Definitions from what I read in the Webster’s 1828 Dictionary:
1.) Write about what the following definitions tell how we are to repent.
REPENT
1. “To feel pain, sorrow, or regret for something done or spoken; as, to repent that we have lost much time in idleness or sensual pleasure; to repent that we have injured or wounded the feelings of a friend. A person repents only of what he or she has done or said.”
2. “To express sorrow for something past.”
3. “To change the mind in consequence of the inconvenience or injury done by past conduct.”
4. Applied to the God, regret, to change the course of providential dealings, have compassion or sympathy, or relent.
5. “In theology, to sorrow or be pained for sin, as a violation of God's Law.” “Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.”
REPENT'ANCE, n.
1. “Sorrow for any thing done or said; the pain or grief that a person experiences in consequence of the injury or inconvenience produced by his or her own conduct.”
2. “In theology, the pain, regret, or affliction that a person feels because of his or her past conduct, because it exposes him to punishment. This sorrow proceeding merely from the fear of punishment is called legal repentance, as being excited by the terrors of legal penalties, and it may exist without an amendment of life.”
3. “Real penitence; sorrow or deep contrition for sin, as an offense and dishonor to God, a violation of his holy Law, and the basest ingratitude towards a Being of infinite benevolence. This is called evangelical repentance and is accompanied and followed by alteration of life. Repentance is a change of mind or a conversion from sin to God. Repentance is the relinquishment of any practice, from conviction that it has offended God.”
1.) Write about what the following definitions tell how we are to repent.
REPENT
1. “To feel pain, sorrow, or regret for something done or spoken; as, to repent that we have lost much time in idleness or sensual pleasure; to repent that we have injured or wounded the feelings of a friend. A person repents only of what he or she has done or said.”
2. “To express sorrow for something past.”
3. “To change the mind in consequence of the inconvenience or injury done by past conduct.”
4. Applied to the God, regret, to change the course of providential dealings, have compassion or sympathy, or relent.
5. “In theology, to sorrow or be pained for sin, as a violation of God's Law.” “Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.”
REPENT'ANCE, n.
1. “Sorrow for any thing done or said; the pain or grief that a person experiences in consequence of the injury or inconvenience produced by his or her own conduct.”
2. “In theology, the pain, regret, or affliction that a person feels because of his or her past conduct, because it exposes him to punishment. This sorrow proceeding merely from the fear of punishment is called legal repentance, as being excited by the terrors of legal penalties, and it may exist without an amendment of life.”
3. “Real penitence; sorrow or deep contrition for sin, as an offense and dishonor to God, a violation of his holy Law, and the basest ingratitude towards a Being of infinite benevolence. This is called evangelical repentance and is accompanied and followed by alteration of life. Repentance is a change of mind or a conversion from sin to God. Repentance is the relinquishment of any practice, from conviction that it has offended God.”
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