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| An Exhortation to Repentance.
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Chapter
VII.—An Exhortation to Repentance.
These things, beloved, we write unto you, not merely to
admonish you of your duty, but also to remind ourselves. For we
are struggling on the same arena, and the same conflict is assigned to
both of us. Wherefore let us give up vain and fruitless cares,
and approach to the glorious and venerable rule of our holy
calling.4037
| 4037 I. τῆς
παραδόσεως
ἡμῶν (of our tradition). | Let us attend
to what is good, pleasing, and acceptable in the sight of Him who
formed us. Let us look stedfastly to the blood of Christ, and see
how precious that blood is to God4038
| 4038 I. τῷ πατρὶ
αὐτοῦ τῷ
θεῷ (to His Father God). | which, having
been shed for our salvation, has set the grace of repentance before the
whole world.4039
| 4039 I. ἐπήνεγκεν
(conferred). | Let us turn
to4040
| 4040 I. διέλθωμεν
(traverse, trace). | every age that has passed, and learn that,
from generation to generation, the Lord has granted a place of
repentance to all such as would be converted unto Him. Noah
preached repentance, and as many as listened to him were
saved.4041
| 4041 Gen. vii; 1 Pet. iii. 20; 2 Pet. ii.
5. | Jonah
proclaimed destruction to the Ninevites;4042
but they, repenting of their sins, propitiated God by prayer, and
obtained salvation, although they were aliens [to the covenant] of
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