 I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing. For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of : but the sorrow...  The whole works of ... John Fletcher - Page 296by John William Fletcher - 1835Full view - About this book
 | Charles Simeon - 1811 - 612 pages
...* Ps. exix. 59, 60. DLXXXIII. REPENTANCE EXEMPLIFIED IN THE CORINTHIAN CHURCH. 2 Cor. vii. 10, 11. Godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation, not...repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death. For behold, this self-same thing that ye torrowed after a godly sort, -what carefulness it wrought... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - 1812 - 420 pages
...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... | |
 | John Locke - 1812 - 514 pages
...acceptable to God, that, in nothing, you might have cause 10 to complain, that you were damaged by me. For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation, not to be repented of: but sorrow arising from worldly interest, 11 worketh death. In the present case, mark itb, that godly sorrow,... | |
 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - 1813 - 498 pages
...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,... | |
 | Gardiner Spring - 1813 - 244 pages
...— 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... | |
 | John Kingston - 1814 - 466 pages
...repentance, where there is not true sorrow for sin. / rejoice, says St. Paul to the Corinthians, that ye were made sorry after a godly manner ; For godly...sorrow, and the other the sorrow of the world. Learn then to distinguish them by their various causes and effects, so shalt thou avoid the danger of mistaking... | |
 | Samuel Whitman - 1814 - 390 pages
...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... | |
 | 1814 - 570 pages
...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... | |
 | William Jay - 1814 - 552 pages
...made forry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance ; ?* for godly forrow worketh repentance to falvation " not to be repented of ; but the sorrow of the world " worketh death." Thirdly, If " woe be to them that are at ease in Zion," •* there is nothing fo much to be dreaded... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1815 - 656 pages
...Corinthians) that ye were made sorry after a godly lanner: for godly sorrow worketh repentance to salation not to be repented of; but the sorrow of the world...the one a godly sorrow, and the other the sorrow of tJie world. Learn to distinguish them by their various causes and effects; so shalt thou avoid the... | |
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