God … now commandeth all men everywhere to repent.—Acts 17:30. It is a common thing in modern times for people to come into the Church with very little knowledge of genuine repentance. When it has been explicitly stated by our Lord, that, “Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish,” it is certainly needful that we determine carefully what He meant by repentance. For this reason we shall consider first the meaning of the term repentance; then what true repentance is; the
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