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The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah Vol 1 - Predestination

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judgment, <strong>and</strong> stayed or banished its Angela it<br />

would still leave a man without those works which<br />

are not only his real destiny <strong>and</strong> merit heaven, but<br />

constitute true repentance. For, as sin is ultimately<br />

dereliction <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Law, beginning within, so<br />

■ In Msnorath Hammaor (Ner v. 1. 1, 2) seven<br />

kinda <strong>of</strong> repentance in regard to seven different<br />

conditions are mentioned. <strong>The</strong>y are, repentance<br />

immediately after <strong>the</strong> commission <strong>of</strong> sin; after a<br />

coarse <strong>of</strong> sin, bat while <strong>the</strong>re is still <strong>the</strong> power <strong>of</strong><br />

sinning; where <strong>the</strong>re is no longer <strong>the</strong> occasion for<br />

sinning; where it is caased by admonition, or fear<br />

<strong>of</strong> danger; where it is caased hj actaal affliction;<br />

where a man is old, <strong>and</strong> nnable to sin; <strong>and</strong>, lastly,<br />

repentance in prospect <strong>of</strong> death.<br />

* This is illastrated, among o<strong>the</strong>r things, by <strong>the</strong><br />

history <strong>of</strong> a Rabbi who, at <strong>the</strong> close <strong>of</strong> a dissolate<br />

life, became a convert by repentance. <strong>The</strong> story <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> occasion <strong>of</strong> his repentance is not at all nice in<br />

its realistic details, <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> tears with which a<br />

self-righteous colleague saw <strong>the</strong> beatification <strong>of</strong>

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