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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65293	The doctrine of repentance, useful for these times by Tho. Watson ...	Watson, Thomas, d. 1686.	1668 (1668)	Wing W1122; ESTC R38513	84,062	186

a man that is bleeding of his wounds 2. This sorrow is to drive out sin Sin breeds sorrow and sorrow kills sin Holy sorrow is the Ruberb to purge out the ill humours of the soul. It is said that the tears of Vine-branches are good to cure the Leprosie Sure it is tears that drop from the penitent are good to cure the leprosie of sin Salt water of tears kills the worm of conscience 3. This sorrow is to make way for solid comfort Psal. 126. 5. They that sow in tears shall reap in joy The penitent hath a wet seed-time but a delicious harvest Repentance breaks the imposthume of sin and then the soul is at ease Hannah after weeping went away and was no more sad 1 Sam. 1. 18. Gods troubling the soul for sin is like the Angels troubling the Pool Ioh. 5. 4. which made way for healing But it is not all sorrow evidenceth true 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 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 this godly sorrowing Answer There are six Qualifications of it 1. True godly sorrow is intrinsecal and that two waies 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 sowre face but their sorrow goes no further Like the dew that wets the leaf but doth not soak to the root Ahabs Repentance was in outward shew His garments were rent but not his spirit 1 King 21. 27. Godly sorrow goes deep like a Vein which bleeds inwardly The heart bleeds for sin Act. 2. 37. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 They were pricked at their hearts As the heart bears a chief part in sinning so it must in sorrowing 2. It is a sorrow for heart-sins The first ebullitions and risings of sin Paul grieved for the Law in his members Rom. 7. 23. The true mourner weeps for the stirrings of pride and concupiscence he grieves for the root of bitterness though it never blossoms into act A wicked man may be troubled for scandalous sins a real convert laments heart-sins 2. Godly sorrow is ingenuous it is more for the offence than the punishment Gods Law is infringed his love abused this melts the soul in tears A man may be sorry yet not repent As a thief is sorry when he is taken not because he stole but because he comes under the penalty Hypocrites grieve only for the bitter consequence of sin I have read of a fountain that never sends forth streams but the evening before a famine So their eyes never pour out tears but when Gods Judgements are approaching Pharaoh was more troubled for the froggs and River of blood than for his sin But godly sorrow is chiefly for the trespass against God so that if there were no conscience to smite no Devil to accuse no Hell to punish yet the soul would be grieved because of the prejudice done to God Psal. 51. 4. My sin is ever before me David doth not say the sword threatned is ever before me but my sin Oh that I should offend so good a God that I should grieve my Comforter this breaks my heart Godly sorrow shews it self to be ingenuous because when a Christian knows he is out of the Gun-shot of hell and shall never be damned yet still he grieves for sinning against that free-grace which hath pardoned him 3. Godly sorrow is fiducial it is intermixed 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 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 Some have had their faces so swell'd 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 4. Godly sorrow is a great sorrow Zach. 12. 11. In that day there shall be a great mourning as the mourning of Hadadrimmon Two Suns did set that day when Iosiah died and there was a great Funeral mourning To such an height must sorrow for sin be boiled up Pectore ab imo suspiria Quest. Whether have all the same degrees of sorrow Answ. No sorrow doth recipere magis minus In the new birth all have pangs but some have sharper pangs than others 1. Some are naturally of a more rugged morose disposition of higher spirits and are not easily brought to stoop these must have greater humiliation As a knotty piece of timber must have greater wedges driven into it 2. Some have been more hainous offenders and suitable to their sin must their sorrow be Some Patients have their sores let out with a needle others with a launce Flagitious sinners must be more bruised with the hammer of the Law 3. Some are designed and cut out for higher service to be eminently instrumental for God and these must have a mightier work of humiliation pass upon them Such as God intends to be Pillars in his Church must be more hewn Paul the Prince of the Apostles who was to be Gods Ensign-bearer to carry his Name before the Gentiles and Kings was to have his heart more deeply launced by Repentance 2. But how great must sorrow for sin be in all It must be as great as for any worldly loss Turgescunt lumina fletu 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 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 3. Sorrow for sin should be so great as to swallow up all other sorrow As when the pain of the Stone and Gout meet the pain of the Stone swallows up the pain of the Gout 4. We are to find as much bitterness in weeping for sin as ever we found sweetness in committing it Sure David found more bitterness in Repentance than ever he found comfort in Bathsheba 5. Our sorrow for sin must be such

