Institutes 3.3.4 — REGENERATION BY FAITH. OF REPENTANCE.

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**REGENERATION BY FAITH. OF REPENTANCE.**

Others seeing that the term is used in Scripture in different senses, have set down two forms of repentance, and, in order to distinguish them, have called the one Legal repentance; or that by which the sinner, stung with a sense of his sin, and overwhelmed with fear of the divine anger, remains in that state of perturbation, unable to escape from it. The other they term Evangelical repentance; or that by which the sinner, though grievously downcast in himself, yet looks up and sees in Christ the cure of his wound, the solace of his terror; the haven of rest from his misery. They give Cain, Saul and Judas, Gen. 4:13 ; 1 Sam. 15:30 ; Matt. 27:3, 4 . 2 Kings 20:2 ; Isa. 37:2 ; Jonah 3:5 ; 2 Sam. 24:10 ; 12:13, 16; Acts 2:37 ; Mt. 26:75 ; Luke 22:62

Source

• source-manifest/institutes — Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, tr. Beveridge 1845 (PD)
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