There are several deceits of repentance which might occasion that saying of Augustine that “repentance damns many.” He meant a false repentance; a person may delude himself with counterfeit repentance. 1. The first deceit of repentance is legal terror A man has gone on long in […]
With an impoverished view of God comes a tolerant view of sin No one sees their own sin as God does; it is treated altogether as a light thing with very little consequence. Some mock the unseen consequences of sin in the existentialism of the present. […]
Believers ought not to mourn over, or confess their iniquities, in a legal manner, viewing them as committed by persons under the covenant of works; but ought to confess and mourn over them as sins done against a reconciled father, and breaches of his law as […]
Spare sin not, for it will not spare you. It is your murderer, and the murderer of the world. Use it therefore as a murderer should be used. Kill it before it kills you; and then, though it kill your bodies, it shall not be able […]
Truth fears nothing so much as concealment, and desires nothing so much as clearly to be laid open to the view of all: when it is most naked, it is most lovely and powerful. —Richard Sibbes The Complete Works of Richard Sibbes, 1:53.