The Doctrine of Repentance

by Thomas Watson

Overview

Repentance is purgative--do not fear the working of this pill. "Smite your soul," said Chrysostom, "smite it; it will escape death by that stroke!" How happy it would be, if we were more deeply affected with sin, and our eyes did swim in tears of repentance. We may clearly see the Spirit of God moving in the waters of repentance, which though troubled, are yet pure. Moist tears of repentance dry up sin--and quench the wrath of God. Repentance is the nourisher of piety, the procurer of mercy. The more regret and trouble of spirit we have first at our conversion, the less we shall feel afterwards.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940162049715
Publisher:	Steinbeck Publishers
Publication date:	06/02/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Thomas Watson (c. 1620 – 1686). Puritan preacher and author, was probably born in Yorkshire, although the exact place and date of his birth are unknown. While at Emmanuel College, Watson earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1639 and his Masters in 1642. Emmanuel College was an educational fountainhead of great Puritan ministers. In 1646 he commenced a sixteen-year pastorate at St. Stephen's, Walbrook. He showed strong Presbyterian views during the civil war, with, however, an attachment to the king. In about 1647, he married Abigail Beadle, daughter of John Beadle, an Essex minister of Puritan convictions. They had at least seven children in the next thirteen years, four of whom died young. In 1651 he was imprisoned briefly with some other ministers for his share in Christopher Love's plot to recall Charles II of England. He was released on 30 June 1652, and was formally reinstated as vicar of St. Stephen's Walbrook. Act of Uniformity in 1662 caused Watson along with some two thousand other ministers to be ejected from their pulpits because their consciences would not allow them to submit wholeheartedly to standardized worship. In 1666, after the Great Fire of London, Watson prepared a large room for public worship, welcoming anyone who wished to attend. Upon the Declaration of Indulgence in 1672 he obtained a licence to preach at the great hall in Crosby House. After preaching there for several years, his health gave way, and he retired to Barnston, Essex, where he died suddenly while praying in secret. He was buried on 28 July 1686