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It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance.
It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance.
He comes never late who comes repentant.
He comes never late who comes repentant.
What then? What rests?
Try what repentance can. What can it not?
Yet what can it when read more
What then? What rests?
Try what repentance can. What can it not?
Yet what can it when one cannot repent?
O wretched state? O bosom black as death!
O limed soul, that struggling to be free
Art more engaged!
True repentance is to cease from sinning.
True repentance is to cease from sinning.
Some often repent, yet never reform; they resemble a man traveling in a dangerous path, who frequently starts and stops, read more
Some often repent, yet never reform; they resemble a man traveling in a dangerous path, who frequently starts and stops, but never turns back
Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.
Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.
Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of read more
Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
Woman, amends may never come to late.
Woman, amends may never come to late.
O ye powers that search
The heart of man, and weigh his inmost thoughts,
If I have read more
O ye powers that search
The heart of man, and weigh his inmost thoughts,
If I have done amiss, impute it not!
The best may err, but you are good.
