...our own hearts, we may look to him whom we have pierced with our sins ; and may mourn for them with that godly sorrow, which worketh repentance unto salvation, not to be repented of. Our only hope is in the Lord Jesus. Of ourselves we can do nothing. It is the name, the all-prevailing...

...corrjpaasiomtr and gentle to the innrniules of others, because that thou also hast sinned. It will produce " godly sorrow, which worketh repentance unto salvation, not to be repented of." It will render the promises of " mercy to pardon, and of grace to help in every time of need,'1 precious...

...of the spirit, which cannot be borne, and those terrours which distract the soul. On the other hand, that godly sorrow which worketh repentance unto salvation not to be repented of, is of a very different nature. It arises, chiefly, from a sense of guilt. The person who is actuated...

...gate that leadeth to life ; that there may be much sorrow on account of sin, when there is nothing of that godly sorrow which worketh repentance unto salvation, not to be repented of ; npthing but the sorrow of the world, which worketh death. 4. How cautiqus should we be in pronouncing...

...the effect of this looking, they shall mourn. THERE are two kinds of mourning, or sorrow; there is a godly sorrow which worketh repentance unto salvation, not to be repented of: and there is a sorrow of the world which worketh death* (a) Of this latter, kind we find several instances...

...Propitiation of all our sins, under a deep sense of the condemning power of sin, and bringing forth that " godly sorrow which worketh repentance unto salvation not to be repented of." If we come rightly prepared to the Supper of the Lord, we shall have considered, with profitable thought,...

...habits and worldly pleasures have quickly resumed their accustomed ascendancy. This kind of grief is not that " godly sorrow which worketh repentance unto salvation not to be repented of;"b it arises from self-love when a person is alarmed for his safety, and is not " a repentance from...

...mercy, as they were in the case of our first parents. They are not Tiowever necessarily productive of that " Godly sorrow which worketh repentance unto salvation, not to be repented of." In the cases of Cain, and Ahab, and others, remorse does not appear to have ended in true repentance...

...heart was too far from him ! I heard an excellent sermon from 2 Cor. vii. 10. O that I may experience that godly sorrow which worketh repentance unto salvation, not to be repented of! " Nov. 9. I have felt my mind very low to-day; but this evening I enjoyed such a sweetness and delightful...

...can change our worldly grievings into that " godly sorrow" " by which the heart is made better," " a sorrow which worketh repentance unto salvation not to be repented of." It is one of the properties of religion, to create good out of evil, to produce reformation from punishment,...