Thomas Watson: Sin

Thomas Watson was English nonconformist preacher and author. Explore interesting quotes on sin.

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“…too much leniency emboldens sin…”

Heaven Taken By Storm

“That preaching is to be preferred which makes the truest discovery of men's sins and shows them their hearts.”

Heaven Taken By Storm

“There is nothing that can hurt the soul but sin; it is not affliction that hurts it, it often makes it better, as the furnace makes gold the purer; but it is sin that damnifies.”

"Christ The Redeemer" in A Body of Divinity http://www.fivesolas.com/watson/redeemer.htm (1692).

“Repentance is a pure gospel grace. The covenant of works admitted no repentance; there it was, sin and die. Repentance came in by the gospel. Christ has purchased in his blood that repenting sinners shall be saved.”

The Doctrine of Repentance (1668)