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"Repentance is the vomit of the soul.”

-Thomas Brooks (1608-1680)  in Precious Remedies Against Satan’s Devices.

REPENTANCE UNTO CONVERSION

Like faith, repentance has intellectual, emotional, and volitional elements. Louis Berkhof describes the intellectual element of repentance as "a change of view, a recognition of sin as involving personal guilt, defilement, and helplessness." The emotional element is "a change of feeling, manifesting itself in sorrow for sin committed against a holy God." The volitional element is "a change of purpose, an inward turning away from sin, and a disposition to seek pardon and cleansing." Each of those three elements is deficient apart from the others. Repentance is a response of the total person; therefore we speak of it as total surrender.*

REPENTANCE UNTO SANCTIFICATION

"When Satan whispers: 'If you sin, you can repent', one may respond in Samuel Waldrons words: 'Yes, and you will, but to truly repent is to vomit up the sin. All the enjoyment of eating the dainty morsel is more than made up for by the miserable nausea and vomiting. There will always be more misery than pleasure in sin for a true christian."

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* Louis Berkhof (1874-1957), Systematic Theology, Wm.B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1996, p486.