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Out of the Protestant Reformation came several important doctrines, including a renewed understanding of repentance. Instead of viewing repentance as a one-time confession, the reformers began to teach what the Bible teaches—that it is both radical and perpetual.  In this redesigned, concise volume Sinclair Ferguson examines how the Bible defines repentance and how the doctrine has fared in...

cannot be defined exclusively as shame and sorrow. Judas, for example, “repented” (Matt. 27:3, kjv), but this was not evangelical repentance. Rather, it was a sorrow that fed on itself and eventually led to despair and self-inflicted death. Paul called it a “worldly sorrow [that] brings death” (2 Cor. 7:10). By contrast, David’s repentance, which was also marked by remorse and regret, was evangelical because it was God-centered, not self-centered. David recognized and responded to the fact that he had
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