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before and to show that we are in earnest grief

by doing so no more.” And John Bunyan said,

“Wilt thou leave thy sins and go to heaven, or

wilt thou have thy sins and go to Hell?” John

Milton says, “Repentance is the golden key that

opens the palace of eternity. The gate of God's

kingdom is closed to those who refuse to repent.”

Then another author, Charles Spurgeon, said,

“Repentance is a change of mind but what a

change it is.”

Many would look at this and say, "Oh,

they're preaching works for salvation." No,

they're not. They're showing the true nature

of repentance and faith. And even Noah

Webster's American Dictionary of the English

Language, 1828, says repentance is “Real

penitence; sorrow, or deep contrition for sin, as

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