A65293:317
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. XII. Comfort to the Repenting Sinner.
2. LET me in the next place speak by1 way of comfort. Christian, hath God given thee a repenting heart, know these three things for thy everlasting comfort.
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1. Thy sins are pardoned. Pardon of1 sin circumscribes blessedness within it, Psal. 32. 1. Whom God pardons, he crowns, Psal. 1•3. 4. Who forgiveth thy iniquities, who crowneth thee with loving kindness. A repenting condition is a pardoned condition. Christ said to that weeping woman, Thy sins which are many are forgiven, Luk. 7. 47. Pardons are sealed upon soft hearts: O thou whose head hath been a fountain to weep for sin, Christs side will be a fountain to wash away sin, Zach. 13. 1. Hast thou repented? ⟨p. 135⟩