 Repentance unto life is a saving grace, whereby a sinner, out of a true sense of his sin, and apprehension of the mercy of God in Christ, doth, with grief and hatred of his sin, turn from it unto God, with full purpose of, and endeavour after, new obedience.  The works of Thomas Chalmers - Page 113by Thomas Chalmers - 1836Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Vincent - Westminster Assembly - 1806 - 308 pages
...his sin, and apprehension of the mercy of God in Christ, doth with grief and hatred of his sin, turn from it unto God, with full purpose of and endeavour after new obedience. Q. 1. Why is repentance called repentance unto life ? A. Repentance is culled repentance unto life,... | |
 | John Logan - 1807 - 236 pages
...sin, and apprehension of the " mercy of God in Christ, doth, with grief and hat" red of his sin, turn from it unto God, with full " purpose of, and endeavour after new obedience." According to this definition, repentance includes, st, A true sense of sin ? secondly, Grief and hatred... | |
 | George Buist - Sermons, American - 1809 - 422 pages
...sin, and apprehension of the mercy ot " God in Christ, doth, with grief and hatred " of his sin, turn from it unto God, with full " purpose of, and endeavour after new obe" dience." It must be observed, then, thaj repentance is the gift of God, and is wrought in us by... | |
 | Samuel Hopkins - Millennium (Eschatology) - 1811 - 536 pages
...his sin, and apprehension of the mercy of God in Christ, doth with grief and hatred of his sin, turn from it, unto God — with full purpose of, and endeavour after new obedience." Here repentance is denned as including the whole of a saving conversion : And he who attends to his... | |
 | Thomas Boston - Theology, Doctrinal - 1812 - 560 pages
...his sin, and apprehension of the mercy of God in Christ, doth, with grief and hatred of his sin, turn from it unto God, with full purpose of, and endeavour after, new obedience.' Here I shall shew, I. What are the kinds of repentance. II. The general nature of repentance unto life.... | |
 | John Willison - Westminster Assembly - 1812 - 300 pages
...and apprehension of the mercy of God in Christ, doth with grief and hatred of his sin, turn frorti it unto God, with full purpose of, and endeavour after new obedience.^ . , Q. JfAy i« repentance catted a grace, and a saving grace'? . ^. See the answers before, concerning... | |
 | Catechisms - 1813 - 64 pages
...his sin, and apprehension of the mercy of God in Christ, doth with grief and hatred of his sin, turn from it unto God, with full purpose of, and endeavour after new obedience. Q. 88. What are the outward means, whereby Christ communiciteth to us the benefits of redemption? A.... | |
 | 1832 - 488 pages
...his sin, and an apprehension of the mercy of God in Christ, with grief and hatred of his sin, turn from it unto God, with full purpose of, and endeavour after, new obedience. Amen. WITHERSPOON S ESSAY ON JUSTIFICATION. ( Continued J am page 50.) It will be a support to the... | |
 | 1832 - 586 pages
...of his sin, and an apprehension of themercy of God in Christ, with grief and hatred of his sin, turn from it unto God, with full purpose of, and endeavour after, new obedience. Amen. WITHKRSPOON'S ESSAY ON JUSTIFICATION. (Continued fom page 60.) It will be a support to the present... | |
 | Richard Baxter - Conversion - 1825 - 426 pages
...not have been devised to express these. This is chargeable upon the poverty of our language; for.it is to be observed, that in the original Greek the...word repent has a common meaning, different from the theologisal ; that wherever it is used, this common meaning is apt to intrude itself, and exert a kind... | |
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