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by
John Calvin
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February 29, 2016 - May 22, 2019
three articles to ...
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first, when we call penitence a c...
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life to God, we require a change not only in the external works but also in the soul so that, being stripped of his old nature, he may afterwa...
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change not only in the external works but a...
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so that, being stripped of his old nature, he may afterward produce fruits...
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M...
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"to turn themselves around with all their heart and...
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better understand what the true nature of penitence is than the fourth cha...
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the fourth chapter of...
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"Israel, if you turn yourself around, turn yourself to me. Cultivate the soil of your heart well and do not sow tares. Be circumcised to the Lord an...
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turn yourself...
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We see how he affirms that, in order to begin to live rightly, they ...
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they cannot make any other beginning than to uproot all impi...
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beginning than to uproot all impiety f...
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I...
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their lives in external fashion, but meanwhile did not worry about breaking the bonds of impiety ...
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Also in this passage he shows well what kind of works ought to follow from true pe...
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true penitence (Isa. 5...
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The second article is that we have said penitence proceeds from a right fear of God. For before the conscience of the sinner is brought to repentance,...
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second a...
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peni...
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proceeds from a right fe...
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For before the conscience of the sinner is brought to repentance,
it must first be...
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when the thought is once fixed in the human heart that God must one day mount...
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it does not allow the poor sinner to rest or to breathe for a single minute without always goading and exciting him to lead a new life in order that he may be ab...
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"In order that my fury may not come forth as fire and there be none who can put it out b...
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And in St. Paul's sermon to the Athenians: "As God has left people to walk in ignorance, now He makes known to them to do penitence, since He has set a day on which He will...
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scripture shows that God is judge to make sinners think that much greater suffering awaits them if th...
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sinners think that much greater suffering awaits them if they do not...
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Now because the beginning of our conversion to God is for us a hatred and horror of sin, for that reason the apostle says that the sadness which is according to God is the cause of repentance; he calls it "sadness according to God" (2 Cor. 7[10]) when we not only fear being puni...
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hatred and horror...
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sadness which is according to God is the caus...
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"sadness according to God" (2 Cor. 7[10]) when we not only fear being punished but hate and curse sin because we un...
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t...
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calling people back from malevolence they require that their whole flesh, that is, their nature which is full of si...
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it involves divesting ourselves of ourselves and abandoni...
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unless all that we have of ourselves is brought to noth...
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But since all the thoughts and feelings of our nature are opposed to God and are enem...
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the first entrance into obedience to the law is to repudiate our nat...
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external works unless the soul was first
given to love and affection for them. That happens when God's Spirit, having transformed our soul...
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could say that they are different than th...
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Both of these, mortification and vivification, come to us from our c...
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For if we are truly participants in His death (Rom. 6[3ff]), by its power our old person is crucified and the heap of sin which dwells in us is put to death so that the corruption of our first nature may no longer be strong. If we are participants in His resurrection, by that we are ...
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To put it in o...
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say that penitence is a spiritual regeneration which has the goal of restoring the image of God which was obscured and practically wi...
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penitence is a spiritual regeneration which has the goal of restoring the image of God which was obscured and practically wipe...
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"Having the veil taken away, we reflect God's glory, being transformed into the same image,...
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and put on the new person who is created like God in righteousnes...
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by this regeneration we are restored by Christ's grace into ...
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some writers think that the principal thing in penitence is to fast and weep, and so w...
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