A26882:135
Catholic communion doubly defended by Dr. Owens, vindicator, and Richard Baxter and the state…Catholick communion doubly defended by Dr. Owens, vindicator, and Richard Baxter and the state…
Catholic communion doubly defended by Dr. Owens, vindicator, and Richard Baxter and the state of that communion opened, and the questions discussed, whether there be any displeasure at sin, or repentance for it in Heaven : with a parallel of the case of using a faulty translation of Scripture, and a faulty liturgy.Catholick communion doubly defended by Dr. Owens, vindicator, and Richard Baxter and the state of that communion opened, and the questions discussed, whether there be any displeasure at sin, or repentance for it in Heaven : with a parallel of the case of using a faulty translation of Scripture, and a faulty lyturgy.
London: printed for Thomas Parkhurst, 1684
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
It is not called [Repentance for dead works,] but [from dead works,] as speaking the change, rather than the grief.
Exod. 13. 17. Lest the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt: Hence sear is the moving Passion, and Repenting is wishing they had not left Egypt, and returning is the effect. I am readier to think that sorrow is no part, but an adjunct of Repentance in the strictest, properest sense, then that it is no Repentance without sorrow: sure the specifying faculties of Man are the Intellect and Will; and I think the specifying Acts of Rational true Repentance; are the Acts of the same faculties, and Sorrow is but such an adjunct as shame and anger at our selves are.
Exod. 13. 17. Lest the people repent when they see war, and they return to Aegypt: Hence sear is the moving Passion, and Repenting is wishing they had not left Aegypt, and returning is the effect. I am readier to think that sorrow is no part, but an adjunct of Repentance in the strictest, properest sense, then that it is no Repentance without sorrow: sure the specifying faculties of Man are the Intellect and Will; and I think the specifying Acts of Rational true Repentance; are the Acts of the same faculties, and Sorrow is but such an adjunct as shame and anger at our selves are.
But it is Repentance in Heaven that is our subject: And I have cited you Texts enough which speak of Gods Repenting: And do you believe that he hath sorrow? You'll say, that's but metaphorically spoken? Ans. No more is knowledge, or will, or any such Act that we can speak of God: But if it be not a name unmeet to be spoken of God; are Souls there greater, or happier then he.