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Often appears with: sin, guilt, and repentance · equity, mercy, and pardon · justice as a virtue · the passions and the emotions · the fear of death · religious persecution and toleration · prayer and worship · forgiveness · crime and punishment · conversion and faith · wonder vs consternation vs veneration vs horror · wild lettuces
Usually: reverence (7) · confronting death (6) · argument (5) · narrative (4) · the test or trial (4) · detachment (4) · exhortation (4) · crisis of belief (3) · censure (3) · list or catalogue (2)
“Things which are accidentally the causes of hope or fear are called good or evil omens.” Benedictus de Spinoza, Ethics — Part 3 · insight
“Let us feast . . . with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.” Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) · precept
“God assigns them the race of repentance to run during their whole life.” Jean Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion (Vol. 1 of 2) · insight
“But let us remember that some limit must be observed, that we may not be overwhelmed in sorrow; for to nothing are terrified consciences more liable than to fall into despair.” Jean Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion (Vol. 1 of 2) · observation
“Faith is a living and constant assurance of the mercy of God, and of his fatherly favour towards us, founded on the truth of the divine promise in Christ.” Jean Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion (Vol. 1 of 2) · insight
“Sithen my flesh will be my master I shall punish it; and therewith he rove himself through the thigh that the blood start about him” Jean Froissart, Chronicle and Romance: Froissart, Malory, Holinshed · precept
“With these reflections I worked my mind up, not only to a resignation to the will of God in the present disposition of my circumstances, but even to a sincere thankfulness for my condition; and that I, who was yet a living man, ought not to complain, seeing I had not the due punishment of my sins;” Daniel Defoe, The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe · precept
“This honest, friendly way of treating me unlocked all the sluices of my passions. He broke into my very soul by it; and I unravelled all the wickedness of my life to him.” Daniel Defoe, The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flan · observation
“Our axe must first be laid to thy root in a way of threatening, before it is laid at thy root by way of execution; and between these two is required thy repentance, and this is all the time that thou hast.” John Bunyan, The Holy War, Made by King Shaddai Upon Diabolus, fo · precept
“There are, said he, few minds sufficiently firm to be trusted in the hands of chance.” Samuel Johnson, The Works of Samuel Johnson, in Sixteen Volumes. Vol · insight
Calvin closes by admitting he sought Caroli’s acknowledgment of sin for his good, not revenge, and he prays that Christ guide Caroli away from danger so that brotherly agreement can resume.
although I have in nowise had regard to that, but only that I might be of service to you, which I did not see how to accomplish unless I could bring you to the acknowledgment of your sin. Adieu, my very dear brother in the Lord, if you will only suffer me to love you and to esteem you as a brother. May Christ the Lord guide you by the Spirit of counsel and prudence, so that you may quickly extricate yourself from amo…
After further lottery setbacks, the trader seeks partners with other winners, splits ticket shares, eventually loses a huge prize because it had been sold away, then falls into grief and sickness until a clergyman advises avoiding chance.
to fall away; but I perceived the decline of my business with little emotion, because whatever deficience there might be in my gains, I expected the next lottery to supply. Miscarriage naturally produces diffidence; I began now to seek assistance against ill luck, by an alliance with those that had been more successful. I inquired diligently at what office any prize had been sold, that I might purchase of a propitio…
Aquinas explains that Old Law purifications removed impediments to worship—spiritual via cleansing from sins and corporal via sacrifices—insisting that these rites signified expiation later fulfilled by Christ.
eaten, neither shall you carry forth of the flesh thereof out of the house": because, to wit, on account of their haste, they could not send any gifts of it. The stress they suffered while in Egypt was denoted by the wild lettuces. The figurative reason is evident, because the sacrifice of the paschal lamb signified the sacrifice of Christ according to 1 Cor. 5:7: "Christ our pasch is sacrificed." The blood of the l…
Calvin argues that believers are freed from sin’s servitude by regeneration, yet still experience concupiscence throughout life, and he contrasts his view of sin with Augustine’s narrower definition of sin.
God, so far the image of God is displayed in him. That believers may attain to this, God assigns them the race of repentance to run during their whole life. X. Thus, therefore, the children of God are liberated by regeneration from the servitude of sin; not that they have already obtained the full possession of liberty, and experience no more trouble from the flesh, but there remains in them a perpetual cause of con…
Calvin explains Paul’s sevenfold description of repentance, defining godly sorrow’s effects as solicitude, self-excuse, indignation, fear, desire, zeal, and revenge, while warning against despair.
of Satan,”(1641) that his strength might be “made perfect in weakness;”(1642) and who faithfully represented the conflict between the flesh and the Spirit, which he experienced in his own person. XV. When the apostle, in a description of repentance, enumerates seven things, which are either causes producing it, or effects proceeding from it, or members and parts of it, he does it for a very good reason. These things…
Calvin rebuts the schools’ requirement to enumerate all sins for repentance, calling it intolerable because even David could not list every error, and such detailed confession cannot reflect true spiritual anguish.
who, on a new anvil, have fabricated new keys, with which they tell us the treasure of the Church is locked up; which we shall examine in the proper place. XVI. I shall briefly reply to each of these things; though without noticing, at present, the justice or injustice with which they bind the souls of the faithful by their laws; as that will be considered in due order. But when they impose a law respecting the enum…
A continuing chain of scriptural references (plus citations to Lombard and Bernard) is used to support claims about faith, hope, repentance, and the Spirit’s work in believers’ renewal.
