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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.
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.
3. The Devils never sinned against example; they were the first that sinned, and were made the first example. We have seen the Angels, those morning Stars, fall from their glorious Orb; we have seen the old world drowned, Sodom burnt, yet have ventured upon sin. How desperate is that thief, who robs in the ⟨p. 49⟩•ery place where his fellow hangs in chains; and surely if we have out-sinned the Devils, it may well put us to the blush.