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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 › Section 2

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3. Godly sorrow is fiducial; it is intermixed¹ with faith, Mar. 9. 24. The Father of the child cried out, and said with tears; Lord I believe. Here was sorrow for sin checkered with faith; as we have seen a bright Rainbow appear in a watery cloud.

3. Godly sorrow is fiducial; it is intermixed¹ with faith, Mar. 9. 24. The Father of the child cryed out, and said with tears; Lord I believe. Here was sorrow for sin checkered with faith; as we have seen a bright Rainbow appear in a watry cloud.

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^*Spiritual sorrow will sink the heart, if the pulley of faith doth not raise it. As our sin is ever before us; so Gods Promise must be ever before us. As we must feel our sting; so we must look up to Christ our brazen Serpent^*. Some have had their faces so swelled with worldly grief, that they could hardly look out of their eyes. That weeping is not good which blinds the eye of faith. If there be not some dawnings of faith in the soul, it is not humiliation, but despair.

^*Spiritual sorrow will sink the heart, if the pully of faith doth not raise it. As our sin is ever before us; so Gods Promise must be ever before us. As we must feel our sting; so we must look up to Christ our brazen Serpent^*

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