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Daily Devotionals
Golden Treasury
Repent ye, (O change your mind) and believe the gospel. Mark 1:15.
O the great comfort, that God requires only faith, and such a faith, which is his own gift, and is held forth, truly, to every one that will receive his pardon, grace, and love. But that this may not be understood of presumptuous notions, in our heads, it is well to be observed, that true repentance goes before faith, by which the heart is not only convinced of sin, and filled with godly sorrow, but changed so as to hate and abandon all sin. It is not enough to cleave off some of our sins, or be outwardly reformed; but it must be an inward and thorough change of the whole mind; for if one sin be reigning, we cannot be said to have repented, and received that faith and power of God which overcomes the world and sin.
Life and immortal joys are given
To souls that mourn the sins they’ve done;
Children of wrath made heirs of heaven,
By faith in Gods eternal Son.
Woe to the wretch, that never felt,
The inward pangs of pious grief;
But adds to all his crying guilt
The stubborn sin of unbelief.
The law condemns the rebel dead,
Under the wrath of God he lies,
He sealed the curse on his own head
And with a double vengeance dies.
