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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 6, 1859

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 13, No. 7.

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Repentance and Faith

By Mason

REPENTANCE AND FAITH.—Repentance begins in the humiliation of the heart, and ends in the reformation of the life.
He that repents of sin as sin, doth implicitly repent of all sin.
You cannot repent too soon. There is no time like to-day! Yesterday is gone; to-morrow is God's not your own. And think how sad it will be to have your evidences to seek, when your cause is to be tried; to have your oil to buy when you should have it to burn!
If we put off our repentance to another day, we have a day more to repent of, and a day less to repent in.
Let the hopes of mercy encourage to the exercises of repentance.
Turn to God, and He will turn to you, and then you are happy though all the world turn against you.
If we think amiss of Christ, we shall never believe; if we think well of sin, we shall never repent.
If we study to honor God, we cannot do it better than by confessing our sins, and laying ourselves low at the feet of Christ.
Reliance is the essence of faith, Christ is the object of faith, the faith is the food, and obedience the proof; so that true faith is depending upon Christ for salvation in a way of obedience, as He is offered in the Word.
Justifying faith is always attended with universal obedience. [Mason, 1676.]