her solemn engagements she played fast and loose with God and ran after her Idols We see by experience when a person is on his sick-bed what protestations will he make if God recover him again yet he is as bad as ever He shews his old heart in a new temptation Resolution against sin may arise 1. From present extremity not because sin is sinful but because it is painful This Resolution will vanish 2. Resolution against sin may arise from fear of future evil an apprehension of death and Hell Rev. 6. 8. I looked and behold a pale horse and his name that sate on him was death and Hell followed after him What will not a sinner do what vows will he not make when he knows he must die and stand before the Judgement seat Self-love raiseth a sick-bed vow and love of sin will prevail against it Trust not to a passionate resolution it is raised in a storm and will die in a calm 3. The third Deceit about Repentance is the leaving many sinful courses 'T is a great matter I confess to leave sin So dear is sin to a man that he will rather part with a child than a lust Micah 6. 7. Shall I give the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul But sin may be parted with yet no Repentance 1. A man may part with some sins and keep other As Herod reformed many things amiss but could not leave his incest 2. An old sin may be left to entertain a new As you put off an old servant to take another This is to exchange a sin Sin may be exchanged and the heart not changed He who was a Prodigal in his youth turns an Usurer in his old age A slave is sold to a Jew the Jew sells him to a Turk here is the Master changed but he is a slave still So a man removes from one vice to another but he is a sinner still 3. A sin may be left not so much from strength of grace as from moral grounds A man sees that though such a sin be for his Tooth yet it is not for his interest It will ecclipse his credit prejudice his health impair his estate therefore upon prudential reasons he gives it a dismiss The true leaving of sin is when the acts of sin cease from the infusion of a principle of grace As the air ceaseth to be dark from the infusion of light CHAP. IV. Opening the Nature of True Repentance I Shall next come to shew what Gospel-Repentance is Repentance is a grace of Gods Spirit whereby a sinner is inwardly humbled and visibly reformed For a further amplification of Repentance know that Repentance is a spiritual medicine made up of six special Ingredients if any one be left out it loseth its vertue 1. Sight of Sin 2. Sorrow for Sin 3. Confession of Sin 4. Shame for Sin 5. Hatred for Sin 6. Turning from Sin SECTION I. 1. THE first Ingredient in Repentance is Sight of Sin The first part of Christs Physick is Eye-salve Act. 26. 18. 'T is the great thing noted in the Prodigals Repentance Luk. 15. 17. He came to himself He saw himself a sinner and nothing but a sinner Before a man can come to Christ he must come to himself Solomon in his description of Repentance puts this in as the first Ingredient 1 King 8. 47. If they shall bethink themselves A man must first recognize and consider what his sin is and know the plague of his heart ere he can be duly humbled for it The first creature God made was Light So the first thing in a penitent is illumination Ephes. 5. 8. Now ye are light in the Lord. The eye is made both for seeing and weeping Sin must first be seen before it can be wept for Hence I infer where there is no sight of sin there can be no Repentance Many who can spy faults in others see none in themselves They cry they have good hearts Were it not strange that two should live together and eat and drink together yet not know one another Such is the case of a sinner his body and soul live together walk together yet he is unacquainted with himself He knows not his own heart nor what an Hell he carries about him Under a vail a deformed face is hid Persons are vailed over with ignorance and self-love therefore see not what deformed souls they have The Devil doth with them as the Faulkner with the Hawk blinds them and carries them hooded to Hell Zach. 11. 17. The sword shall be upon his right eye Men have insight enough into worldly matters but the eye of their mind is smitten they see not any evil in sin The sword is upon their right eye SECT II. 2. THE second Ingredient into Repentance is Sorrow for Sin Psal. 38. 18. I will be sorry for my sin Ambrose calls sorrow the imbittering of the soul. The Hebrew word to be sorrowful signifies to have the soul as it were crucified* This must be in true Repentance Zach. 12. 10. They shall look upon me whom they have pierced and ●…ourn As if they did feel the nails of the Cross sticking in their sides A woman may as well expect to have a child without pangs as one can have Repentance without sorrow He that can believe without doubting suspect his faith and he that can repent without sorrowing suspect his Repentance Martyrs shed blood for Christ and penitents shed tears for sin Luk. 7. 38. She stood at Iesus feet weeping See how this limbeck dropped the sorrow of her heart ran out at her eye The brazen lavor for the Priests to wash in Exod. 30. 18. did tipifie a double lavor The lavor of Christs blood we must wash in by Faith and the lavor of tears we must wash in by Repentance A true Penitentiary labours to work his heart into a sorrowing frame he blesseth God when he can weep he is glad of a rainy-day He knows 't is a Repentance he shall have no cause to repent of Though the bread of sorrow be bitter to the taste yet it strengthens the heart This sorrow for sin is not facil It is an holy Agony 'T is called in Scripture a breaking of the heart Psal. 51. 17. The Sacrifices of God are a broken heart And a rending of the heart Ioel 2. 13. Rend your hearts* The expressions of smiting of the thigh Ier. 31. 19. knocking on the breast L●…k 18. 13. putting on of sackcloth Isa. 22. 12. plucking off the hair Ezra 9. 3. What are all these but outward signs of inward sorrow This sorrow must be 1. To make Christ precious O how desirable is a Saviour to a troubled soul Now Christ is Christ indeed and mercy is mercy indeed Till the heart be full of compunction it is not fit for Christ How welcome is a Chyrurgion to