After we are justified
But there is more. There is a repentance and a faith needed at the beginning, and there is also a repentance and a faith after we are justified. Take the words in another sense, a sense not quite the same, and yet not entirely different. They are not quite the same. This later repentance and faith are required after we have believed the gospel. They are required at every later stage of our Christian course, or we cannot run the race that is set before us. And they are every bit as necessary if we are to continue and grow in grace, as the first repentance and faith were if we were to enter the kingdom of God.
In what sense, then, are we to repent and believe after we are justified? This is an important question, and it deserves the utmost attention.
1771 text
3. But notwithstanding this, there is also a repentance and a faith, (taking the words in another sense, a sense not quite the same, nor yet entirely different,) which are requisite after we have believed the gospel: yea, and in every subsequent stage of our Christian course, or we cannot run the race which is set before us. And this repentance and faith are full as necessary, in order to our continuance and growth in grace, as the former faith and repentance were, in order to our entring into the kingdom of God.
But in what sense are we to repent and believe, after we are justified? This is an important question, and worthy of being considered with the utmost attention.
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Sermon 14 in the 1771 Works. Mark 1:15. Dated at Londonderry, 24 April 1767.
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