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Discourses on various important subjects, nearly concerning the great affair of the soul's eternal…
Discourses on various important subjects, nearly concerning the great affair of the soul's eternal salvation, viz. I. Justification by faith alone. II. Pressing into the Kingdom of God. III. Ruth's resolution. IV. The justice of God in the damnation of sinners. V. The excellency of Jesus Christ. : Delivered at Northampton, chiefly at the time of the late wonderful pouring out of the spirit of God there. / By Jonathan Edwards, A.M. Pastor of the Church of Christ in Northampton. ; [Three lines from Deuteronomy]
Boston: printed by S. Kneeland and T. Green, 1738
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And therefore, in Answer to the Objection, I would say, That when Repentance is spoken of in Scripture as the Condition of Pardon, thereby is not intended any particular Grace, or Act, properly distinct from Faith, that has a parallel Influence with it, in the Affair of our Pardon or Justification; but by Repentance is intended nothing distinct from active Conversion, (or Conversion actively considered,) as it respects the Term from which. Active Conversion is a Motion or Exercise of the Mind, that respects two Terms, viz. Sin and God: And by Repentance is meant this Conversion, or active Change of the Mind, so far as it is conversant about the Term from which, or about Sin▪ This is what the Word Repentance properly signifies; which in the Original of the New Testament is Metanoia which signifies a Change of the Mind, or which is the same Thing, the turning or the Conversion of the Mind. Repentance is this turning, as it respects what is turned from Acts 26. 20. Whereupon, O King Agrippa, I showed unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the Coasts of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God▪ Both these are the same turning, but only with Respect to opposite Terms; in the former is expressed the Exercise of Mind that there is about Sin in this Turning, in the other the Exercise of Mind towards God.
And therefore, in Answer to the Objection, I would say, That when Repentance is spoken of in Scripture as the Condition of Pardon, thereby is not intended any particular Grace, or Act, properly distinct from Faith, that has a parallel Influence with it, in the Affair of our Pardon or Justification; but by Repentance is intended nothing distinct from active Conversion, (or Conversion actively considered,) as it respects the Term from which. Active Conversion is a Motion or Exercise of the Mind, that respects two Terms, viz. Sin and God: And by Repentance is meant this Conversion, or active Change of the Mind, so far as it is conversant about the Term from which, or about Sin▪ This is what the Word Repentance properly signifies; which in the Original of the New Testament is Metanoia which signifies a Change of the Mind, or which is the same Thing, the turning or the Conversion of the Mind. Repentance is this turning, as it respects what is turned from