A65293:43
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.
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.
- *Serpens quotannis exuvias deponit. Causin. Hierogl.
3. A sin may be left not so much from strength of grace, as from moral grounds. A man sees that though such a sin be for his Tooth, yet it is not for his interest: It will eclipse his credit, prejudice his health, impair his estate; therefore upon prudential reasons he gives it a dismiss.
3. A sin may be left not so much from strength of grace, as from moral grounds. A man sees that though such a sin be for his Tooth, yet it is not for his interest: It will ecclipse his credit, prejudice his health, impair his estate; therefore upon prudential reasons he gives it a dismiss.