REPENTANCE AND THE REMISSION OF SINS (pt. 3)

The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine
Emanuel Swedenborg
• Doctrinal Series •
REPENTANCE AND THE REMISSION OF SINS
(pt. 3)

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He who lives the life of charity and faith does the work of repentance daily; he reflects upon the evils which are with him, he acknowledges them, he guards against them, he supplicates the Lord for help. For man of himself continually lapses, but he is continually raised by the Lord, and led to good. Such is the state of those who are in good. But they who are in evil lapse continually, and are also continually elevated by the Lord, but are only withdrawn from falling into the most grievous evils, to which of themselves they tend with all their endeavor.

(The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine 163)

REPENTANCE AND THE REMISSION OF SINS (pt. 2)

The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine
Emanuel Swedenborg
• Doctrinal Series •
REPENTANCE AND THE REMISSION OF SINS
(pt. 2)

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He who only acknowledges universally that he is a sinner, and makes himself guilty of all evils, and yet does not explore himself, that is, see his own sins, makes confession, but not the confession of repentance; he, because he does not know his own evils, lives afterwards as he did before.

(The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine 162)

REPENTANCE AND THE REMISSION OF SINS (pt. 1)

The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine
Emanuel Swedenborg
• Doctrinal Series •
REPENTANCE AND THE REMISSION OF SINS
(pt. 1)

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He who would be saved must confess his sins, and do the work of repentance.

• To confess sins, is to know evils, to see them in one's self, to acknowledge them, to make himself guilty, and to condemn himself on account of them. When this is done before God, it is the confession of sins.

• To do the work of repentance, is to desist from sins after he has thus confessed them, and from a humble heart has made supplication for remission, and to live a new life according to the precepts of charity and faith.

(The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine 159-161)