A65293:155
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.
Suppose a dish be finely cooked, and the sauce good, yet if a man hath an antipathy against the meat, he will not taste it. So let the Devil cook and dress sin with pleasure and profit, yet a true penitent having a secret abhorrency of it, doth disgust it, and will not meddle with it.
1. Of the Faculties. 2. Of the Object.
1. Hatred is universal in respect of the Faculties: That is, there is a dislike of sin, not only in the judgement, but in the will and affections: For many an one is convinced that sin is a vile thing, and in his judgement hath an aversation from it, but yet he tastes sweetness, and hath a secret complacency in it. Here is a disliking sin in the judgement, and an embracing it in the affections