A65293:60
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.
But it is not all sorrow evidenceth true ⟨p. 17⟩Repentance: There is as much difference between true and false sorrow, as between water in the spring which is sweet, and water in the Sea which is briny. The Apostle speaks of sorrowing after a godly manner, 2 Cor. 7. 9. But what is this [Greek or Hebrew], this godly sorrowing? Answer, There are six Qualifications of it.
But it is not all sorrow evidenceth true ⟨p. 17⟩Repentance: There is as much difference between true and false sorrow, as between water in the spring which is sweet, and water in the Sea which is briny. The Apostle speaks of sorrowing after a godly manner, 2 Cor. 7. 9. But what is this 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, this godly sorrowing? Answer, There are six Qualifications of it.
1. True godly sorrow is intrinsical, 1and that two ways: 1. It is a sorrow of the heart. Hypocrites sorrow lies in their faces, Matth. 6. 16. They dis-figure their faces*: They make a sour face, but their sorrow goes no further: Like the dew that wets the leaf, but doth not soak to the root. Ahab's Repentance was in outward show: His garments were rent, but not his spirit, 1 King. 21. 27. Godly sorrow goes deep, like a Vein which bleeds inwardly