A65293:262
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.
4. Without Repentance, nothing will1 avail us. Some bless themselves that they have a stock of knowledge, but what is knowledge good for without Repentance? It is better to mortify one •in, than to understand all mysteries. Impure speculatists do but resemble Satan, transformed into an Angel of light. Learning and a bad heart, is like a fair face with a cancer in the breast. Knowledge without Repentance, will be but a torch •o light men to Hell.
4. Without Repentance, nothing will1 avail us. Some bless themselves that they have a stock of knowledge, but what is knowledge good for without Repentance? It is better to mortifie one •in, than to understand all mysteries. Impure speculatists do but resemble Satan, •ransformed into an Angel of light. Learning and a bad heart, is like a fair face with a cancer in the breast. Knowledge without Repentance, will be but a torch •o light men to Hell.
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5. Repenting tears are delicious; they1 may be compared to myrrh, which though it be bitter in taste, it hath a sweet smell, and refresheth the spirits: So Repentance, though it be bitter in it self, yet it is sweet in the effects; it brings inward peace. The soul is never more enlarged, and inwardly delighted, than when it can kindly melt. Alexander upon the safe return of his Admiral Nearchus from a long voyage wept for joy*