...II. CHRISTMAS DAY. Matt. xvii. 54. Truly this was the Son of God - 1 53 III. LENT. 2 Cor. vii. 10. For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation, not to be repented of - - * - 158 Page IV. GOOD FRIDAY. Cotossians i. 12, 13, 14°. Giving thanks unto the Father, who hath...

...fervent mind toward me. For though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not repent, though I did repent. Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that...repentance. For ye were made sorry after a godly manner. — For behold, what carefulness it wrought in you ! What clearing of yourselves ! What holy indignation...

...sin. ' I rejoice,' says St. Panl to the Corinthians, that ye were made sorry after a godly manner : For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation,...repented 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 world;...

...of God is the more displayed in their conversion. 1 Cor. vi. 11 ; 1 Tim. i. 3. 14, 15. REPENTANCE. sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of ; but the sorrow of the world worketh death. — 2 Cor. vii. 10. GODLT sorrow baa for its object sin committed against God ; or rather, godly sorrow...

...to the Corinthians (chap. vii. 9 — 11.) " I rejoice," says he, that ye "sorrowed to repentance ; " "for godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation, not to be repented of;" "and behold this self-same thing ( ie observe, for your comfort, in the particulars I am about to mention,...

...sins. PROOF SUBJOINED.—2 Cor. vii. V, 10, 11. Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but t hcit ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry...receive damage by us in nothing. For godly sorrow worlceth repentance to salvation not to be relented of; but the sorrow of the world workelh dtath....

...made sorry after a godly manner.' In the text he establishes 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 connexion of the text with the whole subject, that we have been explaining, was, as I said before,...

...hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life." 2nd Cor. T 10. "For Godly sorrow vorketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of, but the sorrow of the world woiketh death" Horn. 2. 4. ,'Despiseth thou the riches ot his goodness and forbearance and long suffering...

...at Corinth, "I perceive that the same epistle hath made you sorry, though it were but for a season. Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed unto repentance." Here we learn that repentance consists in sorrowing for a season. Repentance is always...

...at Corinth, "I perceive that the same epistle hath made yoa sorry, though it were but for a season. Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed unto repentance." Her* w« learn that repentance consists in sorrowing for a season, Repentance is...