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The Doctrine of Repentance

Name: The Doctrine of Repentance
Author: Thomas Watson

The doctrine of repentance, useful for these times by Tho. Watson ...

Thomas Watson d. 1686London: printed by R.W. for Thomas Parkhurst, 1668

[8], 175 p. · 36k words · Wing W1122 · ESTC R38513

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Chapter 4: Opening the Nature of True Repentance.

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.

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CHAP. IV. Opening the Nature of True Repentance.

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I Shall next come to show, what Gospel-Repentance is: Repentance is a grace of Gods Spirit, whereby a sinner ⟨p. 12⟩is inwardly humbled, and visibly reformed. For a further amplification of Repentance, know, that Repentance is a spiritual medicine, made up of six special Ingredients; if any one be left out, it loseth its virtue.

I Shall next come to shew, what Gospel-Repentance is: Repentance is a grace of Gods Spirit, whereby a sinner ⟨p. 12⟩is inwardly humbled, and visibly reformed. For a further amplification of Repentance, know, that Repentance is a spiritual medicine, made up of six special Ingredients; if any one be left out, it loseth its vertue.

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1. Sight of Sin. 2. Sorrow for Sin. 3. Confession of Sin. 4. Shame for Sin. 5. Hatred for Sin. 6. Turning from Sin.

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SECTION I.

[ Earlier passages Later passages ]

Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

CHAP. IV. Opening the Nature of True Repentance.

SECTION I.

SECT. II.