A65293:24
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.
3. Paul discourseth of the manner of his life after his conversion: He who before was a persecutor, now became a Preacher, ver. 16. Arise, for I have appeared unto thee, to make thee a Minister, and a Witness, of those things which thou hast seen. When Paul (this vessel of election*) was savingly wrought upon, he laboured to do as much good as before he had done hurt. Before, he persecuted Saints to death, now he preacheth sinners to life. God first sent him to the Jews at Damascus, and afterwards enlarged his-commission to preach to the Gentiles. And the subject he preached upon was this in the text, That they should repent and turn to God*. A weighty and excellent Subject. deos, Judaei Verum Deum, sed non sicut oportebat.
3. Paul discourseth of the manner of his life after his conversion: He who before was a persecutor, now became a Preacher, ver. 16. Arise, for I have appeared unto thee, to make thee a Minister, and a Witness, of those things which thou hast seen. When Paul (this vessel of election*) was savingly wrought upon, he laboured to do as much good as before he had done hurt. Before, he persecuted Saints to death, now he preacheth sinners to life. God first sent him to the Jews at Damascus, and afterwards enlarged his-commission to preach to the Gentiles. And the subject he preacht upon was this in the text, That they should repent and turn to God*. A weighty and excellent Subject. deos, Judaei Verum Deum, sed non sicut oportebat.
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- *Gentes falsos coluerunt Grotius.