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Chapter
VIII.—Continuation Respecting Repentance.
The ministers of the grace of God have, by the Holy
Spirit, spoken of repentance; and the Lord of all things has himself
declared with an oath regarding it, “As I live, saith the Lord, I
desire not the death of the sinner, but rather his
repentance;”4043
adding, moreover,
this gracious declaration, “Repent, O house of Israel, of your
iniquity.”4044
Say to the
children of my people, Though your sins reach from earth to heaven, and
though they be redder4045
than scarlet, and
blacker than sack-cloth, yet if ye turn to me with your whole heart,
and say, Father! I will listen to you, as to a holy4046
| 4046 These words are
not found in Scripture, though they are quoted again by Clem. Alex.
(Pædag. i. 10) as from Ezekiel. | people. And in another place He speaks
thus: “Wash you and become clean; put away the wickedness
of your souls from before mine eyes; cease from your evil ways, and
learn to do well; seek out judgment, deliver the oppressed, judge the
fatherless, and see that justice is done to the widow; and come, and
let us reason together. He declares, Though your sins be like
crimson, I will make them white as snow; though they be like scarlet, I
will whiten them like wool. And if ye be willing and obey me, ye
shall eat the good of the land; but if ye refuse, and will not hearken
unto me, the sword shall devour you, for the mouth of the Lord hath
spoken these things.”4047
Desiring,
therefore, that all His beloved should be partakers of repentance, He
has, by His almighty will, established [these
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