A65293:174
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.
Affliction doth only reach the body,1 but sin goes further, it poisons the fancy, disorders the affections. Affliction is but corrective, sin is destructive. Affliction can but take away the life*, sin takes away the soul, Luk. 12. 20.
- 13.
- *Premi melius est quàm perimi.
A man that is afflicted may have his1 conscience quiet*. When the Ark was tossed on the waves, Noah could sing in the Ark. When the body is afflicted and tossed, a Christian can make melody in his heart to the Lord, Ephes. 5. 19. But when a ⟨p. 60⟩man commits sin, conscience is terrified; witness Spira, who upon his abjuring the Faith, said, he thought the damned spirits did not feel those torments which he inwardly endured.
- 14.
- *Nihil sentit crus in nervo quando animus est in Coelo. Tertu•.