Doctrine of repentance - Watson - VI - Chapter 6

Required reading

Doctrine of Repentance by Thomas Watson (available from Amazon or free on the internet, here for example) - Read Chapter 6, 'A serious exhortation to repentance'. 

My summary
Now Watson has a chapter showing that repentance is:
(i) necessary;
(ii) necessary for all persons (great ones, flagitious sinners, cheating crew, civil persons, hypocrites, God's own people);
(iii) necessary for all sins. 

What grabbed me
I enjoyed Watson's warning against civility: 'Civility is insufficient for salvation.  Though the life be moralized, the lust may be unmortified.  The heart may be full of pride and atheism.  Under the fair leaves of a tree there may be a worm.  I am not saying, repent that you are civil, but that you are no more than civil.  Satan entered into the house that had just been swept and garnished (Luke 11.26).  This is the emblem of a moral man, who is swept by civility and garnished with common gifts, but it is not washed by true repentance.  The unclean spirit enters into such a one.  If civility were sufficient to salvation, Christ need not have died.  The civilian has a fair lamp, but it lacks the oil of grace.'  Sadly civility is still deceiving many today and leading them to destruction. 

Now it's your turn
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