Tertullian, On Repentance. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 3 (Roberts and Donaldson, 1885), public domain.
Passages · 12
- On Repentance Chapter 1 — Of Heathen Repentance. I. Repentance, men understand, so far as nature is able, to be an emotion of the mind arising from disgust at some previously cherished worse sentiment: that kind of men I mean which even we…vatican.va
- On Repentance Chapter 2 — True Repentance a Thing Divine, Originated by God, and Subject to His Laws. But if they acted as men who had any part in God, and thereby in reason also, they would first weigh well the importance of repentance, and…vatican.va
- On Repentance Chapter 3 — Sins May Be Divided into Corporeal and Spiritual. Both Equally Subject, If Not to Human, Yet to Divine Investigation and Punishment. Chapter III.—Sins May Be Divided into Corporeal and Spiritual. Both Equally…vatican.va
- On Repentance Chapter 4 — Repentance Applicable to All the Kinds of Sin. To Be Practised Not Only, Nor Chiefly, for the Good It Brings, But Because God Commands It. Chapter IV.—Repentance Applicable to All the Kinds of Sin. To Be Practised…vatican.va
- On Repentance Chapter 5 — Sin Never to Be Returned to After Repentance. For what I say is this, that the repentance which, being shown us and commanded us through God’s grace, recalls us to grace with the Lord, when once learned and…vatican.va
- On Repentance Chapter 6 — Baptism Not to Be Presumptously Received. It Requires Preceding Repentance, Manifested by Amendment of Life. Chapter VI.—Baptism Not to Be Presumptously Received. It Requires Preceding Repentance, Manifested by…vatican.va
- On Repentance Chapter 7 — Of Repentance, in the Case of Such as Have Lapsed After Baptism. So long, Lord Christ, may the blessing of learning or hearing concerning the discipline of repentance be granted to Thy servants, as is likewise…vatican.va
- On Repentance Chapter 8 — Examples from Scripture to Prove the Lord's Willingness to Pardon. This if you doubt, unravel the meaning of “what the Spirit saith to the churches.” He imputes to the Ephesians “forsaken love;” reproaches the…vatican.va
- On Repentance Chapter 9 — Concerning the Outward Manifestations by Which This Second Repentance is to Be Accompanied. Chapter IX.—Concerning the Outward Manifestations by Which This Second Repentance is to Be Accompanied. The narrower, then,…vatican.va
- On Repentance Chapter 10 — Of Men's Shrinking from This Second Repentance and Exomologesis, and of the Unreasonableness of Such Shrinking. Chapter X.—Of Men’s Shrinking from This Second Repentance and Exomologesis, and of the Unreasonableness…vatican.va
- On Repentance Chapter 11 — Further Strictures on the Same Subject. What if, besides the shame which they make the most account of, men dread likewise the bodily inconveniences; in that, unwashen, sordidly attired, estranged from gladness, they…vatican.va
- On Repentance Chapter 12 — Final Considerations to Induce to Exomologesis. If you shrink back from exomologesis, consider in your heart the hell, which exomologesis will extinguish for you; and imagine first the magnitude of the penalty, that…vatican.va
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Genesis 1:28 · Genesis 3:24 · Exodus 14:15 · Exodus 14:16 · Exodus 14:17 · Exodus 14:18 · Exodus 14:19 · Exodus 14:20 · Exodus 14:21 · Exodus 14:22 · Exodus 14:23 · Exodus 14:24 · Exodus 14:25 · Exodus 14:26 · Exodus 14:27 · Exodus 14:28 · Exodus 14:29 · Exodus 14:30 · Exodus 14:31 · Deuteronomy 32:2 · Psalm 1:3 · Psalm 2:9 · Psalm 8:4 · Psalm 8:5 · Psalm 8:6 · Psalm 8:7 · Psalm 8:8 · Psalm 22:1 · Psalm 38:8 · Isaiah 5:18 · Isaiah 40:15 · Jeremiah 8:4 · Jeremiah 17:8 · Jeremiah 31:34 · Ezekiel 18:30 · Ezekiel 18:32 · Ezekiel 33:11 · Daniel 2:35 · Daniel 4:25 · Hosea 6:6 · Matthew 3:1 · Matthew 3:2 · Matthew 3:10 · Matthew 3:12 · Matthew 5:27 · Matthew 5:28 · Matthew 9:13 · Matthew 18:20 · Matthew 18:22 · Matthew 23:9 · Matthew 23:26 · Mark 1:4 · Luke 3:4 · Luke 3:5 · Luke 3:6 · Luke 8:17 · Luke 15:3 · Luke 15:4 · Luke 15:5 · Luke 15:6 · Luke 15:7 · Luke 15:8 · Luke 15:9 · Luke 15:10 · Luke 15:11 · Luke 15:12 · Luke 15:13 · Luke 15:14 · Luke 15:15 · Luke 15:16 · Luke 15:17 · Luke 15:18 · Luke 15:19 · Luke 15:20 · Luke 15:21 · Luke 15:22 · Luke 15:23 · Luke 15:24 · Luke 15:25 · Luke 15:26 · Luke 15:27 · Luke 15:28 · Luke 15:29 · Luke 15:30 · Luke 15:31 · Luke 15:32 · Luke 22:61 · Luke 23:31 · Luke 23:43 · John 11:41 · John 11:42 · John 13:10 · John 14:6 · Acts 14:15 · Acts 14:16 · Acts 14:17 · Romans 6:3 · Romans 6:4 · Romans 6:8 · 1 Corinthians 6:3 · 1 Corinthians 12:26 · 2 Corinthians 12:4 · Ephesians 3:14 · Colossians 2:12 · Colossians 2:20 · 1 Timothy 1:16 · Hebrews 5:7 · Hebrews 8:11 · James 5:16 · 1 John 1:5 · 1 John 3:9 · 1 John 5:18 · Revelation 2:4 · Revelation 2:7 · Revelation 2:11 · Revelation 2:14 · Revelation 2:15 · Revelation 2:17 · Revelation 2:20 · Revelation 2:27 · Revelation 2:29 · Revelation 3:2 · Revelation 3:6 · Revelation 3:13 · Revelation 3:17 · Revelation 3:21