A Brighter Day Begins with His Word.

Thomas Watson, d. 1686 • SECTION 1

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← The Doctrine of Repentance

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HE two great Graces efſenti- al to a Saint in this life, are Faith and Repentance, Theſe are the two wings by which he flyes to Heaven, Faith and Repentance pre-

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NE Pea much of our. Priftine fame. and repown * f ? k. Sobular 7 7/26, was when we did ſit as Princeſs awvoug, * | cum vita. #he Provinces *. God made the ſheaues of _ ; *Lam-L.t» other Nations to do obeyſance .to our. | * Geneſis? Sheaf *, but is not our Glory fled awa 37-7* as a Bird? Hoſ.9. 11. We are betpmwe

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