On Repentance
Tertullian's treatise on the nature and necessity of true repentance, examining what constitutes genuine turning from sin and the conditions under which God receives penitent sinners back into His grace.
13 Chapters
Table of Contents
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Chapter I.--Of Heathen Repentance.
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Chapter II.--True Repentance a Thing Divine, Originated by God, and Subject to His Laws.
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Chapter III.--Sins May Be Divided into Corporeal and Spiritual Both Equally Subject, If Not to Human, Yet to Divine Investigation and Punishment.
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Chapter IV.--Repentance Applicable to All the Kinds of Sin To Be Practised Not Only, Nor Chiefly, for the Good It Brings, But Because God Commands It.
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Chapter V.--Sin Never to Be Returned to After Repentance.
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Chapter VI.--Baptism Not to Be Presumptously Received It Requires Preceding Repentance, Manifested by Amendment of Life.
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Chapter VII.--Of Repentance, in the Case of Such as Have Lapsed After Baptism.
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Chapter VIII.--Examples from Scripture to Prove the Lord's Willingness to Pardon.
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Chapter IX.--Concerning the Outward Manifestations by Which This Second Repentance is to Be Accompanied.
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Chapter X.--Of Men's Shrinking from This Second Repentance and Exomologesis, and of the Unreasonableness of Such Shrinking.
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Chapter XI.--Further Strictures on the Same Subject.
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Chapter XII.--Final Considerations to Induce to Exomologesis.
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Elucidations.