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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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:163p. 57

What is there in sin that may make a penitent¹ hate it?

What is there in sin that may make a pe•itent¹ hate it?

1Quest.

:164p. 57

Sin is the cursed thing*, the most misshapen¹ Monster. The Apostle useth a² very emphatical word to express it, Rom. 7. 13. That sin might become exceeding sinful; or as it is in the Greek, hyperbolically sinful^*. Now that sin is an hyperbolical mischief, and deserves hatred, will appear, if we look upon sin in a fourfold notion.

1Answ.
2[Greek or Hebrew] Josh. 7. 13.〈non-Latin alphabet〉 Josh. 7. 13.
*[Greek or Hebrew]. Perinde est, ac si scelestum scelus dicas. Beza. Peccatum peccaminosum. Erasm. Eximium. Grotius.

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