...* Ps. exix. 59, 60. DLXXXIII. REPENTANCE EXEMPLIFIED IN THE CORINTHIAN CHURCH. 2 Cor. vii. 10, 11. Godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation, not...worketh death. For behold, this self-same thing that ye torrowed after a godly sort, -what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves,...

...not that ye were made, sorry, but that ye .sorrowed to repentance. Ijpr ye were made sorry after n godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing. For godly sorrow" (•» xara. 0eov Kinrn) the sorrow which is according to God, which is a precious gift of his Spirit,...

...repent ; for I perceive that the same epistle made you •orry, though it were but for a season. Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye...manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing." (Chap. vii. 7 — 9.) That this passage is to be referred to the incestuous marriage, is proved by...

...repent; for I perceive that the same epistle made you sorry, though it were but for a season. 9 Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye...manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing. PARAPHRASE. in the transport of my joy, I use or eat liberty of speech towards you. But let it not...

...distinction between godly sorrow and the sorrow of the world, in his description of true repentance. "For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorVow of the world worketh death." The sorrow of the world, is the sorrow that arises from an event's...

...made sorry after a godly manner. In the text he establisheth this general maxim for all Christians, " Godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to...repented of : but the sorrow of the world worketh death." The connection of the text with the whole subject, that we have been explaining, was, as I said before,...

...— it cannot seriously reflect upon a life of sin, without unfeigned grief. Godly sorrow worJceth repentance to salvation, not to be repented of; but the sorrow of the world worketh death. Genuine repentance is that sorrow for sin which arises from a sense of its intrinsic turpitude. It...

...for sin. / rejoice, says St. Paul to the Corinthians, that ye were made sorry after a godly manner ; For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation,...of; but the sorrow of the •world worketh death. Hence it appears, that there are two sorts of sorrow springing from opposite sources ; God and the...

...speak." Dead works must be repented of; but when we perform a good work, it is not to be repented of. For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not...repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death. If we do what is required of us in the word of God, we bhall give God our heart, and believe on the...

...mourniv your fervent mind toward i so that I rejoieed the mom 10 For godly sorrow worketh repentanee to salvation not to be repented of; but the sorrow of the world worketh death. 9 Now I rejoiee, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentanee; for ye were made...