A Brighter Day Begins with His Word.

Thomas Watson, d. 1686 • SECTION 17

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← The Doctrine of Repentance

! Mead! y antipathy between the Scor- 010T _ the "644 ſuch ſhould thexe he:betweenithe heart and fin. 1\What.is there in [i ſin that may make a pe Queſt. nitent hate '7 3-0 aj is, the cared thing *, the moſt mif- Anſe, zapen 'Mgqnſter. - The. Apoſtle uſeth .z3 Yn ;emphatical word to expreſsit, Rows vhs 7.13. 1hat fin might become exceeding ſo | zl; Or asitisinthe Greek, byperloligatl , Rg baful *. Now -that ſin is an hyperbolical mig fo miſchief, and deſerves hatred, will ap- Ferinde pear, if we look upon hn in a fourfold ſa [7+ rg it NUN. ; . lus ———Ny x . Look upon ſin in the ori inal of i | lr les It he it Garhert its i Fe Vecewun y ferce.from Hell,1 70h.3.9.He that commyt» *vfum. E- th ſar js. of the Devil, for the Devil finweth Af... e Brom the beginning. Gia the Devils proy Grotius. per: work, +;*'Tis true, God, hath a hand H ordering fin, but Satan hath an'bandin *;,,.,., ene Now how hatefulis it to bedo- #3 ae- ingthat which is the peculiar wark of the ne. Devil2..nay; which makes men Devi 7&. lence \ Toh. 6.7. 2 214 Lok _ |

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2. Look npen fin in its natare, and' it * will appear very hateful. © See how the

Scripture hath pen(iledit ont. © 1. Sins: a diſhonourivig of God, Rom. 2. 23.-

+, Sin 19 a deſpiſing of God; 1-Sa7, 2. JOy/ 3. It 1s a fretting of God ; Ezek.

16,43. ——4. It is a weatjing of God * . It is a breaking the +:

-Iſas 7+.13. heard of God. Ezek; 6. 9." am broken 31h your whoriſh heart ;, as a loving huſband with the unchaſt carriage'6f his wife.— 6. Sit, when aftedto the height, is « aw- cifjing Chyiſt. afreſh, and putting hins'bs oper ſhame, Heb.'6. 6. That is, 1mpudent firmers pierce Chriſt in his Saints, and wete he now upon earth, they would

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the odiovs nature of fin. 3. Look upon fin io its compariſon,

and it appears ghaſtly. Compare fin el- |,

ther with affliction, or Hell, and its _ worſe than both. | 1. Cotnpare'fin with Aft

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T Affliction is good for us, Pal. T19. 71. *F.22 3s good for me that I was affliffted. Af- *Ifliction cauſeth Repentance, 2 Chron.

"B33. 12, The Viper being ſtricken, calts

[up its poiſon. So Gods Rod (trikingus,

we ſpit away the poifon of fin. Afffiction

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| Juniper ſweeteſt in che fire. Afffition

| prevents damnation, 1 Cor. 11.32. Theye-

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bur” fin/hach no good in it. 2datteffeb's 72H afffi &i69 brought him to humiliation, bur Jud his fin brought him to deſpers- F riots; | Afffiiction doth only reach the body,

} corre&ive, ſin 1s deſiraftive, Affiiction can | buttake away the life *, fin takes away the ſoul,” Lxk. 12. 20,

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3 Ahidn' thi +is afflicted may have his _ | coaſtiefice quiet *, When the Afk' was

roffed 41 the waves, Noh could ſing the Ark. When the body is afiQed afid

1 but fin poes further, it poiſons the fancy, diſorders the aticctions. Afffictionas but

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man commits ſin, conſcience is terrified; .

witneſ'&pira, who upon his abjuring the

Faith, ſaid; he thought the damned Ipi-'

rits did not feel thoſe torments which he inwardly endured. .. .5 24 | Jn afthition one.may have the love of

God *, Rev.23,19.1f a man ſhould throwa' |

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ould hurt him a little, and raiſe the; kin, be would not take it unkindly, but.

look-upon it asa fruit of love: So, when the Lord bruiſeth us with affliction, it is.

toenrich us with the golden graces {and

comforts of his Spirit 3 all is in love. But when we commit ſin, God withdraws his love. When David had (inned, he felt nothing but diſpleaſure from God, þ = 97. 2... Clouds and darknefs are round about

bim. David found it ſo; he could fee

no Rainbow. no Sun-beam, nothing but

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That fin is worſe than afflition, 1s ev1- dent; becauſe the greateft judgement God laies upon a man in this life, is to/Jet him fn without controll. When; the Lords diſpleaſure is moſt ſeverely kind- led againſt a perfon, he doth nat! ſays1 wilt bring the Sword and Plague, on-this

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