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The Severity of True Repentance

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Publishing Committee · Rochester, N. Y. · Jul 25, 1854

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 5, No. 25.

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The Severity of True Repentance

True repentance is a very severe magistrate, and will strip off all that shelter and covering which would make the stripes to be less sensibly felt, and reckons shame an essential part of the punishment. It is a rough physician, that draws out all the blood that inflames, and purges out the humors which corrupt or annoy the vitals; leaves no phlegm to cherish envy, and no choler and melancholy to engender pride; and will rather reduce the body to a skeleton, than suffer those humors to have a source, from whence they may abound again to infest the body or the mind. [Clarendon.