A65293:386
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.
2. We must have recourse to God for this blessing, because he hath promised to bestow it, Ezek. 36. 26. I will give you an heart of flesh. I will soften your Adamant hearts in my Sons blood: show ⟨p. 174⟩God his hand and seal: and there is another gracious promise, Jer. 24. 7. They shall return unto me with their whole heart. Turn this promise into a prayer; Lord give me grace to return unto thee with my whole heart.
2. We must have recourse to God for this blessing, because he hath promised to bestow it, Ezek. 36. 26. I will give you an heart of flesh. I will soften your Adamant hearts in my Sons blood: shew ⟨p. 174⟩God his hand and seal: and there is another gracious promise, Ier. 24. 7. They shall return unto me with their whole heart. Turn this promise into a prayer; Lord give me grace to return unto thee with my whole heart.
5. Endeavour after clearer discoveries1 of God, Job 42. 5. Now mine eye seeth thee; wherefore I abhor my self and repent in dust and ashes. Job having surveyed Gods glory and purity, as an humble penitent he did abhor, or as it is in the Hebrew, he did even reprobate 2himself*. By looking into the transparent glass of Gods holiness, we see our own blemishes, and so learn to bewail them.