weakness, born with our frowardness; his Spirit hath been repulsed, yet hath still importuned us, and would take no denyal: Our carriage hath been so provoking, as would have tyred not only the patience of a Moses, but of all the Angels. We have put God to it, and made him weary of repenting, Ier. 15. 6.
- *Deus non expectavit Angelos. B•rn.