Doctrine of repentance - Watson - II - Chapter 3 commenced

Required reading

Doctrine of Repentance by Thomas Watson (available from Amazon or free on the internet, here for example) - Begin reading Chapter 3 (Ingredients 1 & 2). 

My summary
In chapter 3 Watson turns to looking at what repentance is.  Two (of six) ingredients are part of today's reading:
1. Sight of sin
2. Sorrow for sin.

Most of the reading is taken up with what it means to have sorrow for sin.  Godly sorrow is:
(i) Inward;
(ii) Ingenuous;
(iii) Fiducial (trustful);
(iv) Great;
(v) In some cases joined with restitution;
(vi) Abiding.

What grabbed me
I thought Watson made an important point that godly sorrow is for the offence rather than for the punishment: 'A man may be sorry, yet not repent, as a thief is sorry when he is taken, not because he stole, but because he has to pay the penalty.  Hypocrites grieve only for the bitter consequence of sin....Godly sorrow, however, is chiefly for the trespass against God, so that even if there were no conscience to smite, no devil to accuse, no hell to punish, yet the soul would still be grieved because of the prejudice done to God....O that I should offend so good a God that I should grieve my Comforter!  This breaks my heart.'  Challenging words.  Would you still be sorry for your sins if there was no hell?

Now it's your turn
Please post your own notes and thoughts in the comments section below.