1538 Psalm cxix. 41. 1539 Psalm cxix. 146, 147. 1540 Rom. iv. 21. 1541 2 Tim. i. 12. 1542 Psalm cxliii. 5. 1543 Psalm lxxvii. 11. 1544 1 Cor. ii. 2. 1545 2 Cor. i. 20. 1546 Matt. iii. 17; xvii. 5. 1547 Eph. i. 6. 1548 Eph. ii. 14. 1549 Rom. viii. 3. 1550 Rom. xv. 8. 1551 2 Kings v. 17‐19. 1552 Acts x. 31. 1553 Acts viii. 17, 31. 1554 2 Tim. i. 14. 1555 Gal. iii. 2. 1556 1 Cor. ii. 11. 1557 2 Cor. i…
The passage continues listing biblical and patristic references to explain the gravity of sin and blasphemy, human need for mercy, and God’s forgiveness through Christ’s redemptive work.
1680 του Πνευματος βλασφημια, Matt. xii. 31. 1681 Acts vi. 10. 1682 Matt. ix. 34; xii. 24. 1683 1 Tim. i. 13. 1684 1 John ii. 19. 1685 Heb. vi. 4‐6. 1686 Heb. x. 26. 1687 Jer. xi. 11. 1688 Ezek. xviii. 21. 1689 1 Kings xxi. 27, &c. 1690 Gen. xxvii. 38, 39. 1691 Psalm lxxviii. 36, 37. 1692 2 Cor. vii. 10. 1693 Matt. xi. 28. Luke iv. 18. Isaiah lxi. 1, &c. 1694 Gen. iii. 9, 12. 1695 Heb. vii. 12. 1696 M…
Moses prays after killing, admits wronging his soul, and is forgiven, then declares he will never support sinners, while the next day another man calls for help and Moses rebukes him.
housefolk: Bide ye (here). Lo! I see in the distance a fire; peradventure I shall bring you tidings thence, or a brand from the fire that ye may warm yourselves. S: So when Musa had fulfilled the term, and he journeyed with his family, he perceived on this side of the mountain a fire. He said to his family: Wait, I have seen a fire, maybe I will bring to you from it some news or a brand of fire, so that you may warm…
The minister promises confidentiality, listens as Moll confesses her life, explains repentance and divine mercy, and moll describes renewed hope so strong she believes she could face execution calmly.
time or other may feel something of; I mean, a clearer sight into things to come than they had here, and a dark view of their own concern in them. But I go back to my own case. The minister pressed me to tell him, as far as I thought convenient, in what state I found myself as to the sight I had of things beyond life. He told me he did not come as ordinary of the place, whose business it is to extort confessions fro…
Robinson reflects on his past wickedness and God’s mercy, resolves to resign himself and be thankful, and then notes his dwindling ink and bread, recording providences by date.
my iniquity had deserved, but had so plentifully provided for me—this gave me great hopes that my repentance was accepted, and that God had yet mercy in store for me. With these reflections I worked my mind up, not only to a resignation to the will of God in the present disposition of my circumstances, but even to a sincere thankfulness for my condition; and that I, who was yet a living man, ought not to complain, s…
Spinoza claims different people and the same person at different times can be affected differently by the same object, links emotion-driven judgments to repentance and self-complacency, and develops how wonder, consternation, veneration, and contempt work.
>>>>>Proof--This proposition is proved in the same way as III. xv., which see, together with the note to III. xviii. *****Note--Things which are accidentally the causes of hope or fear are called good or evil omens. Now, in so far as such omens are the cause of hope or fear, they are (by the definitions of hope and fear given in III. xviii. note) the causes also of pleasure and pain; consequently we, to this extent…
Percivale repents when he realizes the lady is the master fiend, punishes himself by wounding his thigh, learns from a good man that the fiend’s threats were from hell, and departs by ship.
HOW SIR PERCIVALE FOR PENANCE ROVE HIMSELF THROUGH THE THIGH; AND HOW SHE WAS KNOWN FOR THE DEVIL Fair sweet father, Jesu Christ, ne let me not be shamed, the which was nigh lost had not thy good grace been. And then he looked into a ship, and saw her enter therein, which said: Sir Percivale, ye have betrayed me. And so she went with the wind roaring and yelling, that it seemed all the water brent after her. Then Si…
Coleridge argues redemption by a crucified savior is hardest to persuade people to accept, warns that admitting the doctrine in words often empties it in practice, and attacks foreseen-faith election.
LEIGHTON. There is nothing in religion farther out of Nature's reach, and more remote from the natural man's liking and believing, than the doctrine of Redemption by a Saviour, and by a crucified Saviour. It is comparatively easy to persuade men of the necessity of an amendment of conduct; it is more difficult to make them see the necessity of Repentance in the *Gospel* sense, the necessity of a change in the *princ…
The Execution captain insists Mansoul must repent before execution, explaining the difference between the axe’s threatening placement and its actual blow, and urges immediate acceptance of peace.
great Shaddai. Behold, the axe is laid to the root of the trees: every tree, therefore, that bringeth not forth good fruit, is hewn down and cast into the fire. ‘Thou, O town of Mansoul, hast hitherto been this fruitless tree; thou bearest nought but thorns and briars. Thy evil fruit bespeaks thee not to be a good tree; thy grapes are grapes of gall, thy clusters are bitter. Thou hast rebelled against thy King; an…