Excerpt from A Call to the Unconverted When ln common language, a man says, I repent of such an action, he is understood to say, I am sorry for having done it. The feeling is familiar to all of us. How often does the man of dissipation prove this sense of the word repentance, when he awakes in the mommg, and, oppressed by the languor of his ex hansted faculties, looks back with remorse on the fol lies and profligacies of the night that is past? How often does the man of unguarded conversation prove it. When he thinks of the friends whose feelings he has wounded by some hasty utterance which he cannot recall? How often is it proved by the man of business, when he reflects on the rash engagement which ties him down to a losing speculation? All these, people would be perfectly understood when they say, We repent of them doings. The word repentance so applied is about equivalent to the word regret. There are several passages in the New Testament where this is the undoubted sense of the word repentance. In Matt. 27: 3. The wretched Judas repented himself of his treachery; and surely, when we think of the awful denunciation uttered by our Savior against the man who should betray him, that it were better for him if he had not been born, we shall never confound the repentance which Judas experienced with that repentance which is unto salvation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.