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The Doctrine of Repentance

Name: The Doctrine of Repentance
Author: Thomas Watson

The doctrine of repentance, useful for these times by Tho. Watson ...

Thomas Watson d. 1686London: printed by R.W. for Thomas Parkhurst, 1668

[8], 175 p. · 36k words · Wing W1122 · ESTC R38513

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Chapter 4 › Section 5

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.

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:148p. 52–53

2. There is an hatred of Enmity. There¹ is no better way to discover life than by motion: The eye moves, the pulse beats. ⟨p. 53⟩So to discover Repentance, there is no better sign, than by an holy antipathy against sin. Hatred (saith Cicero) is anger boiled up to an inveteracy^*. Sound Repentance begins in the love of God, and ends in the hatred of sin.

12 Odium Inimicitiae.
*Odium est ira inveterata. Cicero l. 4. Tusc. qu.

:149p. 53

But how may true hatred of sin be known?¹

1Quest.

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1. When a mans spirit is set against¹ sin. The tongue doth not only inveigh against sin, but the heart abhors it^*. So that let sin be never so curiously painted, it is odious. As we abhor the picture of one whom we mortally hate, though it be exactly drawn.

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