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("http://www.gracegems.org/Watson/watson.htm" Thomas Watson, "The Christian's Charter")

Sin is a leprous spot. It makes everything we touch 
unclean. Thus in every man naturally, there is a 
fretting leprosy of sin, pride, unbelief, lust, etc. 
These are leprous spots. 

Sin is a defiling thing, it makes us red with guilt — and 
black with filth! Sin is compared to a menstrual cloth. 
Sin draws the Devil's picture in a man: 
malice is the Devil's eye; 
oppression is his hand; 
hypocrisy is his cloven foot! 

At last death comes — and the saint is freed from the leprosy!
Death is the last and best physician, which cures all diseases
and sins — the aching head and the unbelieving heart. Sin was 
the midwife which brought death into the world; and death 
shall be the grave to bury sin! O the privilege of a believer! 

The Persians had a certain day in the year, wherein they 
used to kill all serpents and venomous creatures. Such a 
day as that, will the day of death be to the true Christian. 
This day the old serpent dies in a believer, which has so 
often stung him with temptations! This day the sins of the 
godly — these venomous creatures — shall all be destroyed!