A65293:73
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.
—Turgescunt lumina fletu—
* Propert.
Zach. 12. 10. They shall look on me whom they have pierced, and mourn as for an only Son*. 2. Sorrow for sin must surpass worldly sorrow. We must grieve more for offending God, than for the loss of dear relations, Isa. 22. 12. In that day did the Lord call to weeping, and baldness, and girding with sackcloth. This was for sin. But in case of the burial of the dead, we find God prohibiting tears *and baldness*: To intimate that sorrow for sin must exceed sorrow at the grave; and good reason, for in the burial of the dead, it is only a friend departs, but in sin God departs.
Zach. 12. 10. They shall look on me whom they have peirced, and mourn as for an only Son*. 2. Sorrow for sin must surpass worldly sorrow. We must grieve more for offending God, than for the loss of dear relations, Isa. 22. 12. In that day did the Lord call to weeping, and baldness, and girding with sackcloth. This was for sin. But in case of the burial of the dead, we find God prohibiting tears