A65293:191
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.
A fearful sin. For 1. It is against clear light: He who did once leave his sin, it is to be supposed he felt it bitter in the pangs of conscience, yet he returned to1 ⟨p. 69⟩it again; he must needs sin against the illuminations of the Spirit.
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2. It reproacheth God, Jer. 2. 5. What iniquity have your Fathers found in me, that they are gone from me? He that returns to sin, doth interpretatively charge God with some evil. If a man put away his wife, it implies he knows some fault by her. To leave God, and return to sin▪ is tacitly to asperse the Deity. God who hates putting away, Mal. 2. 16. hates that he himself should be put away.
2. It reproacheth God, Ier. 2. 5. What iniquity have your Fathers found in me, that they are gone from me? He that returns to sin, doth interpretatively charge God with some evil. If a man put away his wife, it implies he knows some fault by her. To leave God, and return to sin▪ is tacitly to asperse the Deity. God who hates putting away, Mal. 2. 16. hates that he himself should be put away.