943. Justification. Faith. Repentance.

Repentance is often spoken [of] as the special condition of remission of sins. But yet ’tis evident by the Scripture that remission of sins is by faith in Jesus Christ, and that this is the special condition of remission of sins, by which we become entitled to this great privilege; [as appears] by Acts 10:43, “To him give all the prophets witness, that through his name, whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins.” Thus Peter reveals the condition of the remission of sins to Cornelius, the first fruits of the Gentiles, when he came on this very errand to show him the way of reconciliation, by which it is evident that faith and repentance are not to be looked upon as properly two distinct things in this case, but that evangelical repentance is a certain exercise of faith in Jesus Christ.

Works of Jonathan Edwards, Volume 20, The “Miscellanies:” 833-1152, ed. Amy Plantinga Pauw (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002), 201-202.

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