A65293:201
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.
CHAP. V. Showing the reasons enforcing Repentance.
CHAP. V. Shewing the reasons enforcing Repentance.
I Proceed next to the reasons which do enforce Repentance.
1. From Gods sovereign command,1 Act. 17. 30. He commandeth men every where to repent. Repentance is not arbitrary; 'tis not left to our choice whether we will repent or no, but it is an indispensable command*. God hath enacted a Law in the High Court of Heaven, that no sinner shall be saved but the repenting sinner; and he will not break his own Law. Though all the Angels should stand before God, and beg the life of an irrepenting person, God would not ⟨p. 75⟩grant it, Exod. 34. 6. The Lord God, merciful and gracious, keeping mercy for thousands, and that will by no means clear the guilty. Though God is more full of mercy, than the Sun is of light, yet he will not forgive a sinner while he goes on in his guilt: He will by no means clear the guilty.
1. From Gods soveraign command,