A65293:42
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. The third Deceit about Repentance,1 is, the leaving many sinful courses. 'Tis a great matter I confess to leave sin: So dear is sin to a man, that he will rather part with a child than a lust, Micah 6. 7. Shall I give the fruit of my body, for the sin of my soul*? But sin may be parted with, yet no Repentance.
- 13 Deceit.
- *Nunquid Deus à me poscit piaculum, sicut Saturnus, Moloch, aliique dei gentium quos coluimus, victimas humanas e•flagitant?
1. A man may part with some sins, and keep other. As Herod reformed many things amiss, but could not leave his incest.
2. An old sin may be left to entertain a new*. As you put off an old servant ⟨p. 11⟩to take another. This is to exchange a sin. Sin may be exchanged, and the heart not changed. He who was a Prodigal in his youth, turns an Usurer in his old age. A slave is sold to a Jew, the Jew sells him to a Turk; here is the Master changed, but he is a slave still. So a man removes from one vice to another, but he is a sinner still.