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of Repentance unto Life and Salvation
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Repentance unto life is an evangelical grace, the doctrine whereof is to be preached by every minister of the Gospel, as well as that of faith in Christ.
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By this saving repentance a person, being by the Holy Spirit made sensible of the danger, filthiness, odiousness and manifold evils of his sin, as contrary to God's holy nature and His righteous law, and perceiving and embracing by faith in Christ God's mercy to such as are penitent, humbles himself for his sin and turns from it to God with Godly sorrow, detestation of it, and self-abhorrency, praying for pardon and strength of grace, with a purpose and endeavor, by supplies of the Spirit, to walk before God in all the ways of His commandments unto all well-pleasing in all things.
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Although repentance is not to be rested in, as any satisfaction for sin, or any cause of the pardon thereof, which is the act of God's free grace in Christ; yet it is of such necessity to all sinners, that none may expect pardon without it.
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As repentance is to be continued through the whole course of our lives, upon the account of the body of death, and the motions thereof, so men ought not to content themselves with a general repentance, since it is every man's duty to repent of his particular sins particularly.
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Such is the provision which God has made through Christ in the covenant of grace for the preservation of believers unto salvation; that although there is no sin so small but it deserves damnation; yet there is no sin so great that it shall bring damnation on them that repent; which makes the constant preaching of repentance necessary.
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Whereas there is none that does good and does not sin, and the best of men may, through the power and deceitfulness of their corruption dwelling in them, with the prevalency of temptation, fall into great sins and provocations; God has, in the covenant of grace, mercifully provided that believers so sinning and falling be renewed through repentance unto salvation.
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As every man is obligated to make private confession of his sins to God, praying for the pardon thereof; upon which, and the forsaking of them, he shall fond mercy, so he that scandalizes his brother, or the Church of Christ, ought to be willing, by a private or public confession, and sorrow for his sin, to declare his repentance, and where necessary to make restitution, to those that are offended, who are thereupon to be reconciled to him, and in love to receive him.
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