Today we take a look at a passage from the great Puritan, Thomas Watson, and his short tome, The Doctrine of Repentance. I want you to see two things: One, the Puritan wrote theology with the sheer beauty of poetry. even ardent yet academic secular humanists admit the importance of the Puritans for the music of English poetry. Two, Watson mentions Chrysostom, Augustine, and Jerome which shows that necessity of repentance is common and ancient in the line of Christian thought.
「CHRISTIAN READER,
The two great graces essential to a saint in this life are faith and repentance. These are the two wings by which he flies to heaven. Faith and repentance preserve the spiritual life as heat and radical moisture do the natural. The grace which I am going to discuss is repentance.
Chrysostom thought it the fittest subject for him to preach upon before the Emperor Arcadius. Augustine [One of the greatest of the Church Fathers; he died in 430. Watson calls him Austin] caused the penitential psalms to be written before him as he lay upon his bed, and he often perused them with tears. Repentance is never out of season; it is of as frequent use as the artificer’s tool or the soldier’s weapon. If I am not mistaken, practical points are more needful in this age than controversial and polemical.
I had thought to have smothered these meditations in my desk but, conceiving them to be of great concern at this juncture of time, I have rescinded my first resolution and have exposed them to a critical view.
Repentance is purgative; fear not the working of this pill. Smite your soul, said Chrysostom, smite it; it will escape death by that stroke. How happy it would be if we were more deeply affected with sin, and our eyes did swim in their orb. We may clearly see the Spirit of God moving in the waters of repentance, which though troubled, are yet pure. Moist tears dry up sin and quench the wrath of God. Repentance is the cherisher of piety, the procurer of mercy. The more regret and trouble of spirit we have first at our conversion, the less we shall feel afterwards.
Christians, do you have a sad resentment of other things and not of sin? Worldly tears fall to the earth, but godly tears are kept in a bottle (Ps. 56.8). judge not holy weeping superfluous. Tertullian thought he was born for no other end but to repent. Either sin must drown or the soul burn. Let it not be said that repentance is difficult. Things that are excellent deserve labour. Will not a man dig for gold in the ore though it makes him sweat? It is better to go with difficulty to heaven, than with ease to hell. What would the damned give that they might have a herald sent to them from God to proclaim mercy upon their repentance? What volleys of sighs and groans would they send up to heaven? What floods of tears would their eyes pour forth? But it is now too late. They may keep their tears to lament their folly sooner than to procure pity. O that we would therefore, while we are on this side of the grave, make our peace with God! Tomorrow may be our dying day; let this be our repenting day. How we should imitate the saints of old who embittered their souls and sacrificed their lusts, and put on sackcloth in the hope of white robes. Peter baptized himself with tears; and that devout lady Paula (of whom Jerome writes), like a bird of paradise, bemoaned herself and humbled herself to the dust for sin.」
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@Linux4Everyone #4 and #5 are ones that I've heard a lot and while #4 is generally easy enough to show that many things have a Linux counterpart with software like browsers, mail clients and office suites, #5 is trickier even as a concept (choice of desktop environments/window managers) and many people get frustrated fighting with things like muscle memory from the interfaces they are already familiar with or just feeling "lost" in general.
Mozilla przez chwilę blokowała firefoksowe dodatki na prośbę Rosji, Google zaczyna blokować wtyczki blokujące skrypty śledzące, a Microsoft wycofuje się auto włączania funkcji Recall. Zapraszamy do lektury ICD News #4!
== Quarterfinal #4 Poll ==Holo vs ShinobuPoll Instructions
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What I'm listening to today: "Mixtur Trautonium (exercise #4)" LudoWic
The Trautonium is an early electronic instrument from the 1930s. Instead of a "keyboard" like a post-1965 synthesizer would use players make contact between a resistive wire and a metal plate, allowing fine control more akin to a violin than a piano. In this piece, the musician works the plate (and the pedals?) for a complex and stunning tremolo effect, like a guitar pedal under direct human control.
The remaining 24 girls will qualify through nominations and qualifier polls.
Also, because Touhou girls performed so well in the tournament, and since Touhou will inevitably hit the 3-girl franchise cap that will be in place next season, I thought it fair that the Touhou girls who DO qualify (we’ll have a special Touhou selection process ahead of the regular nominations) be secured favorable seeding, because based on what we now know, they should all boast Top 8 strength.
I also did set up a possible Pyra VS 2B quarterfinal match on purpose, but I still think the seeding is fully justifiable :smug6:
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Thank you @Mario Vavti My report was incomplete - and I found the bug in the logs. Superblock was enabled, disabling it stopped the error. Uh. That must have been me causing this, as i was using some code from superblock for a new addon (which was disabled before). My new addon works, superblock doesn't. I guess i am not built for such things, however trying this to get features i am missing, that's why the dev site.
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