The title of this book, the one word repentance, is a term that causes man of our modern society a feeling of discomfort similar to that which a sick man experiences on hearing the name of an unpleasant drug. Nevertheless, in every age and far more in the present deeply uneasy, tired and unsettled age nothing is more useful, more indispensable an more salutary than repentance. Often man wishes for nothing else more Keenly, even though he has no clear notion of what he really craves.
Man has an ardent desire for repentance, because the finest and noblest words in human literature expressing the highest degree of human happiness and the most valuable gifts which respond to the deepest desires of our are rest, peace, love, joy, life, all of which are contained in one somewhat repulsive word and which are promised by the Lord who invites […]
[…] We do not know whether the reader has ever heard of the inestimable invitation that the Lord addresses to us humans: “Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest… and ye shall find rest unto your souls” (Matt. 11: 28,29). Come, He says, to Me. Return to Me and approach Me all of you who are tired and heavily burdened and I will give you rest, in Me you shall find the rest and peace for which your soul longs. […]
(Excerpt from the first chapter of the book)
CONTENTS
FOREWORD
1.- Invitation to Repentance
2.- The Necessity and Value of Repentance
3.- The Meaning of Repentance
I.- REPENTANCE PROPER
4.- The Characteristics of True Repentance
5.- Other Sings of True Repentance
II.- CONFESSION
6.- The Institution of Confession
7.- The Necessity of Confession
8.- Sincerity in Confession
9.- Functions and Results of Confession
10.- The Source of Remission of Sins
11.- Penance
12.- The Other Results of Confession
13.- Further Development of Christian Life
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