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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.
Behold here repenting work cut out for the best; and that which may make the tide of grief swell higher, is, to think that the sins of Gods people do more provoke God than others, Deut. 32. 19. The sins of the wicked pierce Christs side; the sins of the godly go to his heart. Peters sin being against so much love, was more unkind, which made his cheeks to be furrowed with tears, Mark 14. 72. When he thought thereon he wept.
Behold here repenting work cut out for the best; and that which may make the tyde of grief swell higher, is, to think that the sins of Gods people do more provoke God than others, Deut. 32. 19. The sins of the wicked pierce Christs side; the sins of the godly go to his heart. Peters sin being against so much love, was more unkind, which made his cheeks to be furrowed with tears, Mark 14. 72. When he thought thereon he wept.
3. Repentance is necessary for all sins.
Let us be deeply humbled and mourn1 before the Lord for original sin. We have lost that pure quintessential frame of soul as once we had; our nature is vitiated with corruption. Original sin hath diffused it self as a poison into the whole man*. Like the Jerusalem-Artichoke, which, wherever it is planted, presently over-runs the ground. There are not worse natures in Hell than we have. The hearts of the best are like Peters sheet,